⁹ There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. ^(A)How then can I do this great wickedness, and ^(B)sin against God?”

⁴⁰ And they rose early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, ^(A)“Here we are, and we will go up to the place which the Lord has promised, for we have sinned!”

^24 (A)Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I ^(B)feared the people and obeyed their voice.

³⁰ Then he said, “I have sinned; yet ^(A)honor me now, please, before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.”

^13 (A)So David said to Nathan, ^(B)“I have sinned against the Lord.”

And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has ^(C)put away your sin; you shall not die.

The Judgment on David’s Sin^(A)

¹⁰ And ^(B)David’s heart condemned him after he had numbered the people. So ^(C)David said to the Lord, ^(D)“I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, I pray, O Lord, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have ^(E)done very foolishly.”