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1 Chronicles 21:1
Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.
1 Chronicles 21:1 · Bible in Basic English
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1 Chronicles 21:1 in other translations
And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.
Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
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In context
1 Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.
2 And David said to Joab and the captains of the people, Now let all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, be numbered; and give me word so that I may be certain of their number.
3 And Joab said, May the Lord make his people a hundred times more in number than they are; but, my lord king, are they not all my lord's servants? why would my lord have this done? why will he become a cause of sin to Israel?
4 But the king's word was stronger than Joab's. So Joab went out and went through all Israel and came to Jerusalem.
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