Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.'

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 And one of his boys will answer and say, I saw a son to Jesse of the House of Bread, knowing to play, mighty of strength, and a man of war, and discerning the word, and a man of figure, and Jehovah with him. 19 And Saul will send messengers to Jesse, and he will say, Send to me David thy son who is with the sheep. 20 And Jesse will take a heap of bread and a sack of wine, and one kid of the goats, and he will send by the hand of David his son to Saul.

Cross References

1 Samuel 16:11

And Samuel will say to Jesse, Are these the whole of the boys? And he will say, The small was yet left, and behold, he fed among the sheep. And Samuel will say to Jesse, Send and take him, for we will not turn about till his coming here.

1 Samuel 17:15

And David went and turned back from Saul to feed his father's sheep at the House of Bread.

Exodus 3:1-10

And Moses was feeding the sheep of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he will lead the sheep behind the desert, and he will come to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

1 Samuel 17:33-34

And Saul will say to David, Thou wilt not be able to go against this of the rovers to war with him, for thou a boy, and he a man of war from his youth.

1 Kings 19:19

And he will go from thence and find Elisha son of Shaphat, and he ploughed with twelve yoke before him, and he with the twelve: and Elijah will pass away by him, and he will cast his wide cloak to him.

Psalm 78:70-72

And he will choose in David his servant, and he will take him from the folds of sheep.

Psalm 113:8

To sit with the nobles, with the nobles of his people.

Amos 1:1

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

Amos 7:14-15

And Amos will answer and say to Amaziah, I am no prophet, and I not the son of a prophet; for I a herdsman, and gathering figs of the sycamores.

Matthew 4:18-22

And Jesus, walking about by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon being called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a sweep-net into the sea; for they were fishermen.

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