Genesis 22:17

New American Bible - revised edition

I will bless you and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; your descendants will take possession of the gates of their enemies,

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will 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; if anyone could count the dust of the earth, your descendants too might be counted.

Genesis 15:5

He took him outside and said: Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so, he added, will your descendants be.

Genesis 17:6

I will make you exceedingly fertile; I will make nations of you; kings will stem from you.

Genesis 24:60

They blessed Rebekah and said: “Sister, may you grow into thousands of myriads; And may your descendants gain possession of the gates of their enemies!”

Genesis 25:11

After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi. Descendants of Ishmael.

Genesis 26:24

The same night the Lord appeared to him 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 Abraham, my servant.

Genesis 26:4

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and in your descendants all the nations of the earth will find blessing—

Genesis 28:3

May God Almighty bless you and make you fertile, multiply you that you may become an assembly of peoples.

Genesis 28:4

May God extend to you and your descendants the blessing of Abraham, so that you may gain possession of the land where you are residing, which he assigned to Abraham.”

Genesis 32:12

Save me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau! Otherwise I fear that he will come and strike me down and the mothers with the children.

Genesis 32:13

You yourself said, ‘I will be very good to you, and I will make your descendants like the sands of the sea, which are too numerous to count.’”

2 Samuel 17:11

This is what I counsel: Let all Israel be assembled, from Dan to Beer-sheba, as numerous as the sands by the sea, and you yourself go with them.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sands by the sea; they ate and drank and rejoiced.

1 Kings 9:26

King Solomon also built a fleet at Ezion-geber, which is near Elath on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom.

1 Chronicles 27:23

David did not count those who were twenty years of age or younger, for the Lord had promised to multiply Israel like 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 as numerous as the dust of the earth.

Nehemiah 9:23

You made their children as numerous as the stars of the heavens, and you brought them into the land which you had commanded their ancestors to enter and possess.

Exodus 32:13

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and how you swore to them by your own self, saying, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky; and all this land that I promised, I will give your descendants as their perpetual heritage.’”

Isaiah 48:19

Your descendants like the sand, the offspring of your loins like its grains, Their name never cut off or blotted out from my presence.

Jeremiah 32:22

And you gave them this land, as you had sworn to their ancestors to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Jeremiah 33:22

Just as the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be counted, so I will multiply the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.

Hosea 2:1

The number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor counted. Instead of being told, “You are Not-My-People,” They will be called, “Children of the living God.”

Micah 1:9

For her wound is incurable; it has come even to Judah. It has reached to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Romans 4:13

It was not through the law that the promise was made to Abraham and his descendants that he would inherit the world, but through the righteousness that comes from faith.

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the Israelites were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant 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

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

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord, your God, has made you numerous, and now you are as numerous as the stars of the heavens.

Deuteronomy 1:11

May the Lord, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times over, and bless you as he promised!

Deuteronomy 10:22

Seventy strong your ancestors went down to Egypt, and now the Lord, your God, has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Deuteronomy 13:17

Having heaped up all its spoils in the middle of its square, you shall burn the city with all its spoils as a whole burnt offering to the Lord, your God. Let it be a heap of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.

Deuteronomy 13:18

You shall not hold on to anything that is under the ban; then the Lord will turn from his burning anger and show you mercy, and in showing you mercy multiply you as he swore to your ancestors,

Deuteronomy 21:19

his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders at the gate of his home city,

Hebrews 11:12

So it was that there came forth from one man, himself as good as dead, descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sands on the seashore.

Hebrews 6:14

and said, “I will indeed bless you and multiply” you.

Revelation 11:15

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet. There were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world now belongs to our Lord and to his Anointed, and he will reign forever and ever.”