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. (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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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 7:8 Or leader

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.

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