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

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Chronicles 27 contains 34 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.