Genesis 13:16
Look at the ground you are standing on Abram, there is a lot dirt. Your family will be like that dirt, there will be so many people that no-one can count them.
Barkly (portions)
In The King James Version
In Context
17Abram, get up, walk everywhere and look at all the country that I am giving to you.”
Cross References
Genesis 15:5Then the Lord took Abram outside the tent and said, “Look up at the sky and try to count all those stars. You cannot do that. And just like those stars, there will be so many people in your family you will not be able to count them.”
Genesis 17:6Yes, I will give you a very big family and later on it will split into different nations. Some of your family will be the kings of those nations.
Genesis 17:20Abraham, you asked me about Ishmael. I will do good things for him too. I will make a way for him to have a really big family and 12 leaders will come from that family. In that way Ishmael's family will become a great nation.
Genesis 21:13I will give Ishmael a family too. His family will grow into a nation. He is your son and that is why I will do good things for him.”
Genesis 25:1Some time after Sarah died, Abraham married another woman and her name was Keturah.
Genesis 28:3Isaac prayed for Jacob, and said, “God Most Powerful, I am asking you to bless my son Jacob. Do good things for him and make him strong. Help him find a wife, and give him so many children that they become many nations.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 13:15-18
God Confirms His Promise to Abram. ( b. c. 1917.) 14 And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: 15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. 17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of… Read the whole commentary →