Quotes About Time

After four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I have made to the LORD.

But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?

So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he took longer than the time allotted him.

At the end of nine months and twenty days, having gone through the whole land, they returned to Jerusalem.

He sent them to Lebanon in monthly shifts of 10,000 men, so that they would spend one month in Lebanon and two months at home. And Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.

In his eleventh year and eighth month, the month of Bul, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.

Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.

the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.

Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then return to me.” So the people departed.

After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”

Then three years passed without war between Aram and Israel.

Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.

And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?”

“It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps,” answered Hezekiah, “but not for it to go back ten steps.”

So Isaiah the prophet called out to the LORD, and He brought the shadow back the ten steps it had descended on the stairway of Ahaz.

At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.

And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiahís eleventh year.

Their relatives came from their villages at fixed times to serve with them for seven-day periods.

Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people departed.

Then Abijah rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Asa reigned in his place, and in his days the land was at peace for ten years.

And there was no war until the thirty-fifth year of Asaís reign.

So in the forty-first year of his reign, Asa died and rested with his fathers.

Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.

He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years.