What Does the Bible Say About Fine Sand?

Genesis 22:17 ESV / 16 helpful votes

I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies,

Genesis 32:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

But you said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”

Hebrews 11:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.

Romans 9:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved,

Hosea 1:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”

Exodus 2:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes

He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Matthew 7:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

Matthew 7:24-27 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

Jeremiah 33:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.”

Jeremiah 5:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Do you not fear me? declares the Lord. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.

Isaiah 10:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

1 Kings 4:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy.

Judges 7:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.

Revelation 20:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.

Habakkuk 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

They all come for violence, all their faces forward. They gather captives like sand.

Proverbs 27:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.

1 Kings 4:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore,

1 Samuel 13:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.

Joshua 11:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.

Deuteronomy 33:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

They shall call peoples to their mountain; there they offer right sacrifices; for they draw from the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand.”

Genesis 41:49 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.

Revelation 13:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 John 5:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For there are three that testify:

Ephesians 4:17-32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, ...

1 Corinthians 7:25-40 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now concerning the betrothed, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy. I think that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is. Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife. But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that. This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, ...

1 Corinthians 7:1-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...

Matthew 8:1-34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them.” When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, ...

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...

Jeremiah 15:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I have made their widows more in number than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of young men a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon them suddenly.

Isaiah 48:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me.”

Isaiah 34:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Seek and read from the book of the Lord: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the Lord has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

Psalm 139:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.

Psalm 139:17-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.

Psalm 139:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.

Psalm 138:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Job 29:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,

Job 6:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.

2 Samuel 17:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But my counsel is that all Israel be gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, as the sand by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.

Exodus 12:14-51 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you. And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. ...

Genesis 26:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,

42 Bible Verses about Fine Sand

Genesis 22:17 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 32:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 11:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 9:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hosea 1:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 2:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 7:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Jeremiah 33:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Isaiah 10:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 4:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Judges 7:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 20:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Habakkuk 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 27:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 4:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 13:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 11:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 33:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 41:49 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 13:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 5:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:17-32 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:25-40 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Matthew 8:1-34 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 15:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 48:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 34:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 139:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 139:17-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 139:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 138:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 29:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 6:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 17:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 12:14-51 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 26:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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