Bible Verse

You made your people Israel your very own forever, and you, Lord, have become their God.

1 Chronicles 17:22

David did not take the number of the men twenty years old or less, because the Lord had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.

1 Chronicles 27:23

King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my fellow Israelites, my people. I had it in my heart to build a house as a place of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, for the footstool of our God, and I made plans to build it.

1 Chronicles 28:2