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1 Chronicles 27:23

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But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Jehovah had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of heaven.

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1 Chronicles 27:23 in other translations

But David didn’t take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.

1 Chronicles 27:23 · World English Bible

1 Chronicles 27:23 in context

  1. 21of the half- tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:
  2. 22of Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.
  3. 23But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Jehovah had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of heaven.
  4. 24Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but finished not; and there came wrath for this upon Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David.
  5. 25And over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah: