Bible Verses About Historical Significance

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 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?

Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

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.

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

And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.

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:

Which also king David did dedicate unto the Lord, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;

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

For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.

And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?

And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the Lord fought for Israel.

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.

Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

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

It is a night to be much observed unto the Lord for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the Lord to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.

Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider it.

Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,

Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

And many brought gifts unto the Lord to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.

In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.

In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,

And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

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.

And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;

And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the Lord which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.

And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.

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

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

For the Lord our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:

And the Lord magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.

Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

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

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.

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:

Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;