Bible Verses About Historical Context

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

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

And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

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.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

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.

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

In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.

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

The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;

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

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,

Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.

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.

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:

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

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.

But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem.

And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:

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 it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.

I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;

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

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

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

And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,

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.

Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;

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