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1 Chronicles 21:1 KJV
1 Chronicles · chapter 21 · verse 1
And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.1 Chronicles 21:1 · King James Version
1 Chronicles 21:1 in context
1And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
2And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
3And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
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Key words (Strong's)
- provokedçûwthproperly, to prickH5496 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- numbermânâhproperly, to weigh outH4487 →
- Satansâṭânan opponentH7854 →
- DavidDâvidDavid, the youngest son of JesseH1732 →
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Numbering the people, one would think, was no bad thing. Why should not the shepherd know the number of his flock? But God sees not as man sees. It is plain it was wrong in David to do it, and a great provocation to God, because he did it in the pride of his heart;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-6