17 I shall surely bless you and I shall surely multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens and like the grains of sand that are on the seashore;+ and your seed will take possession of the gate* of his enemies.+

4 So they went out, they and all their camps with them, a people as numerous as the grains of sand that are on the seashore for multitude,+ and very many horses+ and war chariots.

12 Now Midʹi·an and Amʹa·lek and all the Easterners+ were plumped in the low plain as numerous as locusts;+ and their camels+ were without number, as numerous as the grains of sand that are on the seashore.