{"id":37425,"date":"2022-09-13T13:38:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/in-2-samuel-24-god-himself-incited-david-to-take-a-census-of-israel-why-would-god-do-this-and-then-punish-israel-for-it\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:38:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:38:01","slug":"in-2-samuel-24-god-himself-incited-david-to-take-a-census-of-israel-why-would-god-do-this-and-then-punish-israel-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/in-2-samuel-24-god-himself-incited-david-to-take-a-census-of-israel-why-would-god-do-this-and-then-punish-israel-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"In  2 Samuel 24, God, Himself, incited David to take a census of Israel. Why would God do this? And then punish Israel for it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>It seems that there may be a very simple answer to your question.&nbsp; If we look at 2 Sam 24:1 and compare with 1Chron 21:1, it is easy to see the discrepancy.<\/p>\n<p>2 Sam. 24:1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.<\/p>\n<p>1Chron 21:1&nbsp; And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.<br \/> 2&nbsp; And David said to Joab and to the princes of the people: &lsquo;Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you have a King James Bible, the margin will show &quot;satan&quot; where it says &quot;he&quot; in the 2 Samuel scripture.&nbsp; As your question intimates, it seems out of character for God to incite David to sin, then punish the people of Israel.&nbsp; The account in 1 Chronicles makes more sense that it would be Satan to&nbsp;tempt David to sin, so we believe that this account is the more accurate.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that there may be a very simple answer to your question.&nbsp; If we look at 2 Sam 24:1 and compare with 1Chron 21:1, it is easy to see the discrepancy. 2 Sam. 24:1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/in-2-samuel-24-god-himself-incited-david-to-take-a-census-of-israel-why-would-god-do-this-and-then-punish-israel-for-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In  2 Samuel 24, God, Himself, incited David to take a census of Israel. Why would God do this? And then punish Israel for it?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}