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

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

The seacoast ¹  will be used as pasture lands ²  by the shepherds and as pens for their flocks.

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 

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

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

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.

Make ¹  for yourself an ark of cypress ²  wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover ³  it with pitch inside and out.

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

ten calves fattened in the stall, ¹  twenty calves from the pasture, and a hundred sheep, not to mention rams, gazelles, deer, and well-fed birds.

When ¹  the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, ²  and the fields yield no crops; ³  when the sheep disappear ⁴  from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls,