1 Samuel 16:19

New American Bible - revised edition

Accordingly, Saul dispatched messengers to ask Jesse to send him his son David, who was with the flock.

Cross References

1 Samuel 17:15

David would come and go from Saul’s presence to tend his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

1 Samuel 16:11

Then Samuel asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?” Jesse replied, “There is still the youngest, but he is tending the sheep.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send for him; we will not sit down to eat until he arrives here.”

Amos 1:1

The words of Amos, who was one of the sheepbreeders from Tekoa, which he received in a vision concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

Psalm 113:8

Seats them with princes, the princes of the people,

1 Kings 19:19

Elijah set out, and came upon Elisha, son of Shaphat, as he was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen; he was following the twelfth. Elijah went over to him and threw his cloak on him.

1 Samuel 16:18

One of the servants spoke up: “I have observed that a son of Jesse of Bethlehem is a skillful harpist. He is also a brave warrior, an able speaker, and a handsome young man. The Lord is certainly with him.” David Made Armor-Bearer.

1 Samuel 16:20

Then Jesse took five loaves of bread, a skin of wine, and a young goat, and sent them to Saul with his son David.