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1 Sam. 16:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.

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with the sheep.

1 Sam. 16:11• ¹¹And 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 Sam. 16:11)

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1 Sam. 17:15,33‑34• ¹⁵But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
³³And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
³⁴And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: (1 Sam. 17:15,33‑34)

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Ex. 3:1‑10• ¹Now 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.
²And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
³And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
⁴And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
⁵And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
⁶Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
⁷And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
⁸And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
⁹Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
¹⁰Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. (Ex. 3:1‑10)

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1 Kings 19:19• ¹⁹So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him. (1 Kings 19:19)

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Psa. 78:70‑72• ⁷⁰He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
⁷¹From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
⁷²So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. (Psa. 78:70‑72)

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Psa. 113:8• ⁸That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people. (Psa. 113:8)

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Amos 1:1• ¹The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. (Amos 1:1)

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Amos 7:14‑15• ¹⁴Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
¹⁵And the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel. (Amos 7:14‑15)

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Matt. 4:18‑22• ¹⁸And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
¹⁹And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
²⁰And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.
²¹And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
²²And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him. (Matt. 4:18‑22)

• But God does not set David at once in the height of power, as He did in the case of Saul. He must make his way by grace and faith through all kinds of difficulties. (“1 Samuel 16” by J.N. Darby)

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Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, Send me David thy son, who is with the sheep.