1 Samuel 16:17
◄  1 Samuel 16:17  ►
New International Version (©2011)
So Saul said to his attendants, "Find someone who plays well and bring him to me."

New Living Translation (©2007)
"All right," Saul said. "Find me someone who plays well, and bring him here."

English Standard Version (©2001)
So Saul said to his servants, “Provide for me a man who can play well and bring him to me.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So Saul said to his servants, "Provide for me now a man who can play well and bring him to me."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then Saul commanded his servants, "Find me someone who plays well and bring him to me."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Saul told his servants, "Find a man for me who can play well and bring him to me."

NET Bible (©2006)
So Saul said to his servants, "Find me a man who plays well and bring him to me."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Saul told his officials, "Please find me a man who can play well and bring him to me."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

American King James Version
And Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

American Standard Version
And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Saul said to his servants: Provide me then some man that can play well, and bring him to me.

Darby Bible Translation
And Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

English Revised Version
And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

World English Bible
Saul said to his servants, "Provide me now a man who can play well, and bring him to me."

Young's Literal Translation
And Saul saith unto his servants, 'Provide, I pray you, for me a man playing well -- then ye have brought him in unto me.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:14-23 Saul is made a terror to himself. The Spirit of the Lord departed from him. If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us. The devil, by the Divine permission, troubled and terrified Saul, by the corrupt humours of his body, and passions of his mind. He grew fretful, peevish, and discontented, and at times a madman. It is a pity that music, which may be serviceable to the good temper of the mind, should ever be abused, to support vanity and luxury, and made an occasion of drawing the heart from God and serious things. That is driving away the good Spirit, not the evil spirit. Music, diversions, company, or business, have for a time often been employed to quiet the wounded conscience; but nothing can effect a real cure but the blood of Christ, applied in faith, and the sanctifying Spirit sealing the pardon, by his holy comforts. All other plans to dispel religious melancholy are sure to add to distress, either in this world or the next.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Saul said unto his servants,.... Approving of, and pleased with the advice they gave:

provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me; for being a sovereign prince, he could command whom he would to attend to his person and service.

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David Serves Saul
…16Let our lord now command your servants, which are before you, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is on you, that he shall play with his hand, and you shall be well. 17And Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me. 18Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him. …

1 Samuel 16:16 Let our lord command his servants here to search for someone who can play the lyre. He will play when the evil spirit from God comes on you, and you will feel better."
1 Samuel 16:18 One of the servants answered, "I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the lyre. He is a brave man and a warrior. He speaks well and is a fine-looking man. And the LORD is with him."