1 Chronicles 27:23

New English Translation

David did not count the males twenty years old and under, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

The Lord took him outside and said, “Gaze into the sky and count the stars – if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him, “So will your descendants be.”

Genesis 22:17

I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.

Genesis 26:4

I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.

2 Samuel 24:1

The Lord’s anger again raged against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go count Israel and Judah.”

Numbers 1:18

and they assembled the entire community together on the first day of the second month. Then the people recorded their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed by name individually,

Hebrews 11:12

So in fact children were fathered by one man – and this one as good as dead – like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.