1 Samuel 16:19 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח	vai.yish.Lach	and he sent	H7971 →
שָׁא֛וּל	sha.'Ul	Saul	H7586 →
מַלְאָכִ֖ים	mal.'a.Khim	messengers	H4397 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
יִשָׁ֑י	yi.Shai	Jesse	H3448 →
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
שִׁלְחָ֥ה	shil.Chah	send !	H7971 →
אֵלַ֛י	'e.Lai	to me	H413 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
דָּוִ֥ד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
בִּנְךָ֖	bin.Kha	son your	H1121 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	who	H834 →
בַּצֹּֽאן׃	ba.Tzon	[is] with the flock	H6629 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Kings 19:19
So Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him.
leads to
- 2 Kings 2:8
  And Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the waters, which parted to the right and to the left, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
- 2 Kings 2:13–14
  Elisha also picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah, and he went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.
- Psalms 78:70–72
  He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
Through
1 Samuel 16:11
And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit…
leads to
- Psalms 78:70–71
  He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
- 2 Samuel 7:8
  Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My…
- 2 Samuel 13:3
  Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man,
- 1 Samuel 17:28
  Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep…
- 1 Chronicles 17:7

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Psalms 78:70–72He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;1 Samuel 16:11And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”1 Samuel 17:15but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.Matthew 4:18–22As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.1 Kings 19:19So Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him.Exodus 3:1–10Meanwhile, 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.Amos 7:14–15“I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.1 Samuel 17:33–34But Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”Psalms 113:8to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.Amos 1:1These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.

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