100 Bible Verses About Biblical History
Bible verses about Biblical History
Delving into Biblical History is more than just studying the past; it's about understanding God's unfolding plan for humanity. Scripture reveals a narrative of divine faithfulness, redemption, and unwavering love woven through generations. As we explore the historical accounts, prophecies fulfilled, and pivotal moments recorded in the Bible, we gain invaluable insights into God's character and His covenant with us. Understanding this history strengthens our faith, deepens our connection to the divine, and illuminates the path He has laid out for our lives. It reminds us that we are part of a story much bigger than ourselves, a story of enduring hope and eternal promise.
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2 Samuel 3:3 (KJV)
And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
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And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth–jair.
Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.
And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath–serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth–lehem.
And Jehud, and Bene–berak, and Gath–rimmon,
And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Beth–el, one;
Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.
There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.
These are the names of Esau’s sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.
And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.
The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.
And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:
On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali, offered:
And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men.
The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.
And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,
And the house of Joseph sent to descry Beth–el. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.
And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.
And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
And the priests’ custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;
And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.
And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath–arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country.
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth–lehem.
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
And Hazar–gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth–palet,
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.
In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,
That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.
Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:
Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:
The children of Gibbar, ninety and five.
So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.
Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.
And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.
Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king’s son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.
And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;
And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;
In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:
Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,
So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.
And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,
Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?
So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.
The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.
And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.
And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.
The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man’s son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab’s mother.
And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.
Through exploring these selected Bible verses on biblical history, we've witnessed the unfolding drama of God's interaction with humanity. From the creation account in Genesis to the prophecies fulfilled in the New Testament, these passages paint a vivid picture of God's sovereignty, faithfulness, and redemptive plan. They showcase the rise and fall of nations, the lives of pivotal figures, and the constant thread of God's covenant relationship with his people. Reflection on these historical narratives fosters a deeper understanding of our spiritual heritage and provides valuable lessons for navigating the present. Let these verses inspire you to delve further into the scriptures, seeking wisdom from the past to inform your faith and guide your actions today, recognizing God’s enduring presence throughout history and in your own life.