1 Samuel 13:5
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5 Then the Philistines gathered together to fight with Israel, [a]thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people (A)as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. And they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of (B)Beth Aven.
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- 1 Samuel 13:5 So with MT, LXX, Tg., Vg.; Syr. and some mss. of LXX three thousand
1 Samuel 14:23
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23 (A)So the Lord saved Israel that day, and the battle shifted (B)to Beth Aven.
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Joshua 11:4
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4 So they went out, they and all their armies with them, as many people (A)as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.
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Joshua 18:12
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12 (A)Their border on the north side began at the Jordan, and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the mountains westward; it ended at the Wilderness of Beth Aven.
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Hosea 10:5
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5 The inhabitants of Samaria fear
Because of the (A)calf[a] of Beth Aven.
For its people mourn for it,
And [b]its priests shriek for it—
Because its (B)glory has departed from it.
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- Hosea 10:5 Lit. calves, images
- Hosea 10:5 idolatrous priests
Hosea 5:8
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8 “Blow(A) the ram’s horn in Gibeah,
The trumpet in Ramah!
(B)Cry aloud at (C)Beth Aven,
‘Look behind you, O Benjamin!’
Hosea 4:15
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15 “Though you, Israel, play the harlot,
Let not Judah offend.
(A)Do not come up to Gilgal,
Nor go up to (B)Beth[a] Aven,
(C)Nor swear an oath, saying, ‘As the Lord lives’—
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- Hosea 4:15 Lit. House of Idolatry or Wickedness
Jeremiah 15:8
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8 Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas;
I will bring against them,
Against the mother of the young men,
A plunderer at noonday;
I will cause anguish and terror to fall on them (A)suddenly.
Isaiah 48:19
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19 (A)Your descendants also would have been like the sand,
And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand;
His name would not have been cut off
Nor destroyed from before Me.”
2 Chronicles 1:9
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9 Now, O Lord God, let Your promise to David my father be established, (A)for You have made me king over a people like the (B)dust of the earth in multitude.
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Judges 7:12
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12 Now the Midianites and Amalekites, (A)all the people of the East, were lying in the valley (B)as numerous as locusts; and their camels were [a]without number, as the sand by the seashore in multitude.
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- Judges 7:12 innumerable
Joshua 7:2
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2 Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the country.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.
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Genesis 22:17
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17 blessing I will (A)bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants (B)as the stars of the heaven (C)and as the sand which is on the seashore; and (D)your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
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Romans 9:27
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27 Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel:
(A)“Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea,
(B)The remnant will be saved.
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