1 Samuel 16:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which 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 departed thence, 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 over unto him, and cast his mantle upon him.

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 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.

1 Samuel 16:11

And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.

1 Samuel 16:18

Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty man of valour, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him.

1 Samuel 16:20

And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.

1 Samuel 17:15

Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.