1Sa 16:11 Cross References
1 Samuel 16:11
11: Then Samuel asked, "Are these all the sons you have?There is still the youngest," Jesse replied. "But he's out in the fields watching the sheep.Send for him at once," Samuel said. "We will not sit down to eat until he arrives."
Psalms 78:70
- He chose his servant David, calling him from the sheep pens.
- He took David from tending the ewes and lambs and made him the shepherd of Jacob's descendants--God's own people, Israel.
2 Samuel 7:8
- "Now go and say to my servant David, `This is what the LORD Almighty says: I chose you to lead my people Israel when you were just a shepherd boy, tending your sheep out in the pasture.
2 Samuel 13:3
- Now Amnon had a very crafty friend--his cousin Jonadab. He was the son of David's brother Shimea.
1 Chronicles 17:7
- "Now go and say to my servant David, `This is what the LORD Almighty says: I chose you to lead my people Israel when you were just a shepherd boy, tending your sheep out in the pasture.
1 Samuel 17:28
- But when David's oldest brother, Eliab, heard David talking to the men, he was angry. "What are you doing around here anyway?" he demanded. "What about those few sheep you're supposed to be taking care of? I know about your pride and dishonesty. You just want to see the battle!"
1 Samuel 17:12
- Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem in the land of Judah. Jesse was an old man at that time, and he had eight sons in all.
- Jesse's three oldest sons--Eliab, Abinadab, and Shammah--had already joined Saul's army to fight the Philistines.
- David was the youngest of Jesse's sons. Since David's three oldest brothers were in the army, they stayed with Saul's forces all the time.
- But David went back and forth between working for Saul and helping his father with the sheep in Bethlehem.