Genesis 22:17

God promises to bless Abraham and multiply his offspring like the stars and sand, and that they will possess the gate of their enemies. It confirms an innumerable, victorious people.

Cross-references · 29

• Gen 15:5Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So will your offspring be.”
• Jer 33:22As the army of the sky can’t be counted, neither the sand of the sea measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.’”
• Gen 24:60They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”
• Gen 26:4I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
• Num 24:17–19I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of Sheth.
• Ps 72:8–9He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.
• Gen 13:16I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.
• Ps 2:8–9Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
• Eph 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
• Rev 11:15The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
• Deut 1:10Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.
• Josh 1:1–10Now after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ servant, saying,
• 1 Cor 15:57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Jer 32:22and gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
• Deut 28:2–13All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
• Gen 49:25–26even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
• Gen 17:6I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.
• Gen 12:2I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
• Luke 1:68–75“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;
• Gen 27:28–29God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
• Gen 32:12You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’”
• Deut 21:19then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place.
• Gen 28:3May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
• Mic 1:9For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
• 2 Sam 8:1–18After this, David struck the Philistines and subdued them; and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.
• Dan 2:44–45In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
• Gen 28:14–22Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring will all the families of the earth be blessed.
• 1 Kgs 9:26King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
• 2 Sam 10:1–19After this, the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.

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