Genesis 22:17

New Century Version

I will surely bless you and give you many descendants. They will be as many as the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, and they will capture the cities of their enemies.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you. I will make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.

Genesis 13:16

I will make your descendants as many as the dust of the earth. If anyone could count the dust on the earth, he could count your people.

Genesis 15:5

Then God led Abram outside and said, “Look at the sky. There are so many stars you cannot count them. Your descendants also will be too many to count.”

Genesis 17:6

I will give you many descendants. New nations will be born from you, and kings will come from you.

Genesis 24:60

They blessed Rebekah and said, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of people, and may your descendants capture the cities of their enemies.”

Genesis 25:11

After Abraham died, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac was now living at Beer Lahai Roi.

Genesis 26:24

The Lord appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Don’t be afraid, because I am with you. I will bless you and give you many descendants because of my servant Abraham.”

Genesis 26:4

I will give you many descendants, as hard to count as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. Through your descendants all the nations on the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 28:3

May God Almighty bless you and give you many children, and may you become a group of many peoples.

Genesis 28:4

May he give you and your descendants the blessing of Abraham so that you may own the land where you are now living as a stranger, the land God gave to Abraham.”

Genesis 32:12

You said to me, ‘I will treat you well and will make your children as many as the sand of the seashore. There will be too many to count.’ ”

Genesis 32:13

Jacob stayed there for the night and prepared a gift for Esau from what he had with him:

2 Samuel 17:11

“This is what I suggest: Gather all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba. There will be as many people as grains of sand by the sea. Then you yourself must go into the battle.

1 Kings 4:20

There were as many people in Judah and Israel as grains of sand on the seashore. The people ate, drank, and were happy.

1 Kings 9:26

King Solomon also built ships at Ezion Geber, a town near Elath on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

1 Chronicles 27:23

The Lord had promised to make the Israelites as many as the stars in the sky. So David only counted the men who were twenty years old and older.

2 Chronicles 1:9

Now, Lord God, may your promise to my father David come true. You have made me king of a people who are as many as the dust of the earth.

Nehemiah 9:23

You made their children as many as the stars in the sky, and you brought them into the land that you told their ancestors to enter and take over.

Exodus 32:13

Remember the men who served you—Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. You promised with an oath to them and said, ‘I will make your descendants as many as the stars in the sky. I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised them, and it will be theirs forever.’ ”

Isaiah 48:19

You would have had many children, as many as the grains of sand. They would never have died out nor been destroyed.”

Jeremiah 32:22

You gave them this land that you promised to their ancestors long ago, a fertile land.

Jeremiah 33:22

But I will give many descendants to my servant David and to the family group of Levi who serve me in the Temple. They will be as many as the stars in the sky that no one can count. They will be as many as the grains of sand on the seashore that no one can measure.”

Hosea 1:10

“But the number of the Israelites will become like the grains of sand of the sea, which no one can measure or count. They were called, ‘You are not my people,’ but later they will be called ‘children of the living God.’

Hosea 2:1

“You are to call your brothers, ‘my people,’ and your sisters, ‘you have been shown pity.’

Micah 1:9

because Samaria’s wound cannot be healed. It will spread to Judah; it will reach the city gate of my people, all the way to Jerusalem.

Romans 4:13

Abraham and his descendants received the promise that they would get the whole world. He did not receive that promise through the law, but through being right with God by his faith.

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah cries out about Israel: “The people of Israel are many, like the grains of sand by the sea. But only a few of them will be saved,

1 Corinthians 15:57

But we thank God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 1:3

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In Christ, God has given us every spiritual blessing in the heavenly world.

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has made you grow in number so that there are as many of you as there are stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 1:11

I pray that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, will give you a thousand times more people and do all the wonderful things he promised.

Deuteronomy 10:22

There were only seventy of your ancestors when they went down to Egypt, and now the Lord your God has made you as many as the stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 13:17

Don’t keep for yourselves any of the things found in that city, so the Lord will not be angry anymore. He will give you mercy and feel sorry for you, and he will make your nation grow larger, as he promised to your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 13:18

You will have obeyed the Lord your God by keeping all his commands that I am giving to you today, and you will be doing what the Lord says is right.

Deuteronomy 21:19

his parents must take him to the elders at the city gate.

Hebrews 11:12

This man was so old he was almost dead, but from him came as many descendants as there are stars in the sky. Like the sand on the seashore, they could not be counted.

Hebrews 6:14

saying, “I will surely bless you and give you many descendants.”

Revelation 11:15

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet. And there were loud voices in heaven, saying: “The power to rule the world now belongs to our Lord and his Christ, and he will rule forever and ever.”