Genesis 26:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

Multiply

Seed shall

Galatians 3:8

General references

Bible References

Multiply

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.

And He took him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

“As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you,
And you will be the father of a multitude of nations.

since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?

indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

For by it the men of old

gained approval.

Seed shall

And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so

you shall be a blessing;

In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

May his name endure forever;
May his name increase

as long as the sun shines;

And let men bless themselves by him;

Let all nations call him blessed.

It is you who are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.”

General references

God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so

you shall be a blessing;

for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever.

So the Lord gave Israel all the land which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they possessed it and lived in it.

You will give

truth to Jacob

And unchanging love to Abraham,
Which You swore to our forefathers
From the days of old.

As He spoke to our fathers,

To Abraham and his descendants forever.”