Genesis 22:17

Contemporary English Version 1995

“I will bless you and give you such a large family, that someday your descendants will be more numerous than the stars in the sky or the grains of sand along the seashore. They will defeat their enemies and take over the cities where their enemies live.

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

Then the Lord took Abram outside and said, “Look at the sky and see if you can count the stars. That's how many descendants you will have.”

Jeremiah 33:22

and there will be more descendants of David and of the priests from the Levi tribe than stars in the sky or grains of sand on the beach.

Genesis 13:16

I will give you more descendants than there are specks of dust on the earth, and someday it will be easier to count those specks of dust than to count your descendants.

Genesis 26:4

I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all of this land. They will be a blessing to every nation on earth,

Genesis 24:60

They gave Rebekah their blessing and said, “We pray that God will give you many children and grandchildren and that he will help them defeat their enemies.”

Revelation 11:15

At the sound of the seventh trumpet, loud voices were heard in heaven. They said, “Now the kingdom of this world belongs to our Lord and to his Chosen One! And he will rule forever and ever!”

Ephesians 1:3

Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for the spiritual blessings that Christ has brought us from heaven!

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord our God has blessed us, and so now there are as many of us as there are stars in the sky.

Genesis 32:12

But you have promised that I would be a success and that someday it will be as hard to count my descendants as it is to count the grains of sand along the seashore.

1 Corinthians 15:57

But thank God for letting our Lord Jesus Christ give us the victory!

Jeremiah 32:22

Then you gave Israel this land rich with milk and honey, just as you had promised our ancestors.

Micah 1:9

The nation is fatally wounded. Judah is doomed. Jerusalem will fall.

1 Kings 9:26

He also had a lot of ships at Ezion-Geber, a town in Edom near Eloth on the Red Sea.

Deuteronomy 21:19

If a son is like that, his parents must drag him to the town gate, where the leaders of the town hold their meetings.

Genesis 28:3

I pray that God All-Powerful will bless you with many descendants and let you become a great nation.

Genesis 17:6

I will give you a lot of descendants, and they will become great nations. Some of them will even be kings.

Genesis 12:2

I will bless you and make your descendants into a great nation. You will become famous and be a blessing to others.

Romans 4:13

God promised Abraham and his descendants that he would give them the world. This promise wasn't made because Abraham had obeyed a law, but because his faith in God made him acceptable.

Romans 9:27

And this is what the prophet Isaiah said about the people of Israel, “The people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand along the beach. But only a few who are left will be saved.

Hebrews 6:14

“I, the Lord, will bless you with many descendants!”

Hebrews 11:12

Her husband Abraham was almost dead, but he became the ancestor of many people. In fact, there are as many of them as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand along the seashore.

Genesis 25:11

God blessed Isaac after this, and Isaac moved to a place called “The Well of the Living One Who Sees Me.”

Genesis 26:24

where the Lord appeared to him that night and told him, “Don't be afraid! I am the God who was worshiped by your father Abraham, my servant. I will be with you and bless you, and because of Abraham I will give you many descendants.”

Genesis 28:4

May he bless you with the land he promised Abraham, so that you will take over this land where we now live as foreigners.

Deuteronomy 10:22

When your ancestors went to live in Egypt, there were only 70 of them. But the Lord has blessed you, and now there are more of you than there are stars in the sky.

1 Chronicles 27:23

When David decided to count the people of Israel, he gave orders not to count anyone under 20 years of age, because the Lord had promised long ago that Israel would have as many people as there are stars in the sky.

2 Chronicles 1:9

I am supposed to rule these people, but there are as many of them as there are specks of dust on the ground. So keep the promise you made to my father

Hosea 1:10

Someday it will be impossible to count the people of Israel, because there will be as many of them as there are grains of sand along the seashore. They are now called “Not My People,” but in the future they will be called “Children of the Living God.”

Genesis 32:13

After Jacob had spent the night there, he chose some animals as gifts for Esau:

Exodus 32:13

Remember the solemn promise you made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You promised that someday they would have as many descendants as there are stars in the sky and that you would give them land.

Deuteronomy 1:11

God has even promised to bless us a thousand times more, and I pray that he will.

Deuteronomy 13:18

That's why you must do what the Lord your God says is right. I am giving you his laws and teachings today, and you must obey them.

2 Samuel 17:11

My advice is to gather all the fighting men of Israel from the town of Dan in the north down to the town of Beersheba in the south. You will have more soldiers than there are grains of sand on the seashore. Absalom, you should lead them yourself,

1 Kings 4:20

There were so many people living in Judah and Israel while Solomon was king that they seemed like grains of sand on a beach. Everyone had enough to eat and drink, and they were happy.

Nehemiah 9:23

You brought them into the land that you had promised their ancestors, and you blessed their nation with people that outnumbered the stars in the sky.

Isaiah 48:19

Your nation would be blessed with more people than there are grains of sand along the seashore. And I would never have let your country be destroyed.

Hosea 2:1

So let your brothers be called “My People” and your sisters be called “Shown Mercy.”