25 Bible Verses about Many In Israel

The descendants of Jacob are like specks of dust. Who can count them or number even one-fourth of the people of Israel? Let me die the death of innocent people. Let my end be like theirs.'

And when it stopped, he would say: RETURN, O JEHOVAH, to the countless thousands of Israel!

Pharaoh added: Look how many people there are in the land! Do you want them to quit working?

The Moabites were very afraid because there were so many Israelites. Also, the Moabites did not like these people.

Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying: You are a great people. You have great power. You will not have only one lot.

I heard the number of those who were sealed. There were sealed a hundred and forty-four thousand from all the tribes of the children of Israel.

I will increase the descendants of my servant David and the Levites who serve me in the same way as the stars of heaven that cannot be counted and the sand on the seashore that cannot be measured.'

Son of man, those who live in the ruined cities in Israel are saying: 'Abraham was only one person, and he was given the land. But we are many. Certainly the land has been given to us.'

He said to his people: There are too many Israelites! They are stronger than we are.

My advice is to gather all Israel's troops from Dan to Beersheba. They are as numerous as the sand on the seashore. Lead them into battle yourself.

The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore. They ate and drank and were very happy.

I am among the people you have chosen to be your own. They are a people who are so many that they cannot be counted.

I will whistle for them, and gather them. I have redeemed them and they will increase the same as they have increased.

He said to him: Run and speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, by reason of the multitude of men and cattle there.

Give more land to larger tribes and less land to smaller ones. Use the totals from the census in giving land to each tribe.

Divide the land among your families by drawing lots. Give more land to larger families and less land to smaller ones. The land must be given to each family by drawing lots. Divide it among your ancestors' tribes.

The cities you give the Levites from the property of the other Israelites must be given based on the amount of land each tribe owns. Take more cities from larger tribes and fewer from smaller tribes.

Do not let his men be few.

The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying: Why have you given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as Jehovah has blessed us abundantly. Joshua answered: If you are a great people, then get to the wood country, and cut down for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim is too narrow for you.

Jehovah set his heart on you. He chose you, even though you did not outnumber all the other people. You were the smallest of all nations.

Your people, O Israel, are like the sand of the sea. Yet only a remnant within them will return. Overwhelming and righteous destruction has been decreed.

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: Should the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved.

There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. Only one of them was cleansed, Naaman the Syrian.

I tell you truth. There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah. There was no rain from heaven three years and six months. There came a great famine over all the land.

Their widows will be more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashore. At noontime I will send a destroyer against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring anguish and terror to them.