1 Samuel 16:11; 1 Samuel 17:15; 1 Samuel 17:34; 1 Samuel 17:40; 1 Samuel 21:7; 1 Samuel 25:7; 1 Samuel 25:16

11 And Samuel said to Jesse, "Are these all the children?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is tending the sheep." Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him; for we will not sit down until he comes here."

15 but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father's flock at Bethlehem.

34 But David said to Saul, "Your servant was tending his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,

40 He took his stick in his hand and chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in his pouch, and his sling was in his hand; and he approached the Philistine.

7 Now one of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD ; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's shepherds.

7 'Now I have heard that you have shearers; now your shepherds have been with us and we have not insulted them, nor have they missed anything all the days they were in Carmel.

16 "They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the time we were with them tending the sheep.