1 Chronicles 21:17

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David said to God, “I’m the one who ordered the people to be counted. I am the one who sinned and did wrong. What have these sheep done? Lord my God, let your punishment be against me and my father’s family, but don’t punish your people with a plague.”

Cross References

Genesis 44:33

Sir, please let me stay and be your slave in the boy’s place, and let the boy go back with his brothers.

2 Samuel 12:10

So warfare will never leave your house because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

2 Samuel 24:1

The Lord became angry with Israel again, so he provoked David to turn against Israel. He said, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”

2 Samuel 24:17

When David saw the Messenger who had been killing the people, he said to the Lord, “I’ve sinned. I’ve done wrong. What have these sheep done? Please let your punishment be against me and against my father’s family.”

2 Samuel 7:8

“Now this is what you will say to my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord of Armies says: I took you from the pasture where you followed sheep so that you could be the leader of my people Israel.

1 Kings 22:17

So Micaiah said, “I saw Israel’s troops scattered in the hills like sheep without a shepherd. The Lord said, ‘These ⌞sheep⌟ have no master. Let each one go home in peace.’ ”

1 Chronicles 21:8

David said to God, “I have committed a terrible sin by doing this thing. Forgive me because I have acted very foolishly.”

Psalm 44:11

You hand us over to be butchered like sheep and scatter us among the nations.

Psalm 51:14

Rescue me from the guilt of murder, O God, my savior. Let my tongue sing joyfully about your righteousness!

Psalm 51:4

I have sinned against you, especially you. I have done what you consider evil. So you hand down justice when you speak, and you are blameless when you judge.

Psalm 74:1

Why, O God, have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep in your care?

Exodus 20:5

Never worship them or serve them, because I, the Lord your God, am a God who does not tolerate rivals. I punish children for their parents’ sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.

Ezekiel 16:63

You will remember and be ashamed. You will never again open your mouth because of your disgrace when I forgive you for everything you did, declares the Almighty Lord.’ ”

Jonah 1:12

He told them, “Throw me overboard. Then the sea will become calm. I know that I’m responsible for this violent storm.”

Romans 9:3

I wish I could be condemned and cut off from Christ for the sake of others who, like me, are Jewish by birth.

Joshua 22:18

You have turned away from following the Lord! Today you rebel against the Lord, and tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

1 John 3:16

We understand what love is when we realize that Christ gave his life for us. That means we must give our lives for other believers.