1 Chronicles 27:23
What does 1 Chronicles 27:23 mean?
A plain-English look at 1 Chronicles 27:23 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000But 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611But 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901But 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.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949But David did not take the number of those who were under twenty years old, for the Lord had said that he would make Israel like the stars of heaven in number.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And David hath not taken up their number from a son of twenty years and under, for Jehovah said to multiply Israel as the stars of the heavens.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752But David would not number them from twenty years old and under: because the lord had said that he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And David took not their number from twenty years old and under; for Jehovah had said he would increase Israel as the stars of heaven.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Chronicles 21:2
And David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them.
- Hebrews 11:12
wherefore also there sprang of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand, which is by the sea-shore, innumerable.
- Numbers 1:18
and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
- Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
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