又拣选他的仆人大卫，从羊圈中将他召来，

他拣选他的仆人大卫，从羊圈中将他召来，

他拣选他的仆人大卫，从羊圈中将他召来，

祂拣选了祂的仆人大卫，把他从羊圈中召来，

他拣选了自己的仆人大卫，把他从羊圈中召出来；

他拣选了自己的仆人大卫，从羊圈中把他挑选出来，

又揀選他的僕人大衛，從羊圈中將他召來，

他揀選他的僕人大衛，從羊圈中將他召來，

他揀選他的僕人大衛，從羊圈中將他召來，

祂揀選了祂的僕人大衛，把他從羊圈中召來，

他揀選了自己的僕人大衛，把他從羊圈中召出來；

他揀選了大衛做他的僕人，從羊圈中選取了他，

他揀選了自己的僕人大衛，從羊圈中把他挑選出來，

簡其僕大衛、出之於羊牢、

遴選大闢為僕、不使守群畜、

又特選僕人大衛、召之於羊牢中、

復拔大維。充其忠僕。

He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;

He chose his servant David. He took him from the sheep pens.

He chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds;

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

He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;

He also chose His servant David And took him from the sheepfolds;

He also chose David His servant, And took him from the sheepfolds;

He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds:

He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;

He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

He chose David, his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds.

He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

So he asked Jesse,“ Are these all the sons you have?”“ There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered.“ He is tending the sheep.” Samuel said,“ Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives.”So he sent for him and had him brought in. He was glowing with health and had a fine appearance and handsome features. Then the Lord said,“ Rise and anoint him; this is the one.” (niv)

After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him:‘ I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’ (niv)

Now do it! For the Lord promised David,‘ By my servant David I will rescue my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines and from the hand of all their enemies.’” (niv)

David said to Michal,“ It was before the Lord, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the Lord’s people Israel— I will celebrate before the Lord. (niv)

Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. (niv)

So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him.Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah.“ Let me kiss my father and mother goodbye,” he said,“ and then I will come with you.”“ Go back,” Elijah replied.“ What have I done to you?” (niv)

Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful people you said:“ I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have raised up a young man from among the people.I have found David my servant; with my sacred oil I have anointed him. (niv)

Amos answered Amaziah,“ I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore- fig trees.But the Lord took me from tending the flock and said to me,‘ Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ (niv)

So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” (niv)

“ Now then, tell my servant David,‘ This is what the Lord Almighty says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, and appointed you ruler over my people Israel. (niv)

but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand.Now Jesse said to his son David,“ Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.Take along these ten cheeses to the commander of their unit. See how your brothers are and bring back some assurance from them.They are with Saul and all the men of Israel in the Valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.”Early in the morning David left the flock in the care of a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry.Israel and the Philistines were drawing up their lines facing each other.David left his things with the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and asked his brothers how they were.As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it.Whenever the Israelites saw the man, they all fled from him in great fear.Now the Israelites had been saying,“ Do you see how this man keeps coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. The king will give great wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage and will exempt his family from taxes in Israel.”David asked the men standing near him,“ What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”They repeated to him what they had been saying and told him,“ This is what will be done for the man who kills him.”When Eliab, David’s oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and asked,“ Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle.”“ Now what have I done?” said David.“ Can’t I even speak?”He then turned away to someone else and brought up the same matter, and the men answered him as before.What David said was overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him.David said to Saul,“ Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.”Saul replied,“ You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”But David said to Saul,“ Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock,I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it.Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David,“ Go, and the Lord be with you.”Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head.David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them.“ I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul,“ because I am not used to them.” So he took them off.Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine.Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David.He looked David over and saw that he was little more than a boy, glowing with health and handsome, and he despised him.He said to David,“ Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.“ Come here,” he said,“ and I’ll give your flesh to the birds and the wild animals!”David said to the Philistine,“ You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.”As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him.Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine’s sword and drew it from the sheath. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.Then the men of Israel and Judah surged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath and to the gates of Ekron. Their dead were strewn along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.When the Israelites returned from chasing the Philistines, they plundered their camp.David took the Philistine’s head and brought it to Jerusalem; he put the Philistine’s weapons in his own tent. (niv)

As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.“ Come, follow me,” Jesus said,“ and I will send you out to fish for people.”At once they left their nets and followed him.Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets. Jesus called them,and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him. (niv)