Nehemiah 9:23

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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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  • 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.”
  • 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.
  • Gen 26:3 : 3 Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.
  • Josh 1:1-3 : 1 ¶ The Lord Commissions Joshua After Moses the LORD’s servant died, the LORD said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant: 2 “Moses my servant is dead. Get ready! Cross the Jordan River! Lead these people into the land which I am ready to hand over to them. 3 I am handing over to you every place you set foot, as I promised Moses.
  • 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.
  • Gen 15:18 : 18 That day the LORD made a covenant with Abram:“To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River–
  • Gen 17:8 : 8 I will give the whole land of Canaan– the land where you are now residing– to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”
  • Gen 12:7 : 7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said,“To your descendants I will give this land.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
  • Gen 13:15-17 : 15 I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever. 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. 17 Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 9:24-25
    2 verses
    84%

    24Their descendants entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased.

    25They captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took possession of houses full of all sorts of good things– wells previously dug, vineyards, olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate until they were full and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness.

  • Deut 1:10-11
    2 verses
    79%

    10The LORD your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.

    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!

  • Deut 30:5
    79%

    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.

  • Neh 9:15
    78%

    15You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

  • Deut 10:22
    78%

    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 9:22
    78%

    22“You gave them kingdoms and peoples, and you allocated them to every corner of the land. They inherited the land of King Sihon of Heshbon and the land of King Og of Bashan.

  • Exod 32:13
    76%

    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 4:37-38
    2 verses
    76%

    37Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power

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

  • Deut 11:21
    76%

    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.

  • Gen 22:17
    75%

    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.

  • Deut 1:8
    75%

    8Look! I have already given the land to you. Go, occupy the territory that I, the LORD, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.”

  • Deut 1:39
    75%

    39Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

  • Deut 7:13
    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.

  • Neh 9:8
    74%

    8When you perceived that his heart was faithful toward you, you established a covenant with him to give his descendants the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites. You have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.

  • Exod 1:7
    74%

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

  • Jer 32:22
    74%

    22You kept the promise that you swore on oath to their ancestors. You gave them a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Gen 26:4
    74%

    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 11:23
    74%

    23then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

  • Deut 11:9
    74%

    9and that you may enjoy long life in the land the LORD promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 9:5
    74%

    5It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Deut 6:23
    73%

    23He delivered us from there so that he could give us the land he had promised our ancestors.

  • Exod 23:30
    73%

    30Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

  • Josh 24:3
    73%

    3but I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and brought him into the entire land of Canaan. I made his descendants numerous; I gave him Isaac,

  • Deut 9:29
    73%

    29They are your people, your valued property, whom you brought out with great strength and power.

  • Exod 13:11
    72%

    11When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

  • Judg 6:9
    72%

    9I rescued you from Egypt’s power and from the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave their land to you.

  • Deut 28:11
    72%

    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.

  • Deut 19:8
    72%

    8If the LORD your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,

  • Gen 48:4
    72%

    4He said to me,‘I am going to make you fruitful and will multiply you. I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants as an everlasting possession.’

  • Ps 105:11
    72%

    11saying,“To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”

  • Lev 26:9
    72%

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

  • Deut 30:9
    72%

    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,

  • Neh 9:27-28
    2 verses
    71%

    27Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress they called to you, and you heard from heaven. In your abundant compassion you provided them with deliverers to rescue them from their adversaries.

    28“Then, when they were at rest again, they went back to doing evil before you. Then you abandoned them to their enemies, and they gained dominion over them. When they again cried out to you, in your compassion you heard from heaven and rescued them time and again.

  • Deut 6:10
    71%

    10Exhortation to Worship the Lord Exclusively Then when the LORD your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you– a land with large, fine cities you did not build,

  • Josh 21:43
    71%

    43So the LORD gave Israel all the land he had solemnly promised to their ancestors, and they conquered it and lived in it.

  • 1 Chr 16:19
    71%

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

  • Ps 78:55
    71%

    55He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.

  • 1 Kgs 8:53
    71%

    53After all, you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, just as you, O Sovereign LORD, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

  • Ps 135:12
    71%

    12He gave their land as an inheritance, as an inheritance to Israel his people.

  • Deut 26:9
    71%

    9Then he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Isa 9:3
    71%

    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.

  • Neh 9:12
    71%

    12You guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire by night to illumine for them the path they were to travel.

  • 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.