"Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which {is} with the sheep." — 1 Samuel 16:19

1 Samuel 16:19 · KJV

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

— 1 Samuel 16:19

Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, {that is} cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD {is} with him. {matters: or, speech}

Verse 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.

1 Samuel 16 — Context

And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring {him} to me.

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

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.

And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.

Cross References

1 Samuel 16:11

And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all {thy} children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither. {down: Heb. round}

1 Samuel 17:15

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

Psalms 78:70-72

He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

Psalms 113:8

That he may set {him} with princes, {even} with the princes of his people.

Matthew 4:18-22

And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.

Exodus 3:1-10

Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, {even} to Horeb.

Amos 1:1

The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

1 Kings 19:19

So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who {was} plowing {with} twelve yoke {of oxen} before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.

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