King James Version
1 Chronicles 21:1 in the King James Version says “And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.” — study this verse from 1 Chronicles chapter 21 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.”
1 Chronicles 21:1 · KJV
And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“stood up”
H5975to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
“And Satan”
H7854an opponent; especially (with the article prefixed) satan, the arch-enemy of good
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“and provoked”
H5496properly, to prick, i.e., (figuratively) stimulate; by implication, to seduce
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“to number”
H4487properly, to weigh out; by implication, to allot or constitute officially; also to enumerate or enroll
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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