Cross references

Nehemiah 9:23

You multiplied their descendants

like the stars of heaven

and brought them to the land

You had told their fathers to enter and possess.

Nehemiah 9:23 BSB

Nehemiah 9:23 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 22:17 (5 votes) and Genesis 15:5 (4 votes). 35 other verses point back to it. It links with 19 other books, from Genesis 12 to 1 John 1.

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Which verses does Nehemiah 9:23 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.”

  3. Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

  4. for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever. I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted. …

  5. On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

  6. And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”

  7. Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

  8. Now after the death of His servant Moses, the LORD spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying, “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore arise, you and all these people, and cross over the Jordan into the land that I am giving to the children of Israel. …

  9. David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.

Which verses point to Nehemiah 9:23?

The 10 strongest of 35.