78 Bible Verses about History

And he changes the times and the seasons; removing kings and setting up kings; giving wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those knowing understanding.

And he made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having limited the times before arranged, and the bounds of their habitation;

And now, ye shall not be grieved, and it shall not burn in your eyes, because ye sold me here: for God sent me before you for the preservation of life. For this the second year of the famine in the midst of the land: and yet five years in which no ploughing and reaping. And God will send me before you to put for you a remnant upon the earth, and to preserve life for you by a great deliverance.read more.
And now not you sent me here, but God: and he placed me for a father to Pharaoh, and for lord to all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

And the king heard not to the people, for the turn was from Jehovah for sake of lifting up his word which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

And the king heard not to the people, for the turn was of God, so that Jehovah raised up his word which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat

And for thee driving from men, and with the beasts of the open field to be thy dwelling, and they shall feed to thee grass as oxen, and wetting to thee from the dew of the heavens, and seven times shall pass over thee till that thou shalt know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and to whom that he will, he will give it

And he shall speak words against the Most High, and he shall vex the holy ones of the Most High, and he will hope to change times and law: and they shall be given into his hand even to a time and times, and the dividing of time.

Are ye not as the sons of the Cushites to me, O sons of Israel? says Jehovah. Did I not bring up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the rovers from Caphtor, and Aram from Kir?

In whom also we were cast by lot, determined beforehand according to the purpose of him performing all things according to the counsel of his will:

Jehovah of armies sware, saying, If not as I purposed thus it was, and as I counseled, this shall stand: To break Assur in my land, and upon my mountain I will tread him down: and his yoke was removed from off them, and his burden shall remove from off their shoulder. This the counsel being counseled upon all the land: and this the hand stretched out upon all the nations.read more.
For Jehovah of armies counseled and who shall bring to nought? and his hand was stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

Didst thou not hear to remoteness I did it? from days of old and I formed it? now did I bring it and thou shalt be to lay waste fortified cities into straits.

Who made and did, calling the generations from the beginning? I Jehovah, the first, and with the last; I am he.

Announcing the last part from the beginning, and from of old what was not done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my delight: Calling a ravenous beast from the sunrising, from a land afar off a man of my counsel: also I spake, also I will bring it; I formed, also I will do it.

And he said to them, It is not yours to know the times and occasions, which the Father fixed in his own power.

This one, surrendered by the fixed counsel and foreknowledge of God, having taken by lawless hands, having fastened, ye slew:

Remember the former things from forever: for I am God and no god besides, and none like me.

And that thou shalt recount in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what I performed in Egypt, and my signs which I set up among them; and ye knew that I am Jehovah.

For ask now to the former days which were before thee from the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the end of the heavens to the end of the heavens, Has there been as this great word, or was heard like it? Did people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire as thou didst hear, and shall live? Or did God try to go and take to him a nation from the midst of a nation by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand and by an extended arm, and by great fears, according to all that Jehovah your God did to you in Egypt before your eyes?read more.
Thou sawest to know that Jehovah he is God: no more beside him.

I will remember the works of Jah: for I will remember the ancient time of thy wonder. And I meditated in all thy work, and I will think upon all thy doings. O God, thy way is in the holy place: what God great as God?read more.
Thou the God doing wonder: thou didst make known thy strength among the peoples. Thou didst redeem with the arm thy people the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Silence.

Ye my witnesses, says Jehovah, and my servants whom I chose: so that ye shall know and trust to me, and understand that I am he: before me was no God formed, and after me shall be none. I, I, Jehovah, and none saving besides me. I announced and I saved, and I caused to hear, and no stranger among you: and ye are witnesses, says Jehovah, and I am God.read more.
Also from the day I am he, and none delivering from my hand: I will do and who shall turn it back?

Thus said Jehovah king of Israel, and Jehovah of armies, redeeming him, I the first and I the last; and besides me no God. And who as I shall call and announce it, and set it in order for me from my placing the people of old? and the things coming and that shall come, they shall announce to them. Ye shall not tremble, and ye shall not be afraid: did I not from thence cause thee to hear? and I announced, and ye my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? and no rock; I knew not

O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab counseled, and what Balaam son of Beor answered him from the acacias even to Gilgal; in order to know the justice of Jehovah.

Then our mouth will be filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing: then shall they say among the nations, Jehovah magnified to do with those.

Blessed Jehovah who gave rest to his people Israel, according to all which he spake: there fell not one word from all his good word which he spake by the hand of Moses his servant Jehovah our God will be with us as he was with our fathers: he will not forsake us, and he will not cast us off. To incline our heart to him, to go in all his ways, and to watch his commands and his laws and his judgments which he commanded our fathers.read more.
And these words which I supplicated before Jehovah shall be drawing near to Jehovah our God day and night, to do the judgment of his servant and the judgment of his people Israel, the word of a day in its day. For all the people of the earth to know that Jehovah he is God, none besides.

Ye shall dwell in tents seven days; all the natives in Israel shall dwell in tents: So that your generations shall know that I caused the sons of Israel to dwell in tents in my bringing them out of the land of Egypt: I Jehovah your God.

Watch the month of Abib, and do the passover to Jehovah thy God: for in the month of Abib Jehovah thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night And sacrifice the passover to Jehovah thy God, of the sheep, and the oxen in the place which Jehovah shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. Thou shalt not eat upon it leavened; seven days thou shalt eat upon it unleavened, the bread of affliction; (for in hasty flight thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt) so that thou shalt remember the day of thy coming forth from the land of Egypt all the days of thy life,read more.
And leaven shall not be seen to thee in all thy boundary seven days; and there shall not remain over night from the flesh which thou shalt sacrifice in the evening, in the first day to the morning. Thou shalt not be able to sacrifice the passover in one of thy gates which Jehovah thy God gave to thee. But at the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there, thou shalt sacrifice the passover in the evening, as the sun went down, the appointment of thy coming out of Egypt

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter enigmas from ancient time: Which we heard and we shall know them, and our fathers recounted to us. It was not hid from their sons, to a later generation recounting the praises of Jehovah and his strength, and his wonders which he did.read more.
For he raised up a testimony in Jacob and set a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to make them known to their sons: So that a later generation shall know; sons shall be born, they shall rise up and recount to their sons. And they shall set their hope in God, and they shall not forget the works of God, and they shall watch his commands.

Remember the days of eternity; Discern the years of generation and generation: Ask thy father, and he will announce to thee; Thy old men, and they shall say to thee. The Most High distributing the nations, In his dispersing the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the sons of Israel. For Jehovah the portion of his people; Jacob the cord of his inheritance.

And Gideon will say to him With leave, my Lord, and Jehovah be; with us, and wherefore did all this find us? and where all his wonderful things which our fathers recounted to us, saying, Did not Jehovah bring us up out of Egypt? and now Jehovah cast us off, and he will give us into the hand of Midian.

To the overseer for the sons of Korah: of instruction. O God, with our ears we heard; our fathers recounted to us the work thou didst in their days, in days of old. Thou didst with thy hand drive out the nations and thou wilt plant them; thou wilt pluck in pieces the people, and thou wilt send them forth. For by their sword they possessed not the land, and their arm saved them not: for thy right hand and thine arm, and the light of thy face, for thou didst delight in them.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord, who being, and who was, and who coming, the Omnipotent Ruler.

And to the messenger of the church of the Smyrnians write; Thus says the first and the last, who was dead and he lived;

Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his benevolence which he purposed in himself: For the arrangement of the completion of the times, to unite in a whole all things in Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon earth; in him:

For yet Christ, we being weak, Recording to the time died for the impious.

And when the completion of the time was come, God sent his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

And he is before all, and all things have been established by him.

And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that he might be the first in all

I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the clouds of the heavens as the Son of man he came, and turning even to the Ancient of days; and they brought him near before him. And to him was given dominion, power and honor, and a kingdom; and all peoples and nations and tongues shall serve to him: his power an eternal power that shall not pass away, and his kingdom which shall not be destroyed.

And saying, That the time has been completed, and the kingdom of God has drawn near: repent ye, and believe in the good news.

But if I, by the Spirit of God, cast out demons, the kingdom of God has come before hand upon you.

And if by the finger of God I cast out demons, then has the kingdom of God got beforehand to you.

That he might show in times coming the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

Since many have undertaken to arrange the narration concerning things rendered perfectly certain among us, As they delivered to us, who from the beginning being eyewitnesses, and servants of the word; It seemed fitting to me also, having comprehended all things thoroughly from above, to write to thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,read more.
That thou mightest know the certainty of the words concerning which thou hast been instructed.

How shall we escape, having neglected such great salvation; which at the beginning taken to be spoken by the Lord, by them having heard was made firm to us;

The elders among you I beseech, a fellow elder, and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a participator of the glory which is about to be revealed:

For not having followed ingeniously contrived fictions, we made known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but having been spectators of his majesty.

What was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we beheld, and our own hands felt, concerning the word of life; (And the life was manifested, and we have seen, and we testify, and announce to you the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us;) What we have seen and heard we announce to you, that ye also might have communion with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus, in the night which he was delivered up, took bread: And having given thanks, he brake, and said, Take ye, eat; this is my body, broken for you: this do ye for my remembrance. Likewise the cup also, after supping, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do ye, as often as ye drink, for my remembrance.

Having taken the bread, and returned thanks, he brake, and gave them, saying, This is my body given for you: this do ye for my remembrance. Likewise also the cup after supping, saying, This the cup, the new covenant in my blood, poured out for you:

To them also he presented himself living, after he suffered, by many infallible signs, through forty days seen to them, and speaking the things of the kingdom of God:

And in one of the sabbaths, in the depth of the dawn of day, they came to the tomb, bringing spices which they had prepared, and certain with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. And coming in, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

Then says he to Thomas, Bring hither thy finger, and see my hands; and bring thy hand, and put into my side: and be not unbelieving, but believing.

For I delivered to you among the first, what I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the writings; And that he was buried, and that he was raised the third day, according to the writings. And that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve:read more.
Then was he seen by above five hundred brethren once for all; of whom the most remain till now, and some also are laid to rest. Then was he seen by James; then by all the sent. And last of all exactly as an abortive, was he also seen by me.

Since many have undertaken to arrange the narration concerning things rendered perfectly certain among us, As they delivered to us, who from the beginning being eyewitnesses, and servants of the word;

And Jesus born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold the magi from the sunrisings arrived in Jerusalem, saying:

Now in the fifteenth year of the supremacy of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being leader of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother being tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, Upon Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests, the word of And was upon John, son of Zacharias in the desert.

For Herod, having seized John, bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias, his brother Philip's wife: For John said to him, It is not lawful for thee to have her:

For this Herod, having sent, took John, and bound him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife: for he married her. For John said to Herod, That it is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

After this Judas the Galilean arose in the days of enrolling, and misled enough people after him: and he perished; and all, as many as believed him, were scattered.

In the beginning God formed the heavens and the earth.

And Jehovah God will form man of the dust from the earth, and will blow into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man shall be for a living soul.

And the woman will see that the tree is good for food, and that it is a desire to the eyes, and a tree desired to make wise; and she will take from its fruit and will eat, and will give also to her man with her, and he will eat And the eyes of the two shall be opened, and they shall know that they are naked; and they shall sew together the leaves of the fig tree, and shall make to themselves girdles.

Therefore, as by one man sin came into the world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in that all have sinned:

And Jehovah will say to Abram, Go for thyself from thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land which I will shew thee. And I will make thee into a great nation, and I will bless thee, and I will make thy name great; and thou shalt be blessed. And I will praise them praising thee, and I will curse him cursing thee, and in thee shall all the families of the earth be praised.

By faith Abraham, being called, listened, to go forth into the place which he was about to receive for an inheritance; and he came out, not knowing where he is coming.

And Moses will say to the people, Remember this day which ye came forth out of Egypt, out of the house of servants; for by strength of hand Jehovah brought you forth from here: and leavened shall not be eaten.

Ye saw what I did to Egypt, and I will lift you up upon the wings of eagles, and I will bring you to me. And now if hearing, ye shall hear to my voice, and watch my covenant, and ye were to me wealth above all peoples, for to me is all the earth. And ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These the words which thou shalt speak to the sons of Israel.

And the Word was flesh, and dwelt with us, (and we beheld his glory, as the glory of the only born of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

God, formerly multifariously and abundantly having spoken to the fathers in the prophets, At these last days spake to us in the Son, whom he set heir of all things, by whom also he made the times;

For I delivered to you among the first, what I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the writings; And that he was buried, and that he was raised the third day, according to the writings.

Who, being in the form of God, thought not robbery to be equal to God But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, born in the likeness of men: And found in fashion as man, he humbled himself, being obedient until death, and the death of the cross.read more.
Wherefore God has also exceedingly exalted him, and favored him as a gift with a name above every name: That in the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of the heavenlies, and of terrestrial things, and things under earth And every tongue should avow that the Lord is Jesus Christ, to the glory of the Father.

Who being the brightness of glory, and the figure of his foundation, and bearing all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty among the highest ones; Being so much better than the angels, inasmuch as he has inherited a more distinguished name than they.