14 Bible Verses about History Of Nations

"Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.

(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, "Come, let us go to the seer," for today's "prophet" was formerly called a seer.)

Now David and his men went up and made raids against the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt.

Is this your exultant city whose origin is from days of old, whose feet carried her to settle far away?

Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and wandering all the precious things that were hers from days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the foe, and there was none to help her, her foes gloated over her; they mocked at her downfall.

"For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out.

Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old--

Their children shall be as they were of old, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all who oppress them.

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.

The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the LORD of hosts.'"

But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as in the former days, declares the LORD of hosts.