1 Chronicles 27:23

A Conservative Version

But David did not take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because LORD had said he would increase Israel like the stars of heaven.

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said to him, So shall thy seed be.

Hebrews 11:12

And therefore from one man, and these things having become deadened, were begotten as the stars of the heaven for multitude, and as the sand of the seashore, countless.

Numbers 1:18

and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month. And they declared their ancestry after their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and

Genesis 22:17

that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore, and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies,

Genesis 26:4

And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give to thy seed all these lands, and in thy seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,

2 Samuel 24:1

And again the anger of LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.