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.
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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.
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Genesis 8:7
Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.
Genesis 8:9
But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.
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 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.
Exodus 1:12
But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.
Deuteronomy 26:5
And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:
Psalms 105:24
And his people were greatly increased, and became stronger than those who were against them.
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,
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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 12:7
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 13:15
For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.
Genesis 13:17
Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.
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 17:2
And I will make an agreement between you and me, and your offspring will be greatly increased.
Genesis 17:4
As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.
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 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 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 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 48:4
And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever.
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Exodus 15:19
For the horses of Pharaoh, with his war-carriages and his horsemen, went into the sea, and the Lord sent the waters of the sea back over them; but the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land.
Psalms 136:17
To him who overcame great kings: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
Psalms 136:18
And put noble kings to death: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
Psalms 136:19
Sihon, king of the Amorites: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
Psalms 136:20
And Og, king of Bashan: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
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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.
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!
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.
Deuteronomy 28:11
And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.
Jeremiah 30:19
And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.
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.
Romans 4:17
(As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations) before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were.
Hebrews 6:14
Saying, Be certain that I will give you my blessing, and make your numbers very great.
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Numbers 2:32
These are all who were numbered of the children of Israel, in the order of their fathers' families: all the armies in their tents together came to six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.
Job 12:9
Who does not see by all these that the hand of the Lord has done this?
Job 12:10
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.
Job 12:14
Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.
Job 12:20
He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;
Job 12:21
He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong;
Job 12:22
Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;
Job 12:23
Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then giving them up.
Psalms 77:20
You were guiding your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
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Numbers 14:23
They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.
Numbers 26:64
But among all these was not one of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the waste land of Sinai.
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 1:35
Truly, not one of this evil generation will see that good land which I said I would give to your fathers,
Deuteronomy 1:36
But only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he will see it; and to him and to his children I will give the land over which his feet have gone, because he has been true to the Lord with all his heart.
Deuteronomy 1:37
And, in addition, the Lord was angry with me because of you, saying, You yourself will not go into it:
Deuteronomy 1:38
Joshua, the son of Nun, your servant, he will go into the land: say to him that he is to be strong, for he will be Israel's guide into their heritage.
Deuteronomy 1:39
And your little ones, who, you said, would come into strange hands, your children, who now have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go into that land, and to them I will give it and it will be theirs.
Deuteronomy 1:40
But as for you, go back, journeying into the waste land by the way of the Red Sea.
Deuteronomy 1:41
Then you said to me, We have done evil against the Lord, we will go up to the attack, as the Lord our God has given us orders. And arming yourselves every one, you made ready to go up without care into the hill-country.
Deuteronomy 1:44
And the Amorites who were in the hill-country came out against you and put you to flight, rushing after you like bees, and overcame you in Seir, driving you even as far as Hormah.
Ezekiel 20:15
And further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land, that I would not take them into the land which I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands;
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Numbers 26:62
Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month old and over, were numbered: they were not numbered with the rest of the children of Israel, for they had no heritage among the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 1:42
And the Lord said to me, Say to them, Do not go up to the attack; for I am not among you, and you will be overcome by those who are against you.
Deuteronomy 1:43
This I said to you, but you gave no attention and went against the orders of the Lord, and in your pride went up into the hill-country.
Deuteronomy 1:45
And you came back, weeping before the Lord; but the Lord gave no attention to your cries and did not give ear to you.
Psalms 95:11
And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.
Psalms 106:26
So he made an oath against them, to put an end to them in the waste land:
Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?
Hebrews 3:18
And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders?
Hebrews 4:3
For those of us who have belief come into his rest; even as he has said, As I said in my oath when I was angry, They may not come into my rest: though the works were done from the time of the making of the world.
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Joshua 11:18
For a long time Joshua made war on all those kings.
Joshua 11:19
Not one town made peace with the children of Israel, but only the Hivites of Gibeon: they took them all in war.
Joshua 11:20
For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
Joshua 11:21
And Joshua came at that time and put an end to the Anakim in the hill-country, in Hebron, in Debir, in Anab, and in all the hill-country of Judah and Israel: Joshua gave them and their towns to the curse.
Joshua 11:22
Not one of the Anakim was to be seen in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, some were still living.
Psalms 135:8
He put to death the first-fruits of Egypt, of man and of beast.
Psalms 135:9
He sent signs and wonders among you, O Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants.
Habakkuk 3:6
From his high place he sent shaking on the earth; he saw and nations were suddenly moved: and the eternal mountains were broken, the unchanging hills were bent down; his ways are eternal.
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Exodus 23:28
I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and the Hittite before your face.
Exodus 23:29
I will not send them all out in one year, for fear that their land may become waste, and the beasts of the field be increased overmuch against you.
Exodus 23:30
Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land.
Exodus 34:11
Take care to do the orders which I give you today; I will send out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
Deuteronomy 4:27
And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.
Deuteronomy 7:1
When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;
Joshua 23:13
Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
Joshua 23:15
And you will see that, as all the good things which the Lord your God undertook to do for you, have come to you, so the Lord will send down on you all the evil things till he has made your destruction complete, and you are cut off from the good land which the Lord your God has given you.
Joshua 24:8
And I took you into the lands of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan; and they made war on you, and I gave them into your hands and you took their land; and I sent destruction on them before you.
Joshua 24:12
And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow.
Joshua 24:13
And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.
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Judges 5:20
The stars from heaven were fighting; from their highways they were fighting against Sisera.
Isaiah 13:10
For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.
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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2 Samuel 12:7
And Nathan said to David, You are that man. The Lord God of Israel says, I made you king over Israel, putting holy oil on you, and I kept you safe from the hands of Saul;
2 Samuel 12:8
I gave you your master's daughter and your master's wives for yourself, and I gave you the daughters of Israel and Judah; and if that had not been enough, I would have given you such and such things.
2 Samuel 12:9
Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.
2 Chronicles 31:10
And Azariah, the chief priest, of the family of Zadok, said in answer, From the time when the people first came with their offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had food enough, and more than enough: for the blessing of the Lord is on his people; and there is this great store which has not been used.
Jeremiah 2:5
These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?
Jeremiah 2:6
And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?
Jeremiah 2:31
O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?
Hosea 2:7
And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.
Hosea 2:8
For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.
Malachi 3:9
You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation.
Malachi 3:10
Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.
Malachi 3:11
And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies
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Nehemiah 9:1
Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting haircloth and dust on their bodies.
Nehemiah 9:28
But when they had rest, they did evil again before you: so you gave them into the hands of their haters, who had rule over them: but when they came back and made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; again and again, in your mercy, you gave them salvation;
Nehemiah 9:29
And gave witness against them so that you might make them come back again to your law: but their hearts were lifted up, and they gave no attention to your orders and went against your decisions (which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him), and turning their backs on you, made their necks stiff and did not give ear.
Nehemiah 9:30
Year after year you put up with them, and gave witness against them by your spirit through your prophets: still they did not give ear: and so you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.
Psalms 106:43
Again and again he made them free; but their hearts were turned against his purpose, and they were overcome by their sins.
Psalms 106:44
But when their cry came to his ears, he had pity on their trouble:
Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
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Nehemiah 13:6
But all this time I was not at Jerusalem: for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes, king of Babylon, I went to the king; and after some days, I got the king to let me go,
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Psalms 80:10
The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.
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Psalms 80:11
It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.
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Joshua 1:1
Now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the word of the Lord came to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' helper, saying,
Joshua 1:2
Moses my servant is dead; so now get up! Go over Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, to the children of Israel.
Joshua 1:3
Every place on which you put your foot I have given to you, as I said to Moses.
Psalms 78:54
And he was their guide to his holy land, even to the mountain, which his right hand had made his;
Psalms 105:45
So that they might keep his orders, and be true to his laws. Give praise to the Lord.
Jeremiah 32:23
And they came in and took it for their heritage, but they did not give ear to your voice, and were not ruled by your law; they have done nothing of all you gave them orders to do: so you have made all this evil come on them:
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Leviticus 26:23
And if by these things you will not be turned to me, but still go against me;
Leviticus 26:24
Then I will go against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for all your sins.
Leviticus 26:25
And I will send a sword on you to give effect to the punishment of my agreement; and when you come together into your towns I will send disease among you and you will be given up into the hands of your haters.
Judges 2:11
And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals;
Judges 2:19
But whenever the judge was dead, they went back and did more evil than their fathers, going after other gods, to be their servants and their worshippers; giving up nothing of their sins and their hard-hearted ways.
Judges 2:20
And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he said, Because this nation has not been true to my agreement which I made with their fathers, and has not given ear to my voice;
Judges 3:7
And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.
Judges 3:12
Then the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord made Eglon, king of Moab, strong against Israel, because they had done evil in the Lord's eyes.
Judges 4:1
And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord when Ehud was dead.
Judges 6:1
And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them up into the hand of Midian for seven years.
Judges 10:6
And again the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, worshipping the Baals and Astartes, and the gods of Aram and the gods of Zidon and the gods of Moab and the gods of the children of Ammon and the gods of the Philistines; they gave up the Lord and were servants to him no longer.
Psalms 106:45
And kept in mind his agreement with them, and in his great mercy gave them forgiveness.
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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:
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Jeremiah 32:10
And I put it in writing, stamping it with my stamp, and I took witnesses and put the money into the scales.
Jeremiah 32:11
So I took the paper witnessing the business, one copy rolled up and stamped, and one copy open:
Jeremiah 32:12
And I gave the paper to Baruch, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, before the eyes of Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, and of the witnesses who had put their names to the paper, and before all the Jews who were seated in the place of the armed watchmen.
Jeremiah 32:13
And I gave orders to Baruch in front of them, saying,
Jeremiah 32:14
This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take these papers, the witness of this business, the one which is rolled up and stamped, and the one which is open; and put them in a vessel of earth so that they may be kept for a long time.
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Joshua 23:3
You have seen everything the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is the Lord your God who has been fighting for you.
Psalms 78:56
But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;
Psalms 78:57
Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.
Psalms 78:58
They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.
Ezekiel 20:28
For when I had taken them into the land which I made an oath to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every branching tree and made their offerings there, moving me to wrath by their offerings; and there the sweet smell of their offerings went up and their drink offerings were drained out.
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Isaiah 49:20
The children to whom you gave birth in other lands will say in your ears, The place is not wide enough for me: make room for me to have a resting-place.
Isaiah 49:21
Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?
Isaiah 49:22
This is the word of the Lord God: See, I will make a sign with my hand to the nations, and put up my flag for the peoples; and they will take up your sons on their beasts, and your daughters on their backs.
Hosea 4:7
Even while they were increasing in number they were sinning against me; I will let their glory be changed into shame.
Zechariah 2:11
And a number of nations will be joined to the Lord in that day, and will become my people; and I will be living among you, and you will see that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.
Zechariah 8:23
This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.
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