As the books of Scripture are arranged in this version, Satan is introduced to us by name here for the first time. He appears not merely as an “adv…

The Census.

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

Israel had greatly offended and grieved God, and it was to …

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 21:1).

No mention is made in this book of David's sin in the matter of Uriah, nor of the troubles that followed it, for they had no necessary connection w…