Genesis 15:5

Webster Bible (1833)

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars, if thou art able to number them: and he said to him, So shall thy seed be.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

Genesis 13:16

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

Genesis 16:10

And the angel of the LORD said to her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Genesis 17:2

And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

Genesis 22:17

That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is on the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

Genesis 26:4

And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give to thy seed all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed:

Genesis 28:14

And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth; and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 32:13

And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau, his brother;

1 Kings 3:8

And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.

Nehemiah 9:23

Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

Job 35:5

Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

Psalm 147:4

He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thine own self, and saidst to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

Jeremiah 33:22

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister to me.

Romans 4:18

Who against hope believed with hope, that he should become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

Deuteronomy 1:10

The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Thy fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore there sprang even from one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea-shore innumerable.

Joshua 24:3

And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.