What an astonishing increase from seventy persons who went down into Egypt about 215 years before, where they had latterly endured the greatest hardships! Such was the effect of God's promise, which cannot fail.
Numbers 2:32 These [
are] those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts [
were] six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
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!
Numbers 26:51 These [
were] the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
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 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 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 26:3 Sojourn in this land, and
I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for
unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the
oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
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 46:3-
4 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: ... I
will go down with thee into Egypt;
and I will also surely bring thee up [
again]:
and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
Exodus 12:37 And
the children of Israel journeyed from
Rameses to Succoth, about
six hundred thousand on foot [
that were] men, beside children.
Exodus 38:26 A
bekah for
every man, [
that is], half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for
six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty [
men].
Deuteronomy 10:22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt
with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee
as the stars of heaven 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.
2 Samuel 24:9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel
eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah [
were] five hundred thousand men.
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.
2 Chronicles 13:3 And Abijah
set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, [
even]
four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with
eight hundred thousand chosen men, [
being] mighty men of valour.
2 Chronicles 17:14-
19 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. ... These waited on the king, beside [
those] whom the king
put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.
Hebrews 11:11-
12 Through faith also
Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age,
because she judged him faithful who had promised. ... 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 7:4-
9 And
I heard the number of them which were sealed: [
and there were] sealed
an hundred [
and] forty [
and] four thousand of
all the tribes of the children of Israel. ... 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;
