Devine Scripture

1 Chronicles 27:23

1 Chronicles chapter 27 · verse 23 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.22of Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.

v.23This passage

v.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.

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.