1 Chronicles 21:17

Modern English Version

David said to God, “Was it not I who gave the command to number the people? I am the one who has sinned and surely done evil. But these sheep, what have they done? O  Lord my God, I pray, let Your hand be against me and my father’s house, but do not let Your people be plagued.”

Cross References

Genesis 44:33

“Now therefore, please let your servant stay as a slave to my lord instead of the boy, and let the boy go up with his brothers.

2 Samuel 12:10

Now the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

2 Samuel 24:1

Again the Lord became angry against Israel, and He incited David against them, saying, “Go and count the people of Israel and Judah.”

2 Samuel 24:17

On seeing the angel who was striking down the people, David said to the Lord, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. These sheep, what have they done? Please, let your hand be against me and against the house of my father.”

2 Samuel 7:8

Now therefore, you will say to My servant David: Thus says the Lord of Hosts: I took you from the pasture, from following after the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel.

1 Kings 22:17

And he said, “I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep without a shepherd, and the Lord said, ‘These have no master. Let every man return to his own house in peace.’ ”

1 Chronicles 21:8

So David said to God, “I have sinned greatly in doing this thing. Now, please, take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

Psalm 44:11

You have given us up like sheep for slaughter, and have scattered us among the nations.

Psalm 51:14

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of Your righteousness.

Psalm 51:4

Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You are justified when you speak, and blameless when You pass judgment.

Psalm 74:1

O God, why have You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of them who hate Me,

Ezekiel 16:63

in order that you may remember, and be humiliated, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I am pacified toward you for all that you have done, says the Lord God.

Jonah 1:12

So Jonah said to them, “Pick me up and toss me into the sea. Then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know that it is on my account this great storm has come upon you.”

Romans 9:3

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen by race,

Joshua 22:18

that today you have turned away from following the Lord? “ ‘If today you are rebelling against the Lord, then tomorrow He will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel!

1 John 3:16

By this we know the love of God: that He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.