Genesis 22:17

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

I will indeed bless you, and I will multiply your descendants as the stars of 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

And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 13:16

I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your descendants also can be counted.

Genesis 15:5

And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then 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 forth from you.

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, be the mother of thousands of ten thousands; and may your descendants possess the gate of those who hate them!”

Genesis 25:11

After the death of Abraham God blessed Isaac his son. 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 Abraham your father; fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your descendants for my servant Abraham's sake.”

Genesis 26:4

I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give to your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves:

Genesis 28:3

God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

Genesis 28:4

May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your descendants with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojournings which God gave to Abraham!”

Genesis 32:12

But thou didst say, ‘I will do you good, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’ ”

Genesis 32:13

So he lodged there that night, and took from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau,

2 Samuel 17:11

But my counsel is that all Israel be gathered to you, from Dan to Beer-sheba, as the sand by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea; they ate and drank and were happy.

1 Kings 9:26

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

1 Chronicles 27:23

David did not number those below twenty years of age, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as many as the stars of heaven.

2 Chronicles 1:9

O Lord God, let thy promise to David my father be now fulfilled, for thou hast made me king over a people as many as the dust of the earth.

Nehemiah 9:23

Thou didst multiply their descendants as the stars of heaven, and thou didst bring them into the land which thou hadst told their fathers to enter and possess.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thine own self, and didst say to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it for ever.’ ”

Isaiah 48:19

your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me.”

Jeremiah 32:22

and thou gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

Jeremiah 33:22

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.”

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered; and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Sons of the living God.”

Hosea 2:1

Say to your brother, “My people,” and to your sister, “She has obtained pity.”

Micah 1:9

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

Romans 4:13

The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that they should inherit the world, did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them 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 heavenly places,

Deuteronomy 1:10

the Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Deuteronomy 1:11

May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!

Deuteronomy 10:22

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

Deuteronomy 13:17

None of the devoted things shall cleave to your hand; that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers,

Deuteronomy 13:18

if you obey the voice of the Lord your God, keeping all his commandments which I command you this day, and doing what is right in the sight 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 at the gate of the place where he lives,

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.

Hebrews 6:14

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

Revelation 11:15

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever.”