1 Samuel 19:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then Saul sent the messengers to see David for themselves. He said, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

American Standard Version (1901)

And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

Common English Bible

Saul sent the messengers back to check on David for themselves. “Bring him to me on his bed,” he ordered, “so he can be executed.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And again, Saul sent messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him to me on the bed, so that he may be killed."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And again Saul sent to see David, saying: Bring him to me in the bed, that he may be slain.

1 Samuel 19:15 Cross References

Job 31:31

if those of my tent ever said, ‘O that we might be sated with his flesh!’—

Psalm 37:12

The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,

Romans 3:15

“Their feet are swift to shed blood;

1 Samuel 19:14

When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”

1 Samuel 19:16

When the messengers came in, the idol was in the bed, with the covering of goats’ hair on its head.

1 Samuel 19:6

Saul heeded the voice of Jonathan; Saul swore, “As the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death.”