Satan stood up against Israel, and incited David to count the people of Israel.
Exodus 30:12 - New Revised Standard Version 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When you take the census of the Israelites, every man shall give a ransom for himself to the Lord when you number them, that no plague may fall upon them when you number them. [Rom. 8:1-4.] American Standard Version (1901) When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel, according to those that are numbered of them, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto Jehovah, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them. Common English Bible When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each of them should pay compensation for their life to the LORD when they are counted. Then no plague will descend on them when they are counted. Catholic Public Domain Version "When you have taken the sum of the sons of Israel, according to their number, each shall give a price for their souls to the Lord, and there will be no scourge among them, when they will be reviewed. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel according to their number, every one of them shall give a price for their souls to the Lord: and there shall be no scourge among them, when they shall be reckoned. |
Satan stood up against Israel, and incited David to count the people of Israel.
either three years of famine; or three months of devastation by your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or three days of the sword of the Lord, pestilence on the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I shall return to the one who sent me.”
So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel; and seventy thousand persons fell in Israel.
But Joab said, “May the Lord increase the number of his people a hundredfold! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord's servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?”
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.
So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the Lord, on the congregation of Israel for the tent of the covenant?”
A proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to bring in for the Lord the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.
and he is gracious to that person, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down into the Pit; I have found a ransom;
Beware that wrath does not entice you into scoffing, and do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
Truly, no ransom avails for one's life, there is no price one can give to God for it.
and said to Moses, “Your servants have counted the warriors who are under our command, and not one of us is missing.
And we have brought the Lord's offering, what each of us found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and pendants, to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”
just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.”
For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.”
who gave himself a ransom for all —this was attested at the right time.