Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.
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Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.
And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
So Saul sent messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed to kill him.”
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Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.
But Saul sent the messengers back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so I can kill him.”
But Saul sent the messengers back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so I can kill him.”
And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
And Saul sent the messengers againe to see Dauid, saying, Bring him to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
And again Saul sent to see David, saying: Bring him to me in the bed, that he may be slain.
And Saul sendeth the messengers to see David, saying, `Bring him up in the bed unto me,' -- to put him to death.
And Saul sends the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up in the bed to me in order to put him to death.”
Then Saul sent the messengers to see David; he said, “Bring him up to me in the bed, so that I may kill him.”
So Saul sent messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed to kill him.”
And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may put him to death.
Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”
And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, “Bring him to me in the bed so I can kill him.”
And Saul sent his men to see David, saying, Do not come back without him, take him in his bed, so that I may put him to death.
And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying: 'Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.'
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בַמִּטָּ֛ה bed H4296 occurs in 29 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 18 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 16 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.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח שָׁאוּל֙ אֶת הַמַּלְאָכִ֔ים לִרְא֥וֹת אֶת דָּוִ֖ד לֵאמֹ֑ר הַעֲל֨וּ אֹת֧וֹ בַמִּטָּ֛ה אֵלַ֖י לַהֲמִתֽוֹ
Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἀποστέλλω ἐπί ὁ δαυίδ λέγω ἄγω αὐτός ἐπί ὁ κλίνη πρός ἐγώ ὁ θανατόω αὐτός
And he sends to David, saying, Bring him to me on the bed, that I may kill him.
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 →
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וּשְׁלַח שָׁאוּל יַת אִזְגַדַיָא לְמִסְעַד יַת דָוִד לְמֵימַר אַסִיקוּ יָתֵיהּ בְּעַרְסָא לְוָתִי לְמִקְטְלֵיהּ:
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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 (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is miṭṭâh (“bed”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Samuel 19:15 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.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). 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.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)