Isaiah 9:3
9:3 You have enlarged the nation;
you give them great joy.
They rejoice in your presence
as harvesters rejoice;
as warriors celebrate when they divide up the plunder.
Isaiah 10:22
10:22 For though your people, Israel, are as numerous as
the sand on the seashore, only a remnant will come back.
Destruction has been decreed;
just punishment
is about to engulf you.
Genesis 12:2
12:2 Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you,
and I will make your name great,
so that you will exemplify divine blessing.
Genesis 13:16
13:16 And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.
Numbers 23:10
23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob,
Or number the fourth part of Israel?
Let me die the death of the upright,
and let the end of my life be like theirs.”
Deuteronomy 10:22
10:22 When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the
Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.
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.
Jeremiah 30:19
30:19 Out of those places you will hear songs of thanksgiving
and the sounds of laughter and merriment.
I will increase their number and they will not dwindle away.
I will bring them honor and they will no longer be despised.