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What does the Bible say about sand?
19 verses about sand, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.
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Bible verses about sand
- Genesis 22:17 — That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; 11 votes
- Genesis 32:12 — And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. 8 votes
- Joshua 11:4 — And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many. 6 votes
- 1 Kings 4:20 — Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. 5 votes
- Psalms 78:27 — He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: 5 votes
- Psalms 139:17 — How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! 5 votes
- Jeremiah 33:22 — As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me. 5 votes
- Hebrews 11:12 — Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. 5 votes
- Revelation 20:8 — And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 5 votes
- Isaiah 10:22 — For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. 3 votes
- Hosea 1:10 — Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. 3 votes
- Habakkuk 1:9 — They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. 3 votes
- Matthew 7:26 — And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 3 votes
- Romans 9:27 — Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: 3 votes
- 1 Samuel 13:5 — And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven. 2 votes
- 2 Samuel 17:11 — Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person. 2 votes
- Proverbs 27:3 — A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both. 2 votes
- Isaiah 48:19 — Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. 2 votes
- Jeremiah 5:22 — Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? 2 votes
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Genesis (2), Psalms (2), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (2), Joshua (1), 1 Samuel (1), 2 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (1), Proverbs (1), Hosea (1), Habakkuk (1), Matthew (1) and 3 more
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