17 Bible Verses about People Multiplying

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Genesis 22:17

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.

Proverbs 29:2

When the righteous increase, the people rejoice,
But when a wicked man rules, people groan.

Genesis 6:1

Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,

Jeremiah 23:3

“Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and bring them back to their pasture, and they will be fruitful and multiply.

Exodus 1:12

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out, so that they were in dread of the sons of Israel.

Jeremiah 3:16

It shall be in those days when you are multiplied and increased in the land,” declares the Lord, “they will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the Lord.’ And it will not come to mind, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will it be made again.

Genesis 47:27

Now Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in Goshen, and they acquired property in it and were fruitful and became very numerous.

Exodus 1:7

But the sons of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly, and multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty, so that the land was filled with them.

Exodus 1:20

So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied, and became very mighty.

Deuteronomy 26:5

You shall answer and say before the Lord your God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation.

Acts 7:17

“But as the time of the promise was approaching which God had assured to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

1 Chronicles 4:38

these mentioned by name were leaders in their families; and their fathers’ houses increased greatly.

Ezekiel 36:11

I will multiply on you man and beast; and they will increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as you were formerly and will treat you better than at the first. Thus you will know that I am the Lord.

2 Samuel 15:12

And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.

Hosea 4:7

The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me;
I will change their glory into shame.

Nahum 3:16

You have increased your traders more than the stars of heaven—
The creeping locust strips and flies away.

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