历代志上 27:23

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

以色列人二十歲以下的，大衛都沒有登記他們的數目，因為耶和華曾經說過要增添以色列人的數目，好像天上的星那樣多。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
以 色 列 人 二 十 岁 以 内 的 ， 大 卫 没 有 记 其 数 目 ； 因 耶 和 华 曾 应 许 说 ， 必 加 增 以 色 列 人 如 天 上 的 星 那 样 多 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ These were the leaders of the tribes of Israel. Eliezer son of Zicri was over the tribe of Reuben. Shephatiah son of Maacah was over the tribe of Simeon. ¹⁷ Hashabiah son of Kemuel was over the tribe of Levi. Zadok was over the people of Aaron. ¹⁸ Elihu, one of David's brothers, was over the tribe of Judah. Omri son of Michael was over the tribe of Issachar. ¹⁹ Ishmaiah son of Obadiah was over the tribe of Zebulun. Jerimoth son of Azriel was over the tribe of Naphtali. ²⁰ Hoshea son of Azaziah was over the tribe of Ephraim. Joel son of Pedaiah was over West Manasseh. ²¹ Iddo son of Zechariah was over East Manasseh. Jaasiel son of Abner was over the tribe of Benjamin. ²² Azarel son of Jeroham was over the tribe of Dan. These were the leaders of the tribes of Israel. ²³ The Lord had promised to make the Israelites as many as the stars in the sky. So David only counted the men who were twenty years old and older. ²⁴ Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the people, but he did not finish. God became angry with Israel for counting the people, so the number of the people was not put in the history book about King David's rule. ²⁵ Azmaveth son of Adiel was in charge of the royal storehouses. Jonathan son of Uzziah was in charge of the storehouses in the country, towns, villages, and towers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

David took not: It seems probable, from this passage, that Joab began, by David's order, to number the children, as well as adults, but was prevented from finishing the account, probably because the plague had begun. The numbering of the effective men might have been deemed a political expedient; but pride and ostentation alone could dictate the numbering of minors and infants, especially as God had pronounced the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, innumerable.

from twenty: Numbers 1:18

he would increase: Genesis 15:5, Hebrews 11:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:16 - General Numbers 1:2 - Take ye the sum Deuteronomy 1:10 - your God 2 Samuel 24:1 - number 2 Samuel 24:9 - eight hundred thousand 1 Kings 3:8 - cannot 1 Chronicles 7:2 - whose number 1 Chronicles 21:2 - bring 1 Chronicles 21:5 - a thousand Nehemiah 9:23 - multipliedst Psalms 80:9 - and it

Cross-References

Genesis 27:11
But Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, "My brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am smooth!

Genesis 27:12
If my father touches me, he will know I am not Esau. Then he will not bless me but will place a curse on me because I tried to trick him."

Genesis 27:16
She also took the skins of the goats and put them on Jacob's hands and neck.

Hebrews 11:20
It was by faith that Isaac blessed the future of Jacob and Esau.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under,.... Only those that were twenty years and upwards; but, according to Cornelius Bertram k, he numbered them that were under twenty, though but sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, or nineteen years of age, provided they were of robust bodies, and of a tall stature, and able to bear arms; which he takes to be the sin of David, in numbering the people, being contrary to the law of God; yet though he had ordered them to be numbered, and they were, yet he would not take them and put them into the account of his chronicles, as in the next verse, that his sin might not be known, see 2 Samuel 24:9

because the Lord had said, he would increase Israel like to the stars in the heavens; which are not to be numbered, and therefore David sinned in attempting to number the people.

k Lucubrat. Franktall, c. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

David’s numbering of the people was therefore a military arrangement in order to fix the amount of his standing army. To the general Oriental prejudice against numbering possessions, etc., there was added in the case of the Jews a special objection - a feeling that it would be irreverent to attempt to count what God had promised should be countless.