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1Sa 17:15 King James But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
David went ... - "Was gone," referring to Sa1 16:19-20. Had he been Saul's armour-bearer at this time it is highly improbable that he would have left him to feed sheep.
 
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19 Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.
20 And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.