These were descended from the giants in Gath; they fell by the hand of David and his servants.
1 Chronicles 21:1 - New Revised Standard Version Satan stood up against Israel, and incited David to count the people of Israel. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition SATAN [an adversary] stood up against Israel and stirred up David to number Israel. American Standard Version (1901) And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel. Common English Bible A heavenly Adversary arose against Israel and incited David to count Israel. Catholic Public Domain Version Now Satan rose up against Israel, and he incited David so that he would number Israel. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Satan rose up against Israel: and moved David to number Israel. |
These were descended from the giants in Gath; they fell by the hand of David and his servants.
Joab son of Zeruiah began to count them, but did not finish; yet wrath came upon Israel for this, and the number was not entered into the account of the Annals of King David.
All of these were men of Asher, heads of ancestral houses, select mighty warriors, chief of the princes. Their number enrolled by genealogies, for service in war, was twenty-six thousand men.
One day the heavenly beings came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord.
When you take a census of the Israelites to register them, at registration all of them shall give a ransom for their lives to the Lord, so that no plague may come upon them for being registered.
Then he showed me the high priest Joshua standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”
When he went outside, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile toward him and to cross-examine him about many things,
“Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat,
The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. And during supper
“Ananias,” Peter asked, “why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the proceeds of the land?
And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds,
No one, when tempted, should say, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself tempts no one.
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, proclaiming, “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Messiah, for the accuser of our comrades has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.