THEOSIS1 Kingdoms (1 Samuel) 16:19Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Then Saul sent messengers to Isai, saying: Send me David, thy son, who is in the pastures.
וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח שָׁא֛וּל מַלְאָכִ֖ים אֶל־יִשָׁ֑י וַיֹּ֕אמֶר שִׁלְחָ֥ה אֵלַ֛י אֶת־דָּוִ֥ד בִּנְךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֥ר בַּצֹּֽאן׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 1 Sam 17:15David went, and returned from Saul, to feed his father's flock at Bethlehem.
- 1 Sam 16:11And Samuel said to Isai: Are here all thy sons? He answered: There remaineth yet a young one, who keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said to Isai: Send, and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.
- Ps 78 (77):70
- Ps 78 (77):72
- 1 Sam 17:33And Saul said to David: Thou art not able to withstand this Philistine, nor to fight against him: for thou art but a boy, but he is a warrior from his youth.
- 1 Sam 17:34And David said to Saul: Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, or a bear, and took a ram out of the midst of the flock:
- Ex 3:1Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father in law, the priest of Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.
- Ex 3:10But come, and I will send thee to Pharao, that thou mayst bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.