Quotes About History

When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,

they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved from tent to tent and dwelling to dwelling.

When the Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand men.

Moreover, Abishai son of Zeruiah struck down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Shavsha was the scribe;

Once again there was a battle with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaverís beam.

So these descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.

The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These were the sons of Shimei—four in all.

The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.

The descendants of Gershom: Shebuel was the first.

The sons of Izhar: Shelomith was the first.

The sons of Hebron: Jeriah was the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

From the sons of Uzziel: Micah; from the sons of Micah: Shamir.

The brother of Micah: Isshiah; from the sons of Isshiah: Zechariah.

The descendants of Merari from Jaaziah: Beno, Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri.

From Kish: Jerahmeel the son of Kish.

Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,

His relatives through Eliezer included Rehabiah his son, Jeshaiah his son, Joram his son, Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.

He was a descendant of Perez and chief of all the army commanders for the first month.

The fourth, for the fourth month, was Joabís brother Asahel, and his son Zebadiah was commander after him. There were 24,000 men in his division.