JESSE

Passages on this topic · 45

• Ruth 4:17

  The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, “A son is born to Naomi”. They named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

• 1 Samuel 16:1

  Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”

• 1 Samuel 16:2

  Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” Yahweh said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 16:3

  Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. You shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.”

• 1 Samuel 16:4

  Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, “Do you come peaceably?”

• 1 Samuel 16:5

  He said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

• 1 Samuel 16:6

  When they had come, he looked at Eliab, and said, “Surely Yahweh’s anointed is before him.”

• 1 Samuel 16:7

  But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

• 1 Samuel 16:8

  Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”

• 1 Samuel 16:9

  Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”

• 1 Samuel 16:10

  Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, “Yahweh has not chosen these.”

• 1 Samuel 16:11

  Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your children here?” He said, “There remains yet the youngest. Behold, he is keeping the sheep.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.”

• 1 Samuel 16:12

  He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with a handsome face and good appearance. Yahweh said, “Arise! Anoint him, for this is he.”

• 1 Samuel 16:13

  Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

• 1 Samuel 16:19

  Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, “Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.”

• 1 Samuel 16:20

  Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by David his son to Saul.

• 1 Samuel 16:21

  David came to Saul, and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.

• 1 Samuel 16:22

  Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.”

• 1 Samuel 16:23

  When the spirit from God was on Saul, David took the harp, and played with his hand; so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

• 1 Samuel 17:12

  Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul.

• 1 Samuel 17:13

  The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

• 1 Samuel 17:14

  David was the youngest; and the three oldest followed Saul.

• 1 Samuel 17:15

  Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

• 1 Samuel 17:16

  The Philistine came near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

• 1 Samuel 17:17

  Jesse said to David his son, “Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers;

• 1 Samuel 17:18

  and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news.”

• 1 Samuel 17:19

  Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

• 1 Samuel 17:20

  David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the place of the wagons, as the army which was going out to the fight shouted for the battle.

• 1 Samuel 17:21

  Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

• 1 Samuel 17:22

  David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.

• 1 Samuel 17:23

  As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines, and said the same words; and David heard them.

• 1 Samuel 17:24

  All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were terrified.

• 1 Samuel 17:25

  The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The king will give great riches to the man who kills him, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 17:26

  David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

• 1 Samuel 17:27

  The people answered him in this way, saying, “So shall it be done to the man who kills him.”

• 1 Samuel 17:28

  Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

• 1 Samuel 22:3

  David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me.”

• 1 Samuel 22:4

  He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.

• 1 Chronicles 2:13

  and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,

• 1 Chronicles 2:14

  Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

• 1 Chronicles 2:15

  Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;

• 1 Chronicles 2:16

  and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.

• 1 Chronicles 2:17

  Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

• Matthew 1:5

  Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse.

• Matthew 1:6

  Jesse became the father of King David. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been Uriah’s wife.