Nehemiah 9:23

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

Genesis 12:7

The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 15:18

On that same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great Euphrates River —

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 17:8

All the land of Canaan, where you now live as strangers, I will give to you and to your descendants for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”

Genesis 22:17

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.

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.

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.

Exodus 1:12

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew so that as a result they abhorred the sons of Israel.

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.

Deuteronomy 28:62

You will be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.