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2 Samuel 7:8-9
English Standard Version
2 Samuel 7:8-9
English Standard Version
8 Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, (A)I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince[a] over my people Israel. 9 (B)And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.
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- 2 Samuel 7:8 Or leader
Psalm 78:70-71
English Standard Version
Psalm 78:70-71
English Standard Version
70 He (A)chose David his servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;
71 from (B)following the nursing ewes he brought him
to (C)shepherd Jacob his people,
Israel his (D)inheritance.
English Standard Version (ESV)
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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