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2 Samuel 24:17

When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”

2 Samuel 24:17 BSB
  1. a DSS and LXX; MT does not include the shepherd.

2 Samuel 24:17 has 15 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Chronicles 21:16–17 (5 votes) and Psalm 74:1 (5 votes). 21 other verses point back to it. It links with 20 other books, from Genesis 18 to 1 Peter 2.

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Which verses does 2 Samuel 24:17 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. 1 Chronicles 21:16–175 votes

    When David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown. And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave the order to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? O LORD my God, please let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house, but do not let this plague remain upon Your people.”

  2. Psalm 74:15 votes

    A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?

  3. 2 Samuel 24:104 votes

    After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

  4. Job 42:63 votes

    Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

  5. Ezekiel 34:23–243 votes

    I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd. I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David will be a prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken.

  6. Genesis 44:332 votes

    Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.

  7. 1 Kings 22:172 votes

    So Micaiah declared: “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These people have no master; let each one return home in peace.’”

  8. Job 7:202 votes

    If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?

  9. Psalm 44:112 votes

    You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.

  10. Psalm 51:2–52 votes

    Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. …

  11. Isaiah 6:52 votes
  12. Ezekiel 34:2–62 votes
  13. Zechariah 13:72 votes
  14. John 10:11–122 votes
  15. 1 Peter 2:24–252 votes

Which verses point to 2 Samuel 24:17?

The 10 strongest of 21.