Devine Scripture

1 Samuel 16:19

1 Samuel chapter 16 · verse 19 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.18Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is skilful in playing, and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Jehovah is with him.

v.19This passage

v.20And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 113:8

    That he may set him with princes, Even with the princes of his people.

  • 1 Samuel 17:33

    And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

  • Amos 7:14

    Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a dresser of sycomore-trees:

  • 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 over unto him, and cast his mantle upon him.

  • Exodus 3:1

    Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb.

  • Amos 1:1

    The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen 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.