Psalms 78:70
And he chose his servant David, and took him from the hocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
In Context
69And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever.
71To feed Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance.
Cross References
Exodus 3:1Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.
1 Samuel 16:11And Samuel said to Isai: Are here all thy sons? He answered: There remaineth yet a young one, who keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said to Isai: Send, and fetch him, for we will not sit down till he come hither.
1 Samuel 17:15David went, and returned from Saul, to feed his father's flock at Bethlehem.
2 Samuel 6:21And David said to Michol: Before the Lord, who chose me rather than thy father, and than all his house, and commanded me to be ruler over the people of the Lord in Israel,
1 Kings 8:16Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built, that my name might be there: but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
Psalms 89:19For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one of Israel.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:41-72
Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! 41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. 42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: 44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among… Read the whole commentary →