Genesis 15:5

American King James Version (1999)

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said to him, So shall your seed be.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing:

Genesis 13:16

And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall your seed also be numbered.

Genesis 16:10

And the angel of the LORD said to her, I will multiply your seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Genesis 17:2

And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.

Genesis 22:17

That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is on the sea shore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

Genesis 26:4

And I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give to your seed all these countries; and in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

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, and to the south: and in you and in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 32:13

And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;

1 Kings 3:8

And your servant is in the middle of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.

Nehemiah 9:23

Their children also multiplied you as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land, concerning which you had promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

Job 35:5

Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.

Psalm 147:4

He tells the number of the stars; he calls them all by their names.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

Jeremiah 33:22

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister to me.

Romans 4:18

Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall your seed be.

Deuteronomy 1:10

The LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down into Egypt with three score and ten persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

Joshua 24:3

And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.