When they were few in number, just a very few, and foreign residents within it,

I would give him an accounting of my steps; like a prince I would approach him.

When they were few in number, just a very few, and resident aliens within it,

He ordered locusts to come, innumerable grasshoppers.

He counts the number of the stars; he names all of them.

They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of Israelites was as follows:

May Reuben live and not die, and may his people multiply.

He does great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number;

For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.

Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?

May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! Do not let their names be listed with the godly!

Our Lord is great and has awesome power; there is no limit to his wisdom.

There may be sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and young women without number.

There will be so few trees left in his forest, a child will be able to count them.

No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

The length of time that David lived in the Philistine countryside was a year and four months.

and more cedar logs than could be counted. (The Sidonians and Tyrians had brought a large amount of cedar logs to David.)

in using gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Get up and begin the work! May the Lord be with you!”

According to David’s final instructions, the Levites twenty years old and up were counted.

The total number of family leaders who led warriors was 2,600.