1 Samuel 16 · Verse 19

1 Samuel 16:19

Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.
1 Samuel 16:19, King James Version

1 Samuel 16:19 in other translations

BSBSo Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is with the sheep.”
WEBTherefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, “Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.”
ASVWherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, who is with the sheep.
YLTAnd Saul sendeth messengers unto Jesse, and saith, ‘Send unto me David thy son, who is with the flock.'
DARBYThen Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, Send me David thy son, who is with the sheep.
BBESo Saul sent his servants to Jesse and said, Send me your son David who is with the sheep.
WebsterWherefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send to me David thy son, who is with the sheep.

What does 1 Samuel 16:19 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
19. Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David--In the East the command of a king is imperative; and Jesse, however reluctant and alarmed, had no alternative but to comply.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Samuel 16:14-23

Saul is made a terror to himself. The Spirit of the Lord departed from him. If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us. The devil, by the Divine permission, troubled and terrified Saul, by the corrupt humours of his body, and passions of his mind. He grew fretful, peevish, and discontented, and at times a madman. It is a pity that music, which may be serviceable to the good temper…

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1 Samuel 16:19 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיִּשְׁלַ֥חvai.yish.Lachand he sentH7971
שָׁא֛וּלsha.'UlSaulH7586
מַלְאָכִ֖יםmal.'a.KhimmessengersH4397
אֶל\־'el-toH413
יִשָׁ֑יyi.ShaiJesseH3448
וַיֹּ֕אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559
שִׁלְחָ֥הshil.Chahsend !H7971
אֵלַ֛י'e.Laito meH413
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
דָּוִ֥דda.VidDavidH1732
בִּנְךָ֖bin.Khason yourH1121
אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.SherwhoH834
בַּצֹּֽאן\׃ba.Tzon[is] with the flockH6629

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Cross references for 1 Samuel 16:19

  • 1 Samuel 17:15

    But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Beth–lehem.

  • 1 Samuel 16:11

    And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.

  • Psalms 78:70-72

    He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

  • Matthew 4:18-22

    And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they straightway left their nets, and followed him. And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them. …

  • 1 Kings 19:19

    So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.

  • Exodus 3:1-10

    Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. …

  • 1 Samuel 17:33-34

    And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth. And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:

  • Psalms 113:8

    That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

  • Amos 7:14-15

    Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit: And the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.

  • Amos 1:1

    The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
with the sheep.
11; 17:15,33,34; Ex 3:1-10; 1Ki 19:19; Ps 78:70-72; 113:8
Am 1:1; 7:14,15; Mt 4:18-22

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Context

  • 1 Samuel 16:18

    Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth–lehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is with him.

  • 1 Samuel 16:19

    Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.

  • 1 Samuel 16:20

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

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1 Samuel 16:19 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y Saúl envió mensajeros á Isaí, diciendo: Envíame á David tu hijo, el que está con las ovejas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et Saül envoya des messagers à Isaï, et dit: Envoie-moi David, ton fils, qui est avec le menu bétail.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Da sandte Saul Boten zu Isai und sprach: Sende deinen Sohn David zu mir, der bei dem Kleinvieh ist.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Misit ergo Saul nuntios ad Isai, dicens: Mitte ad me David filium tuum, qui est in pascuis.