14 Bible Verses about History Of Nations

This is what the Lord has said: This is Jerusalem: I have put her among the nations, and countries are round her on every side;

For nation will be moved against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and men will be without food, and the earth will be shaking in different places;

And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,

And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.

(In the past in Israel, when a man went to get directions from God, he said, Come let us go to the Seer, for he who now is named Prophet was in those days given the name of Seer.)

And David and his men went up and made attacks on the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites; for these were the people who were living in the land from Telam on the way to Shur, as far as Egypt.

Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?

Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction.

Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.

And their children will be as they were in the old days, and the meeting of the people will have its place before me, and I will send punishment on all who are cruel to them.

Keep your people safe with your rod, the flock of your heritage, living by themselves in the woods in the middle of Carmel: let them get their food in Bashan and Gilead as in the past.

The second glory of this house will be greater than the first, says the Lord of armies: and in this place I will give peace, says the Lord of armies.

But now I will not be to the rest of this people as I was in the past, says the Lord of armies.