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1 Chronicles 21:1

American Standard Version

And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.

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1 Chronicles 21:1 in other translations

Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.

1 Chronicles 21:1 · World English Bible

1 Chronicles 21:1 in context

  1. 1And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
  2. 2And David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them.
  3. 3And Joab said, Jehovah make his people a hundred times as many as they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? why doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt unto Israel?