Historical Context (Bible Verses)

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Acts 17:26 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

Matthew 12:40 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Daniel 9:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

Habakkuk 3:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.

Isaiah 48:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

Luke 1:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,

Luke 1:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

Jeremiah 36:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.

Acts 13:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

Jeremiah 11:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:

Habakkuk 3:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

2 Kings 8:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.

Luke 2:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)

Daniel 8:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

2 Kings 16:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 4:46 KJV Bible Verse Image
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On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:

2 Kings 23:29 KJV Bible Verse Image
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In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

Micah 1:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

Genesis 36:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

Psalms 105:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:

2 Kings 23:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.

1 Chronicles 5:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

Deuteronomy 28:49 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

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In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.

2 Kings 20:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.

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And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

Exodus 32:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.

2 Kings 19:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

Deuteronomy 2:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.

2 Kings 9:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.

2 Kings 24:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.

Jeremiah 47:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.

Esther 2:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

Isaiah 15:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

Amos 1:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

1 Kings 14:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

1 Chronicles 1:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Eber, Peleg, Reu,

1 Kings 8:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

Genesis 14:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

Isaiah 13:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Exodus 6:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.

2 Kings 9:36 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:

Jeremiah 46:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.

Genesis 14:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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;

Amos 1:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.

Exodus 1:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

2 Kings 19:36 KJV Bible Verse Image
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So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

2 Kings 13:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.

2 Kings 14:28 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

John 4:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

2 Kings 15:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 9:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?

Jeremiah 46:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

Jeremiah 47:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.

Jeremiah 52:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Isaiah 23:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.

Jeremiah 25:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;

Genesis 36:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,

2 Kings 15:37 KJV Bible Verse Image
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In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

1 Kings 15:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

Exodus 6:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.

Joshua 13:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.

Joel 1:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

Haggai 2:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?

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In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;

Isaiah 39:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.

1 Kings 16:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

2 Kings 17:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.

Joshua 15:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,

2 Kings 13:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days.

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Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

2 Kings 14:26 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.

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