1 Samuel 16:19

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Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse, saying, "Send me your son David, who is with the sheep."

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  • 1 Sam 16:11 : 11 Then Samuel asked Jesse, "Are these all the young men you have?" Jesse replied, "There remains the youngest, but he is tending the sheep." Samuel said to Jesse, "Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives here."
  • 1 Sam 17:15 : 15 But David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.
  • 1 Sam 17:33-34 : 33 But Saul replied, 'You cannot go against this Philistine to fight him. You are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.' 34 David said to Saul, 'Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep. Whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,'
  • 1 Kgs 19:19 : 19 Elijah left from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen, and he was with the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak over him.
  • Ps 78:70-72 : 70 He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds. 71 From tending the nursing ewes, He brought him to shepherd Jacob, His people, and Israel, His inheritance. 72 He shepherded them with a heart of integrity and guided them with the skillfulness of his hands.
  • Ps 113:8 : 8 He seats them with princes, with the princes of His people.
  • Amos 1:1 : 1 The words of Amos, who was among the sheep breeders from Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel during the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and during the days of Jeroboam, son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
  • Amos 7:14-15 : 14 Amos answered Amaziah, 'I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore figs.' 15 But the Lord took me from tending the flock and said to me, 'Go, prophesy to My people Israel.'
  • Matt 4:18-22 : 18 While walking by the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon (called Peter) and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 19 And He said to them, 'Come, follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.' 20 Immediately they left their nets and followed Him. 21 Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and He called them. 22 And immediately they left the boat and their father and followed Him.
  • Exod 3:1-9 : 1 Now 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. 2 The angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that the bush was burning with fire, but it was not consumed. 3 So Moses said, 'I will turn aside to see this remarkable sight—why the bush is not burning up.' 4 When the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him out of the bush and said, 'Moses, Moses!' And Moses replied, 'Here I am.' 5 God said, 'Do not come any closer. Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.' 6 Then he said, 'I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' At this, Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God. 7 The LORD said, 'I have surely seen the affliction of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cry on account of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.' 8 'So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the place of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.' 9 'Now, the cry of the Israelites has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.' 10 'So now go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.'

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  • 83%

    20Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and a young goat and sent them with his son David to Saul.

    21When David came to Saul and stood before him, Saul loved him greatly, and David became his armor-bearer.

    22Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, "Allow David to remain in my service, for he has found favor in my sight."

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    10Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to him, "The LORD has not chosen any of these."

    11Then Samuel asked Jesse, "Are these all the young men you have?" Jesse replied, "There remains the youngest, but he is tending the sheep." Samuel said to Jesse, "Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives here."

    12So Jesse sent for him and brought him in. He was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. Then the LORD said, "Rise and anoint him; this is the one."

    13So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon David from that day forward. Then Samuel left and went to Ramah.

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    17So Saul said to his servants, "Find me someone who plays well, and bring him to me."

    18One of the young men answered, "I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the lyre. He is a valiant warrior, eloquent, and handsome, and the LORD is with him."

  • 31When David's words were heard, they were reported to Saul, and he sent for him.

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    14When Saul sent messengers to capture David, Michal said, 'He is sick.'

    15Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, 'Bring him to me in his bed so I can kill him.'

  • 1 Sam 16:1-3
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    79%

    1The LORD said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have chosen a king for myself among his sons."

    2Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears about it, he will kill me." The LORD replied, "Take a young cow with you and say, 'I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.'

    3Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you are to do. You are to anoint for me the one I indicate to you.

  • 78%

    14David was the youngest, and the three oldest had followed Saul.

    15But David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.

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    55When Saul saw David going out to confront the Philistine, he asked Abner, the commander of his army, 'Abner, whose son is this young man?' Abner replied, 'As surely as you live, O king, I do not know.'

    56The king said, 'Find out whose son this young man is.'

    57As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with the Philistine's head still in his hand.

    58Saul asked him, 'Whose son are you, young man?' David replied, 'I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem.'

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    19When Saul was told, 'David is at Naioth in Ramah,' he acted accordingly.

    20Saul sent messengers to capture David. But when they saw the group of prophets prophesying, with Samuel presiding over them, the Spirit of God came upon Saul’s messengers, and they also began to prophesy.

  • 20Early in the morning, David left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry.

  • 1Saul spoke to his son Jonathan and to all his servants, commanding them to kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, held a deep affection for David.

  • 24When Saul’s servants reported back what David had said,

  • 34David said to Saul, 'Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep. Whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,'

  • 9David got up afterward, went out of the cave, and called after Saul, 'My lord the king!' When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down with his face to the ground and paid homage.

  • 13Saul said to him, 'Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, giving him bread and a sword and inquiring of God for him, so that he has risen against me to lie in wait, as he does today?'

  • 17Saul recognized David’s voice and said, "Is that your voice, my son David?" David replied, "It is my voice, my lord the king."

  • 12Now David was the son of an Ephrathite man named Jesse from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and in Saul's time, he was old and advanced in years.

  • 5David went out and was successful in everything Saul sent him to do. Saul gave him command over the soldiers, and he was well-liked by everyone, including Saul’s officers.

  • 17Jesse said to his son David, 'Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.'

  • 7Now then, tell my servant David: 'This is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people Israel.

  • 22Finally, Saul himself went to Ramah. He came to the great cistern at Secu and asked, 'Where are Samuel and David?' Someone answered, 'They are at Naioth in Ramah.'

  • 28When Eliab, David’s oldest brother, heard him speaking to the men, he became angry with David and said, 'Why have you come down here? And who did you leave those few sheep with in the wilderness? I know your pride and the wickedness of your heart; you came down only to watch the battle.'

  • 1 Sam 16:5-6
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    73%

    5He replied, "In peace; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice." Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

    6When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought, "Surely the LORD's anointed stands here before him."

  • 14But Samuel said, 'What is this sound of sheep and cattle that I hear?'

  • 22Then Saul ordered his servants, 'Speak to David privately and say, "Look, the king likes you, and all his servants love you; now become his son-in-law."'

  • 1 Sam 22:6-7
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    6Saul heard that David and his men had been discovered. Saul was seated in Gibeah under the tamarisk tree on the hill, spear in hand, with all his servants standing around him.

    7Saul said to his servants who stood around him, 'Listen now, men of Benjamin! Will the son of Jesse give all of you fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?'

  • 16May the LORD be our judge and decide between us. May He see and plead my case and vindicate me from your hand.

  • 1 Sam 24:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of En-gedi.

    2When Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, 'David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.'

  • 1Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you as king over His people Israel. Now, listen to the words of the LORD.

  • 10David said, "LORD, God of Israel, your servant has certainly heard that Saul intends to come to Keilah and destroy the city because of me.

  • 22David answered and said, "Here is the king's spear. Let one of the young men come over and take it.

  • 11The king sent for Ahimelech the priest, son of Ahitub, and his entire family, who were the priests at Nob, and they all came to the king.

  • 25When Saul and his men began searching for him, David was told about it. He then went down to the rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard this, he pursued David into the wilderness of Maon.