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 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
Genesis 15:5
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.
Hebrews 11:12
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.
General references
Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth. If anyone could count the dust, your offspring could be counted.