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 all the congregation 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.

He would increase

Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars, if thou art able to number them: and he said to him, So shall thy seed be.
Hebrews 11:12
Therefore there sprang even from one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea-shore 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.