Genesis 12:2-
3 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: ...
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and
in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and
tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him,
So shall thy seed be.
Genesis 17:6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make
nations of thee, and
kings shall come out of thee.
Genesis 17:16 And I will bless her, and
give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall
be [a mother] of nations;
kings of people shall be of her.
Genesis 17:20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold,
I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly;
twelve princes shall he beget,
and I will make him a great nation.
Genesis 18:18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely
become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Genesis 21:13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he [
is] thy seed.
Genesis 22:17 That
in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying
I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which [
is] upon the sea
shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Genesis 25:1-
34 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name [
was] Keturah. ... Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did
eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way:
thus Esau despised [
his] birthright.
Genesis 26:4 And I will make thy seed to
multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy
seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
Genesis 28:3 And
God Almighty bless thee,
and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be
a multitude of people;
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 32:12 And
thou saidst,
I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Genesis 35:11 And God said unto him, I [
am]
God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply;
a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
Genesis 36:1-
43 Now these [
are] the generations of Esau, who [
is] Edom. ... Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these [
be]
the dukes of Edom, according to
their habitations in the land of their possession: he [
is] Esau the
father of
the Edomites.
Genesis 46:3 And he said, I [
am] God,
the God of thy father:
fear not to go down into Egypt; for
I will there make of thee a great nation:
Exodus 1:7 And the children of Israel were
fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
Exodus 32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants,
to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them,
I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit [
it] for ever.
Numbers 23:10 Who
can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of
the fourth [
part] of Israel? Let
me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
Deuteronomy 1:10 The LORD
your God hath multiplied you, and, behold,
ye [are] this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Judges 6:3 And [
so] it was,
when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the
Amalekites, and the
children of the east, even they came up against them;
Judges 6:5 For they came up with their cattle and their
tents, and they came
as grasshoppers for multitude; [
for] both they and
their camels were without number: and they entered into the land
to destroy it.
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 Kings 4:20 Judah and Israel [
were] many,
as the sand which [
is] by the sea in multitude,
eating and drinking, and making merry.
1 Chronicles 21:5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all [
they of] Israel were
a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah [
was] four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
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.
2 Chronicles 17:14-
18 And these [
are]
the numbers of them according
to the house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valour
three hundred thousand. ... And next him [
was] Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.
Isaiah 48:18 O
that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments!
then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Isaiah 48:19 Thy
seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof;
his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
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 unto me.
Romans 4:16-
18 Therefore [
it is]
of faith, that [
it might be] by grace; to the end
the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law,
but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is
the father of us all, ... Who
against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken,
So shall thy seed be.
Hebrews 11:12 Therefore sprang there even of 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.
Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo,
a great multitude, which
no man could number,
of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues,
stood before the throne, and before the Lamb,
clothed with white robes, and
palms in their hands;
