Deuteronomy 1:10

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The LORD your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 15:5 : 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.”
  • Deut 10:22 : 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.
  • Deut 28:62 : 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.
  • Gen 22:17 : 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.
  • Exod 32:13 : 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.’”
  • Num 1:46 : 46 And all those numbered totaled 603,550.
  • Gen 28:14 : 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. And so all the families of the earth may receive blessings through you and through your descendants.
  • Exod 12:37 : 37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men on foot, plus their dependents.
  • 1 Chr 27:23 : 23 David did not count the males twenty years old and under, for the LORD had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.
  • Neh 9:23 : 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.

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  • Deut 1:11-12
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    11Indeed, may the LORD, the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you just as he said he would!

    12But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?

  • Deut 10:21-22
    2 verses
    86%

    21He is the one you should praise; he is your God, the one who has done these great and awesome things for you that you have seen.

    22When 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.

  • Neh 9:23
    79%

    23You 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.

  • Deut 28:62
    77%

    62There 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.

  • Deut 30:5
    75%

    5Then he will bring you to the land your ancestors possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.

  • Deut 11:21
    75%

    21so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the LORD promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself.

  • Deut 1:9
    74%

    9I also said to you at that time,“I am no longer able to sustain you by myself.

  • Ps 115:14-15
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    74%

    14May he increase your numbers, yours and your children’s!

    15May you be blessed by the LORD, the Creator of heaven and earth!

  • Deut 7:13-14
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    74%

    13He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.

    14You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock.

  • Deut 26:19
    74%

    19Then he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. You will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he has said.

  • Lev 26:9
    74%

    9I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain my covenant with you.

  • Deut 28:11
    73%

    11The LORD will greatly multiply your children, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he promised your ancestors he would give you.

  • Gen 28:3
    73%

    3May the Sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.

  • Deut 8:13
    73%

    13when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything,

  • Gen 17:2
    73%

    2Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.”

  • Josh 23:10
    73%

    10One of you makes a thousand run away, for the LORD your God fights for you as he promised you he would.

  • Deut 30:9
    73%

    9The LORD your God will make the labor of your hands abundantly successful and multiply your children, the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the LORD will once more rejoice over you to make you prosperous just as he rejoiced over your ancestors,

  • Exod 1:7
    73%

    7The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.

  • Gen 22:17
    73%

    17I 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.

  • Heb 6:14
    72%

    14saying,“Surely I will bless you greatly and multiply your descendants abundantly.”

  • Deut 10:14-15
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    14The heavens– indeed the highest heavens– belong to the LORD your God, as does the earth and everything in it.

    15However, only to your ancestors did he show his loving favor, and he chose you, their descendants, from all peoples– as is apparent today.

  • Gen 26:4
    72%

    4I 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.

  • Deut 8:1
    71%

    1The Lord’s Provision in the Desert You must keep carefully all these commandments I am giving you today so that you may live, increase in number, and go in and occupy the land that the LORD promised to your ancestors.

  • Jer 30:19
    71%

    19Out 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.

  • 1 Kgs 3:8
    71%

    8Your servant stands among your chosen people; they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number.

  • Deut 4:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19When you look up to the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars– the whole heavenly creation– you must not be seduced to worship and serve them, for the LORD your God has assigned them to all the people of the world.

    20You, however, the LORD has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

  • Gen 16:10
    71%

    10I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the LORD’s angel added,“so that they will be too numerous to count.”

  • Deut 29:10
    71%

    10You are standing today, all of you, before the LORD your God– the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,

  • Exod 32:13
    71%

    13Remember 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.’”

  • Deut 1:31
    70%

    31and in the wilderness, where you saw him carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.”

  • Gen 13:16
    70%

    16And 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.

  • Deut 4:38
    70%

    38to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.

  • Isa 9:3
    70%

    3You 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.

  • Deut 29:13
    70%

    13Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Heb 11:12
    70%

    12So in fact children were fathered by one man– and this one as good as dead– like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.

  • Gen 32:12
    70%

    12But you said,‘I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’”

  • Deut 28:1
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    1The Covenant Blessings“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.

  • 2 Chr 1:9
    70%

    9Now, LORD God, may your promise to my father David be realized, for you have made me king over a great nation as numerous as the dust of the earth.

  • 1 Chr 16:19
    70%

    19When they were few in number, just a very few, and foreign residents within it,