1 Chronicles 21:1
Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 30:12"When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to the Lord, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them.
2 Samuel 24:24The king said to Araunah, "No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the 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 children of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
Job 2:1Again it happened on the day when the God's sons came to present themselves before the Lord, that Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord.
Zechariah 3:1He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
Luke 11:53And when he left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;
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 →