Quotes about History
Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.
— Ecclesiastes 1:10
There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.
— Ecclesiastes 1:11
What exists has already been, and what will be has already been, for God will call to account what has passed.
— Ecclesiastes 3:15
There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
— Ecclesiastes 4:16
Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is unwise of you to ask about this.
— Ecclesiastes 7:10
The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.”
— Isaiah 7:17
Before the year that the chief commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it,
— Isaiah 20:1
Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
— Isaiah 63:11
The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,
— Jeremiah 1:2
Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?
— Jeremiah 2:14
But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
— Jeremiah 7:12
therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.
— Jeremiah 7:14