1 Chronicles 21:17
"And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued."
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- Ezekiel 16:63
"That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD."
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 7:8
"Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 74:1
"O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?"
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 24:1
"And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah."
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 12:10
"Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife."
Read in chapter → - Exodus 20:5
"Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;"
Read in chapter → - Joshua 22:18
"But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 51:14
"Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness."
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 24:17
"And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house."
Read in chapter → - John 10:11
"I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep."
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