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Now therefore tell my servant David this: ‘The LORD of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.

2 Samuel 7:8 · WEB

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ગુજરાતી2 શમુએલ ૭:૮
મારા સેવક દાઉદને કહે કે, સૈન્યોના ઈશ્વર એવું કહે છે કે: તું ઘેટાંનાં ટોળાંની પાછળ ફરતો હતો ત્યાંથી મેં તને તેડાવી લીધો છે, કે તું મારા લોક ઇઝરાયલ પર અધિકારી બનશે.
हिन्दी2 शमूएल ७:८
इसलिए अब तू मेरे दास दाऊद से ऐसा कह, ‘सेनाओं का यहोवा यह कहता है, कि मैंने तो तुझे भेड़शाला से, और भेड़-बकरियों के पीछे-पीछे फिरने से, इस मनसा से बुला लिया कि तू मेरी प्रजा इस्राएल का प्रधान हो जाए। (भज. 78: 71)

In context

6For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought the children of Israel up out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle.

7In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’

8Now therefore tell my servant David this: ‘The LORD of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.

9I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are on the earth.

10I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not afflict them any more, as at the first,

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