1 Samuel 16:17
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New International Version (©1984)
So Saul said to his attendants, "Find someone who plays 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."

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 Bible
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.

Bible in Basic English
And Saul said to his servants, Then get me a man who is an expert player, and make him come 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.'

Geneva Study Bible

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


1 Samuel 16:16 "Let our lord now command your servants who are before you. Let them seek a man who is a skillful player on the harp; and it shall come about when the evil spirit from God is on you, that he shall play the harp with his hand, and you will be well."
1 Samuel 16:18 Then one of the young men said, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is a skillful musician, a mighty man of valor, a warrior, one prudent in speech, and a handsome man; and the LORD is with him." (NASB ©1995)

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