I do not want to get invovled in a futile debate about the authorship of Job
but even
critics agree that it was composed long before Kings and Chronicles and so for the purposed of our discussion the book of Job provides a good context in understanding what could seem to be a contradiction.
The book of Job clearly identifies trials and temptation as originating with a fallen angel named Satan (adversary).
Furthermore, your current understanding of 2Sam 24 does not make sense if we are to understand it as a chain of events.
1) Yah gets angry
2) He gets David to commit a sin
The following questions arise:
1) Why did Yah get angry?
2) Surely if we are to understand that he got angry before the sin then there
must have been another
reason for his anger. What was that reason?
3) If so, did Yah get David to sin just because he was already angry about
something else?
4) Does this line of thinking have any logic what-so-ever?
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