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 gathered all the congregation together, the first day of the second month, and reckoned them after their birth and kindreds and houses of their fathers by name from twenty years and above, head by head;
He would increase
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him out at the doors and said, "Look up unto heaven and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them." And said unto him, "Even so shall thy seed be."
Hebrews 11:12
And therefore sprang thereof one - and of one which was as good as dead - so many in multitude, as the stars of the sky, and as the sand of the sea shore which is innumerable.
General references
Genesis 13:16
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.