2 Samuel 24:1

David And The Census Of The People

¹ The Lord’s anger burned against Israel again, and He stirred up David against them to say: “Go, count the people of Israel and Judah.” ² So the king said to Joab, the commander of his army, “Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba and register the troops so I can know their number.”

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

David didn’t count the men aged 20 or under, for the Lord had said He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of heaven.

1 Chronicles 21:1

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

Genesis 45:5

And now don’t be worried or angry with yourselves for selling me here, because God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.

Genesis 50:20

You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result—the survival of many people.

Exodus 7:3

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

1 Samuel 26:19

Now, may my lord the king please hear the words of his servant: If it is the Lord who has incited you against me, then may He accept an offering. But if it is people, may they be cursed in the presence of the Lord, for today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the Lord saying, ‘Go and worship other gods.’

2 Samuel 12:11

“This is what the Lord says, ‘I am going to bring disaster on you from your own family: I will take your wives and give them to another before your very eyes, and he will sleep with them publicly.

2 Samuel 16:10

The king replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, do we agree on anything? He curses me this way because the Lord told him, ‘Curse David!’ Therefore, who can say, ‘Why did you do that?’”

2 Samuel 21:1-14

During David’s reign there was a famine for three successive years, so David inquired of the Lord. The Lord answered, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family when he killed the Gibeonites.”

1 Kings 22:20-23

And the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ So one was saying this and another was saying that.

Ezekiel 14:9

“But if the prophet is deceived and speaks a message, it was I, Yahweh, who deceived that prophet. 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 they could not live by.

Acts 4:28

to do whatever Your hand and Your plan had predestined to take place.

2 Thessalonians 2:11

For this reason God sends them a strong delusion so that they will believe what is false,

James 1:13-14

No one undergoing a trial should say, “I am being tempted by God.” For God is not tempted by evil, and He Himself doesn’t tempt anyone.