Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Chronicles 21:1

1 ANd Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

Heb. stood, to wit, before the Lord and his Tribunal to accuse David and Israel, and to beg Gods permission to tempt David to number the People. Standing is the Accusers posture before Mens Tribunals; and consequently the Holy Scripture (which useth to speak of God and of the things of God after the manner of men to bring them down to our Capacities) elsewhere represents Satan in this posture, as 1 King. 22. 21. Zech. 3. 1. And so this agrees with 2 Sam. 24. 1. where the Lord is said to move David, i. e. to give Satan Commission or Permission to move him; for otherwise God tempteth no man, Jam. 1. 13. But of this, and of this whole Chapter, and of the Variations and seeming Contradictions between this Narrative and that in Samuel, see my Notes on 2 Sam. 24.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1+ letters] Sam 24. 1, [illegible: 1+ letters]; [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] ▪ [illegible: 1 word] 22. [illegible: 1 word].