He took him outside and said, ‘Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.’ Then he said to him, ‘Your offspring will be that numerous.’
1 Chronicles 27:23 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised David didn’t count the men aged twenty or under, for the Lord had said he would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
He took him outside and said, ‘Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.’ Then he said to him, ‘Your offspring will be that numerous.’
I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the city gates of their enemies.
I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring,
The Lord’s anger burned against Israel again, and he stirred up David against them to say, ‘Go, count the people of Israel and Judah.’
and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. They recorded their ancestry by their clans and their ancestral families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years old or more,
Therefore, from one man #– #in fact, from one as good as dead #– #came offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and as innumerable as the grains of sand along the seashore.