And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
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Gill's Exposition
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1 Chronicles 21:28
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ch1 21:28At that time when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshing floor Of Ornan the…
Barnes' Notes
As the books of Scripture are arranged in our Version, Satan is here for the first time by name introduced to us. He appears not merely as an “adversary” who seeks to injure man from without, but as a…
Adam Clarke
And Satan stood up against Israel - See the notes on the parallel place, Sa2 24:1 (note), etc.
Numbering the people, one would think, was no bad thing. Why should not the shepherd know the number of his flock? But God sees not as man sees. It is plain it was wrong in David to do it, and a great…
Cambridge Bible
And Satan stood up against Israel In 2 Sam. "And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel," a former occasion being at the time of the famine (2Sa 21:1). By Satan("adversary") is meant…
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