Hebrews 11:12

And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

Cross References (22)

  • Genesis 22:17 (18)

    I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Yo

  • Genesis 32:12 (11)

    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 15:5 (9)

    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

  • Hosea 1:10 (9)

    Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happ

  • Jeremiah 33:22 (8)

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

  • Genesis 26:4 (6)

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

  • Isaiah 10:22 (4)

    Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, ove

  • Revelation 20:8 (4)

    and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their

  • Exodus 32:13 (4)

    Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make y

  • Joshua 11:4 (3)

    So these kings came out with all their armies, a multitude as numerous as the sand on the seashore, along with a great n

  • Romans 4:17–19 (3)

    As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believ

  • 1 Kings 4:20 (3)

    The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoi

  • Judges 7:12 (3)

    Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts,

  • 1 Chronicles 27:23 (3)

    David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the

  • 2 Samuel 17:11 (3)

    Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beersheba—a multitude like the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, an

  • Deuteronomy 1:10 (3)

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

  • 1 Samuel 12:5 (3)

    Samuel said to them, “The LORD is a witness against you, and His anointed is a witness today, that you have not found an

  • Nehemiah 9:23 (3)

    You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to ent

  • Deuteronomy 28:62 (3)

    You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the

  • Isaiah 48:19 (3)

    Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name woul

  • Romans 9:27 (2)

    Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant w

  • Habakkuk 1:9 (0)

    All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.