So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen in front of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and cast his cloak upon him.
1 Samuel 16:19 - English Standard Version 2016 Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen in front of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and cast his cloak upon him.
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.
Then 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 get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.”
One of the young men answered, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful 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.”
And Jesse took a donkey laden with bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them by David his son to Saul.
but David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.