1 Chronicles 21:1
And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 30:12When thou take the sum of the sons of Israel, according to those who are numbered of them, then they shall give every man a ransom for his soul to LORD when thou number them, that there be no plague among them when thou number them
2 Samuel 24:24And the king said to Araunah, No, but I will truly buy it from thee at a price. Neither will I offer burnt-offerings to LORD my God which cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver
1 Chronicles 7:40All these were the sons of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the rulers. And the number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
Job 2:1Again it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before LORD, that Satan came also among them to present himself before LORD.
Zechariah 3:1And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the agent of LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
Luke 11:53And after he said these things to them, the scholars and the Pharisees began to harass him extremely, and to provoke him to speak impulsively about more things,
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 21:1
As this rehearsal makes no mention of David's sin in the matter of Uriah, so neither of the troubles of his family that followed upon it; not a word of Absalom's rebellion, or Sheba's. But David's sin, in numbering the people, is here related, because, in the atonement made for that sin, an intimation was given of the spot of ground on which the temple should be built. Here is, I. David's sin, in forcing Joab to number the people, ver. 1-6 . II. David's sorrow for what he had done, as soon as he perceived the… Read the whole commentary →