Bible Verses About Sand
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for sand, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,569 votes, led by Genesis 22:17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Sand
Genesis 22:17295 votes
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;
Genesis 32:12231 votes
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.
Joshua 11:4174 votes
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.
1 Kings 4:20154 votes
Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
Hebrews 11:12154 votes
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.
Revelation 20:8153 votes
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.
Jeremiah 33:22139 votes
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.
Psalms 78:27136 votes
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
Psalms 139:17-18125 votes
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
Matthew 7:2694 votes
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:
Hosea 1:1084 votes
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.
Habakkuk 1:980 votes
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
Romans 9:2780 votes
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:
Isaiah 10:2274 votes
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.
2 Samuel 17:1164 votes
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.
1 Samuel 13:559 votes
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.
Jeremiah 5:2255 votes
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?
Proverbs 27:342 votes
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
Isaiah 48:1942 votes
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.
1 Kings 4:2940 votes
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
Exodus 2:1235 votes
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
Genesis 41:4932 votes
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
Deuteronomy 33:1929 votes
They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
Psalms 139:1827 votes
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Judges 7:1224 votes
And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
What does the Bible say about sand?
Readers most often cite Genesis 22:17 on the subject of sand. Across 2,569 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 32:12, Joshua 11:4, 1 Kings 4:20. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.