TSK · Genesis 13:16

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.”

I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes; I will make him into a great nation.

But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too.”

The Death of Abraham Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah.

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

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

Then God said to him,“I am the Sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation– even a company of nations– will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!

He said,“I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

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.’”

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

When they invaded with their cattle and tents, they were as thick as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. They came to devour the land.

Solomon’s Wealth and Fame The people of Judah and Israel were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore; they had plenty to eat and drink and were happy.

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.

These were their divisions by families: There were a thousand officers from Judah. Adnah the commander led 300,000 skilled warriors,

If only you had obeyed my commandments, prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.

For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants– not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

After these things I looked, and here was an enormous crowd that no one could count, made up of persons from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb dressed in long white robes, and with palm branches in their hands.