2 Samuel 24:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When David saw the angel who was destroying the people, he said to the Lord, “I alone have sinned, and I, the shepherd, have done evil, but these sheep, what have they done? Let your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father’s house.”

Cross References

Genesis 18:23

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

Genesis 44:33

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

2 Samuel 12:13

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

2 Samuel 24:10

But afterward, David was stricken to the heart because he had numbered the people. David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, I pray you, take away the guilt of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”

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 to be prince over my people Israel,

1 Kings 22:17

Then Micaiah said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd, and the Lord said, ‘These have no master; let each one go home in peace.’ ”

Job 42:6

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

Job 7:20

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

Psalm 32:5

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

Psalm 44:11

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

Psalm 74:1

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

Psalm 78:71

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

Exodus 10:16

Pharaoh hurriedly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you.

Isaiah 6:5

And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Jonah 1:12

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

Zechariah 13:7

“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,” says the Lord of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Numbers 16:22

They fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one person sin and you become angry with the whole congregation?”