Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Therefore Saul sent messengers unto 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.
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 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is skillful in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a handsome person, and the LORD is with him. 19 Therefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David your son, who is with the sheep. 20 And Jesse took a donkey laden with bread, and a skin of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Samuel 16:11
And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all your children? And he said, There remains yet the youngest, and, behold, he keeps the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and bring him: for we will not sit down till he comes here.
1 Samuel 17:15
But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
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 west side of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
1 Samuel 17:33-34
And Saul said to David, you are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
1 Kings 19:19
So he departed from there, 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.
Psalm 78:70-72
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
Psalm 113:8
That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
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.
Amos 7:14-15
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 gatherer of sycamore fruit:
Matthew 4:18-22
And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.