Hebrews 11:12

New Century Version

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.

Cross References

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 22:17

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.

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 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.’ ”

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 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.

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 10:22

Israel, your people are many, like the grains of sand by the sea. But only a few of them will be left alive to return to the Lord. God has announced that he will destroy the land completely and fairly.

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 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.’

Habakkuk 1:9

They all come to fight. Nothing can stop them. Their prisoners are as many as the grains of sand.

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,

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 28:62

You people may have outnumbered the stars, but only a few of you will be left, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

Joshua 11:4

So the armies of all these kings came together with their horses and chariots. There were as many soldiers as grains of sand on the seashore.

Revelation 20:8

Then he will go out to trick the nations in all the earth—Gog and Magog—to gather them for battle. There are so many people they will be like sand on the seashore.

Judges 7:12

The Midianites, the Amalekites, and all the peoples from the east were camped in that valley. There were so many of them they seemed like locusts. Their camels could not be counted because they were as many as the grains of sand on the seashore!

1 Samuel 12:5

Samuel said to them, “The Lord is a witness to what you have said. His appointed king is also a witness today that you did not find anything wrong in me.” “He is our witness,” they said.