1 Samuel 17:15

17:15 David was going back and forth from Saul in order to care for his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.

1 Samuel 17:33-34

17:33 But Saul replied to David, “You aren’t able to go against this Philistine and fight him! You’re just a boy! He has been a warrior from his youth!”

17:34 David replied to Saul, “Your servant has been a shepherd for his father’s flock. Whenever a lion or bear would come and carry off a sheep from the flock,


tn Heb “was going and returning.”