Tree of Life Version
1 Chronicles 21:1
1Then satan stood up against Israel and incited David to count Israel.
1 Chronicles 21:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
- New International Version (NIV)Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Now Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
Context of 1 Chronicles 21:1
Then satan stood up against Israel and incited David to count Israel. 2So David told Joab and the leaders of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba to Dan. Then bring me a report so I may know their number.” 3But Joab said, “May Adonai multiply His people 100 times over! But my master the king, are they not all my master’s servants? Why does my master require this thing? Why should he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”
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וַיַּֽעֲמֹ֥ד שָׂטָ֖ן עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיָּ֙סֶת֙ אֶת־דָּוִ֔יד לִמְנ֖וֹת אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 21:1
- 2 Samuel 24:1Now the anger of Adonai again flared up against Israel, so He incited David against them saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”
- 1 Kings 22:20Then Adonai said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ One suggested this and another that,
- Job 1:6One day the sons of God came to present themselves before Adonai, and the satan also came with them.
- Job 2:1Again the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before Adonai, and the satan also arrived among them to present himself before Adonai.
- Zechariah 3:1Then he showed me Joshua the kohen gadol standing before the angel of Adonai and the satan, standing at his right hand to accuse him.
- Matthew 4:3And when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are Ben-Elohim, tell these stones to become bread.”
- Luke 22:31“Simon, Simon! Indeed, satan has demanded to sift you all like wheat.
- John 13:2While the seder meal was happening, the devil had already put in the heart of Judah from Kriot that he should hand over Yeshua.
- Acts 5:3But Peter said, “Ananias, why has satan filled your heart to lie to the Ruach ha-Kodesh and keep back part of the proceeds of the land?
- James 1:13Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”—for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He himself tempts no one.
- Revelation 12:10Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Anointed One, for the accuser of our brothers and sisters—the one who accuses them before our God day and night—has been thrown out.
Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 21:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1And Satan stood up against Israel - See the notes on the parallel place, 2 Samuel 24:1; (note), etc.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1As 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1David's numbering the people. --No mention is made in this book of David's sin in the matter of Uriah, neither of the troubles that followed it: they had no needful connexion with the subjects here noted. But David's sin, in numbering the people, is related: in the atonement made for that sin, there was notice of the place on which the temple should be built. The command to David to build an altar, was a blessed token of reconciliation. God testified his…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1Satan, (also called the adversary), encouraged David to count his military forces (see 2 Samuel 24:1). The Chronicler views the story in Samuel through his understanding of Satan as an opponent of God and humanity. God allows Satan to act in the world, and through this, Satan unknowingly serves God's purposes (see 2 Chronicles 18:3–34; Job 1:6–2:7; Zechariah 3:1–2; Matthew 4:1–11; John 13:27; 1 Corinthians 5:5; 2 Corinthians 12:7; 1 Timothy 1:20…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-131Ch 21:1-13. David Sins in Numbering the People. 1. Satan stood up against Israel--God, by withdrawing His grace at this time from David (see on 2Sa 24:1), permitted the tempter to prevail over him. As the result of this successful temptation was the entail of a heavy calamity as a punishment from God upon the people, it might be said that "Satan stood up against Israel." number Israel--In the act of taking the census of a people, there is not only no…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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