1 Chronicles 21:1
And Satan stood up against Yisroel, and provoked Dovid to number Yisroel.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 takest the census of the Bnei Yisroel after their number, then shall they give every man a kofer nafsho (life price, atoning payment for his nefesh or soul) unto Hashem, when thou numberest them; that there be no negef (plague) among them, when thou numberest them.
2 Samuel 24:24And HaMelech said unto Aravnah, Lo (no); but I will surely buy it of thee at a mekhir (price); neither will I offer olot (burnt offerings) unto Hashem Elohai of that which doth cost me nothing. So Dovid bought the goren and the bakar for fifty shekels of kesef.
1 Chronicles 7:40All these were the Bnei Asher, heads of their bais avot, choice gibborim chayalim, outstanding of the nasi'im. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were battle-ready was twenty and six elef anashim.
Job 2:1Again there was a day when the Bnei HaElohim came to present themselves before Hashem, and HaSatan came also among them to present himself before Hashem.
Zechariah 3:1And he + 3:1 the malach showed me Yehoshua the Kohen HaGadol standing before the Malach Hashem, and HaSatan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
Luke 11:53And when he went from there, the Sofrim and the Perushim began to be terribly hostile and to hock (pose questions one right after the other) Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and to subject him to a wide ranging cross-examination,
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 →