1 Samuel 17:15
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David went, and returned from Saul, to feed his father's flock at Bethlehem.

returned

1 Samuel 16:11,19-23 And 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. . . .

Context
David Accepts the Challenge
14But David was the youngest. So the three eldest having followed Saul, 15David went, and returned from Saul, to feed his father's flock at Bethlehem.16Now the Philistine came out morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 16:11
And 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 16:19
Then Saul sent messengers to Isai, saying: Send me David, thy son, who is in the pastures.

1 Samuel 16:21
And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him exceedingly, and made him his armourbearer.

1 Samuel 17:16
Now the Philistine came out morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

1 Samuel 18:2
And Saul took him that day, and would not let him return to his father's house.

Lexicon
but David
וְדָוִ֛ד (wə·ḏā·wiḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse

went back and forth
הֹלֵ֥ךְ (hō·lêḵ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1980: To go, come, walk

from
מֵעַ֣ל (mê·‘al)
Preposition-m
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

Saul
שָׁא֑וּל (šā·’ūl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7586: Saul -- first king of Israel, also an Edomite and two Israelites

to tend
לִרְע֛וֹת (lir·‘ō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 7462: To tend a, flock, pasture it, in, to graze, to rule, to associate with

his father’s
אָבִ֖יו (’ā·ḇîw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

sheep
צֹ֥אן (ṣōn)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6629: Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock

in Bethlehem.
לָֽחֶם׃ (lā·ḥem)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1035: Bethlehem -- 'place of bread', a city in Judah, also a city in Zebulun


Additional Translations
but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.

But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.

But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.

Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

and David is going and returning from Saul, to feed the flock of his father at Beth-Lehem.
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