2 Samuel 24:17

New Living Translation

When David saw the angel, he said to the Lord, “I am the one who has sinned and done wrong! But these people are as innocent as sheep—what have they done? Let your anger fall against me and my family.”

Cross References

Genesis 18:23

Abraham approached him and said, “Will you sweep away both the righteous and the wicked?

Genesis 44:33

“So please, my lord, let me stay here as a slave instead of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

2 Samuel 12:13

Then David confessed to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” Nathan replied, “Yes, but the Lord has forgiven you, and you won’t die for this sin.

2 Samuel 24:10

But after he had taken the census, David’s conscience began to bother him. And he said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly by taking this census. Please forgive my guilt, Lord, for doing this foolish thing.”

2 Samuel 7:8

“Now go and say to my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has declared: I took you from tending sheep in the pasture and selected you to be the leader of my people Israel.

1 Kings 22:17

Then Micaiah told him, “In a vision I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, like sheep without a shepherd. And the Lord said, ‘Their master has been killed. Send them home in peace.’”

Job 42:6

I take back everything I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance.”

Job 7:20

If I have sinned, what have I done to you, O watcher of all humanity? Why make me your target? Am I a burden to you?

Psalm 32:5

Finally, I confessed all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide my guilt. I said to myself, “I will confess my rebellion to the Lord.” And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone. Interlude

Psalm 44:11

You have butchered us like sheep and scattered us among the nations.

Psalm 74:1

O God, why have you rejected us so long? Why is your anger so intense against the sheep of your own pasture?

Psalm 78:71

He took David from tending the ewes and lambs and made him the shepherd of Jacob’s descendants— God’s own people, Israel.

Exodus 10:16

Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron. “I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you,” he confessed.

Isaiah 6:5

Then I said, “It’s all over! I am doomed, for I am a sinful man. I have filthy lips, and I live among a people with filthy lips. Yet I have seen the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.”

Jonah 1:12

“Throw me into the sea,” Jonah said, “and it will become calm again. I know that this terrible storm is all my fault.”

Zechariah 13:7

“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, the man who is my partner,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “Strike down the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn against the lambs.

Numbers 16:22

But Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground. “O God,” they pleaded, “you are the God who gives breath to all creatures. Must you be angry with all the people when only one man sins?”