1 Chronicles 27:23
¶But David took not the number of them from stwenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
¶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.
NKJV: But David did not take the number of those twenty years old and under, because the Lord had said He would multiply Israel like the stars of the heavens.
ESV: David did not count those below twenty years of age, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as many as the stars of heaven.
s:
Numbers 1:18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Genesis 22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;