Genesis 22:17

New King James Version

blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.

Genesis 13:16

And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered.

Genesis 15:5

Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

Genesis 17:6

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

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her: “Our sister, may you become The mother of thousands of ten thousands; And may your descendants possess The gates of those who hate them.”

Genesis 25:11

And it came to pass, after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac dwelt at Beer Lahai Roi.

Genesis 26:24

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

Genesis 26:4

And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

Genesis 28:3

“May God Almighty bless you, And make you fruitful and multiply you, That you may be an assembly of peoples;

Genesis 28:4

And give you the blessing of Abraham, To you and your descendants with you, That you may inherit the land In which you are a stranger, Which God gave to Abraham.”

Genesis 32:12

For You said, ‘I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’ ”

Genesis 32:13

So he lodged there that same night, and took what came to his hand as a present for Esau his brother:

2 Samuel 17:11

Therefore I advise that all Israel be fully gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, like the sand that is by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing.

1 Kings 9:26

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

1 Chronicles 27:23

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

2 Chronicles 1:9

Now, O Lord God, let Your promise to David my father be established, for You have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

Nehemiah 9:23

You also multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, And brought them into the land Which You had told their fathers To go in and possess.

Exodus 32:13

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

Isaiah 48:19

Your descendants also would have been like the sand, And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand; His name would not have been cut off Nor destroyed from before Me.”

Jeremiah 32:22

You have given them this land, of 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 will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.’ ”

Hosea 1:10

“Yet the number of the children of Israel Shall be as the sand of the sea, Which cannot be measured or numbered. And it shall come to pass In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ There it shall be said to them, ‘You are sons of the living God.’

Hosea 2:1

Say to your brethren, ‘My people,’ And to your sisters, ‘Mercy is shown.’

Micah 1:9

For her wounds are incurable. For it has come to Judah; It has come to the gate of My people— To Jerusalem.

Romans 4:13

For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Romans 9:27

Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, The 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 with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and here you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude.

Deuteronomy 1:11

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

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.

Deuteronomy 13:17

So none of the accursed things shall remain in your hand, 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

because you have listened to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep all His commandments which I command you today, to do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 21:19

then his father and his mother shall take 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, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude—innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

Hebrews 6:14

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

Revelation 11:15

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