Quotes about History
When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.
— 2 Kings 19:8
Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?
— 2 Kings 19:11
Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”
— 2 Kings 19:13
So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
— 2 Kings 19:36
The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
— 2 Kings 20:17
As for the rest of the acts of Amon, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
— 2 Kings 21:25
So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.
— 2 Kings 22:14
No such Passover had been observed from the days of the judges who had governed Israel through all the days of the kings of Israel and Judah.
— 2 Kings 23:22
As for the rest of the acts of Josiah, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
— 2 Kings 23:28
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
— 2 Kings 23:31
Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
— 2 Kings 24:7
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
— 2 Kings 24:11