Cross references
Hebrews 11:12
And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
Hebrews 11:12 has 22 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 9 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 22:17 (18 votes) and Genesis 32:12 (11 votes). 39 other verses point back to it. It links with 22 other books, from Genesis 13 to Revelation 20.
Which verses does Hebrews 11:12 point to?
The 20 strongest of 22, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Genesis 22:1718 votes
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.
- Genesis 32:1211 votes
But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
- Genesis 15:59 votes
And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
- Hosea 1:109 votes
Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
- Jeremiah 33:228 votes
As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
- Genesis 26:46 votes
I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
- Exodus 32:134 votes
Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”
- Isaiah 10:224 votes
Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
- Revelation 20:84 votes
and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.
- Deuteronomy 1:103 votes
The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.
- Deuteronomy 28:623 votes
- Joshua 11:43 votes
- Judges 7:123 votes
- 1 Samuel 12:53 votes
- 2 Samuel 17:113 votes
- 1 Kings 4:203 votes
- 1 Chronicles 27:233 votes
- Nehemiah 9:233 votes
- Isaiah 48:193 votes
- Romans 4:17–193 votes
As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist. Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” …
Which verses point to Hebrews 11:12?
The 10 strongest of 39.