2 Samuel 24:1

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

David’s Census of Israel and Judah

24 Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”^[a]

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24.1 God is here said to command the census, presumably on the general grounds of ascribing the king’s policies to him, but in verse 10 David says he has sinned thereby, and in 1 Chron 21.1 the census is ascribed to Satan as an infringement of God’s prerogatives.

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