He chose David, his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds.

Issachar is a strong-boned donkey lying down between two saddlebags.

Why do you remain among the sheepfolds, ¹  listening to the shepherds playing their pipes ²  for their flocks? ³  As for the clans of Reuben – there was intense searching of heart.

Then they came very close to him and said, “We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families, ¹ 

When ¹  you lie down among the sheepfolds, ²  the wings of the dove are covered with silver and with glittering gold. ³ 

He came to the sheepfolds by the road, where there was a cave. Saul went into it to relieve himself. ¹  Now David and his men were sitting in the recesses of the cave.

He made storerooms for the harvest of grain, wine, and olive oil, and stalls for all his various kinds of livestock and his flocks. ¹ 

Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran as fortified cities, and constructed pens for their flocks.

So build cities for your descendants and pens for your sheep, but do what you have said ¹  you would do.”

Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste ¹  by the fierce anger of the Lord. ² 

No one will live there again; no one will ever reside there again. ¹  No bedouin ²  will camp ³  there, no shepherds will rest their flocks ⁴  there.

I do not need to take ¹  a bull from your household or goats from your sheepfolds.

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their settlements and their camps – twelve princes ¹  according to their clans.

“I, the Lord who rules over all, say: ¹  ‘This place will indeed lie in ruins. There will be no people or animals in it. But there will again be in it and in its towns sheepfolds where shepherds can rest their sheep.