Genesis 22:17

New Living Translation

I will certainly bless you. I will multiply your descendants beyond number, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will conquer the cities of their enemies.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

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

Genesis 13:16

And I will give you so many descendants that, like the dust of the earth, they cannot be counted!

Genesis 15:5

Then the Lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!”

Genesis 17:6

I will make you extremely fruitful. Your descendants will become many nations, and kings will be among them!

Genesis 24:60

They gave her this blessing as she parted: “Our sister, may you become the mother of many millions! May your descendants be strong and conquer the cities of their enemies.”

Genesis 25:11

After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who settled near Beer-lahai-roi in the Negev.

Genesis 26:24

where the Lord appeared to him on the night of his arrival. “I am the God of your father, Abraham,” he said. “Do not be afraid, for I am with you and will bless you. I will multiply your descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will do this because of my promise to Abraham, my servant.”

Genesis 26:4

I will cause your descendants to become as numerous as the stars of the sky, and I will give them all these lands. And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 28:3

May God Almighty bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants multiply and become many nations!

Genesis 28:4

May God pass on to you and your descendants the blessings he promised to Abraham. May you own this land where you are now living as a foreigner, for God gave this land to Abraham.”

Genesis 32:12

But you promised me, ‘I will surely treat you kindly, and I will multiply your descendants until they become as numerous as the sands along the seashore—too many to count.’”

Genesis 32:13

Jacob stayed where he was for the night. Then he selected these gifts from his possessions to present to his brother, Esau:

2 Samuel 17:11

“I recommend that you mobilize the entire army of Israel, bringing them from as far away as Dan in the north and Beersheba in the south. That way you will have an army as numerous as the sand on the seashore. And I advise that you personally lead the troops.

1 Kings 4:20

The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They were very contented, with plenty to eat and drink.

1 Kings 9:26

King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, a port near Elath in the land of Edom, along the shore of the Red Sea.

1 Chronicles 27:23

When David took his census, he did not count those who were younger than twenty years of age, because the Lord had promised to make the Israelites as numerous as the stars in heaven.

2 Chronicles 1:9

O Lord God, please continue to keep your promise to David my father, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth!

Nehemiah 9:23

You made their descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and brought them into the land you had promised to their ancestors.

Exodus 32:13

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You bound yourself with an oath to them, saying, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven. And I will give them all of this land that I have promised to your descendants, and they will possess it forever.’”

Isaiah 48:19

Your descendants would have been like the sands along the seashore— too many to count! There would have been no need for your destruction, or for cutting off your family name.”

Jeremiah 32:22

You gave the people of Israel this land that you had promised their ancestors long before—a land flowing with milk and honey.

Jeremiah 33:22

And as the stars of the sky cannot be counted and the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of my servant David and the Levites who minister before me.”

Hosea 1:10

“Yet the time will come when Israel’s people will be like the sands of the seashore—too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ it will be said, ‘You are children of the living God.’

Hosea 2:1

“In that day you will call your brothers Ammi—‘My people.’ And you will call your sisters Ruhamah—‘The ones I love.’

Micah 1:9

For my people’s wound is too deep to heal. It has reached into Judah, even to the gates of Jerusalem.

Romans 4:13

Clearly, God’s promise to give the whole earth to Abraham and his descendants was based not on his obedience to God’s law, but on a right relationship with God that comes by faith.

Romans 9:27

And concerning Israel, Isaiah the prophet cried out, “Though the people of Israel are as numerous as the sand of the seashore, only a remnant will be saved.

1 Corinthians 15:57

But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 1:3

All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has increased your population, making you as numerous as the stars!

Deuteronomy 1:11

And may the Lord, the God of your ancestors, multiply you a thousand times more and bless you as he promised!

Deuteronomy 10:22

When your ancestors went down into Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky!

Deuteronomy 13:17

Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the Lord will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a large nation, just as he swore to your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 13:18

“The Lord your God will be merciful only if you listen to his voice and keep all his commands that I am giving you today, doing what pleases him.

Deuteronomy 21:19

In such a case, the father and mother must take the son to the elders as they hold court at the town gate.

Hebrews 11:12

And so a whole nation came from this one man who was as good as dead—a nation with so many people that, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, there is no way to count them.

Hebrews 6:14

“I will certainly bless you, and I will multiply your descendants beyond number.”

Revelation 11:15

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices shouting in heaven: “The world has now become the Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever.”