Hebrews 11:12

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

The LORD brought him outside, and said, *Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.* He said to Avram, *So shall your seed be.*

Genesis 22:17

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

Genesis 26:4

I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

Genesis 32:12

You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'*

2 Samuel 17:11

But I counsel that all Yisra'el be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Be'er-Sheva, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.

1 Kings 4:20

Yehudah and Yisra'el were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David didn't take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because the LORD had said he would increase Yisra'el like the stars of the sky.

Nehemiah 9:23

Their children also multiplied you as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you did say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yisra'el, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'*

Isaiah 10:22

For though your people, Yisra'el, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

Isaiah 48:19

your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like the grains of it: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

Jeremiah 33:22

As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the children of Yisra'el will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'

Habakkuk 1:9

All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

Romans 9:27

Yeshaiyahu cries concerning Yisra'el, *If the number of the children of Yisra'el are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

Deuteronomy 1:10

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

Deuteronomy 28:62

You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of the LORD your God.

Joshua 11:4

They went out, they and all their armies with them, much people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.

Revelation 20:8

and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

Judges 7:12

The Midyanim and the `Amaleki and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.

1 Samuel 12:5

He said to them, the LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand. They said, He is witness.