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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was 99 years old, the LORD appeared to him and said,“ I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.
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Exodus 6:3
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name‘ the LORD’ I was not known to them.
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Genesis 17:5-7
No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
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Genesis 17:16
I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!”
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Genesis 22:17
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.
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Exodus 1:7
The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.
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Genesis 12:2
Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.
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Genesis 28:14
Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using your name and that of your descendants.
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Genesis 32:12
But you said,‘ I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’”
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Genesis 46:3
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.
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Genesis 15:5
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.”
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Genesis 18:18
After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using his name.
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Genesis 9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them,“ Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
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Genesis 18:14
Is anything impossible for the LORD? I will return to you when the season comes round again and Sarah will have a son.”
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2 Corinthians 6 18
and I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,” says the All- Powerful Lord.
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Genesis 48:3-4
Jacob said to Joseph,“ The sovereign God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.He 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.’
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Genesis 13:16
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.
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Genesis 28:3-4
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.May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”
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Genesis 43:14
May the sovereign God grant you mercy before the man so that he may release your other brother and Benjamin! As for me, if I lose my children I lose them.”
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1 Samuel 1 1-1 Samuel 1 28
There was a man from Ramathaim Zophim, from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.He had two wives; the name of the first was Hannah and the name of the second was Peninnah. Now Peninnah had children, but Hannah was childless.Year after year this man would go up from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of hosts at Shiloh. It was there that the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, served as the LORD’s priests.Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice, he used to give meat portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.But he would give a double portion to Hannah, because he especially loved her. Now the LORD had not enabled her to have children.Her rival wife used to upset her and make her worry, for the LORD had not enabled her to have children.Peninnah would behave this way year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the LORD’s house, Peninnah would upset her so that she would weep and refuse to eat.Finally her husband Elkanah said to her,“ Hannah, why do you weep and not eat? Why are you so sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”On one occasion in Shiloh, after they had finished eating and drinking, Hannah got up.( Now at the time Eli the priest was sitting in his chair by the doorpost of the LORD’s temple.)She was very upset as she prayed to the LORD, and she was weeping uncontrollably.She made a vow saying,“ O LORD of hosts, if you will look with compassion on the suffering of your female servant, remembering me and not forgetting your servant, and give a male child to your servant, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life. His hair will never be cut.”As she continued praying to the LORD, Eli was watching her mouth.Now Hannah was speaking from her heart. Although her lips were moving, her voice was inaudible. Eli therefore thought she was drunk.So he said to her,“ How often do you intend to get drunk? Put away your wine!”But Hannah replied,“ That’s not the way it is, my lord! I am under a great deal of stress. I have drunk neither wine nor beer. Rather, I have poured out my soul to the LORD.Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman, for until now I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish.”Eli replied,“ Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant the request that you have asked of him.”She said,“ May I, your servant, find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and got something to eat. Her face no longer looked sad.They got up early the next morning and after worshiping the LORD, they returned to their home at Ramah. Elkanah had marital relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.After some time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, thinking,“ I asked the LORD for him.This man Elkanah went up with all his family to make the yearly sacrifice to the LORD and to keep his vow,but Hannah did not go up with them. Instead she told her husband,“ Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the LORD, and he will remain there from then on.”So her husband Elkanah said to her,“ Do what you think best. Stay until you have weaned him. May the LORD fulfill his promise.” So the woman stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.Once she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with three bulls, an ephah of flour, and a container of wine. She brought him to the LORD’s house at Shiloh, even though he was young.Once the bull had been slaughtered, they brought the boy to Eli.She said,“ Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the LORD.I prayed for this boy, and the LORD has given me the request that I asked of him.Now I dedicate him to the LORD. From this time on he is dedicated to the LORD.” Then they worshiped the LORD there.
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Numbers 1:1-26
Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the wilderness of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites departed from the land of Egypt. He said:“ Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and families, counting the name of every individual male.You and Aaron are to number all in Israel who can serve in the army, those who are twenty years old or older, by their divisions.And to help you there is to be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his family.Now these are the names of the men who are to help you: from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar;from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”These were the ones chosen from the community, leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the thousands of Israel.So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name,and they assembled the entire community together on the first day of the second month. Then the people recorded their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed by name individually,just as the LORD had commanded Moses. And so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.And they were as follows: The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually.Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Reuben were 46, 500.From the descendants of Simeon: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males numbered of them twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually.Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Simeon were 59, 300.From the descendants of Gad: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Gad were 45,650.From the descendants of Judah: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
