Quotes About History

Men of Persia, Lydia, and Put served as warriors in your army. They hung their shields and helmets on your walls; they gave you splendor.

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your merchants. They exchanged slaves and bronze utensils for your merchandise.

As they wail and mourn over you, they will take up a lament for you: ëWho was ever like Tyre, silenced in the middle of the sea?

In the twenty-seventh year, on the first day of the first month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder made raw. But he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the labor they expended on it.

In the eleventh year, on the seventh day of the first month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Assyria is there with her whole company; her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.

This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those times prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?

as did its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico. It also had windows all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

Berothah, and Sibraim (which is on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran.

On the south side it will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, and along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea. This will be the southern boundary.

On the south side, which will be 4,500 cubits long, there will be three gates: the gate of Simeon, the gate of Issachar, and the gate of Zebulun.

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.

And Daniel remained there until the first year of King Cyrus.

But after you, there will arise another kingdom, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule the whole earth.

PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,

and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.

So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.

The shaggy goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes is the first king.

The four horns that replaced the broken one represent four kingdoms that will rise from that nation, but will not have the same power.