Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

Then Satan stood against Israel and urged David to count Israel.

New American Standard Bible

Then Satan stood up against Israel and moved David to number Israel.

King James Version

And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

Holman Bible

Satan stood up against Israel and incited David to count the people of Israel.

International Standard Version

Then Satan attacked Israel by inciting David to enumerate a census of Israel.

A Conservative Version

And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.

American Standard Version

And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.

Amplified

Satan [the adversary] stood up against Israel and incited David to count [the population of] Israel.

Bible in Basic English

Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.

Darby Translation

And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.

Julia Smith Translation

And an adversary will stand up against Israel, and he will stimulate David to number Israel

King James 2000

And Satan stood up against Israel, and incited David to number Israel.

Modern King James verseion

And Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to take a census of Israel.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And Satan stood up against Israel, and persuaded David to number Israel.

NET Bible

An adversary opposed Israel, inciting David to count how many warriors Israel had.

New Heart English Bible

Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.

The Emphasized Bible

Then the accuser stood up, against Israel, - and moved David, to number Israel.

Webster

And Satan stood up against Israel, and incited David to number Israel.

World English Bible

Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.

Youngs Literal Translation

And there standeth up an adversary against Israel, and persuadeth David to number Israel,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׂטן 
Satan 
Usage: 27

ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

and provoked
סוּת 
Cuwth 
Usage: 18

דּויד דּוד 
David 
Usage: 1074

to number
מנה 
manah 
Usage: 28

Context Readings

The Census Of David

1 Then Satan 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."

Cross References

Job 1:6-12

And it happened {one day} {that} the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, and Satan also came into their midst.

Job 2:1

{And then} one day the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, and Satan also came into their midst to present himself before Yahweh.

Job 2:4-6

Then Satan answered him and said, "Skin for skin! All that {that} man has he will give for his life.

Zechariah 3:1

And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing {before} the angel of Yahweh; and Satan was standing on his right to accuse him.

2 Samuel 24:1-25

Again Yahweh [was] angry with Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, "Go count Israel and Judah."

1 Kings 22:20-22

And Yahweh said, 'Who will entice Ahab so that he will go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead?' Then {this one was saying one thing and the other one was saying another}.

Matthew 4:3

And the tempter approached [and] said to him, "If you are the Son of God, order that these stones become bread."

Luke 11:53

And [when] he departed from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly hostile, and to question him closely about many [things],

Luke 22:31

"Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to sift you like wheat,

John 13:2

And [as] a dinner was taking place, [when] the devil had already put into the heart of Judas [son] of Simon Iscariot that he should betray him,

Acts 5:3

But Peter said, "Ananias, for what [reason] has Satan filled your heart, [that] you lied to the Holy Spirit and kept back for yourself [some] of the proceeds of the piece of land?

Hebrews 10:24

And let us think about {how to stir one another up to love} and good works,

James 1:13

No one who is being tempted should say, "I am being tempted by God," for God {cannot be tempted} by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

Revelation 12:10

And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, because the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, the one who accuses them before our God day and night.

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