1 Samuel 17:15

New International Version

but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

Cross References

1 Samuel 16:11

So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered. “He is tending the sheep.” Samuel said, “Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives.”

1 Samuel 17:16

For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand.

1 Samuel 17:34

But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock,

1 Samuel 18:2

From that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return home to his family.