1 Samuel 16:19

In 11 translations

BSB

So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is with the sheep.”

KJV

¶ Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.

WEB

Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, “Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.”

ASV

Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, who is with the sheep.

LSV

And Saul sends messengers to Jesse and says, “Send to me your son David, who [is] with the flock.”

YLT

And Saul sendeth messengers unto Jesse, and saith, 'Send unto me David thy son, who [is] with the flock.'

DBY

Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, Send me David thy son, who is with the sheep.

DRC

Then Saul sent messengers to Isai, saying: Send me David thy son, who is in the pastures.

GNV

Wherefore Saul sent messengers vnto Ishai, and said, Send me Dauid thy sonne which is with the sheepe.

JPS

Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said: 'Send me David thy son, who is with the sheep.'

LXXE

And Saul sent messengers to Jessæ, saying, Send to me thy son David who is with thy flock.

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WLC

וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח שָׁא֛וּל מַלְאָכִ֖ים אֶל־יִשָׁ֑י וַיֹּ֕אמֶר שִׁלְחָ֥ה אֵלַ֛י אֶת־דָּוִ֥ד בִּנְךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֥ר בַּצֹּֽאן׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἀπέστειλε Σαοὺλ ἀγγέλους πρὸς Ἰεσσαὶ, λέγων, ἀπόστειλον πρὸς μὲ τὸν υἱόν σου Δαυὶδ τὸν ἐν τῷ ποιμνίῳ σου.

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• Psalms 78:70–72He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds; from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance. So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and…
• 1 Samuel 16:11And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”
• 1 Samuel 17:15but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.
• Matthew 4:18–22As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will…
• Amos 1:1These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of…
• 1 Samuel 17:33–34But Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.” David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a…
• Exodus 3:1–10Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the LORD…
• Amos 7:14–15“I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees. But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My…
• 1 Kings 19:19So Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him.
• Psalms 113:8to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.

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