OLD TESTAMENT

1 Chronicles 21:1

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

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Verse 1. Satan. This shews that the Lord only ( Bible.) permitted David’s sin, (2 Kennicott. 24. Worthington.) and in this sense only he is said to have instigated him; ( D.) though we read this was done by the fury of the Lord, or by an evil spirit. Bible.

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