Psalm 78:70

Lessons From Israel's Past

⁶⁹ And there he built his temple on high, and laid the foundation of it like the ground, that it might perpetually endure. ⁷⁰ He chose David also his servant, and took him away from the sheepfolds. ⁷¹ As he was following the ewes great with young, he took him, that he might feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

David

1 Samuel 16:11-12

Then said Samuel to Jesse, "Are here all thy children?" And he said, "The youngest is yet behind. Behold, he keepeth the sheep." Then Samuel said unto Jesse, "Send and fetch him for we will not sit down, till he be come hither."

Exodus 3:1

Moses kept the sheep of Jethro his father-in-law, priest of Midian, and he drove the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.

Exodus 3:10

But come, I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring my people the children of Israel out of Egypt."

1 Samuel 17:15-54

David went and departed from Saul, to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

2 Samuel 3:18

Now then, do it. For the LORD hath said of David, 'By the hand of my servant David, I will save my people Israel; out of the hands of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.'"

2 Samuel 6:21

But David said again to Michal, "I thought to dance before the LORD - which chose me, rather thy father and all his kin, and commanded me to be ruler over all the people of the LORD, even over Israel.

2 Samuel 7:8

Now therefore so say unto my servant David, thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, 'I took thee out of a shepherd's cote from following sheep to be a ruler over my people Israel.

1 Kings 19:19-20

And he departed thence and found Elisha the son of Shaphat plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelve. And Elijah went to him and cast his mantle upon him.

Psalm 89:19-20

Thou spakest sometime in visions unto thy saints, and saidst, "I have laid help upon one that is mighty, I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

Amos 7:14-15

Amos answered, and said to Amaziah, "As for me I am neither prophet, nor prophet's son: but a keeper of cattle. Now as I was breaking down mulberries, and going after the cattle,

Matthew 4:18-22

As Jesus walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brethren, Simon which was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.

Acts 13:22

And after he had put him down, he set up David to be their king: of whom he gave reported, saying, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, he shall fulfill all my will.'