Psalms 78:70

New King James Version

He also chose David His servant, And took him from the sheepfolds;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He chose David his servantand took him from the sheep pens;

Hebrew Names Version
He also chose David his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds;

King James Version
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

English Standard Version
He chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds;

New Century Version
He chose David to be his servant and took him from the sheep pens.

New English Translation
He chose David, his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds.

Amplified Bible
He also chose David His servant And took him from the sheepfolds;

New American Standard Bible
He also chose His servant David And took him from the sheepfolds;

World English Bible
He also chose David his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds;

Geneva Bible (1587)
He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds.

Legacy Standard Bible
He also chose David His servantAnd took him from the sheepfolds;

Berean Standard Bible
He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;

Contemporary English Version
The Lord God chose David to be his servant and took him from tending sheep

Complete Jewish Bible
He chose David to be his servant, taking him from the sheep-yards;

Darby Translation
And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

Easy-to-Read Version
He chose David to be his special servant. He took him from the sheep pens.

George Lamsa Translation
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

Good News Translation
He chose his servant David; he took him from the pastures,

Lexham English Bible
And he chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds.

Literal Translation
He also chose His servant David, and took him from the folds of the flock;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And there he buylded his temple on hye, and layed ye foundacion of it like ye grounde, that it might perpetually endure.

American Standard Version
He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds:

Bible in Basic English
He took David to be his servant, taking him from the place of the flocks;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He chose David also His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

King James Version (1611)
And he built his sanctuarie like high palaces: like the earth which he hath established for euer.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He chose also Dauid his seruaunt: and toke hym away from the sheepefoldes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He chose David also his servant, and took him up from the flocks of sheep.

English Revised Version
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he chees Dauid his seruaunt, and took hym vp fro the flockis of scheep; he took hym fro bihynde scheep with lambren.

Update Bible Version
He chose David also his slave, And took him from the sheepfolds:

Webster's Bible Translation
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheep-folds:

New Living Translation
He chose his servant David, calling him from the sheep pens.

New Life Bible
He chose David, His servant and took him from the flocks of sheep.

New Revised Standard
He chose his servant David, and took him from the sheepfolds;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And made choice of David his servant, And took him from among the folds of the sheep:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-70) And he chose his servant David, and took him from the flocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young,

Revised Standard Version
He chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

Young's Literal Translation
And He fixeth on David His servant, And taketh him from the folds of a flock,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He also chose David His servant And took him from the sheepfolds;

Contextual Overview

⁴⁰ How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, And grieved Him in the desert! ⁴¹ Yes, again and again they tempted God, And limited the Holy One of Israel. ⁴² They did not remember His power: The day when He redeemed them from the enemy, ⁴³ When He worked His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan; ⁴⁴ Turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, that they could not drink. ⁴⁵ He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them, And frogs, which destroyed them. ⁴⁶ He also gave their crops to the caterpillar, And their labor to the locust. ⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycamore trees with frost. ⁴⁸ He also gave up their cattle to the hail, And their flocks to fiery lightning. ⁴⁹ He cast on them the fierceness of His anger, Wrath, indignation, and trouble, By sending angels of destruction among them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

chose: Psalms 89:19, Psalms 89:20, 1 Samuel 16:11, 1 Samuel 16:12, 2 Samuel 3:18, 2 Samuel 6:21, Acts 13:22

and took: Exodus 3:1, Exodus 3:10, 1 Samuel 17:15-54, 2 Samuel 7:8, 1 Kings 19:19, 1 Kings 19:20, Amos 7:14, Amos 7:15, Matthew 4:18-22

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:2 - And Abel Genesis 31:40 - General Genesis 46:32 - shepherds Numbers 24:17 - a Sceptre Deuteronomy 33:7 - and bring 1 Samuel 13:14 - the Lord 1 Samuel 16:19 - with the sheep 2 Samuel 5:2 - feed 2 Samuel 23:1 - raised 1 Kings 3:6 - great 1 Kings 8:16 - I chose David 1 Chronicles 17:7 - I took thee 1 Chronicles 17:17 - hast regarded Job 36:7 - with Psalms 65:4 - choosest Psalms 75:2 - When Psalms 89:3 - my chosen Psalms 131:1 - neither Jeremiah 23:4 - I Amos 1:1 - who Luke 2:8 - abiding John 21:15 - Feed Acts 20:28 - to feed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He chose David also his servant,.... To be king of Israel, the youngest of his father's family, when he rejected all the rest; see

1 Samuel 16:6, an eminent type of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is called by his name, Psalms 89:3 and the signification of his name "Beloved" agrees with him, who is beloved of God, as his Son, and as man and Mediator; and beloved of men, of all the saints: and so likewise his character as a servant suits with him; who not only frequently has the name of a servant, Psalms 89:19, but appeared in the form of one, Philippians 2:7, had the work of a servant to do, which he has accomplished, even the great work of our salvation,

John 17:4, in doing which, and all things leading on and appertaining to it, he took the utmost delight and pleasure, and used the greatest diligence and assiduity, John 4:34 and justly acquired the character of a faithful and righteous servant, Isaiah 53:11, and to this work and office he was chosen and called by his Father,

Isaiah 42:1,

and took him from the sheepfolds; from whence he was fetched when Samuel was sent by the Lord to anoint him, 1 Samuel 16:11, so Moses, while he was feeding his father's sheep, was called to be the saviour and deliverer of Israel, Exodus 3:1, and Amos was taken from following the flock to be a prophet of the Lord, Amos 7:13, and as David was a type of Christ, this may express the mean condition of our Lord, in his state of humiliation, previous to his exaltation, and the more open exercise of his kingly office.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He chose David also his servant - He chose him that he might set him over his people as their king. The idea is, that David was selected when he had no natural pretensions to the office, as he did not pertain to a royal family, and could have no claim to such a distinction. The account of this choice is contained in 1 Samuel 15:1-30.

And took him from the sheep-folds - From the humble occupation of a shepherd. 1 Samuel 16:11; 2 Samuel 7:8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 78:70. He chose David — See the account, Clarke, "1 Samuel 16:11", &c.