32 Bible Verses about The Number Twelve

and had walls great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels: and names written, which are the twelve tribes of Israel:

And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the Lamb's twelve apostles.

And they gathered it together: and filled twelve baskets with the broken meat of the five barley loaves, which broken meat remained unto them that had eaten.

The chief Captain took also the two pillars, the laver, and the twelve brazen bullocks that stood under the seat, which king Solomon made in the house of the LORD: and all the vessel contained so much metal, that it might not be weighed.

We be twelve brethren sons of our father, one is away, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.'

And thou shalt take fine flour and bake twelve wastels thereof, two tenth deals shall every wastel be.

And unto the sons of Merari were given by lot among their kindreds and out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river was there wood of life; which bare twelve manner of fruits, and gave fruit every month: and the leaves of the wood served to heal the people withal.

And the twelve golden spoons which were full of cense, contained ten sicles apiece of the holy sicle: so that all the gold of the spoons, was a hundred and twenty sicles.

Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walk in the day he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.

And the children of the captivity, which were come out of prison, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel: twelve bullocks for all Israel, six and ninety rams, seven and seventy lambs, twelve goats for a sin offering, all to the burnt offering of the LORD.

And now take you twelve men of the children of Israel, of every tribe a man.

So after twelve months, the king walked up and down in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon,

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision, and he begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

Then Moses wrote all the words of the LORD and rose up early and made an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars according to the number of the twelve tribes of Israel,

And as concerning Ishmael also, I have heard thy request: lo, I will bless him and increase him, and multiply him exceedingly. Twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make a great nation of him.

"Speak unto the children of Israel and take of them, for every principal house, a rod, of their princes over the houses of their fathers: even twelve rods, and write every man's name upon his rod.

Of this manner was the dedication of the altar, when it was anointed: unto the which was brought of the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, and twelve spoons of gold:

And it chanced, as Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and it came to Israel's ear. The sons of Jacob were twelve in number.

And they removed from Marah and went unto Elim where were twelve fountains and seventy palm trees and they pitched there.

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven. A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.

Then Ahithophel said unto Absalom, "Let me choose out, I pray thee, twelve thousand men. And I will up and follow after David by night.

that ye may eat, and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on seats, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel."

And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water and seventy date trees, and they pitched there by the water.

And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.

He cast two pillars of brass of eighteen cubits apiece high, and a string of twelve cubits might compass either of them about.

And Solomon had twelve general receivers over all Israel which sustained the king and his household: each man his month in a year.

And there stood twelve lions on the steps, six on a side. There was none like seen in any kingdom.

And Ahijah caught the new mantle that was on him and rent it in twelve pieces,

And he took twelve stones according to the number of the twelve tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came saying, "Israel shall be thy name."

Either thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my father, and he shall give me more than twelve legions of angels?

Jesus said unto them, "Verily I say to you, When the son of man shall sit in the seat of his majesty, ye which follow me in the second generation shall sit also upon twelve seats, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel.