2 Samuel 24:1

David And The Census Of The People

¹ Now again the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and it incited David against them to say, “Go, number Israel and Judah.” ² The king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, “Go about now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and register the people, that I may know the number of the people.”

Anger of the Lord

People of Israel

Take a Census

Wrath of the Lord

Became Angry

Lord Burned

Lord Was Kindled

Lord Was Wroth

David

Israel

Jehovah

Judah

1 Chronicles 27:23-24

But David did not count those twenty years of age and under, because the Lord had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.

1 Chronicles 21:1

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

Genesis 45:5

Now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

Genesis 50:20

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive.

Exodus 7:3

But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.

1 Samuel 26:19

Now therefore, please let my lord the king listen to the words of his servant. If the Lord has stirred you up against me, let Him accept an offering; but if it is men, cursed are they before the Lord, for they have driven me out today so that I would have no attachment with the inheritance of the Lord, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’

2 Samuel 12:11

Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight.

2 Samuel 16:10

But the king said, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses, and if the Lord has told him, ‘Curse David,’ then who shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”

2 Samuel 21:1-14

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the presence of the Lord. And the Lord said, “It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

1 Kings 22:20-23

The Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said this while another said that.

Ezekiel 14:9

“But if the prophet is prevailed upon to speak a word, it is I, the Lord, who have prevailed upon that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.

Ezekiel 20:25

I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live;

Acts 4:28

to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur.

2 Thessalonians 2:11

For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,

James 1:13-14

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.