2 Samuel 24:17

English Standard Version 2016

Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and against my father’s house.”

Cross References

Psalm 74:1

O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

2 Samuel 24:10

But David’s heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”

Job 42:6

therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

Zechariah 13:7

“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands next to me,” declares the Lord of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Isaiah 6:5

And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Psalm 44:11

You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations.

Job 7:20

If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you?

1 Kings 22:17

And he said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the Lord said, ‘These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.’”

Genesis 44:33

Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.

Genesis 18:23

Then Abraham drew near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

2 Samuel 7:8

Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.

Jonah 1:12

He said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.”

Exodus 10:16

Then Pharaoh hastily called Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.

Numbers 16:22

And they fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

2 Samuel 12:13

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.

Psalm 32:5

I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

Psalm 78:71

from following the nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Jacob his people, Israel his inheritance.