Thematic Bible: Census taken, of the israelites
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Then Satan attacked Israel by inciting David to enumerate a census of Israel.
"Take a census of the entire community of Israel from the age of 20 years and above, according to each ancestral tribe, counting everyone who is able to go out to war in Israel."
Now in those days an order was published by Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be registered.
"Take a census of the entire Israeli community, numbering them by their tribes and by ancestral houses. List the names of every male one-by-one,
So the king ordered Joab, commander of the special forces, who was with him, "Go throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba and take a census of the people so I can be made aware of the total number."