Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.
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Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.
And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favor in my sight.
And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Please let David stand to my face, for he has found favor in my eyes.”
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Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.
Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for I am pleased with him.”
Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for I am pleased with him.”
And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favor in my sight.
And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favor in my sight.
And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.
And Saul sent to Ishai, saying, Let Dauid nowe remaine with me: for he hath found fauour in my sight.
And Saul sent to Isai, saying: Let David stand before me: for he hath found favour in my sight.
And Saul sendeth unto Jesse, saying, `Let David, I pray thee, stand before me, for he hath found grace in mine eyes.'
And Saul sends to Jesse, saying, “Please let David stand before me, for he has found grace in my eyes.”
Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Let David stand before me, for he has found favor in my eyes.”
And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Please let David stand to my face, for he has found favor in my eyes.”
And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he has found favour in my sight.
Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Please let David stand before me, for he has found favor in my sight.”
And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favor in my sight.
Saul sent a message to Jesse, saying, “Please allow David to continue working for me because I am pleased with him.”
And Saul sent to Jesse saying, Let David be with me, for he is pleasing to me.
And Saul sent to Jesse, saying: 'Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.'
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
יִשַׁ֖י Jesse H3448 occurs in 39 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 22 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 17 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח שָׁא֔וּל אֶל יִשַׁ֖י לֵאמֹ֑ר יַעֲמָד נָ֤א דָוִד֙ לְפָנַ֔י כִּֽי מָ֥צָא חֵ֖ן בְּעֵינָֽי
Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἀποστέλλω σαούλ πρός ιεσσαι λέγω παραἵστημι δή δαυίδ ἐνώπιον ἐγώ ὅτι εὑρίσκω χάρις ἐν ὀφθαλμός ἐγώ
And Saul sent to Jessae, saying, Let David, I pray you, stand before me, for he has found grace in my eyes.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וּשְׁלַח שָׁאוּל לְוַת יִשַׁי לְמֵימָר יְשַׁמֵשׁ כְּעַן דָוִד קֳדָמַי אֲרֵי אַשְׁכַּח רַחֲמִין קֳדָמַי:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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1 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 13 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yishay (“Jesse”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Samuel 16:22 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.