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Myles Coverdale Bible

1 Chronicles 21:1

And Sathan stode agaynst Israel, & entysed Dauid to nombre Israel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Census;   Conscience;   Rulers;   Satan;   Temptation;   Scofield Reference Index - Satan;   Thompson Chain Reference - Adversary;   Census;   Nation, the;   Satan;   Satan's;   Satan-Evil Spirits;   Serpent;   Temptation;   Tempter;   Work, Satan's;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Devil, the;   Temptation;   Titles and Names of the Devil;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Satan;   Tempt;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Satan;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Anthropomorphism;   Satan;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Numbering of the People;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Census;   Satan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Census;   Devil, Satan, Evil, Demonic;   Devil;   Satan;   Temptation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Devil;   Evil;   Evil Spirits;   Jahzeiah;   Satan;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Antichrist ;   Fall;   Freedom of the Will;   Satan (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Adversary, the;   Samuel, Second Book of;   Satan ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Devil;   Satan;   Temple;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Da'vid;   Sa'tan;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adversary;   David;   Joab;   Provocation;   Satan;   Zoroastrianism;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ahriman;   Satan;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to count the people of Israel.
Hebrew Names Version
Hasatan stood up against Yisra'el, and moved David to number Yisra'el.
King James Version
And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
English Standard Version
Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.
New Century Version
Satan was against Israel, and he caused David to count the people of Israel.
New English Translation
An adversary opposed Israel, inciting David to count how many warriors Israel had.
Amplified Bible
Satan [the adversary] stood up against Israel and incited David to count [the population of] Israel.
New American Standard Bible
Then Satan stood up against Israel and incited David to count Israel.
World English Bible
Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Satan stoode vp against Israel, and prouoked Dauid to nomber Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Satan stood up against Israel and incited David to number Israel.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.
Contemporary English Version
Satan decided to cause trouble for Israel by making David think it was a good idea to find out how many people there were in Israel and Judah.
Complete Jewish Bible
The Adversary now rose up against Isra'el and incited David to take a census of Isra'el.
Darby Translation
And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
Satan was against the Israelites. He encouraged David to count the Israelites.
George Lamsa Translation
THEN Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel.
Good News Translation
Satan wanted to bring trouble on the people of Israel, so he made David decide to take a census.
Lexham English Bible
Then Satan stood against Israel and urged David to count Israel.
Literal Translation
And Satan stood up against Israel and moved David to number Israel.
American Standard Version
And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
Bible in Basic English
Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Satan stoode vp against Israel, and prouoked Dauid to number Israel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
King James Version (1611)
And Satan stoode vp against Israel, and prouoked Dauid to number Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the devil stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
English Revised Version
And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli Sathan roos ayens Israel, and stiride Dauid for to noumbre Israel.
Update Bible Version
And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Satan stood up against Israel, and incited David to number Israel.
New King James Version
2 Samuel 24:1-25">[xr] Now Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
New Living Translation
Satan rose up against Israel and caused David to take a census of the people of Israel.
New Life Bible
Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
New Revised Standard
Satan stood up against Israel, and incited David to count the people of Israel.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then the accuser stood up, against Israel, - and moved David, to number Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Satan rose up against Israel: and moved David to number Israel.
Revised Standard Version
Satan stood up against Israel, and incited David to number Israel.
Young's Literal Translation
And there standeth up an adversary against Israel, and persuadeth David to number Israel,
THE MESSAGE
Now Satan entered the scene and seduced David into taking a census of Israel. David gave orders to Joab and the army officers under him, "Canvass all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and get a count of the population. I want to know the number."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Satan stood up against Israel and moved David to number Israel.

Contextual Overview

1 And Sathan stode agaynst Israel, & entysed Dauid to nombre Israel. 2 And Dauid sayde vnto Ioab & to ye rulers of the people: Go yor waye, nombre Israel from Berseba vnto Dan, and brynge me the nombre of the, that I maye knowe it. 3 Ioab sayde: The LORDE make his people an hundreth tymes mo then they are now. But my lorde O kynge, are they not all my lordes seruauntes? Why doth my lorde then axe therafter? Wherfore shal there a trespace come vpon Israel? 4 Neuertheles the kynges worde preuayled agaynst Ioab. And Ioab wente forth, and walked thorow all Israel, and came to Ierusalem, 5 and delyuered vnto Dauid ye nombre of the people that was tolde. And of all Israel there were a thousande tymes a thousande, and an hundreth thousande men, that drue out the swerde: and of Iuda foure hundreth thousande and seuetye thousande men, which drue out the swerde. 6 As for Leui and Ben Iamin, he nombred them not amonge these: for the kynges worde was abhominable vnto Ioab.

Bible Verse Review
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Satan: 2 Samuel 24:1, 1 Kings 22:20-22, Job 1:6-12, Job 2:1, Job 2:4-6, Zechariah 3:1, Matthew 4:3, Luke 22:31, John 13:2, Acts 5:3, James 1:13, Revelation 12:10

provoked David: Luke 11:53, Hebrews 10:24

Reciprocal: Numbers 1:2 - Take ye the sum Numbers 26:4 - General Joshua 22:18 - he will be 1 Samuel 26:19 - stirred 1 Chronicles 7:2 - whose number 1 Chronicles 7:7 - were reckoned 1 Chronicles 7:40 - the number 1 Chronicles 27:24 - began to number 2 Chronicles 32:25 - General Matthew 4:10 - Satan Matthew 16:23 - Satan John 8:44 - He was 2 Corinthians 2:11 - General Revelation 12:9 - and Satan

Cross-References

Genesis 17:16
for I will blesse her, and geue the a sonne of her. I wil blesse her, and people shall come of her, yee and kynges of many people.
Genesis 17:19
Then sayde God: Yee euen Sara thy wyfe shall beare the a sonne, and thou shalt call his name Isaac: for with him wil I make my euerlastinge couenaunt, and with his sede after him.
Genesis 17:21
But my couenaunt wyll I make wt Isaac, whom Sara shal beare vnto the, eue this tyme twolue moneth.
Genesis 18:10
Then sayde he: aboute this tyme twolue moneth, (yf I lyue) I will come to the agayne, and Sara thy wyfe shal haue a sonne. And Sara herde that out of the tent dore, which was behynde his backe.
Genesis 18:14
Shulde eny soch thinge be to harde for the LORDE? Aboute this tyme (yf I lyue) I wil come to the agayne, & Sara shal haue a sonne.
Genesis 21:17
Then God herde the voyce of the childe, and the angell of God called vnto Agar out of heauen, and sayde vnto her: What ayleth the, Agar? Feare not, for God hath herde ye voyce of the childe, where he lyeth.
Genesis 21:20
And God was with the childe, which grew vp, and dwelt in ye wildernes, and became a connynge archer,
Genesis 50:24
And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethren: I dye, and God wyl vyset you, and brynge you out of this lande, to the lande that he sware vnto Abraham, Isaac and Iacob.
Exodus 3:16
Go thy waye therfore, and gather the elders of Israel tother, and saye vnto them: The LORDE God of youre fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Iacob hath appeared vnto me, and sayde: I haue vysited you, and sene what is done vnto you in Egipte,
Exodus 4:31
& the people beleued. And whan they herde yt the LORDE vysited the children of Israel, and loked vpon their trouble, they bowed them selues, and worshipped.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As the books of Scripture are arranged in our Version, Satan is here for the first time by name introduced to us. He appears not merely as an “adversary” who seeks to injure man from without, but as a Tempter able to ruin him by suggesting sinful acts and thoughts from within. In this point of view, the revelation made of him here is the most advanced that we find in the Old Testament.

The difficulty in reconciling the statement here, “Satan provoked David,” etc. with that of Samuel, “the Lord moved David,” etc. 2 Samuel 24:1 is not serious. All temptation is permitted by God. When evil spirits tempt us, they do so by permission (Job 1:12; Job 2:6; Luke 22:31, etc.). If Satan therefore provoked David to number the peopIe, God allowed him. And what God allows, He may be said to do. (Another view is maintained in the 2 Samuel 24:1 note).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXI

David is tempted by Satan to take the numbers of the people of

Israel and Judah, 1, 2.

Joab remonstrates, but the king is determined, and Joab pleads

in vain, 3, 4.

He returns, and delivers in the number to the king, but reckons

not Levi and Benjamin, 5.

The Lord is displeased, and sends Gad to offer David his choice

of three great national calamities; famine, war, or pestilence,

6-12.

David submits himself to God, and a pestilence is sent, which

destroys seventy thousand, 13, 14.

At David's intercession the destroying angel is restrained at

the threshing-floor of Ornan, 15-17.

He buys the piece of ground, builds an altar to the Lord and

offers sacrifices, and the plague is stayed, 18-30.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXI

Verse 1 Chronicles 21:1. And Satan stood up against Israel2 Samuel 24:1, &c.


 
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