Hebrews 11:12
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12 Therefore from one man, and (A)him as good as dead, were born descendants (B)as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
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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
Genesis 32:12
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12 But (A)you said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”
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Hosea 1:10
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10 [a] Yet (A)the number of the children of Israel shall be (B)like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. (C)And (D)in the place where it was said to them, (E)“You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, (F)“Children[b] of (G)the living God.”
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- Hosea 1:10 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew
- Hosea 1:10 Or Sons
Genesis 15:5
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5 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and (A)number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, (B)“So shall your offspring be.”
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Jeremiah 33:22
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22 As (A)the host of heaven cannot be numbered and (B)the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.”
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Romans 4:17-19
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17 as it is written, (A)“I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, (B)who gives life to the dead and calls into existence (C)the things that do not exist. 18 In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, (D)“So shall your offspring be.” 19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was (E)as good as dead ((F)since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered (G)the barrenness[a] of Sarah's womb.
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- Romans 4:19 Greek deadness
Isaiah 10:22
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22 (A)For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, (B)only a remnant of them will return. (C)Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
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Genesis 26:4
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4 (A)I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And (B)in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
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Revelation 20:8
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8 and will come out (A)to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, (B)Gog and Magog, (C)to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.
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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
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.”
Nehemiah 9:23
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23 You multiplied their children (A)as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess.
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1 Chronicles 27:23
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23 David did not count those below twenty years of age, for the (A)Lord had promised to make Israel as many as the stars of heaven.
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1 Kings 4:20
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Solomon's Wealth and Wisdom
20 Judah and Israel were as many (A)as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy.
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2 Samuel 17:11
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11 But my counsel is that all Israel be gathered to you, (A)from Dan to Beersheba, (B)as the sand by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.
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1 Samuel 12:5
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5 And he said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and (A)his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything (B)in my hand.” And they said, “He is witness.”
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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 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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Deuteronomy 28:62
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62 Whereas (A)you were as numerous (B)as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God.
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Deuteronomy 1:10
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10 The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, (A)you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven.
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Exodus 32:13
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13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you (A)swore by your own self, and said to them, (B)‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”
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Habakkuk 1:9
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