Genesis 15:5
15:5 The
Lord took him outside and said, “Gaze into the sky and count the stars – if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him, “So will your descendants be.”
Genesis 22:17
22:17 I will indeed bless you,
and I will greatly multiply
your descendants
so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession
of the strongholds
of their enemies.
Genesis 26:4
26:4 I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them
all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.
Exodus 32:13
32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, ‘I will multiply your descendants
like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about
I will give to your descendants,
and they will inherit it forever.’”
Deuteronomy 1:10
1:10 The
Lord your God has increased your population
to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.
Deuteronomy 28:62
28:62 There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky,
because you will have disobeyed
the
Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 28:1
The Covenant Blessings
28:1 “If you indeed obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.
Deuteronomy 27:23
27:23 ‘Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his mother-in-law.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
Nehemiah 9:23
9:23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.
Romans 4:17
4:17 (as it is written, “
I have made you the father of many nations”).
He is our father
in the presence of God whom he believed – the God who
makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.