Psalms 78:70

New Living Translation

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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

New King James Version
He also 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;

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

World English Bible
He also chose David 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.

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

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.

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

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;

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 English Translation
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;

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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,

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

English Standard Version
He 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;

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

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

Christian Standard Bible®
He chose David 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.

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

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

Contextual Overview

⁴⁰ Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved his heart in that dry wasteland. ⁴¹ Again and again they tested God's patience and provoked the Holy One of Israel. ⁴² They did not remember his power and how he rescued them from their enemies. ⁴³ They did not remember his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders on the plain of Zoan. ⁴⁴ For he turned their rivers into blood, so no one could drink from the streams. ⁴⁵ He sent vast swarms of flies to consume them and hordes of frogs to ruin them. ⁴⁶ He gave their crops to caterpillars; their harvest was consumed by locusts. ⁴⁷ He destroyed their grapevines with hail and shattered their sycamore-figs with sleet. ⁴⁸ He abandoned their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning. ⁴⁹ He loosed on them his fierce anger— all his fury, rage, and hostility. He dispatched against them a band of destroying angels.

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.