Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, Send me David thy 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.
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So Saul sent messengers to 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.'
Themes
Demons » Possession by, instances of » saul
Jesse » Saul asks, to send david to become a member of his court
Interlinear
Shalach
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Samuel 16:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Saul In Torment
18 And one of the young men answered and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skilled in playing, and he is a valiant man and a man of war, and skilled in speech, and of good presence, and Jehovah is with him. 19 Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, Send me David thy son, who is with the sheep. 20 And Jesse took an ass with bread, and a flask of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Saul.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Samuel 16:11
And Samuel said to Jesse, Are these all the young men? And he said, There is yet the youngest remaining, and behold, he is feeding the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and fetch him; for we will not sit at table till he come hither.
1 Samuel 17:15
But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
Exodus 3:1-10
And Moses tended the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock behind the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God to Horeb.
1 Samuel 17:33-34
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.
1 Kings 19:19
And he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was ploughing with twelve yokes before him, and he with the twelfth; and Elijah went over to him, and cast his mantle on him.
Psalm 78:70-72
And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
Psalm 113:8
To set him among nobles, among the nobles of his people.
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.
Amos 7:14-15
And Amos answered and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit.
Matthew 4:18-22
And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers;