Bible Verses About Jesse

So Dauid rose vp earely in the morning, and left the sheepe with a keeper, and tooke and went as Ishai had commanded him, and came within the compasse of the hoste: and the hoste went out in araie, and shouted in the battell.

For Israel and the Philistims had put themselues in araie, armie against armie.

And Dauid left the things, which hee bare, vnder the handes of the keeper of the cariage, and ranne into the hoste, and came, and asked his brethren howe they did.

And as hee talked with them, beholde, the man that was betweene the two armies, came vp, (whose name was Goliath ye Philistim of Gath) out of the armie of the Philistims, and spake such woordes, and Dauid heard them.

And all the men of Israel, when they sawe the man, ranne away from him, and were sore afraied.

For euery man of Israel saide, Sawe yee not this man that commeth vp? euen to reuile Israel is he come vp: and to him that killeth him, wil the king giue great riches, and will giue him his daughter, yea, and make his fathers house free in Israel.

Then Dauid spake to the men that stoode with him, and sayde, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistim, and taketh away the shame from Israel? for who is this vncircumcised Philistim, that he shoulde reuile the hoste of the liuing God?

And the people answered him after this maner, saying, Thus shall it be done to the man that killeth him.

And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake vnto the men, and Eliab was verie angrie with Dauid, and sayde, Why camest thou downe hither? and with whome hast thou left those fewe sheepe in the wildernesse? I knowe thy pride and the malice of thine heart, that thou art come downe to see the battell.

And Dauid went thence to Mizpeh in Moab, and said vnto the King of Moab, I pray thee, let my father and my mother come and abide with you, till I knowe what God wil doe for me.

And he brought them before the King of Moab, and they dwelt with him all the while that Dauid was in the holde.

And Ishai begate his eldest sonne Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,

Nathaneel the fourth, Raddai the fift,

Ozem the sixt, and Dauid the seuenth.

Whose sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sonnes of Zeruiah, Abishai, and Ioab, and Asahel.

And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Iether an Ishmeelite.

And Salmon begate Booz of Rachab. And Booz begat Obed of Ruth. and Obed begat Iesse.

And Iesse begate Dauid the King. And Dauid the King begate Salomon of her that was the wife of Vrias.