1st Samuel Chapter 16 verse 19 Holy Bible
Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, who is with the sheep.
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So Saul sent his servants to Jesse and said, Send me your son David who is with the sheep.
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Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, Send me David thy son, who is with the sheep.
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Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.
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Wherefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send to me David thy son, who is with the sheep.
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Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.
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And Saul sendeth messengers unto Jesse, and saith, `Send unto me David thy son, who `is' with the flock.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 19, 20. - Saul sent messengers to fetch David, the description of him as a brave soldier being even more to the king's liking (see 1 Samuel 14:52) than his skill in music. As a great man might not be approached without a present (1 Samuel 9:7; 1 Samuel 10:4), Jesse sends one consisting of produce from his farm. It consisted of an ass of bread - a strange expression; but there is little doubt that a word has been omitted, and that we should read, with the Syriac, "And Jesse took an ass, and laded it with bread, and a skin of wine, and a kid." It was not an ass laden with bread, as in the A.V., but all three things were placed upon the animal.
