“And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.”
1 Chronicles 21:1 (KJV) |
1 Chronicles 21:1
From 1 Chronicles 21, in the Book of 1 Chronicles (Old Testament).
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And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
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And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
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And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?