10 Bible Verses about The Number Ninety

The children of Gibbar, ninety-five.

The children of Gibeon, ninety-five.

And those who had been prisoners, who had come back from a strange land, made burned offerings to the God of Israel, twelve oxen for all Israel, ninety-six male sheep, seventy-seven lambs, twelve he-goats for a sin-offering: all this was a burned offering to the Lord.

There were ninety-six apples on the outside; the number of apples all round the network was a hundred.

The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.

The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.

I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.

What would you say now? if a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone wandering away, will he not let the ninety-nine be, and go to the mountains in search of the wandering one?

And if he comes across it, truly I say to you, he has more joy over it than over the ninety-nine which have not gone out of the way.

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if one of them gets loose and goes away, will not let the ninety-nine be in the waste land by themselves, and go after the wandering one, till he sees where it is?