Bible Verses About Origins of Kingdoms

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

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.

And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

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.

For the kingdom is the Lord’s: and he is the governor among the nations.

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

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

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

Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.

And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.

The same was in the beginning with God.

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

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

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Ought ye not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

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,

For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

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

All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

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

It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.

And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

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.

Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.