Gen 31:38-40, 33:13, 1Sa 17:28, 1Ch 27:29-31, 2Ch 26:10 | ESV | STEP | These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried , and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks .

Genesis 31:38-40

38 These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks. 39 What was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you. I bore the loss of it myself. ^aFrom my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40 There I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 33:13

13 But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and that the nursing flocks and herds are a care to me. If they are driven hard for one day, all the flocks will die.

1 Samuel 17:28

28 Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”

1 Chronicles 27:29-31

29 Over the herds that pastured in ^bSharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; over the herds in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai. 30 Over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite. 31 Over the flocks was Jaziz the ^cHagrite.

All these were stewards of King David’s property.

2 Chronicles 26:10

10 And he built towers in the wilderness and ^dcut out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.