Genesis 22:17

Modern English Version

I will indeed bless you and I will indeed multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens and as the sand that is on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gate of their enemies.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

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

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 17:6

I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.

Genesis 24:60

They blessed Rebekah and said to her, “May you, our sister, become the mother of thousands of ten thousands; and may your descendants possess the gate of those who hate them.”

Genesis 25:11

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

Genesis 26:24

The Lord appeared to him that same night and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”

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 28:3

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a multitude of people.

Genesis 28:4

May He give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and your descendants with you, that you may inherit the land where you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.”

Genesis 32:12

You said, ‘I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too many to be counted.’ ”

Genesis 32:13

So he spent the night there. Then he selected from what he had with him a gift for his brother Esau:

2 Samuel 17:11

“Therefore my advice is for all of Israel, from Dan to Beer-sheba, to be completely gathered to you like the multitude of the sand along the shoreline and for you to go to battle in person.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel had a large populace, as numerous as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy.

1 Kings 9:26

King Solomon built a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Elath on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David did not take the number from twenty years old and under because the Lord had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of the heavens.

2 Chronicles 1:9

Now, Lord God, may Your word to David my father be confirmed, for You have made me king over a people numerous as the dust of the earth.

Nehemiah 9:23

Their descendants You increased like the stars of heaven, and You brought them into the land, which You had promised to their fathers that they would enter and possess it.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’ ”

Isaiah 48:19

Your descendants also would have been as the sand and your offspring like grains of sand; their name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before Me.

Jeremiah 32:22

And You have given them this land, which You swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Jeremiah 33:22

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered nor the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the seed of David My servant and the Levites that minister to Me.

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the Israelites will be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not My people,” there it will be said to them, “You are the sons of the living God.”

Hosea 2:1

Say to your brothers, Ammi, and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

Micah 1:9

For her wound is mortal, for it has come to Judah; it has extended to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

Romans 4:13

It was not through the law that Abraham and his descendants received the promise that he would be the heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

Romans 9:27

Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

1 Corinthians 15:57

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

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Deuteronomy 1:11

May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times more numerous and bless you, just as He has promised you!

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy people, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Deuteronomy 13:17

Nothing of the cursed thing there must cling to your hand, so that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you, and multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers,

Deuteronomy 13:18

if you listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep all His commandments which I command you today, and do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 21:19

then his father and his mother are to lay hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city.

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore from one man, who was as good as dead, sprang so many, a multitude as the stars of the sky and innumerable as the sand by the seashore.

Hebrews 6:14

saying, “Surely I will bless you, and surely I will multiply you.”

Revelation 11:15

The seventh angel sounded, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying: “The kingdoms of the world have become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever.”