Psalm 78:70

Lessons From Israel's Past

⁶⁹ And He built His holy place like high palaces, like the earth which He has founded forever. ⁷⁰ He also chose David His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds; ⁷¹ from following the ewes great with young He brought him to feed Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.

David

1 Samuel 16:11-12

And Samuel said to Jesse, Are all the young men here? And he said, There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he keeps the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and bring him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.

Exodus 3:1

And Moses kept the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back side of the desert. And he came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

Exodus 3:10

And now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.

1 Samuel 17:15-54

And David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

2 Samuel 3:18

And then do it, for Jehovah has spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save My people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.

2 Samuel 6:21

And David said to Michal, It was before Jehovah, who chose me before your father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of Jehovah, over Israel. And I danced before Jehovah.

2 Samuel 7:8

And now so shall you say to My servant David, So says Jehovah of Hosts: I took you from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people, over Israel.

1 Kings 19:19-20

And he left there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, and he was plowing; twelve pairs of oxen were before him, and he was with the twelfth. And Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle on him.

Psalm 89:19-20

Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one, and You said, I have laid help on a mighty one; I have lifted up a chosen one out of the people.

Amos 7:14-15

Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah: I was no prophet, nor was I a prophet's son. But I was a herdsman and a gatherer from sycamore trees.

Matthew 4:18-22

And walking by the Sea of Galilee, Jesus saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea. For they were fishermen.

Acts 13:22

And when He had removed him, He raised up David to them to be their king; to whom He also witnessed and said, I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man after My own heart, who shall fulfill all My will.