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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

1 Chronicles 21:1

Then the accuser stood up, against Israel, - and moved David, to number 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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Sathan stode agaynst Israel, & entysed Dauid to nombre 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.
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 Then the accuser stood up, against Israel, - and moved David, to number Israel. 2 And David said unto Joab and unto the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel, from Beer-sheba even unto Dan, - and bring the report unto me, that I may know the number of them. 3 Then said Joab, May Yahweh add unto his people, as many as they are, a hundred times, but are they not, my lord O king, all of them my lord's, as servants? wherefore should my lord seek this? wherefore should it become guilt to Israel? 4 But, the word of the king, prevailed against Joab, - and Joab departed, and went to and fro throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem. 5 And Joab delivered the sum of the number of the people, unto David, - and all Israel was found to be a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men, who drew sword, and Judah, four hundred and seventy thousand men, who drew sword. 6 But, Levi and Benjamin, counted he not among them, - for detestable was the word of the king unto Joab.

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
and I will bless her, yea moreover will give - from her - to thee, a son, - And I will bless her, and she shall become nations. Kings of peoples, from her, shall arise.
Genesis 17:19
And God said - Truly, Sarah thy wife, is about to bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name, Isaac, - and I will establish my covenant with him as an age-abiding covenant, to his seed after him.
Genesis 17:21
But my covenant, will I establish with Isaac, - whom Sarah shall bear, to thee, by this set time, in the next year.
Genesis 18:10
And he said, I will, surely return, unto thee at the quickening season, - and lo! a son for Sarah thy wife. Now Sarah, was hearkening at the opening of the tent, it, being behind him.
Genesis 18:14
Is anything, too wonderful for Yahweh? At the appointed time, I will return unto thee, at the quickening season and Sarah, shall have a son.
Genesis 21:17
And God heard the voice of the boy, and a messenger of God called unto Hagar out of the heavens; and said to her, What aileth thee, Hagar? Do not fear, for God hath hearkened unto the voice of the boy where he is.
Genesis 21:20
And it came to pass that God was with the boy, and he grew, - and dwelt in the desert, and he became as he grew up, an archer,
Genesis 50:24
Then said Joseph unto his brethren, I, am about to die, - but God will surely concern, himself for you, so will he take you up out of this land, into the land which he sware to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob.
Exodus 3:16
Go - and thou shalt gather together the eiders of Israel and shalt say unto them-Yahweh. God of your fathers, hath appeared unto me, the God of Abraham Isaac, and Jacob saying, - I am, concerned, for you, and for what is done to you in Egypt;
Exodus 4:31
And the people believed, - and when they heard that Yahweh had concerned himself for the sons of Israel, and that he had looked upon their humiliation, then bent they their heads and bowed themselves down.

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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