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Chapter 21
David’s Census; the Plague. A satan rose up against Israel, and he incited David to take a census of Israel.
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The Interview Between the Lord and the Satan. One day, when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, the satan also came among them.
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The Lord said to the satan, “Where have you been?” Then the satan answered the Lord and said, “Roaming the earth and patrolling it.”
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The Lord said to the satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him, blameless and upright, fearing God and avoiding evil.”
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The satan answered the Lord and said, “Is it for nothing that Job is God-fearing?
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The Lord said to the satan, “Very well, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on him.” So the satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.
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Chapter 2
The Second Interview. One day, when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, the satan also came with them.
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The Lord said to the satan, “Where have you been?” Then the satan answered the Lord and said, “Roaming the earth and patrolling it.”
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The Lord said to the satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him, blameless and upright, fearing God and avoiding evil. He still holds fast to his innocence although you incited me against him to ruin him for nothing.”
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The satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.
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And the Lord said to the satan, “He is in your power; only spare his life.”
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The Second Trial. So the satan went forth from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with severe boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
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At this, Jesus said to him, “Get away, Satan! It is written: ‘The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve.’”
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And if Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself; how, then, will his kingdom stand?
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He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.” The Conditions of Discipleship.
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and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan. He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him.
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Jesus and Beelzebul. Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, “How can Satan drive out Satan?
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And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand; that is the end of him.
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These are the ones on the path where the word is sown. As soon as they hear, Satan comes at once and takes away the word sown in them.
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At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”
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Jesus said, “I have observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky.
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And if Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that it is by Beelzebul that I drive out demons.
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This daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen years now, ought she not to have been set free on the sabbath day from this bondage?”
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Then Satan entered into Judas, the one surnamed Iscariot, who was counted among the Twelve,
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“Simon, Simon, behold Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat,