Treasury of Scripture
your God
Deuteronomy 10:22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with three score and ten persons...
Deuteronomy 28:62 And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude...
Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if you be able to number them...
Genesis 22:17 That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heaven...
Genesis 28:14 And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north...
Exodus 12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
Exodus 32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them...
Numbers 1:46 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
1 Chronicles 27:23 But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under...
Nehemiah 9:23 Their children also multiplied you as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land...
ye are this day
This was the promise made by God to Abraham
Genesis 15:5,6 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if you be able to number them...
which Moses considers now as amply fulfilled. Many suppose the expression to be hyperbolical; and others, no friends to revelation, think it a vain, empty boast, because the stars, in their apprehension,, amount to innumerable millions. But, as this refers to the number of stars that appear to the naked eye, which only amount to about
3010 in both hemispheres, the number of the Israelites far exceeded this; for independently of women and children, at the last census, they amounted to more than
600,000.00