1 Samuel 13:5
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5 And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops (A)like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of (B)Beth-aven.
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1 Samuel 14:23
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23 (A)So the Lord saved Israel that day. And the battle passed beyond (B)Beth-aven.
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Joshua 11:4
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4 And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number (A)like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.
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Joshua 18:12
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12 (A)On the north side their boundary began at the Jordan. (B)Then the boundary goes up to the shoulder north of Jericho, then up through the hill country westward, and it ends at the wilderness of (C)Beth-aven.
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Hosea 10:5
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5 The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
for (A)the calf[a] of (B)Beth-aven.
Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests—
those who rejoiced over it and (C)over its glory—
for it has departed[b] from them.
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- Hosea 10:5 Or calves
- Hosea 10:5 Or has gone into exile
Jeremiah 15:8
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8 I have made their widows more in number
than (A)the sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of young men
a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
fall upon them suddenly.
Isaiah 48:19
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19 (A)your offspring would have been like the sand,
and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut off
or destroyed from before me.”
2 Chronicles 1:9
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9 O Lord God, (A)let your word to David my father be now fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous (B)as the dust of the earth.
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Judges 7:12
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12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and (A)all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, (B)as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.
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Joshua 7:2
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2 Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near (A)Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai.
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Genesis 22:17
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17 I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring (A)as the stars of heaven and (B)as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess (C)the gate of his[a] enemies,
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- Genesis 22:17 Or their
Romans 9:27
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27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: (A)“Though the number of the sons of Israel[a] be as the sand of the sea, (B)only a remnant of them will be saved,
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- Romans 9:27 Or children of Israel
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