Bible Verses About Historical Development

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

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

But the word of God grew and multiplied.

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

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

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

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

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.

Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

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:

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

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:

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.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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:

Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

The same was in the beginning with God.

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

By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.

Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

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

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

And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.

And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

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;

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.

And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus.

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 in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.