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.

Numbers 7:65KJV

Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,

Nehemiah 12:3KJV

Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.

Exodus 25:7KJV

And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth–jair.

Numbers 32:41KJV

Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.

1 Chronicles 26:3KJV

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.

Joshua 24:30KJV

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.

Genesis 48:7KJV

And Jehud, and Bene–berak, and Gath–rimmon,

Joshua 19:45KJV

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.

Judges 3:9KJV

The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Beth–el, one;

Joshua 12:16KJV

Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.

1 Chronicles 12:13KJV

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.

Joshua 11:22KJV

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.

Genesis 35:29KJV

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.

Judges 8:14KJV

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.

Genesis 36:10KJV

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.

Exodus 17:1KJV

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.

Nehemiah 6:18KJV

The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.

Joshua 12:24KJV

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.

Judges 11:1KJV

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.

Genesis 23:20KJV

And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,

Joshua 15:21KJV

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.

2 Kings 24:15KJV

Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.

Joshua 21:39KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Leviticus 22:17KJV

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:

Genesis 26:34KJV

For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:

Numbers 36:11KJV

On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali, offered:

Numbers 7:78KJV

And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men.

Genesis 24:59KJV

The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.

Nehemiah 7:62KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Numbers 16:36KJV

The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.

Exodus 6:17KJV

And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,

Joshua 19:42KJV

And the house of Joseph sent to descry Beth–el. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)

Judges 1:23KJV

And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.

Genesis 38:6KJV

And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:

Exodus 30:24KJV

And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.

1 Chronicles 2:6KJV

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.

Numbers 20:28KJV

And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

Numbers 23:30KJV

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;

1 Samuel 2:13KJV

And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

Exodus 24:6KJV

And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

1 Kings 6:19KJV

King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 3:9KJV

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.

Genesis 34:24KJV

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.

Joshua 20:7KJV

Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;

Psalms 105:9KJV

And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

Numbers 14:39KJV

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.

Joshua 2:2KJV

And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth–lehem.

Genesis 35:19KJV

David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

2 Samuel 5:4KJV

And Hazar–gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth–palet,

Joshua 15:27KJV

And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.

Psalms 78:28KJV

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.

Exodus 6:20KJV

In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.

2 Kings 15:32KJV

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.

Genesis 36:14KJV

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,

1 Kings 12:23KJV

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.

Joshua 10:2KJV

Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:

Numbers 26:16KJV

Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

Genesis 25:15KJV

These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:

Numbers 26:30KJV

The children of Gibbar, ninety and five.

Ezra 2:20KJV

So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 14:23KJV

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.

Genesis 24:10KJV

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.

1 Chronicles 18:17KJV

Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,

2 Samuel 23:27KJV

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?

1 Kings 15:31KJV

Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.

Psalms 135:8KJV

And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:

2 Chronicles 15:1KJV

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.

2 Chronicles 11:17KJV

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.

1 Samuel 18:27KJV

Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.

1 Samuel 27:6KJV

And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.

Genesis 38:2KJV

And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;

Nehemiah 10:9KJV

And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

Genesis 42:3KJV

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;

Joshua 21:1KJV

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.

2 Kings 13:1KJV

And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:

Numbers 3:49KJV

Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,

1 Chronicles 3:6KJV

So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 34:5KJV

And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

Joshua 12:4KJV

Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.

Numbers 13:14KJV

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,

Genesis 23:10KJV

Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;

Nehemiah 12:13KJV

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.

Numbers 7:53KJV

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

Judges 11:4KJV

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

1 Chronicles 1:11KJV

And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?

2 Samuel 1:5KJV

So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.

Judges 14:10KJV

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.

1 Kings 6:3KJV

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.

1 Chronicles 5:10KJV

The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

1 Chronicles 1:8KJV

Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.

2 Samuel 6:23KJV

And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.

Numbers 1:5KJV

And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

1 Chronicles 2:4KJV

All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Deuteronomy 3:10KJV

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;

2 Samuel 3:3KJV

And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?

2 Samuel 3:38KJV

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.

Judges 12:4KJV

The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.

1 Chronicles 6:43KJV

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.

2 Samuel 17:25KJV

And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.

1 Chronicles 2:17KJV

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.