He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
1 Chronicles 27:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 David did not count those below twenty years of age, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars of heaven. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But David did not number those under twenty years of age, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as the stars of the heavens. American Standard Version (1901) But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Jehovah had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of heaven. Common English Bible But David didn’t count those younger than 20 years of age, because the LORD had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky. Catholic Public Domain Version But David was not willing to number them from twenty years old and under. For the Lord had said that he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But David would not number them from twenty years old and under: because the Lord had said that he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven. |
He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies,
I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth shall gain blessing for themselves through your offspring,
Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, count the people of Israel and Judah.”
and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation together. They registered themselves in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and up, individually,
Therefore from one person, and this one as good as dead, descendants were born, “as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.”