2 Samuel 24:1 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go number Israel and Judah. 1 Chronicles 21:1
Satan
1 Chronicles 21:1 And Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel
AnswerThe Jews in the Old Testament understood that evil is from God, but Satan is allowed by God to tempt us. So that is why the verses above in this answer SEEM contradictory. They were expressing both views. The tempation from Satan and the fact that God had to allow that temptation. James 1:13 says "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:" The Bible words for "tempted" also can mean "tested" in the Greek and Hebrew. So God DOES test us, but He does not TEMPT us to do evil.Ananias and later his wife, Sapphira.
Numbers 1:44-47; 2:32- Census at Mount Sinai. Numbers 26:1, 2, 51-Census on the plains of Moab. 2 Samuel 24:1- David's illegal census.
In a sentence? how about this: do not provoke the snake, darla.
In the Bible, King David's decision to conduct a census is mentioned in 2 Samuel 24 and 1 Chronicles 21. This act was seen as sinful because it reflected pride and a lack of trust in God to protect and provide for his people. The consequences of this census included a plague that affected Israel until David repented.
I watched the mongoose provoke the snake.
A coach can provoke you into working harder.
do not provoke your parents
When Billy gets drunk he loves to provoke a fight.
Satan is not mentioned in any book of the Bible written before the time of the Babylonian Exile, when the Jews came into contact with the Zoroastrian religion and arguably learnt of this concept. The Chronicler, living during or shortly after the Exile, rewrote the Deuteronomic history, updating some parts to suit later theological, political and social needs. He retrospectively inserted Satan into 1 Chronicles 21:1, although Satan is absent from the original passage in Kings: "And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel." The psalms were also written during and after the Exile, and Psalm 109 mentions Satan. The Book of Job is also from this period, although some parts are much older.
It would provoke my mother when my room was messy after she told me to clean it. The police did not want to provoke the robber into harming his hostages.
Prior to the Babylonian Exile, Judaism had no heaven or hell - souls of the dead simply went to a place of rest, sheol, regardless of the life that had been led. There was no Satan and no angels. The notion of Satan entered Judaism during the Babylonian Exile, so no biblical Book written before that time contains any reference to Satan. Chronicles was actually written during the Exile, as a revision to the Deuteronomic History, and thus is the first book in the Bible to contain the name Satan. 1 Chronicles 21:1: "And Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel."Because Kings (part of the Deuteronomic history) was written before the Exile, the corresponding passage contains no mention of Satan. Also: in the King James Version, Psalms 109:6 refers to Satan. The Hebrew Masoretic text (in English translation) for Psalm 109:6 refers to an Adversary.
King Ahab did more evil than all the kings of Israel who came before him. He married Jezebel, who introduced the worship of Baal and Asherah to Israel. Ahab also built an altar and temple for Baal in Samaria, and engaged in various idolatrous practices, leading the people of Israel astray from their worship of God.