Genesis 22:17

Good News Translation

I promise that I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand along the seashore. Your descendants will conquer their enemies.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 13:16

I am going to give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all; it would be as easy to count all the specks of dust on earth!

Genesis 15:5

The Lord took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and try to count the stars; you will have as many descendants as that.”

Genesis 17:6

I will give you many descendants, and some of them will be kings. You will have so many descendants that they will become nations.

Genesis 24:60

And they gave Rebecca their blessing in these words: “May you, sister, become the mother of millions! May your descendants conquer the cities of their enemies!”

Genesis 25:11

After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near “The Well of the Living One Who Sees Me.”

Genesis 26:24

That night the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid; I am with you. I will bless you and give you many descendants because of my promise to my servant Abraham.”

Genesis 26:4

I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, and I will give them all this territory. All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants.

Genesis 28:3

May Almighty God bless your marriage and give you many children, so that you will become the father of many nations!

Genesis 28:4

May he bless you and your descendants as he blessed Abraham, and may you take possession of this land, in which you have lived and which God gave to Abraham!”

Genesis 32:12

Remember that you promised to make everything go well for me and to give me more descendants than anyone could count, as many as the grains of sand along the seashore.”

Genesis 32:13

After spending the night there, Jacob chose from his livestock as a present for his brother Esau: 200 female goats and 20 males, 200 female sheep and 20 males, 30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows and 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys and 10 males.

2 Samuel 17:11

My advice is that you bring all the Israelites together from one end of the country to the other, as many as the grains of sand on the seashore, and that you lead them personally in battle.

1 Kings 4:20

The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore; they ate and drank, and were happy.

1 Kings 9:26

King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Eziongeber, which is near Elath on the shore of the Gulf of Aqaba, in the land of Edom.

1 Chronicles 27:23

King David did not take a census of the people who were under the age of twenty, because of the Lord's promise to make the people of Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.

2 Chronicles 1:9

O Lord God, fulfill the promise you made to my father. You have made me king over a people who are so many that they cannot be counted,

Nehemiah 9:23

You gave them as many children as there are stars in the sky, and let them conquer and live in the land that you had promised their ancestors to give them.

Exodus 32:13

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Remember the solemn promise you made to them to give them as many descendants as there are stars in the sky and to give their descendants all that land you promised would be their possession forever.”

Isaiah 48:19

Your descendants would be as numerous as grains of sand, and I would have made sure they were never destroyed.”

Jeremiah 32:22

You gave them this rich and fertile land, as you had promised their ancestors.

Jeremiah 33:22

I will increase the number of descendants of my servant David and the number of priests from the tribe of Levi, so that it will be as impossible to count them as it is to count the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore.”

Hosea 1:10

The people of Israel will become like the sand of the sea, more than can be counted or measured. Now God says to them, “You are not my people,” but the day is coming when he will say to them, “You are the children of the living God!”

Hosea 2:1

So call your fellow Israelites “God's People” and “Loved-by-the-Lord.”

Micah 1:9

Samaria's wounds cannot be healed, and Judah is about to suffer in the same way; destruction has reached the gates of Jerusalem itself, where my people live.”

Romans 4:13

When God promised Abraham and his descendants that the world would belong to him, he did so, not because Abraham obeyed the Law, but because he believed and was accepted as righteous by God.

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah exclaims about Israel: “Even if the people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand by the sea, yet only a few of them will be saved;

1 Corinthians 15:57

But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

Ephesians 1:3

Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! For in our union with Christ he has blessed us by giving us every spiritual blessing in the heavenly world.

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 1:11

May the Lord, the God of your ancestors, make you increase a thousand times more and make you prosperous, as he promised!

Deuteronomy 10:22

When your ancestors went to Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 13:17

Do not keep for yourselves anything that was condemned to destruction, and then the Lord will turn from his fierce anger and show you mercy. He will be merciful to you and make you a numerous people, as he promised your ancestors,

Deuteronomy 13:18

if you obey all his commands that I have given you today, and do what he requires.

Deuteronomy 21:19

His parents are to take him before the leaders of the town where he lives and make him stand trial.

Hebrews 11:12

Though Abraham was practically dead, from this one man came as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, as many as the numberless grains of sand on the seashore.

Hebrews 6:14

He said, “I promise you that I will bless you and give you many descendants.”

Revelation 11:15

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The power to rule over the world belongs now to our Lord and his Messiah, and he will rule forever and ever!”