Divrey Hayamim Alef 21:1

1 1 And Satan stood up against Yisroel, and provoked Dovid to number Yisroel.

Divrey Hayamim Alef 21:1 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 21:2

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 21:1).

Divrey Hayamim Alef 21:1 In-Context

1 1 And Satan stood up against Yisroel, and provoked Dovid to number Yisroel.

2 And Dovid said to Yoav and to the sarei HaAm, Go, number Yisroel from Beer Sheva even to Dan; and bring the mispar (number) of them to me, that I may know it.

3 But Yoav answered, Hashem make His people a hundred times so many more as they be, but, adoni HaMelech, are not they all the avadim of adoni? Why then doth adoni require this thing? Why will he be a cause of ashmah to Yisroel?

4 Nevertheless the davar HaMelech prevailed against Yoav. Therefore, Yoav departed, and went throughout kol Yisroel, and came to Yerushalayim.

5 And Yoav gave up the sum of the number of HaAm unto Dovid. And kol Yisroel were 1,100,000 ish that drew cherev; and Yehudah was 470,000 ish that drew cherev.