1 Samuel 16:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

So Saul sent messengers to Jesse to say, “Send me your son David, the one who keeps the sheep.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Therefore, Saul sent messengers to Jesse, saying, "Send to me your son David, who is in the pastures."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Then Saul sent messengers to Isai, saying: Send me David thy son, who is in the pastures.

1 Samuel 16:19 Cross References

1 Kings 19:19

So he set out from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat, who was plowing. There were twelve yoke of oxen ahead of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle over him.

Psalm 113:8

to make them sit with princes, with the princes 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 King Uzziah of Judah and in the days of King Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

1 Samuel 16:11

Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, but he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and bring him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.”

1 Samuel 16:18

One of the young men answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a warrior, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the Lord is with him.”

1 Samuel 16:20

Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and a kid and sent them by his son David to Saul.

1 Samuel 17:15

but David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.