1 Chronicles 21:1
An adversary arose against Israel and incited David to count Israel.
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And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
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Exodus 30:12“When you take a census of the Israelites, then each person must give a ransom for his life to Yahweh. You must do this after you count them, so that there will be no plague among them when you count them.
2 Samuel 24:24The king said to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it at a price. I will not offer as a burnt offering to Yahweh anything that costs me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
1 Chronicles 7:40All these were descendants of Asher. They were ancestors of the clans, heads of fathers' houses, distinguished men, fighting men, and chief among the leaders. There were twenty-six thousand men listed who were fit for military service, according to their numbered lists.
Job 2:1Then it was the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh. Satan also came with them to present himself before Yahweh.
Zechariah 3:1Then Yahweh showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Yahweh and Satan was standing at his right hand to accuse him of sin.
Luke 11:53After Jesus left there, the scribes and the Pharisees opposed him and argued with him about 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 →