And the woman said, Why then have you thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king speaks this thing as one who is faulty, in that the king does not fetch home again his banished.
And Nathan said to David, You are the man. Thus says the LORD God of Israel, I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul;
Now therefore so shall you say to my servant David, Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew the sword.