35 Bible Verses about Twelve Beings

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.

Around the throne were twenty-four elders sitting on thrones. They were dressed in white with crowns of gold on their heads.

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.

These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages, and by their camps: twelve leaders according to their tribes.

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

They said: Sir, we were twelve brothers in all, sons of the same man in the land of Canaan. One brother is dead, and the youngest is now with our father.

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

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, Aaron, and the twelve leaders of Israel, each representing his own family, added up these totals.

Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to rule. He ruled for sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother was Jerushah, daughter of Zadok.

Twelve of Ishbosheth's men from the tribe of Benjamin got up to fight twelve of David's men.

I put on one side twelve of the chiefs of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,

Amaziah asked the man of God: What should I do about the seven thousand and five hundred pounds of silver I gave the troops from Israel? The man of God answered: Jehovah can give you much more than that.

Amaziah dismissed the troops that had come to him from Ephraim. They became furious with Judah and returned home.

Amaziah courageously led his troops. When he came to the Dead Sea region, he killed ten thousand men from Seir.

The Judeans captured another ten thousand alive. They took them to the top of a cliff, and threw them off the top of the cliff so that they were dismembered.

The troops that Amaziah sent back so that they couldn't go with him into battle raided the towns in Judah from Samaria to Beth Horon. They killed three thousand people and took a lot of goods.

After Amaziah came back from defeating the Edomites, he brought the gods of the people of Seir, set them up as his gods, bowed down to them, and burned sacrifices to them.

Jehovah became angry with Amaziah. He sent him a prophet who asked: Why do you dedicate your life to serving the gods of those people? Those gods could not save their own people from you!

The king asked him: Did we make you an adviser to the king? Stop! Do you want me to have you killed? The prophet stopped. He said: I know that God has decided to destroy you because you did this. Yet you refuse to listen to my advice.

After receiving counsel from his advisers, King Amaziah of Judah sent messengers to King Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz and grandson of Jehu of Israel, to declare war on Israel.

King Jehoash of Israel sent this message to King Amaziah of Judah: A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon. It said: 'Let your daughter marry my son, but a wild animal from Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle.

You say you defeated Edom. Now you have become arrogant enough to look for more fame. Stay home! Why must you invite disaster and your own defeat and take Judah with you?'

But Amaziah would not listen. God made this happen because he wanted to hand over the Judeans to Jehoash because they had sought help from Edom's gods.

Thus King Jehoash of Israel attacked. King Amaziah of Judah met him in battle at Beth Shemesh in Judah.

Israel defeated the army of Judah. The Judeans fled to their homes.

King Jehoash of Israel captured King Amaziah, son of Joash and grandson of Ahaziah of Judah, at Beth Shemesh and brought him to Jerusalem. He tore down a six hundred foot section of the wall around Jerusalem from Ephraim Gate to Corner Gate.

He took all the gold, silver, and all the utensils he found in God's temple with Obed Edom and in the royal palace treasury. He also took hostages. Then he returned to Samaria.

Joash's son King Amaziah of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoahaz's son King Jehoash of Israel.

Everything else about Amaziah, from beginning to end, is written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

Amaziah turned away from Jehovah. So conspirators in Jerusalem plotted against him. Amaziah fled to Lachish, but they sent men to Lachish after him and killed him there.

They brought him back by horse and buried him in the city of Judah with his ancestors.

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.

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:

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