1 Samuel 17:20 meaning and explanation
So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.
1 Samuel 17:20, Berean Standard Bible
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David has been sent by his father Jesse to carry food to his older brothers, who are camped with Saul's army in the Valley of Elah. The verse follows him from Bethlehem to the camp, and the detail that he left the flock with a keeper shows he was still a working shepherd, not a soldier.
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