32 Bible Verses about The Number Twelve

The city had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written on each gate, the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

They gathered twelve baskets of leftovers after everyone had eaten.

The copper from the two pillars, the pool, and the twelve copper bulls under the stands that King Solomon had made for Jehovah's Temple could not be weighed.

We were twelve brothers, sons of the same father. One is no longer with us. The youngest brother stayed with our father in Canaan.

Take flour and bake twelve rings of bread. Each ring will contain four quarts of flour.

The descendants of Merari, clan by clan, were allotted twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad and Zebulun.

This was in the middle of the street of the city. The tree of life was on each side of the river. It produced twelve kinds of fruit and yielded the fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

The twelve gold dishes filled with incense weighed four ounces each using the standard weight of the holy place. Together all the gold dishes weighed about three pounds.

Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walks in the day he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world.

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 Jehovah.

Take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel.

At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.

He gave him the covenant of circumcision. Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became father to Jacob and Jacob fathered the twelve family heads.

Moses wrote down all Jehovah's words. Early the next morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain. He erected twelve sacred stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Concerning Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him. I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

Speak to the Israelites and get twelve staffs from them. Get one from the leader of each of their tribes. Write each man's name on his staff.

These were the gifts from the leaders of Israel for the dedication of the altar when it was anointed: twelve silver plates, twelve silver bowls, and twelve gold dishes.

While Israel lived in that region, Reuben went to bed with his father's concubine Bilhah. Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons.

From there they went to Elim, where they camped. There were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees there.

A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head was a crown with twelve stars.

Later Ahithophel said to Absalom: Let me choose twelve thousand men. Tonight I will set out after David.

Just as you eat and drink at my table in my kingdom; you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Then they went to Elim. There were twelve springs and seventy palm trees. They camped there by the water.

When he was twelve years old they went to the feast of the Passover, as was their custom.

Huram cast two copper columns. Each one was twenty-seven feet tall and eighteen feet in circumference. They were placed at the entrance of the Temple.

Solomon appointed twelve men as district governors in Israel. They provided food from their districts for the king and his household, each man being responsible for one month out of the year.

Twelve lions were placed on one side and on the other side on the six steps: there was nothing like it in any kingdom.

Ahijah took his new robe in his hands and tore it into twelve pieces.

Elijah took twelve stones, the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom Jehovah said: Israel will be your name.

Do you think I cannot ask my Father for help? He would send me more than twelve legions of angels.

Jesus replied: Truly I say to you, when all things are made new, and the Son of man is seated in his glory, you who have come after me will be seated on twelve seats, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.