Hebrews 11:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Therefore, from one man #– #in fact, from one as good as dead #– #came offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and as innumerable as the grains of sand along the seashore.

Cross References

Genesis 22:17

I will indeed bless you  and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky  and the sand on the seashore.  Your offspring will possess the city gates of their  enemies.

Genesis 32:12

You have said, “I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to be counted.” ’

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And in the place where they were told: You are not my people, they will be called: Sons of the living God.

Jeremiah 33:22

Even as the stars of heaven cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured,  so too I will make innumerable the descendants of my servant David and the Levites who minister to me.’

Genesis 15:5

He took him outside and said, ‘Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.’ Then he said to him, ‘Your offspring will be that numerous.’

Genesis 26:4

I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed  by your offspring,

Revelation 20:8

and will go out to deceive the nations  at the four corners of the earth,  Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle.  Their number is like the sand of the sea.

Isaiah 10:22

Israel, even if your people were as numerous as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction has been decreed; justice overflows.

Exodus 32:13

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel #– #you swore to them by yourself  and declared, “I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and will give your offspring all this land that I have promised, and they will inherit it for ever.” ’

Isaiah 48:19

Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains; their name would not be cut off or eliminated from my presence.

Nehemiah 9:23

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky and brought them to the land you told their ancestors to go in and possess.

1 Chronicles 27:23

David didn’t count the men aged twenty or under, for the Lord had said he would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea;  they were eating, drinking, and rejoicing.

2 Samuel 17:11

Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba #– #as numerous as the sand by the sea   #– #be gathered to you and that you personally go into battle.

1 Samuel 12:5

He said to them, ‘The Lord is a witness against you, and his anointed is a witness today that you haven’t found anything  in my hand.’ ‘He is a witness,’ they said.

Judges 7:12

Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the people of the east had settled down in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

Joshua 11:4

They went out with all their armies #– #a multitude as numerous as the sand on the seashore   #– #along with a vast number of horses and chariots.

Deuteronomy 28:62

Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has so multiplied you that today you are as numerous as the stars of the sky.

Romans 9:27

But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, Though the number of Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved;

Habakkuk 1:9

All of them come to do violence; their faces  are set in determination. They gather  prisoners like sand.