1 Chronicles 21:1

NSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Satan wanted to bring trouble on the people of Israel. He made David decide to take a census.

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1 Chronicles 21:1 David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people.
1 Chronicles 21:5 The number of the people being brought, David repents of it.
1 Chronicles 21:9 David having three plagues propounded by God, chooses the pestilence.
1 Chronicles 21:14 After the death of seventy thousand, David by repentance prevents the destruction of Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 21:18 David, by Gad's direction, purchases Ornan's threshing- floor; where having built an altar, God gives a sign of his favour by fire, and stays the plague.
1 Chronicles 21:28 David sacrifices there, being restrained from Gibeon by fear of the angel.

A.M. 2987. B.C. 1017. An. Ex. Is. 474. Satan.
2 Samuel 24:1; 1 Kings 22:20-22; Job 1:6-12; Job 2:1; Job 2:4-6; Zechariah 3:1; Matthew 4:3
Luke 22:31; John 13:2; Acts 5:3; James 1:13; Revelation 12:10
provoked David.
Luke 11:53; Hebrews 10:24