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.
Note Cited in Hebrews 6:14
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Note shore: Heb. lip
that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.
that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- in blessing
- Genesis 12:2; Genesis 27:28, 29; Genesis 28:3, 14–22; Genesis 49:25, 26; Deuteronomy 28:2–13; Ephesians 1:3
- I will multiply
- Genesis 13:16; Genesis 15:5; Genesis 17:6; Genesis 26:4; Deuteronomy 1:10; Jeremiah 33:22
- shore
- Heb. lip.
- 1 Kings 9:26
- thy seed
- Genesis 24:60; Numbers 24:17–19; Deuteronomy 21:19; Joshua 1:1; 2 Samuel 8:1–18; 2 Samuel 10:1–19; Psalm 2:8, 9; Psalm 72:8, 9; Jeremiah 32:22; Daniel 2:44, 45; Micah 1:9; Luke 1:68–75; 1 Corinthians 15:57; Revelation 11:15