1 Samuel 16:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is with the sheep.””
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“So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is with the sheep.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, who is with the sheep.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Saul sendeth messengers unto Jesse, and saith, `Send unto me David thy son, who <FI>is<Fi> with the flock.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Samuel 16:19 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 3:1Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
- 1 Samuel 16:11And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”
- 1 Samuel 17:15but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.
- 1 Samuel 17:33But Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
- 1 Kings 19:19So Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him.
- Psalms 78:70He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
- Psalms 113:8to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.
- Amos 1:1These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.
- Amos 7:14“I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.
- Matthew 4:18As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
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