1 Samuel 16:19

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

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 was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and cast his mantle upon 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 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 to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and fetch him; for we will not sit down till he comes here.”

1 Samuel 16:18

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

1 Samuel 16:20

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

1 Samuel 17:15

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