And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
1 Chronicles 27:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) David did not number those below twenty years of age, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as many 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. |
And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
I will indeed bless you, and I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore. And your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies,
I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give to your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves:
Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”
and on the first day of the second month, they assembled the whole congregation together, who registered themselves by families, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, head by head,
Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.