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and Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor bearer. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/16-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David now stand before me, for he has found favor in my sight. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/16-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>So it came about whenever the <i>evil</i> spirit from God came to Saul, David would take the harp and play <i>it</i> with his hand; and Saul would be refreshed and be well, and the evil spirit would depart from him. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_samuel/16.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armorbearer.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_samuel/16.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him exceedingly, and made him his armourbearer. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/1_samuel/16.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And David came to Saul, and stood before him; and he loved him greatly; and he became his armour-bearer.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_samuel/16.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_samuel/16.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armor-bearer.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_samuel/16.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />David came to Saul, and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_samuel/16.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And David cometh in unto Saul, and standeth before him, and he loveth him greatly; and he is a bearer of his weapons.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/the_shepherd-king.htm">The Shepherd-King</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt them mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel! fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I have provided Me a king among his sons. 2. And Samuel said, How can I go? If Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord. 3. And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/the_shepherd-king.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_iv_the_call_of.htm">The Call of David. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone."--1 Samuel xvii. 50. These words, which are taken from the chapter which you heard read just now in the course of the Service[1], declare the victory which David, the man after God's own heart, gained over Goliath, who came out of the army of the Philistines to defy the Living God; and they declare the manner of his gaining it. He gained it with a sling and with a stone; that is, by means, which to man might seem weak and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_iv_the_call_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Newman—</span><span class="citation2">Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kempis/imitation_of_christ/chapter_vi_of_the_joy.htm">Of the Joy of a Good Conscience</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The testimony of a good conscience is the glory of a good man. Have a good conscience and thou shalt ever have joy. A good conscience is able to bear exceeding much, and is exceeding joyful in the midst of adversities; an evil conscience is ever fearful and unquiet. Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not. Never rejoice unless when thou hast done well. The wicked have never true joy, nor feel internal peace, for there is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.(1) And if they say <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kempis/imitation_of_christ/chapter_vi_of_the_joy.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas A Kempis—</span><span class="citation2">Imitation of Christ</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/the_life_of_david/ii_early_days.htm">Early Days</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The life of David is naturally divided into epochs, of which we may avail ourselves for the more ready arrangement of our material. These are--his early years up to his escape from the court of Saul, his exile, the prosperous beginning of his reign, his sin and penitence, his flight before Absalom's rebellion, and the darkened end. We have but faint incidental traces of his life up to his anointing by Samuel, with which the narrative in the historical books opens. But perhaps the fact that the story <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/the_life_of_david/ii_early_days.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">The Life of David</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/athanasius/select_works_and_letters_or_athanasius/life_of_antony_section_66.htm">And He had Also this Favour Granted Him. ...</a><br></span><span class="snippet">66. And he had also this favour granted him. For as he was sitting alone on the mountain, if ever he was in perplexity in his meditations, this was revealed to him by Providence in prayer. And the happy man, as it is written, was taught of God [1112] . After this, when he once had a discussion with certain men who had come to him concerning the state of the soul and of what nature its place will be after this life, the following night one from above called him, saying, Antony, rise, go out and look.' <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/athanasius/select_works_and_letters_or_athanasius/life_of_antony_section_66.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Athanasius—</span><span class="citation2">Select Works and Letters or Athanasius</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah_vol_1/sermon_viii_the_sun_rising.htm">The Sun Rising Upon a Dark World</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon then hath the light shined. C ontrasts are suited to illustrate and strengthen the impression of each other. The happiness of those, who by faith in MESSIAH, are brought into a state of peace, liberty, and comfort, is greatly enhanced and heightened by the consideration of that previous state of misery in which they once lived, and of the greater misery to which they were justly exposed. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah_vol_1/sermon_viii_the_sun_rising.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Newton—</span><span class="citation2">Messiah Vol. 1</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet_talks_on_the_crowned_christ_of_revelation/i_the_christ_crowned_the_fact.htm">The Christ Crowned, the Fact</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"When God sought a King for His people of old, He went to the fields to find him; A shepherd was he, with his crook and his lute And a following flock behind him. "O love of the sheep, O joy of the lute, And the sling and the stone for battle; A shepherd was King, the giant was naught, And the enemy driven like cattle. "When God looked to tell of His good will to men, And the Shepherd-King's son whom He gave them; To shepherds, made meek a-caring for sheep, He told of a Christ sent to save them. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet_talks_on_the_crowned_christ_of_revelation/i_the_christ_crowned_the_fact.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">by S. D. Gordon—</span><span class="citation2">Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/sell/studies_in_the_life_of_the_christian/study_vi_the_christians_book.htm">The Christian's Book</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Scripture references 2 Timothy 3:16,17; 2 Peter 1:20,21; John 5:39; Romans 15:4; 2 Samuel 23:2; Luke 1:70; 24:32,45; John 2:22; 10:35; 19:36; Acts 1:16; Romans 1:1,2; 1 Corinthians 15:3,4; James 2:8. WHAT IS THE BIBLE? What is the Bible? How shall we regard it? Where shall we place it? These and many questions like them at once come to the front when we begin to discuss the Bible as a book. It is only possible in this brief study, of a great subject, to indicate the line of some of the answers. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/sell/studies_in_the_life_of_the_christian/study_vi_the_christians_book.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Henry T. Sell—</span><span class="citation2">Studies in the Life of the Christian</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/samuel.htm">Samuel</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Alike from the literary and the historical point of view, the book[1] of Samuel stands midway between the book of Judges and the book of Kings. As we have already seen, the Deuteronomic book of Judges in all probability ran into Samuel and ended in ch. xii.; while the story of David, begun in Samuel, embraces the first two chapters of the first book of Kings. The book of Samuel is not very happily named, as much of it is devoted to Saul and the greater part to David; yet it is not altogether inappropriate, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/samuel.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_samuel/16-21.htm">1 Samuel 16:21 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_samuel/16-21.htm">1 Samuel 16:21 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_samuel/16-21.htm">1 Samuel 16:21 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_samuel/16-21.htm">1 Samuel 16:21 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_samuel/16-21.htm">1 Samuel 16:21 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/1_samuel/16-21.htm">1 Samuel 16:21 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/1_samuel/16-21.htm">1 Samuel 16:21 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_samuel/16-20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Samuel 16:20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 16:20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_samuel/16-22.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Samuel 16:22"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 16:22" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/1_samuel/16-21.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>