Hebrews 11:12

Tree of Life Version

So from one—and him as good as dead—were fathered offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and as uncountable as the sand on the seashore.

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

He took him outside and said, “Look up now, at the sky, and count the stars—if you are able to count them.” Then He said to him, “So shall your seed be.”

Genesis 22:17

I will richly bless you and bountifully multiply your seed like the stars of heaven, and like the sand that is on the seashore, and your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

Genesis 26:4

I will multiply your seed like the stars of the sky and I will give your seed all these lands. And in your seed all the nations of the earth will continually be blessed,

Genesis 32:12

Deliver me, please, from my brother’s hand, from Esau’s hand, for I’m afraid of him that he’ll come and strike me—the mothers with the children.

2 Samuel 17:11

Instead, I counsel that all Israel be gathered altogether to you—from Dan to Beersheba, as abundant as the sand by the sea—and that you personally go into the battle.

1 Kings 4:20

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

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David did not count those 20 years old and under, because Adonai had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.

Nehemiah 9:23

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven, and You brought them into the land that You told their ancestors to enter and inherit.

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 seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they will inherit it forever.’”

Isaiah 10:22

For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction has been decreed. Justice overflows.

Isaiah 48:19

Your seed would have been like sand, and your offspring like its grains. Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before Me.”

Jeremiah 33:22

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David My servant, and the Levites who minister to Me.”

Habakkuk 1:9

All of them come for violence— an assembling of faces to the east. He gathers captives like sand.

Romans 9:27

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of B’nei-Israel be as the sand of the sea, only the remnant shall be saved.

Deuteronomy 1:10

Adonai your God has multiplied you—and here you are today, like the stars of the heavens in number.

Deuteronomy 28:62

“You will be left few in number, instead of being like the stars of the sky in number—because you did not listen to the voice of Adonai your God.

Joshua 11:4

So they came out, they and all their armies with them, a multitude with as many people as the sand on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.

Revelation 20:8

and he shall come out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for the battle. Their number is like the sand of the sea.

Judges 7:12

Now the Midianites, the Amalekites and all the people of the east were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were countless, as numerous as the sand on the seashore.

1 Samuel 12:5

Then he said to them, “Adonai is then a witness against you, and His anointed is a witness this day that you have not found anything in my hand.” “He is a witness,” they replied.