1 Samuel 16:19
Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, “Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.”
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 3:1Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.
1 Samuel 17:15Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
1 Kings 19:19So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him and put his mantle on him.
Psalms 113:8that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
Amos 7:14Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son, but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 16:15-23
Saul Troubled by an Evil Spirit. ( b. c. 1065.) 14 But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him. 15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee. 16 Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on a harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well. 17 And Saul said unto his servants,… Read the whole commentary →