1 Chronicles 21:1
And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
Darby Translation
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 shalt take the sum of the children of Israel according to those of them that are numbered, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul to Jehovah on their being numbered, that there be no plague among them on their being numbered.
2 Samuel 24:24And the king said to Araunah, No; but I will in any case buy [them] of thee at a price: neither will I offer up to Jehovah my God burnt-offerings without cost. And 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 fathers' houses, choice men, mighty of valour, chiefs of the princes. And their number according to their genealogy, registered as fit for service for war, was twenty-six thousand men.
Job 2:1And there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, and Satan also came among them to present himself before Jehovah.
Zechariah 3:1And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
Luke 11:53And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him urgently, and to make him speak of many 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 →