The Strong Link Between the Old Testament
Concept of Blessing and Material Prosperity


Genesis 1:28 God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 9:1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Genesis 24:35 The Lord has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 24:60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”

Genesis 26:12 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The Lord blessed him.

Genesis 39:5 From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. The Lord’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.

Genesis 48:3-4 Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’

Deuteronomy 2:7 For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.

Deuteronomy 7:14 You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

Deuteronomy 12:7 There you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 28:4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

2 Samuel 6:12 King David was told, “The Lord has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him . . .

1 Chronicles 26:4-5 Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sacar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth, Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, and Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.

Job 1:10 Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

Job 42:12 So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

Psalms 107:38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.

Isaiah 32:20 Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

Isaiah 65:23 They will not labor in vain, nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of the Lord’s blessed, and their descendants with them.

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