Bible Verses About Ancient Times

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

And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubi–lehem. And these are ancient things.

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

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?

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

Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

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.

In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.

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.

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

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.

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.

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.

And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

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.

And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.

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

And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.

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 Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus.

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

Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, until those days.

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.

And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.

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

For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

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 all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.

Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?

The same was in the beginning with God.

And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.