¹⁹ Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is with the sheep.^(A)”

¹² Now David was the son of an Ephrathite^(A) named Jesse,^(B) who was from Bethlehem^(C) in Judah. Jesse had eight^(D) sons, and in Saul’s time he was very old.