Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children? He said, There remains yet the youngest, and, behold, he is keeping the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send and get him; for we will not sit down until he come here.
"The shepherd/flock image is a kind of Leitmotif for David from this point on. . . . The book’s last story shows David deeply concerned for the flock [2 Samuel 24:17]." [Note: S. D. Walters, "The Light and the Dark," in Ascribe to the Lord: Biblical and Other Studies in Memory of Peter C. Craigie, p. 574, n. 17.] 