Now David would go back and forth from Saul to tending his father’s sheep by Beth-lehem.
Then Samuel asked Jesse, “Are these all the boys you have?” “There’s still the youngest,” he replied. But right now, he’s tending the sheep.” “Send and bring him,” Samuel said to Jesse, “for we will not sit down until he comes here.”
For forty days that Philistine would come out every morning and evening to present himself.
But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb out of the flock,
Saul took him that day and did not let him return to his father’s house.