11 Bible Verses about The Number Twelve

It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel.

And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, left over by those who had eaten.

through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars;

so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

And when he was twelve years old, they went up to the Feast, according to the custom.

Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?

Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.