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1 Samuel 16:19-21
New Catholic Bible
1 Samuel 16:19-21
New Catholic Bible
19 [a]So Saul sent messengers to Jesse saying, “Send me David, your son, who is tending the sheep.”
20 Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and a young goat, and he sent them with David, his son, to Saul. 21 David came to Saul and entered into his service. He loved him very much, and he became his armor-bearer.
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- 1 Samuel 16:19 David is given an opportunity to learn firsthand the ways of leading the people from Saul, who apparently does not know that Samuel has already anointed David as the Lord instructed (v. 13).
