1 Chronicles 21:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Is it not i

These sheep

1 Kings 22:17

Psalm 44:11

What have

2 Samuel 24:1

Let thine

1 John 3:16

On my father's

That they should

Joshua 22:18

Bible References

Is it not i

Then said David to God, "I have sinned exceedingly in doing this thing. Nevertheless, yet do away the wickedness of thy servant, for I have done above measure foolishly."

Then spake David unto the LORD when he saw the Angel that smote the people, and said, "Lo, it is I that have sinned, and I that have done wickedly. But these sheep what have they done? Let I pray thee thine hand be on me and on my father's house."

Against thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and clear when thou shalt judge.

That thou mayest think upon it, be ashamed, and excuse thine own confusion no more: when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, sayeth the LORD God.'"

These sheep

Then he said, "I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have no shepherds. And the LORD said, 'Those have no master; let them return, every man to his house in peace.'"

Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep, and scatterest us among the Heathen.

What have

And the LORD was wroth again against Israel, and stirred up David against them, saying, "Go and number both Israel and Judah."

Let thine

Now therefore let me thy servant bide here for the lad, and be my lord's bondman: and let the lad go home with his brethren.

Yet forgive them their sin, I pray thee: If not, wipe me out of thy book which thou hast written."

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

For I have wished myself to be cursed from Christ, for my brethren and my kinsmen as pertaining to the flesh:

Hereby are we assured of love: because he left his life for us: And therefore we ought also to give our lives for our brethren.

On my father's

See that thou neither bow thyself unto them neither serve them: for I, the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sin of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house, because thou hast despised me and taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite, to be thy wife.'

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou that art the God of my health; that my tongue may praise thy righteousness.

Yea, and part of thy sons, that shall come of thee, and whom thou shalt get, shall be carried hence, and become gelded chamberlains in the king of Babylon's court."

That they should

But that ye also should turn away this day from following the LORD: ye shall rebel today against the LORD, and tomorrow he shall be wroth with all the congregation.