Nehemiah 9:23

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And thou didst multiply their children as the stars of heaven: and broughtest them to the land concerning which thou hadst said to their fathers, that they should go in and possess it.

Cross References

Genesis 22:17

I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the seashore. Thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 15:5

And he thought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven, and number the stars, if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David would not number them from twenty years old and under: because the Lord had said that he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven.

Genesis 26:3

And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.

Genesis 17:8

And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan for a perpetual possession: and I will be their God.

Genesis 15:18

That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.

Genesis 12:7

And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Deuteronomy 28:62

And you shall remain few in number, who before were as the stars of heaven for multitude: because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God.

Exodus 1:7

The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes. And growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.

Exodus 1:12

But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied, and increased.