There's a couple of questions that the user has about these two passages.

And the first one is who incited David to take the census, God or Satan.

The first Chronicles verse would say Satan stood against Israel, incited David to take a number.

And the second Samuel verse would say that God, the Lord, gave him that command.

He says this seems like a huge contradiction, so which was it?

Why don't the numbers of the census match?

They're wondering why they would contradict.

Why does it say Israel and Judah in this passage when it was before the Kingdom split

in the Israel and Judah in the time of Rebo and Jeroboan?

Go ahead and read it. Go ahead and read through this.

And what we're going to get here, there's several questions that deal with like,

I think it's like four potential, like major concerns about contradiction between first Chronicles and second Samuel.

So maybe you could walk us through that.

Those scriptures, yeah.

Okay, so I'll read first Chronicles 21, 1 through 8, and then second Samuel 24, 1 through 10.

Chronicles passage goes, then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.

So David said to Joab, and the commanders of the army,

go number Israel from Beershaba to Dan and bring me a report that I may know their number.

But Joab said, may the Lord add to his people 100 times as many as they are.

Are they not my Lord, the king? All of them, my Lord servants.

Why then should my Lord require this? Why should it be because of guilt for Israel?

But the kings were prevailed against Joab.

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