21 Bible Verses About Historical Context

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;

When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel,

And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El–paran, which is by the wilderness.

And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.

The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;

Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:

And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:

Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof:

And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,

And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth–lehem–judah.

Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth–shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth–shean to Abel–meholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam:

Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land.

Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.

And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.

In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.