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1 Chronicles 21:1-3
Lexham English Bible
1 Chronicles 21:1-3
Lexham English Bible
The Census of David
21 Then Satan[a] stood against Israel and urged David to count Israel. 2 So David said to Joab and to the commanders of the nation, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba to Dan and bring a report to me that I might know their number.” 3 But Joab said, “May Yahweh add to the people a hundred times what they are! Are they not, O my lord the king, all of them the king’s servants? Why does my lord seek this? Why would he bring guilt to Israel?”
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- 1 Chronicles 21:1 Or “an accuser,” or “an adversary”
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