David did not count those less than twenty years old, because Jehovah promised that the people of Israel would be as numerous as the stars in the sky.

He brought him outside and said: Look toward heaven and count the stars. Are you able to count them? He continued: So shall your descendants be.

and assembled the whole congregation on the first day of the second month. Each man at least twenty years old provided his genealogy by family and household. Then his name was listed.

David gave orders to Joab and the other officers. He said: Go through Israel, from one end of the country to the other, and count the people. I want to know how many there are.

This was to come from one man and him as good as dead. There were born children, as many as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as uncountable as the sand by the seashore.

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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.

From twenty

He would increase

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From twenty

and assembled the whole congregation on the first day of the second month. Each man at least twenty years old provided his genealogy by family and household. Then his name was listed.

He would increase

He brought him outside and said: Look toward heaven and count the stars. Are you able to count them? He continued: So shall your descendants be.
This was to come from one man and him as good as dead. There were born children, as many as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as uncountable as the sand by the seashore.

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I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth. If anyone could count the dust, your offspring could be counted.
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