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.