Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

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

Bible in Basic English

So Saul sent his servants to Jesse and said, Send me your son David who is with the sheep.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And Saul will send messengers to Jesse, and he will say, Send to me David thy son who is with the sheep.

King James 2000

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

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

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

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁאוּל 
Sha'uwl 
Usage: 406

שׁלח 
Shalach 
Usage: 848

מלאך 
Mal'ak 
Usage: 213

אישׁי ישׁי 
Yishay 
Usage: 42

and said

Usage: 0

שׁלח 
Shalach 
Usage: 848

me David
דּויד דּוד 
David 
Usage: 1074

References

Context Readings

Saul In Torment

18 One of the servants answered and said, "Look, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite [who is] skillful in playing a stringed instrument, a {brave man, a warrior, prudent in speech, and handsome}. And Yahweh [is] with him." 19 So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me David your son who [is] with the sheep." 20 And Jesse took a donkey [loaded with] bread and a skin of wine and one {young goat} and sent [them] to Saul by the hand of David his son.


Cross References

1 Samuel 16:11

Then Samuel said to Jesse, "{Are all the young men here}?" And he said, "The youngest still remains, but look, he [is] shepherding the flock." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him, for we cannot {sit down} until he comes here."

1 Samuel 17:15

but David went {back and forth} from Saul to feed the sheep of his father in Bethlehem.

Exodus 3:1-10

And Moses was a shepherd with the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the west [of] the desert, and he came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

1 Samuel 17:33-34

But Saul said to David, "You will not be able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, because you are [only] a boy, whereas [he has] been a man of war since his childhood!"

1 Kings 19:19

So he went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat while he [was] plowing [with] twelve pairs of oxen before him. When he and the twelve passed Elijah, he threw his cloak on him.

Psalm 78:70-72

And he chose David his servant and took him from [the] sheepfolds.

Psalm 113:8

to seat [them] with princes, with the princes of his people.

Amos 1:1

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

Amos 7:14-15

And Amos answered and said to Amaziah, "I am not a prophet and I [am] not a son of a prophet, but I [am] a herdsman and I am one taking care of sycamore trees.

Matthew 4:18-22

Now [as he] was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew, throwing a casting net into the sea (for they were fishermen).

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