'Former Days' in the Bible

and shall dedicate to the Lord his days as a Nazirite, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former days will be void because his separation was defiled.

“Indeed, ask now concerning the former days which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it?

Do not say, “Why is it that the former days were better than these?”For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this.

‘Thus says the Lord God, “Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days through My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them?

But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as in the former days,’ declares the Lord of hosts.

But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings,