1 Samuel 16:21

21 David fue a Saúl y le servía; y Saúl lo amó grandemente y lo hizo su escudero.

1 Samuel 16:21 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 16:21

And David came to Saul, and stood before him
As a servant, and ministered to him in the way, and for the purpose for which he was sent:

and he loved him greatly;
being a comely person, and a well behaved youth, and especially as he was serviceable to him with his music, in driving away melancholy from him:

and he became his armourbearer;
that is, he appointed him to this office, though we never read that he exercised it; nor did he go with Saul in this capacity to the battle related in the following chapter: it may be literally rendered: "and he was to him a bearer of vessels", or "instruments" ^F17; and Abarbinel thinks this is to be understood not of instruments of war, but of instruments of music to play with; which he brought in and bare before him when he went in to the king.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (Mylk avn wl yhyw) "et fuit ei ferens vasa", Montanus; "ferens instrumenta", Piscator.

1 Samuel 16:21 In-Context

19 Entonces Saúl envió mensajeros a Isaí y dijo: Envíame a tu hijo David, el que está con el rebaño.

20 Tomó Isaí un asno cargado de pan, un odre de vino y un cabrito, y los envió a Saúl con su hijo David.

21 David fue a Saúl y le servía; y Saúl lo amó grandemente y lo hizo su escudero.

22 Y Saúl envió a decir a Isaí: Te ruego que David se quede delante de mí, pues ha hallado gracia ante mis ojos.

23 Sucedía que cuando el espíritu malo de parte de Dios venía a Saúl, David tomaba el arpa, la tocaba con su mano, y Saúl se calmaba y se ponía bien, y el espíritu malo se apartaba de él.