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, ¹  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 ¹  was as follows: ² 

May Reuben live and not die, and may his people multiply. ¹ 

He does ¹  great and unsearchable ²  things, marvelous things without ³  number; ⁴ 

For the years that lie ahead are few, ¹  and then I will go on the way of no return. ² 

Can his armies be numbered? ¹  On whom does his light ²  not rise?

May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! ¹  Do not let their names be listed with the godly! ² 

Our Lord is great and has awesome power; ¹  there is no limit to his wisdom. ² 

There may be sixty ¹  queens, and eighty concubines, and young women ²  without number.

There will be so few trees left in his forest, a child will be able to count them. ¹ 

No woman will miscarry her young ¹  or be barren in your land. I will fulfill ²  the number of your days.

The length of time ¹  that David lived in the Philistine countryside was a year ²  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. ¹  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. ¹ 

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