2 Samuel 24:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Spake

1 Chronicles 21:16

Lo, i have sinned

Isaiah 6:5

These sheep

Zechariah 13:7

Let thine

Genesis 44:33

John 10:11

1 Peter 2:24

Bible References

Spake

And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and heaven, with his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

Lo, i have sinned

The heart of David struck him after he had counted the people, and David said to Yahweh, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done! So then, O Yahweh, please forgive the guilt of your servant because I have acted very foolishly."

[If] I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity? Why have you made me as a target for yourself, so that I have become a burden to myself?

Therefore I despise [myself] and repent in dust and ashes."

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and from my sin cleanse me.

And I said, "Woe to me! For I am destroyed! For I [am] a man {of unclean lips}, and I [am] living among a people {of unclean lips}, for my eyes have seen the king, Yahweh of hosts!"

These sheep

So he said, "I saw all of Israel scattering to the mountains, like the sheep without a shepherd. Yahweh also said, 'There are no masters for these, let them return in peace, each to his house.'"

You have given us as sheep [for] food, and among the nations you have scattered us.

Why, O God, have you rejected [us] forever? [Why] does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

"Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and you must say to them, to the shepherds, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Woe [to] the shepherds of Israel who were feeding themselves! Must not the shepherds feed the flock?

"O sword, awake against my shepherd, against [the] man [who is] my associate," {declares} Yahweh of hosts. "Strike the shepherd, so that the sheep may be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the small [ones].

Let thine

So then, please let your servant remain in place of the boy as a slave to my lord, and let the boy go up with his brothers.

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that [we] may die to sins [and] live to righteousness, by whose wounds you were healed.