Genesis 12:2

Modern English Version

I will make of you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Cross References

Genesis 13:16

I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be numbered.

Genesis 15:5

He brought him outside and said, “Look up toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So will your descendants be.”

Genesis 17:20

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold. I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 18:18

since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

Genesis 18:19

I chose him, and he will instruct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what He promised him.”

Genesis 19:29

So it was that when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the destruction, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Genesis 24:1

Now Abraham was old, well advanced in age; and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

Genesis 24:35

The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become wealthy. He has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 25:11

After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac lived at Beer Lahai Roi.

Genesis 26:3

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you; for I will give to you and all your descendants all these lands, and I will fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

Genesis 26:4

I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of the heavens and will give your descendants all these lands. By your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

Genesis 27:29

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be master over your brothers, and let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be those who bless you!”

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and in your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 35:11

God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will come from you, and kings shall come forth from you.

Genesis 46:3

Then He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

2 Samuel 7:9

I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all of your enemies before you. I will make your name great, like the great ones across the land.

1 Kings 1:47

Moreover, the king’s servants came to bless our lord King David, saying, ‘May God make the name of Solomon better than your name and make his throne greater than your throne.’ And the king bowed himself upon the bed.

Job 35:8

Your wickedness may hurt a man like you, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

Psalm 107:38

He also blesses them, and they multiply greatly; and He does not let their livestock decrease.

Exodus 1:7

Nevertheless, the sons of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty, so that the land was filled with them.

Exodus 32:10

Now therefore let Me alone, so that My wrath may burn against them and I may destroy them. And I will make of you a great nation.”

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for I called him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.

Ezekiel 34:26

I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing. And I will cause the showers to come down in their season. They shall be showers of blessing.

Micah 7:20

You will give faithfulness to Jacob and benevolence to Abraham, which You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

Zechariah 8:13

And as you have been like a curse among the nations, O house of Israel and house of Judah, I will deliver you, and you will be a blessing. Fear not, and strengthen your hands!

Numbers 14:12

I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make from you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

Numbers 22:12

God said to Balaam, “You will not go with them. You will not curse the people because they are blessed.”

Numbers 23:20

Behold, I have received a commandment to bless, and He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

Romans 4:11

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith that he had while being uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them also,

Galatians 3:14

so that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Galatians 3:7

Therefore know that those who are of faith are the sons of Abraham.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then you must answer and say before the Lord your God, “A wandering Aramean was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with only a few in number, but there he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.