2 Samuel 7:8-9

English Standard Version

⁸Now, 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

⁷⁰He ^(A)chose David his servant
    and took him from the sheepfolds;
⁷¹from ^(B)following the nursing ewes he brought him
    to ^(C)shepherd Jacob his people,
    Israel his ^(D)inheritance.