Hebrews 11:12

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So in fact children were fathered by one man– and this one as good as dead– like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.

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  • Gen 22:17 : 17 I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.
  • Gen 32:12 : 12 But you said,‘I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’”
  • Hos 1:10 : 10 The Restoration of Israel(2:1) However, in the future the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea which can be neither measured nor numbered. Although it was said to them,“You are not my people,” it will be said to them,“You are children of the living God!”
  • Gen 15:5 : 5 The LORD took him outside and said,“Gaze into the sky and count the stars– if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him,“So will your descendants be.”
  • Isa 10:22 : 22 For though your people, Israel, are as numerous as the sand on the seashore, only a remnant will come back. Destruction has been decreed; just punishment is about to engulf you.
  • Isa 48:19 : 19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, and your children like its granules. Their name would not have been cut off and eliminated from my presence.
  • Jer 33:22 : 22 I will make the children who follow one another in the line of my servant David very numerous. I will also make the Levites who minister before me very numerous. I will make them all as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sands which are on the seashore.’”
  • Gen 26:4 : 4 I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.
  • Rom 9:27 : 27 And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel,“Though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved,
  • Rev 20:8 : 8 and will go out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to bring them together for the battle. They are as numerous as the grains of sand in the sea.
  • Exod 32:13 : 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them,‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about I will give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’”
  • Deut 1:10 : 10 The LORD your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.
  • Deut 28:62 : 62 There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, because you will have disobeyed the LORD your God.
  • Josh 11:4 : 4 These kings came out with their armies; they were as numerous as the sand on the seashore and had a large number of horses and chariots.
  • Judg 7:12 : 12 Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. Their camels could not be counted; they were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.
  • 1 Sam 12:5 : 5 He said to them,“The LORD is witness against you, and his chosen king is witness this day, that you have not found any reason to accuse me.” They said,“He is witness!”
  • 2 Sam 17:11 : 11 My advice therefore is this: Let all Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba– in number like the sand by the sea!– be mustered to you, and you lead them personally into battle.
  • 1 Kgs 4:20 : 20 Solomon’s Wealth and Fame The people of Judah and Israel were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore; they had plenty to eat and drink and were happy.
  • 1 Chr 27:23 : 23 David did not count the males twenty years old and under, for the LORD had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.
  • Neh 9:23 : 23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.
  • Rom 4:17-19 : 17 (as it is written,“I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed– the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do. 18 Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement,“so will your descendants be.” 19 Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead(because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

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  • Heb 11:11
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    11By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, he received the ability to procreate, because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.

  • Heb 11:17-19
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    17By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

    18God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”

    19and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

  • Gen 15:5
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    5The LORD took him outside and said,“Gaze into the sky and count the stars– if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him,“So will your descendants be.”

  • Rom 4:16-19
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    16For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants– not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

    17(as it is written,“I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed– the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.

    18Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement,“so will your descendants be.”

    19Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead(because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

  • Gen 22:17-18
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    17I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.

    18Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.’”

  • Heb 11:13
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    13These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.

  • Gen 13:16
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    16And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

  • Gen 32:12
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    12But you said,‘I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’”

  • Deut 1:10-11
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    10The LORD your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.

    11Indeed, may the LORD, the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you just as he said he would!

  • Rom 9:9-10
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    9For this is what the promise declared:“About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”

    10Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac–

  • Gen 16:10
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    10I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the LORD’s angel added,“so that they will be too numerous to count.”

  • Gen 26:4
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    4I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.

  • Heb 11:8-9
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    8By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.

    9By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.

  • Heb 6:13-14
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    13Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

    14saying,“Surely I will bless you greatly and multiply your descendants abundantly.”

  • Deut 10:22
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    22When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.

  • Gal 3:16
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    16Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. Scripture does not say,“and to the descendants,” referring to many, but“and to your descendant,” referring to one, who is Christ.

  • Gen 35:11
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    11Then God said to him,“I am the Sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation– even a company of nations– will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!

  • Hos 1:10
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  • Gen 28:14
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    14Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. And so all the families of the earth may receive blessings through you and through your descendants.

  • Rom 9:7
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    7nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather“through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”

  • Heb 11:39
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    39And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.

  • Neh 9:23
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    23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.

  • Gen 17:2
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    2Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.”

  • Gen 17:6
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    6I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

  • Gal 4:27-28
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    27For it is written:“Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains, because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband.”

    28But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.

  • Exod 1:7
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    7The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.

  • Ps 105:12
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    12When they were few in number, just a very few, and resident foreigners within it,

  • Gen 28:3
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    3May the Sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.

  • 1 Chr 1:34
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    34Isaac’s Descendants Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac:Esau and Israel.

  • Mark 12:20
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    20There were seven brothers. The first one married, and when he died he had no children.

  • Gen 18:18
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    18After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth may receive blessing through him.

  • Gal 3:7
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    7so then, understand that those who believe are the sons of Abraham.

  • Gen 17:20
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    20As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes; I will make him into a great nation.