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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. Douay-Rheims Bible And Satan rose up against Israel: and moved David to number Israel.
Dec 13, 2023 · While Chronicles says it was Satan who prompted David to conduct the census, 2 Sam 24:1 says The Lord’s anger against Israel flared again, and he incited David against them: “Go, take a census of Israel and Judah.”
Feb 23, 2018 · David’s old general, Joab, wasn’t exactly a spiritual giant, but even he instinctively understood that David’s census was a mistake. He begged David not to go through with it, but David wouldn’t listen (1 Chronicles 21:3-4). Remember, David was being provoked by Satan.
- God’s Anger at Israel’s Sin
- Satan Actively Tempts, God Permits Temptation
- God Had Been Judging Israel’s Sin, and They Had Not repented
- Satan’s Plan, But God’s Intervention
- God Is in Control
It is not surprising that the anger of the Lord was directed against Israel at this time: there certainly was cause enough for it. They were ungrateful for the blessings of David’s government, and strangely drawn in to take part in rebellion against David with Absalom first (2 Samuel 15:1–12) and afterwards with Sheba the son of Bichri (2 Samuel 20...
Satan, as an enemy, suggested this census as an occasion to incite a sin, just as he also put it into the heart of Judas to betray Christ. Satan is frequently described in Scripture as doing what God merely permits to be done; and so, in this case, He permitted Satan to tempt David. Satan was the active mover, while God only withdrew His supporting...
Remember that God brought a famine upon the nation for the sin of Saul’s house (2 Samuel 21:1), which according to Ussher and Nolen Jones had just ended a year earlier.1 Now after this census God leveled a three-day pestilence for the sin of David. Perhaps the three-year famine came so that the leaders of the people would learn to recognize the jud...
The author of 1 Chronicles ascribes this census-taking plan to Satan, who wanted to oppose Israel and cause them as much harm as possible, perhaps even hoping to destroy the Lord’s anointed (David and/or Solomon) which would have terminated the earthly line through which Christ came. Godhowever wanted to punish Israel for their sins (most notably r...
The author of 2 Samuel (probably the prophets Nathan or Gad) chose to view this whole affair in the ultimate sense of God being in control of all things, while the author of 1 Chronicles (probably Ezra) wanted to showcase the satanic plot and how God used this as a tool for judgment. It is the same account with a different point of emphasis. This a...
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21 Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel. 2 So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan. Then report back to me so that I may know how many there are.”
Jan 4, 2022 · God allowed Satan to tempt him, and David sinned, revealing his pride, and God then dealt with David accordingly. There are other considerations concerning the passages relating David’s sinful census.
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Sep 6, 2022 · Who Called David’s Census—God or Satan? At first sight, David’s census, which is recorded for us in 2 Samuel 24 and in 1 Chronicles 21, provides one of the more obvious “contradictions” in the Bible.
