Genesis 22:17

I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.

Cross References (29)

  • Genesis 15:5 (14)

    And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him

  • Genesis 26:4 (13)

    I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your

  • Genesis 24:60 (13)

    And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your o

  • Jeremiah 33:22 (13)

    As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the

  • Psalms 72:8–9 (12)

    May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.

  • Numbers 24:17–19 (12)

    I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come forth from Jacob, and a scepter will arise from Isr

  • Psalms 2:8–9 (12)

    Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.

  • Genesis 13:16 (11)

    I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offsp

  • Revelation 11:15 (8)

    Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become t

  • Ephesians 1:3 (8)

    Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in th

  • Joshua 1:1–10 (7)

    Now after the death of His servant Moses, the LORD spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying,

  • Deuteronomy 1:10 (7)

    The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:57 (6)

    But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

  • Luke 1:68–75 (5)

    “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people.

  • Genesis 17:6 (5)

    I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

  • Jeremiah 32:22 (5)

    You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Genesis 49:25–26 (5)

    by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with

  • Genesis 12:2 (5)

    I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

  • Deuteronomy 28:2–13 (5)

    And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:

  • Genesis 32:12 (5)

    But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerou

  • Genesis 27:28–29 (5)

    May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth—an abundance of grain and new wine.

  • 2 Samuel 8:1–18 (4)

    Some time later, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Metheg-ammah from the hand of the Philistines.

  • Deuteronomy 21:19 (4)

    his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,

  • Genesis 28:3 (4)

    May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.

  • Daniel 2:44–45 (4)

    In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to

  • Genesis 28:14–22 (4)

    Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. A

  • 1 Kings 9:26 (3)

    King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.

  • Micah 1:9 (3)

    For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itse

  • 2 Samuel 10:1–19 (3)

    Some time later, the king of the Ammonites died and was succeeded by his son Hanun.