Genesis 13:16

The Lord's Third Promise To Abram

¹⁵ For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever. ¹⁶ And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered. ¹⁷ Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.

Dust of the Earth

Of The Earth

Genesis 28:14

Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

Numbers 23:10

Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his!

Genesis 15:5

And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

Genesis 22:17

That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;

Genesis 32:12

And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.

1 Kings 3:8

And your servant has round him the people of your selection, a people so great that they may not be numbered, and no account of them may be given.

Genesis 12:2-3

And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

Genesis 17:6

I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.

Genesis 17:16

And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.

Genesis 17:20

As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 18:18

Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?

Genesis 21:13

And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.

Genesis 25:1-34

And Abraham took another wife named Keturah.

Genesis 26:4

I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;

Genesis 28:3

And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples.

Genesis 35:11

And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;

Genesis 36:1-43

Now these are the generations of Esau, that is to say, Edom.

Genesis 46:3

And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:

Exodus 1:7

And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

Exodus 32:13

Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

Judges 6:3

And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

Judges 6:5

For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts.

1 Chronicles 21:5

And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David did not take the number of those who were under twenty years old, for the Lord had said that he would make Israel like the stars of heaven in number.

2 Chronicles 17:14-18

This is the number of them, listed by their families, the captains of thousands of Judah: Adnah, the captain, and with him three hundred thousand men of war;

Isaiah 48:18-19

If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

Jeremiah 33:22

As it is not possible for the army of heaven to be numbered, or the sand of the sea measured, so will I make the seed of my servant David, and the Levites my servants.

Romans 4:16-18

For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

Hebrews 11:12

So that from one man, who was near to death, came children in number as the stars in heaven, or as the sand by the seaside, which may not be numbered.

Revelation 7:9

After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands,