Genesis 12:2-3
2 aAnd I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 bI will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and cin you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” ▼▼Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves
Genesis 26:4
4 eI will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And fin your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,Ruth 4:11-12
11Then all the people who were gat the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, hwho together ibuilt up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in jEphrathah and kbe renowned in Bethlehem, 12and may your house be like the house of Perez, lwhom Tamar bore to Judah, because mof the offspring that the Lord will give you by this young woman.”Psalms 72:17
17 nMay his name endure forever,his fame continue as long as the sun!
oMay people be blessed in him,
pall nations call him blessed!
Isaiah 19:24-25
24In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, qa blessing in the midst of the earth, 25whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed be Egypt rmy people, and Assyria sthe work of my hands, and tIsrael my inheritance.”Zechariah 8:20-23
20“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, even the inhabitants of many cities. 21The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, u‘Let us go at once vto entreat the favor of the Lord and to seek the Lord of hosts; I myself am going.’ 22 wMany peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and xto entreat the favor of the Lord. 23Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days yten men zfrom the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for aawe have heard that God is with you.’”Zechariah 10:6-9
6 ab“I will strengthen the house of Judah,and acI will save the house of Joseph.
adI will bring them back aebecause I have compassion on them,
and they shall be as though I had not rejected them,
for afI am the Lord their God and I will answer them.
7Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior,
and agtheir hearts shall be glad as with wine.
Their children shall see it and be glad;
their hearts shall rejoice in the Lord.
8 ah“I will whistle for them and aigather them in,
for I have redeemed them,
and ajthey shall be as many as they were before.
9 akThough I scattered them among the nations,
yet in far countries althey shall remember me,
and with their children they shall live and return.
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