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18 One of the servants answered and said, “Look, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing a stringed instrument, a brave man, a warrior, prudent in speech, and handsome.[a] And Yahweh is with him.” 19 So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me David your son who is with the sheep.” 20 And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread and a skin of wine and one young goat[b] and sent them to Saul by the hand of David his son.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 16:18 Literally “a hero of ability, a man of war, discerning of word, and a man of appearance”
  2. 1 Samuel 16:20 Literally “kid of a goat”