1 Chronicles 19:13

19:13 Be strong! Let’s fight bravely for the sake of our people and the cities of our God! The Lord will do what he decides is best!” ¹ 

Psalms 115:14

115:14 May he increase your numbers,

yours and your children’s! ² 

Proverbs 14:28

14:28 A king’s glory is ³  the abundance of people,

but the lack of subjects ⁴  is the ruin ⁵  of a ruler.

Isaiah 26:15

26:15 You have made the nation larger, ⁶  O Lord,

you have made the nation larger and revealed your splendor, ⁷ 

you have extended all the borders of the land.

Isaiah 48:19

48:19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, ⁸ 

and your children ⁹  like its granules.

Their name would not have been cut off

and eliminated from my presence. ¹⁰ 

[19:13]  ¹ tn Heb “and the Lord, what is good in his eyes, he will do.”

[115:14]  ² tn Heb “may he add to you, to you and your sons.” The prefixed verbal form is jussive, indicating this is a prayer.

[14:28]  ³ tn The preposition serves as the beth essentiae – the glory is the abundant population, not in it.

[14:28]  ⁴ tn Heb “people.” Cf. NLT “a dwindling nation.”

[14:28]  ⁵ sn The word means “ruin; destruction,” but in this context it could be a metonymy of effect, the cause being an attack by more numerous people that will bring ruin to the ruler. The proverb is purely a practical and secular saying, unlike some of the faith teachings in salvation history passages.

[26:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “you have added to the nation.” The last line of the verse suggests that geographical expansion is in view. “The nation” is Judah.

[26:15]  ⁷ tn Or “brought honor to yourself.”

[48:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “like sand”; NCV “as many as the grains of sand.”

[48:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “and the issue from your inner parts.”

[48:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and his name would not be cut off and would not be destroyed from before me.”