1 Chronicles 27:23

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

But David did not take the number of them from the son of twenty years and under, because Jehovah had said He would increase Israel like the stars of the heavens.

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

He brought him outside and said, Look now at the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them. And He said to him, So shall your seed be.

Genesis 22:17

that blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the lip of the sea. And your Seed shall possess the gate of His enemies.

Genesis 26:4

And I will increase your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I will give to your seed all these lands. And all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves in your Seed,

2 Samuel 24:1

And again the anger of Jehovah burned against Israel, and moved David against them, to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.

Numbers 1:18

And they assembled all the congregation on the first of the second month. And they declared their births according to their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, by their heads.

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore, even from one were generated seed, and these of one being as good as dead, even “as the stars of the heaven” in their fullness, and countless as sand by the lip of the sea”. Gen. 15:5; 22:17