...first is the following, which commences the twenty-first chapter of first Chronicles and reads thus : " And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel." The same circumstance is narrated in the twenty-fourth chapter of the second book of Samuel, in these words...

...David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah " ; whereas, in 1 Chron. xxi. 1, it is said : " And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel." God's purpose was to humble and correct David and Israel, who, flushed with a long series of victories,...

...stimulated David to number Israel, for tha word of God declares that it was the drrU, See 1 Chron. jui. 1. " And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel." IK- ran out of the hoos« in confusion. Is it not marvellous that men, in the 19th century, will penut...

...foolishly ;" yet the devil provoked him to it, and it was originally his temptation, for it is said, verse 1, " And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number the people." David doth not lay the fault upon the devil, but upon himself; he did not say, I was thus...

...His Countenance is the only way to obtain Salvation. The account from the Chronicles is thus : — " T, Then Joseph, her Husband, being a just Man, and not willing to make And David said to Joab and to the Rulers of the People, ' Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to...

...where the reference seems undoubted. The only exceptions, I believe, if such they be, are 1 Chron. xii. 1, " And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel;' where however, some other and earthly adversary of Israel may have been intended : and Psalm cix. 6,...

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...of the great day. [See Depravity, 149.] 12. Names, character, and agency of evil spirits. 1 Ch. 21 : 1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. Job 1 : 7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said,...

...against them to say, Go number Israel and Judah." But in another place it is said that Satan did it ; " And Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel." (2 Saml. xxiv. 1. 1 Chron. xxi. 1.) In this manner it is insisted that God is said to smite, or bruise...

...number Israel and Juda." While, in 1 Chron. xxi. 1, on the contrary, we read of the very same fact — " And SATAN stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel." Are we not justified, then, upon the same principle of interpretation, to which we must have recourse,...