1 Chronicles 27:23
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English Standard Version
David did not count those below twenty years of age, for the LORD had promised to make Israel as many as the stars of heaven.

New American Standard Bible
But David did not count those twenty years of age and under, because the LORD had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
David didn't count the men aged 20 or under, for the LORD had said He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of heaven.

International Standard Version
David did not complete a census of those younger than 20 years of age, since the LORD had said he would make Israel as numerous as the stars of heaven.

NET Bible
David did not count the males twenty years old and under, for the LORD had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
David didn't count those under 20 years old, because the LORD had promised that the people of Israel would be as numerous as the stars in the sky.

King James 2000 Bible
But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the heavens.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But 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.

Darby Bible Translation
And David took not their number from twenty years old and under; for Jehovah had said he would increase Israel as the stars of heaven.

English Revised Version
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 heaven.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
And 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.
Lexicon
But David
David  (daw-veed')
loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse -- David.
took
nasa'  (naw-saw')
to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)
not the number
micpar  (mis-pawr')
a number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (abstractly) narration
of them from twenty
`esriym  (es-reem')
twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth -- (six-)score, twenty(-ieth).
years
shaneh  (shaw-neh')
a year (as a revolution of time) -- + whole age, long, + old, year(-ly).
old
ben  (bane)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc.
and under
mattah  (mat'-taw)
downward, below or beneath; often adverbially with or without prefixes -- beneath, down(-ward), less, very low, under(-neath).
because the LORD
Yhovah  (yeh-ho-vaw')
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God -- Jehovah, the Lord.
had said
'amar  (aw-mar')
to say (used with great latitude)
he would increase
rabah  (raw-baw')
to increase (in whatever respect)
Israel
Yisra'el  (yis-raw-ale')
he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
like to the stars
kowkab  (ko-kawb')
a star (as round or as shining); figuratively, a prince -- star(-gazer).
of the heavens
shamayim  (shaw-mah'-yim)
air, astrologer, heaven(-s).
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