Bible Verses About Growth of Civilization

By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.

And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.

And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;

But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.

Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.

And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.

He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.

And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.

Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.

For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.

Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.

All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.

And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:

When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.

So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.

And the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.

It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;