Thematic Bible: Census taken, of the israelites
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Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.
Let all the children of Israel be numbered, by the names of their fathers' families, all those of twenty years old and over who are able to go to war in Israel.
Now it came about in those days that an order went out from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a numbering of all the world.
Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, every male by name;
And the king said to Joab and the captains of the army, who were with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, and have all the people numbered, so that I may be certain of the number of the people.