Bible Verses About Ancient History

Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.

For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

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.

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord:

Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh–barnea to see the land.

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:

Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.

So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:

Thus saith the Lord God; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:

Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.

Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.

Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.

At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

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

And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.

And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.