but David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, but he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and bring him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.”
For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.
But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep sheep for his father, and whenever a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,
Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father’s house.