Exo 3:1-10, 1Sa 16:11, 17:15, 33-34, 1Ki 19:19, Psa 78:70-72, 113:8 | ESV | STEP | Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law , Jethro , the priest of Midian , and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb , the mountain of God .

Exodus 3:1-10

The Burning Bush

1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the ^amountain of God. 2 ^bAnd ^cthe angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” 4 When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, ^dGod called to him ^eout of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” 5 Then he said, “Do not come near; ^ftake your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” 6 And he said, ^g“I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for ^hhe was afraid to look at God.

7 Then the Lord said, ⁱ“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their ^jtaskmasters. I know their sufferings, 8 and ^kI have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and ^lto bring them up out of that land to a ^mgood and broad land, a land ⁿflowing with milk and honey, to the place of ^othe Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 And now, behold, ^pthe cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the ^qoppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 ^rCome, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

1 Samuel 16:11

11 Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, ^s“There remains yet the youngest, ^{▼▼Or smallest} but behold, he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, ^u“Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.”

1 Samuel 17:15

15 but David went back and forth from Saul ^vto feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

1 Samuel 17:33-34

33 And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth.” 34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock,

1 Kings 19:19

The Call of Elisha

19 So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen in front of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and cast ^whis cloak upon him.

Psalms 78:70-72

70 He ^xchose David his servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;
71 from ^yfollowing the nursing ewes he brought him
to ^zshepherd Jacob his people,
Israel his ^aainheritance.
72 With ^abupright heart he shepherded them
and ^acguided them with his skillful hand.

Psalms 113:8

8 to make them ^adsit with princes,
with the princes of his people.