1 Samuel 16:19
So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me your son David, who is with the sheep."
Cross References
1 Samuel 16:18
One of the servants answered, "I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the harp. He is a mighty man of valor, a warrior, eloquent and handsome, and the LORD is with him."

1 Samuel 16:20
And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and one young goat, and sent them to Saul with his son David.

1 Samuel 17:15
but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father's sheep in Bethlehem.


Treasury of Scripture
Why Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me David your son, which is with the sheep.

with the sheep



1 Samuel 16:11
And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.



1 Samuel 17:15,33,34
But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem…



Exodus 3:1-10
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb…


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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