Bible Verses about Number 12

Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff on 09/19/2019

What does the Bible say about Number 12? Discover the top Bible verses about Number 12 from the Old and New Testaments. Read through the biblical references of Number 12 to learn more about its meaning and significance. May you find some insight from these related scripture quotes!

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16 The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long.
17 The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick.
4 Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.
18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.
2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
1 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
53 Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
3 And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.
2 But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months.
1 Corinthians 10:13
13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom.
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
13 So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.
5 “Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf.
4 Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said. He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel.
84 These were the offerings of the Israelite leaders for the dedication of the altar when it was anointed: twelve silver plates, twelve silver sprinkling bowls and twelve gold dishes.
22 While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it. Jacob had twelve sons:
9 They left Marah and went to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.
27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water.
28 Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
9 You set a boundary they cannot cross; never again will they cover the earth.
12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.
5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
6 After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
9 But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
42 Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished.
4 Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.
30 I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;
31 thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.
32 I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw:
33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—
34 and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.
19 Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty.
4 A sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.
25 The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work.
26 All day long he craves for more, but the righteous give without sparing.