Genesis 13:16

The Lord's Third Promise To Abram

¹⁵ for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it and to thy seed for ever. ¹⁶ I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants can also be numbered. ¹⁷ Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it, for I must give it unto thee.

Dust of the Earth

Of The Earth

Genesis 28:14

and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt multiply to the west and to the east and to the Aquilon and to the Negev; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Numbers 23:10

Who shall count the dust of Jacob and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

Genesis 15:5

And he brought him forth abroad and said, Look now toward the heavens and count the stars, if thou art able to number them. And he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

Genesis 22:17

that in blessing I will bless thee and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies;

Genesis 32:12

And thou hast said, I will surely do thee good and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

1 Kings 3:8

And thy slave is in the midst of thy people whom thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

Genesis 12:2-3

and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.

Genesis 17:6

And I will multiply thee exceeding, and I will make Gentiles of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

Genesis 17:16

And I will bless her and give thee a son also of her; yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of Gentiles; kings of peoples shall be of her.

Genesis 17:20

And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I shall bless him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly; he shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 18:18

seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation and that all the Gentiles of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Genesis 21:13

And also of the son of the bondwoman I will make a nation because he is thy seed.

Genesis 25:1-34

Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

Genesis 26:4

and I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven and will give unto thy seed all these lands, and in thy seed shall all the Gentiles of the earth be blessed

Genesis 28:3

And may God Almighty bless thee and make thee fruitful and multiply thee that thou may be a congregation of peoples

Genesis 35:11

And God said unto him, I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply, a nation and a company of nations (Gentiles) shall come out of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

Genesis 36:1-43

Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.

Genesis 46:3

And he said, I am the God, the God of thy father; fear not to go down into Egypt; for there I will make of thee a great people.

Exodus 1:7

And the sons of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly and multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy slaves, to whom thou didst sware by thine own self and hast said unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall take it for inheritance for ever.

Deuteronomy 1:10

the LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Judges 6:3

For when those of Israel had sown, the Midianites would come up and the Amalekites and the sons of the east. They would come up against them

Judges 6:5

For they would come up with their livestock and their tents in a great multitude like locusts, for there was no number in them nor in their camels, and they would enter into the land destroying it.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.

1 Chronicles 21:5

And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And they found in all Israel eleven times one hundred thousand men that drew sword, and of Judah four hundred seventy thousand men that drew sword.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David did not number those twenty years old and under because the LORD had said he would multiply Israel like to the stars of the heavens.

2 Chronicles 17:14-18

And these are the numbers of them according to the houses of their fathers: In Judah, princes of thousands; the prince Adnah and with him three hundred thousand mighty men of valour;

Isaiah 48:18-19

O that thou would look unto my commandments! Then thy peace would be as a river and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

Jeremiah 33:22

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the seed of David my slave and the Levites that minister unto me.

Romans 4:16-18

Therefore by faith, that it might be by grace, to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore there sprang even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

Revelation 7:9

After this I saw, and, behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and peoples and tongues stood before the throne and before the Lamb clothed with long white robes and palms in their hands