1 Chronicles 17:7
Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.
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2 Samuel 7:8
Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.

1 Chronicles 17:6
In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people, 'Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?'

1 Chronicles 17:8
I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies before you. Now I will make for you a name like the greatest in the land.

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I took thee

Exodus 3:1-10
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. . . .

1 Samuel 16:11, 12
And Samuel asked him, "Are these all the sons you have?" "There is still the youngest, " Jesse replied, "but he is tending the sheep." "Send for him, " Samuel replied. "For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives." . . .

1 Samuel 17:15
but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father's sheep in Bethlehem.

2 Samuel 7:8
Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.

Psalm 78:70, 71
He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds; . . .

Amos 7:14, 15
"I was not a prophet, " Amos replied, "nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees. . . .

Matthew 4:18-22
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 sea, for they were fishermen. . . .

Luke 5:10
and so were his partners James and John, the sons of Zebedee. "Do not be afraid, " Jesus said to Simon, "from now on you will catch men."

from following [heb] from after

2 Samuel 6:21
But David said to Michal, "I was dancing before the LORD who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the LORD's people Israel. I will celebrate before the LORD,

Matthew 2:6
But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of My people Israel.'"

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