Psalms 78:70 Cross References

Psalms 78:70

70: He chose his servant David, calling him from the sheep pens.

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."
So Jesse sent for him. He was ruddy and handsome, with pleasant eyes. And the LORD said, "This is the one; anoint him."

But Amos replied, "I'm not one of your professional prophets. I certainly never trained to be one. I'm just a shepherd, and I take care of fig trees.
But the LORD called me away from my flock and told me, `Go and prophesy to my people in Israel.'

Now is the time! For the LORD has said, `I have chosen David to save my people from the Philistines and from all their other enemies.'"

"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.

David retorted to Michal, "I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me above your father and his family! He appointed me as the leader of Israel, the people of the LORD. So I am willing to act like a fool in order to show my joy in the LORD.

One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he went deep into the wilderness near Sinai, the mountain of God.

But David went back and forth between working for Saul and helping his father with the sheep in Bethlehem.
For forty days, twice a day, morning and evening, the Philistine giant strutted in front of the Israelite army.
One day Jesse said to David, "Take this half-bushel of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread to your brothers.
And give these ten cuts of cheese to their captain. See how your brothers are getting along, and bring me back a letter from them. "
David's brothers were with Saul and the Israelite army at the valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.

Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You will lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt."

But God removed him from the kingship and replaced him with David, a man about whom God said, 'David son of Jesse is a man after my own heart, for he will do everything I want him to.'

You once spoke in a vision to your prophet and said, "I have given help to a warrior. I have selected him from the common people to be king.
I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil.

So Elijah went and found Elisha son of Shaphat plowing a field with a team of oxen. There were eleven teams of oxen ahead of him, and he was plowing with the twelfth team. Elijah went over to him and threw his cloak across his shoulders and walked away again.
Elisha left the oxen standing there, ran after Elijah, and said to him, "First let me go and kiss my father and mother good-bye, and then I will go with you!" Elijah replied, "Go on back! But consider what I have done to you."

One day as Jesus was walking along the shore beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers--Simon, also called Peter, and Andrew--fishing with a net, for they were commercial fishermen.
Jesus called out to them, "Come, be my disciples, and I will show you how to fish for people!"
And they left their nets at once and went with him.
A little farther up the shore he saw two other brothers, James and John, sitting in a boat with their father, Zebedee, mending their nets. And he called them to come, too.
They immediately followed him, leaving the boat and their father behind.

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