1 Kings 16:19
Then Saul sent messengers to Isai, saying: Send me David thy son, who is in the pastures.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Misit ergo Saul nuntios ad Isai, dicens : Mitte ad me David filium tuum, qui est in pascuis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀπέστειλεν Σαοὺλ ἀγγέλους πρὸς Ἰεσσαὶ λέγων Ἀπόστειλον πρὸς μὲ τὸν υἱόν σου Δαυεὶδ τὸν ἐν τῷ ποιμνίῳ σου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח שָׁא֛וּל מַלְאָכִ֖ים אֶל יִשָׁ֑י וַיֹּ֕אמֶר שִׁלְחָ֥ה אֵלַ֛י אֶת דָּוִ֥ד בִּנְךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֥ר בַּצֹּֽאן
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXIII
1. This Psalm hath an inscription, that is, a title, “There have failed the hymns of David, the son of Jesse. A Psalm of Asaph himself.” So many Psalms we have on the titles whereof is written the name David, nowhere there is added, “son of Jesse,” except in this alone. Which we must believe hath not been done to no purpose, nor capriciously. For everywhere God doth make intimations to us, and to the understanding thereof doth invite the godly study of love. What is, “there have failed the hymns of David, the son of Jesse”? Hymns are praises of God accompanied with singing: hymns are songs containing the praise of God. If there be praise, and it be not of God, it is no hymn: if there be praise, and God’s praise, and it be not sung, it is no hymn. It must needs then, if it be a hymn, have these three things, both praise, and that of God, and singing. …