Psalm 115:14

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Summary

Psalm 115:14

The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

Lord

You

General references

Numbers 26:22

2 Samuel 24:3

Bible References

Lord

I'll make your descendants as plentiful as the specks of dust of the earth, so that if one could count the specks of dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be counted.

But Joab replied, "May the LORD your God increase the population of the people a hundredfold while your majesty the king is still alive to see it happen! But why does your majesty the king want to do this?"

"It will come about in the last days that the mountain that is the LORD's Temple will be established as the highest of mountains, and will be raised above the hills; all the nations will stream to it.

In times to come, Jacob will take root, and Israel will blossom, sprout shoots, and fill the whole world with fruit.

It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of the Heavenly Armies in the land of Egypt; when they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior, and he will come down and rescue them.

This is what the Lord GOD says, the one who gathers the outcasts of Israel: "I'll gather still others to them besides those already gathered.

"Lift up your eyes and look around: They all gather together, they come to you; your sons will come from far away, and your daughters will be carried on the hip."

Thanksgiving and the sounds of laughter will come out of them. I'll cause them to increase in numbers and not decrease. I'll honor them and not make them insignificant.

As the heavenly bodies cannot be counted, and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I'll multiply the descendants of my servant David and the descendants of Levi who serve me.'"

Despite this, the number of the people of Israel will be like ocean sand, which can neither be measured nor counted. And the time will come when instead of it being said, "You are not my people,' it will be said, "You are children of the living God.'

"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "In the future, people will come, including residents of many cities,

I will whistle for them, gathering them together, because I have redeemed them, and they will multiply as they were before.

I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000. Those who were sealed were from every tribe of Israel:

You

I'm establishing my covenant between me and you, and with your descendants who come after you, generation after generation, as an eternal covenant, to be your God and your descendants' God after you.

They'll be my people, and I'll be their God.

For this promise belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those who are distant, whom the Lord our God may call to himself."

You are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the covenant that God made with your ancestors when he told Abraham, "Through your descendant all the families of the earth will be blessed.'

General references

These families of Judah numbered 76,500.