Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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
General references
Bible References
From twenty
Numbers 1:18
and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. They recorded their ancestry by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting one by one the names of those 20 years old or more,
He would increase
Genesis 15:5
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.”
Hebrews 11:12
Therefore from one man—in fact, from one as good as dead—came offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as innumerable as the grains of sand by the seashore.
General references
Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.