Genesis 22:17
That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;
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Genesis 22:17
That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;
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Genesis 22:18
And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.
Genesis 12:1
Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:
Genesis 12:2
And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:
Genesis 12:3
To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.
Galatians 3:8
And the holy Writings, seeing before the event that God would give the Gentiles righteousness by faith, gave the good news before to Abraham, saying, In you will all the nations have a blessing.
Galatians 3:16
Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.
Matthew 16:18
And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.
Romans 4:13
For God's word, that the earth would be his heritage, was given to Abraham, not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Genesis 3:15
And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.
Genesis 49:10
The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule.
Psalms 2:8
Make your request to me, and I will give you the nations for your heritage, and the farthest limits of the earth will be under your hand.
Acts 3:26
To you, first, God sent his servant, blessing you by turning every one of you from his sins.
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Genesis 22:16
Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,
Luke 1:72
To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word,
Luke 1:73
The oath which he made to Abraham, our father,
Psalms 105:8
He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;
Psalms 105:9
The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;
Psalms 105:10
And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;
Genesis 50:24
Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.
Exodus 6:8
And I will be your guide into the land which I made an oath to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for your heritage: I am Yahweh.
Luke 1:55
As he gave his word to our fathers.
Genesis 24:7
The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.
Nehemiah 9:8
You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours:
Micah 7:20
You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.
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Genesis 15:5
And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.
Genesis 13:15
For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.
Genesis 13:16
And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.
Genesis 26:4
I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;
Genesis 28:13
And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.
Genesis 28:14
Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.
Genesis 17:6
I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.
Genesis 17:7
And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
Genesis 12:7
And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.
Genesis 11:27
These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.
Genesis 21:12
But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.
Genesis 36:1
Now these are the generations of Esau, that is to say, Edom.
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Genesis 22:15
And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven,
Genesis 16:10
And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.
Judges 2:1
Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, ***I took you out of Egypt, guiding you into the land which I gave by an oath to your fathers; and I said, My agreement with you will never be broken by me:
Genesis 21:17
And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.
Genesis 21:18
Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him a great nation.
Judges 2:4
Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping.
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Genesis 32:12
And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.
Genesis 32:13
Then he put up his tent there for the night; and from among his goods he took, as an offering for his brother Esau,
1 Kings 4:20
Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts.
Jeremiah 33:22
As it is not possible for the army of heaven to be numbered, or the sand of the sea measured, so will I make the seed of my servant David, and the Levites my servants.
Isaiah 48:19
Your seed would have been like the sand, and your offspring like the dust: your name would not be cut off or come to an end before me.
Hosea 1:10
But still the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which may not be measured or numbered; and in place of its being said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God
Isaiah 10:22
For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness.
Romans 9:27
And Isaiah says about Israel, Even if the number of the children of Israel is as the sand of the sea, only a small part will get salvation:
Revelation 20:8
And will go out to put in error the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to get them together to the war, the number of whom is like the sands of the sea.
Joshua 7:12
For this reason the children of Israel have given way, turning their backs in flight before their attackers, because they are cursed: I will no longer be with you, if you do not put the cursed thing away from among you.
2 Chronicles 1:9
Now, O Lord God, let your word to David my father come true; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in number.
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Genesis 26:3
Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;
Genesis 17:8
And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.
Genesis 17:5
No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.
Genesis 13:14
And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:
Genesis 17:2
And I will make an agreement between you and me, and your offspring will be greatly increased.
Genesis 17:16
And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.
Genesis 13:17
Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.
Genesis 26:5
Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.
Genesis 15:7
And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.
Genesis 17:19
And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.
Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.
Genesis 15:3
And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.
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Exodus 32:13
Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.
Acts 7:17
But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,
Deuteronomy 1:11
May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said!
Numbers 23:10
Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his!
Genesis 47:27
And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.
Revelation 7:9
After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands,
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Genesis 15:14
But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth.
Genesis 15:16
And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.
Genesis 15:18
In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
Genesis 15:19
The Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
Genesis 15:20
And the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
Genesis 15:21
And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
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Hebrews 11:12
So that from one man, who was near to death, came children in number as the stars in heaven, or as the sand by the seaside, which may not be numbered.
Deuteronomy 1:10
The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.
1 Chronicles 27:23
But David did not take the number of those who were under twenty years old, for the Lord had said that he would make Israel like the stars of heaven in number.
Deuteronomy 10:22
Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.
Nehemiah 9:23
And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.
Romans 4:18
Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.
Deuteronomy 28:62
And you will become a very small band, though your numbers were like the stars of heaven; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.
1 Kings 3:8
And your servant has round him the people of your selection, a people so great that they may not be numbered, and no account of them may be given.
Nahum 3:16
Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:
2 Corinthians 12:2
I have knowledge of a man in Christ, fourteen years back (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only), who was taken up to the third heaven.
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Genesis 18:18
Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?
Galatians 3:14
So that on the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; in order that we through faith might have the Spirit which God had undertaken to give.
Ephesians 1:3
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:
Genesis 15:6
And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness.
Psalms 72:17
May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name.
Acts 3:25
You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.
Romans 3:31
Do we, then, through faith make the law of no effect? in no way: but we make it clear that the law is important.
Romans 4:7
Happy are those who have forgiveness for their wrongdoing, and whose sins are covered.
Romans 11:29
Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.
Galatians 3:6
Even as Abraham had faith in God, and it was put to his account as righteousness.
Hebrews 11:20
By faith Isaac, blessing Jacob and Esau, gave news of things to come.
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Joshua 11:4
And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a great people, in number like the sand on the seaside, with horses and war-carriages in great number.
1 Samuel 13:5
And the Philistines came together to make war on Israel, three thousand war-carriages and six thousand horsemen and an army of people like the sands of the sea in number: they came up and took up their position in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.
Judges 7:12
Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.
Genesis 41:49
So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured.
2 Samuel 17:11
But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them.
Job 29:18
Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;
Psalms 78:27
He sent down meat on them like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea,
Habakkuk 1:9
They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.
Jeremiah 15:8
I have let their widows be increased in number more than the sand of the seas: I have sent against them, against the mother and the young men, one who makes waste in the heat of the day, causing pain and fears to come on her suddenly.
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Genesis 26:24
That night the Lord came to him in a vision, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham: have no fear for I am with you, blessing you, and your seed will be increased because of my servant Abraham.
Genesis 17:4
As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.
Genesis 35:11
And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;
Genesis 35:12
And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you; and to your seed after you I will give the land.
Genesis 28:15
And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.
Exodus 1:7
And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.
Genesis 46:3
And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:
Genesis 28:3
And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples.
Genesis 28:4
And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.
Exodus 12:37
And the children of Israel made the journey from Rameses to Succoth; there were about six hundred thousand men on foot, as well as children.
Genesis 26:2
And the Lord came to him in a vision and said, Do not go down to Egypt; keep in the land of which I will give you knowledge:
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:
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Hebrews 6:13
For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself,
Hebrews 6:14
Saying, Be certain that I will give you my blessing, and make your numbers very great.
Hebrews 6:15
And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.
Hebrews 6:16
For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath.
Hebrews 6:17
So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;
Hebrews 6:18
So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;
Jeremiah 22:5
But if you do not give ear to these words, I give you my oath by myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a waste.
Isaiah 45:23
By myself have I taken an oath, a true word has gone from my mouth, and will not be changed, that to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give honour.
Jeremiah 49:13
For I have taken an oath by myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah will become a cause of wonder, a name of shame, a waste and a curse; and all its towns will be waste places for ever.
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Genesis 24:60
And they gave Rebekah their blessing, saying, O sister, may you be the mother of thousands and ten thousands; and may your seed overcome all those who make war against them.
Leviticus 26:9
And I will have pleasure in you and make you fertile and greater in number; and I will keep my agreement with you.
Deuteronomy 7:13
And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.
Genesis 49:25
Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body:
Deuteronomy 28:4
A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.
Psalms 107:38
He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.
Psalms 112:2
His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.
Psalms 115:14
May the Lord give you and your children still greater increase.
Psalms 128:3
Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.
Proverbs 20:7
An upright man goes on in his righteousness: happy are his children after him!
1 Timothy 4:8
For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.
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Genesis 22:19
Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.
Exodus 13:5
And it will be that, when the Lord takes you into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, the land which he made an oath to your fathers that he would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you will do this act of worship in this month.
Numbers 14:30
Not one will come into the land which I gave my word you would have for your resting-place, but only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun.
Deuteronomy 7:8
But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
Exodus 33:1
And the Lord said to Moses, Go forward from this place, you and the people whom you have taken up out of the land of Egypt, to that land about which I made an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, To your seed will I give it.
Numbers 11:12
Am I the father of all this people? have I given them birth, that you say to me, Take them in your arms, like a child at the breast, to the land which you gave by an oath to their fathers?
Numbers 14:16
Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.
Numbers 32:11
Truly, not one of the men of twenty years old and over who came out of Egypt will see the land which I gave by oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not been true to me with all their heart;
Deuteronomy 1:8
See, all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after them.
Deuteronomy 13:17
Keep not a thing of what is cursed for yourselves: so the Lord may be turned away from the heat of his wrath, and have mercy on you, and give you increase as he said in his oath to your fathers:
Jeremiah 11:5
So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.
Luke 1:74
That we, being made free from the fear of those who are against us, might give him worship,
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Genesis 22:11
But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
Genesis 22:12
And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.
Genesis 22:13
And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.
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Numbers 22:12
And God said to Balaam, You are not to go with them, or put a curse on this people, for they have my blessing.
Numbers 23:20
See, I have had orders to give blessing: and he has given a blessing which I have no power to take away.
Deuteronomy 33:29
Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, a people whose saviour is the Lord, whose help is your cover, whose sword is your strength! All those who are against you will put themselves under your rule, and your feet will be planted on their high places.
Psalms 144:15
Happy is the nation whose ways are so ordered: yes, happy is the nation whose God is the Lord.
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Hebrews 11:19
Judging that God was able to give life even to the dead; and because of this he did get him back as if from death.
Genesis 22:1
Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.
James 2:21
Was not the righteousness of Abraham our father judged by his works, when he made an offering of Isaac his son on the altar?
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Psalms 127:5
Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.
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Malachi 3:1
See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.
Genesis 48:16
The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth.
Exodus 3:2
And the angel of the Lord was seen by him in a flame of fire coming out of a thorn-tree: and he saw that the tree was on fire, but it was not burned up.
Exodus 23:20
See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your way and to be your guide into the place which I have made ready for you.
Exodus 23:21
Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him.
Isaiah 63:9
It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.
Hosea 12:3
In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God;
Acts 7:30
At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree.
Acts 7:31
And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,
Acts 7:32
I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses, shaking with fear, kept his eyes from looking at it.
Acts 7:34
Truly, I have seen the sorrows of my people in Egypt, and their cries have come to my ears, and I have come down to make them free: and now, come, I will send you to Egypt.
Acts 7:35
This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.
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Genesis 34:20
Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town,
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Deuteronomy 21:19
Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place;
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Amos 5:12
For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.
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Zechariah 8:16
These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.
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Hebrews 11:17
By faith Abraham made an offering of Isaac, when he was tested: and he with whom the agreement had been made gave up as an offering the only son of his body,
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