Hebrews 11:12 Cross References

Hebrews 11:12

12: And so a whole nation came from this one man, Abraham, who was too old to have any children--a nation with so many people that, like the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore, there is no way to count them.

Genesis 22:17

  1. I will bless you richly. I will multiply your descendants into countless millions, like the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. They will conquer their enemies,

Genesis 32:12

  1. But you promised to treat me kindly and to multiply my descendants until they become as numerous as the sands along the seashore--too many to count."

Hosea 1:10

  1. Yet the time will come when Israel will prosper and become a great nation. In that day its people will be like the sands of the seashore--too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, `You are not my people,' it will be said, `You are children of the living God.'

Genesis 15:5

  1. Then the LORD brought Abram outside beneath the night sky and told him, "Look up into the heavens and count the stars if you can. Your descendants will be like that--too many to count!"

Jeremiah 33:22

  1. And as the stars cannot be counted and the sand on the seashores cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David, my servant, and the Levites who minister before me."

Genesis 26:4

  1. I will cause your descendants to become as numerous as the stars, and I will give them all these lands. And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

Romans 4:17

  1. That is what the Scriptures mean when God told him, "I have made you the father of many nations." This happened because Abraham believed in the God who brings the dead back to life and who brings into existence what didn't exist before.
  2. When God promised Abraham that he would become the father of many nations, Abraham believed him. God had also said, "Your descendants will be as numerous as the stars," even though such a promise seemed utterly impossible!
  3. And Abraham's faith did not weaken, even though he knew that he was too old to be a father at the age of one hundred and that Sarah, his wife, had never been able to have children.

Isaiah 10:22

  1. But though the people of Israel are as numerous as the sand on the seashore, only a few of them will return at that time. The LORD has rightly decided to destroy his people.

Romans 9:27

  1. Concerning Israel, Isaiah the prophet cried out, "Though the people of Israel are as numerous as the sand on the seashore, only a small number will be saved.

Isaiah 48:19

  1. Then you would have become as numerous as the sands along the seashore--too many to count! There would have been no need for your destruction."

Joshua 11:4

  1. All these kings responded by mobilizing their warriors and uniting to fight against Israel. Their combined armies, along with a vast array of horses and chariots, covered the landscape like the sand on the seashore.

1 Samuel 12:5

  1. "The LORD and his anointed one are my witnesses," Samuel declared, "that you can never accuse me of robbing you.Yes, it is true," they replied.

Revelation 20:8

  1. He will go out to deceive the nations from every corner of the earth, which are called Gog and Magog. He will gather them together for battle--a mighty host, as numberless as sand along the shore.

1 Kings 4:20

  1. The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They were very contented, with plenty to eat and drink.

Judges 7:12

  1. The armies of Midian, Amalek, and the people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts. Their camels were like grains of sand on the seashore--too many to count!

1 Chronicles 27:23

  1. When David took his census, he did not count those who were younger than twenty years of age, because the LORD had promised to make the Israelites as numerous as the stars in heaven.

Deuteronomy 1:10

  1. The LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars!

Deuteronomy 28:62

  1. Though you are as numerous as the stars in the sky, few of you will be left because you would not listen to the LORD your God.

2 Samuel 17:11

  1. "I suggest that you mobilize the entire army of Israel, bringing them from as far away as Dan and Beersheba. That way you will have an army as numerous as the sand on the seashore. And I think that you should personally lead the troops.

Nehemiah 9:23

  1. You made their descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and brought them into the land you had promised to their ancestors.

Exodus 32:13

  1. Remember your covenant with your servants--Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You swore by your own self, `I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven. Yes, I will give them all of this land that I have promised to your descendants, and they will possess it forever.'"

Habakkuk 1:9

  1. "On they come, all of them bent on violence. Their hordes advance like a wind from the desert, sweeping captives ahead of them like sand.
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