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;

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.

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.

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,

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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;

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.

Ezekiel 30:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Isaiah 7:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Exodus 1:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

2 Chronicles 28:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.

Ezra 4:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites,

Matthew 14:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,

Judges 4:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.

Luke 3:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

2 Kings 24:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

Acts 24:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:

Jeremiah 46:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

Isaiah 37:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?

Ezekiel 30:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

Exodus 6:29 KJV Bible Verse Image
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That the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I am the LORD: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.

1 Kings 16:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were before him.

Deuteronomy 2:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)

2 Kings 8:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.

Ezra 4:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.

1 Samuel 5:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.

1 Kings 7:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

Acts 21:38 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?

Acts 26:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

Isaiah 7:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;

Jeremiah 32:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;

2 Kings 16:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.

Numbers 21:28 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

2 Chronicles 28:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.

2 Kings 23:33 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

2 Kings 14:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

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