Genesis 22:17

American King James Version (1999)

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;

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 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: and he said to him, So shall your seed be.

Genesis 17:6

And I will make you exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come out of you.

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, You are our sister, be you the mother of thousands of millions, and let your seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

Genesis 25:11

And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelled by the well Lahairoi.

Genesis 26:24

And the LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham your father: fear not, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

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 28:3

And God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a multitude of people;

Genesis 28:4

And give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you; that you may inherit the land wherein you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.

Genesis 32:12

And you said, I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

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;

2 Samuel 17:11

Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.

1 Kings 9:26

And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.

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.

2 Chronicles 1:9

Now, O LORD God, let your promise to David my father be established: for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

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.

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 48:19

Your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

Jeremiah 32:22

And have given them this land, which you did swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

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.

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.

Hosea 2:1

Say you to your brothers, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

Micah 1:9

For her wound is incurable; for it is come to Judah; he is come to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Romans 4:13

For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Romans 9:27

Esaias also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

1 Corinthians 15:57

But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

Deuteronomy 1:10

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

Deuteronomy 1:11

(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!)

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.

Deuteronomy 13:17

And there shall stick nothing of the cursed thing to your hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;

Deuteronomy 13:18

When you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 21:19

Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;

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.

Hebrews 6:14

Saying, Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.

Revelation 11:15

And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.