1 Samuel 16:19 Cross References - NSB

¹⁹ Saul sent a message to Jesse: »Tell your son David to leave your sheep and come here to me.«

¹ One day Moses was taking care of the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock across the desert to Sinai, the holy mountain. ² There the angel of Jehovah appeared to him in a flame of fire coming from the middle of a bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire but that it was not burning up. ³ »This is strange,« he thought. »Why is the bush not burning up? I will go closer and see.« ⁴ Jehovah saw that Moses came closer. He called to him from the middle of the bush: »Moses! Moses!« Moses answered: »Yes, here I am.« ⁵ God said: »Do not come any closer. Take off your sandals, because you are standing on holy ground. ⁶ »I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.« Moses covered his face, because he was afraid to look at God. ⁷ Jehovah said: »I have seen how my people are suffering as slaves in Egypt. I have heard them beg for my help because of the way they are being mistreated. I feel sorry for them. ⁸ »I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians. I will bring my people out of Egypt into a country where there is good land, rich with milk and honey. I will give them the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live. ⁹ »My people have begged for my help. I have seen how cruel the Egyptians are to them. ¹⁰ »Now go to Pharaoh! I am sending you to lead my people out of his country.«

¹¹ »Are these all the sons you have?« Samuel asked. »There is still the youngest one,« Jesse answered. »He is tending sheep.« Samuel responded: »Send someone to get him. We will not continue until he gets here.«

¹⁵ David went back and forth from Saul’s camp to Bethlehem, where he tended his father’s flock.

³³ Saul responded to David: »You cannot fight this Philistine. You are just a boy. He has been a warrior since he was your age.« ³⁴ David replied to Saul: »I am a shepherd for my father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear comes and carries off a sheep from the flock,

¹⁹ Elijah left there and found Elisha plowing with a team of bulls. There were eleven teams ahead of him. He was plowing with the last one. Elijah took off his cloak and put it on Elisha.

⁷⁰ He chose his servant David. He took him from the sheep pens. ⁷¹ He brought him from tending the ewes that had lambs so that David could be the shepherd of the people of Jacob, of Israel, the people who belonged to Jehovah. ⁷² With unselfish devotion David became their shepherd. With skill he guided them.

⁸ He seats them with important people, with the leaders (princes) of his people.

¹ The words of Amos concerning Israel. He was among the herdsmen of Tekoa in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel. It was two years before the earthquake.

¹⁴ Amos told Amaziah, »I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son. I was a herdsman, and a grower of sycamore figs. ¹⁵ »Jehovah took me from following the flock, and Jehovah said to me: ‘Go prophesy to my people Israel.’«

¹⁸ Jesus walked on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. There he saw Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother. They were fishermen. ¹⁹ He said to them: »Follow me and I will teach you to catch people.« ²⁰ At once they abandoned their nets and followed him. ²¹ He saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother. They were in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them. ²² Instantly they left the boat and their father, and went with him.