17 I will indeed bless you(A) and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky(B) and the sand on the seashore.(C) Your offspring will possess the city gates of their[a] enemies.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 22:17 Lit his

12 Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the people of the east had settled down in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

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The Philistines also gathered to fight against Israel: three thousand[a] chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore.(A) They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.[b](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 13:5 One LXX ms, Syr; MT reads 30,000
  2. 13:5 LXX reads Michmash, opposite Beth-horon to the south

Solomon’s Wisdom and Literary Gifts

29 God gave Solomon wisdom, very great insight, and understanding(A) as vast as the sand on the seashore.

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