Bible Verses About Historical Reflection

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

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.

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.

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

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

I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

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

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

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.

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

But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.

They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord; and have comforted myself.

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.

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.

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.

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

Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

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 I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

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

Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,

And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the Lord God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

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

Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the Lord of all the righteous acts of the Lord, which he did to you and to your fathers.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

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 the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: