King James Version
1 Samuel 16:22 in the King James Version says “And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.” — study this verse from 1 Samuel chapter 16 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.”
1 Samuel 16:22 · KJV
And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid , and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer .
And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.
And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“I pray thee stand”
H5975to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
'i pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“me for he hath found”
H4672properly, to come forth to, i.e., appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e., find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
“in my sight”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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