Their children also you multiplied as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land, concerning which you had promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your descendents have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
And he brought him forth outside, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said to him, So shall your descendents be.
And I will give to you, and to your descendents after you, the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your descendents as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is on the sea shore; and your descendents shall possess the gate of their enemies;
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you, and to your descendents, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father;
But David did not take the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the heavens.