Quotes about Israel

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.

For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”

As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD.

Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

The son of Carmi: Achar, who brought trouble upon Israel by violating the ban on devoted things.

These were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: The firstborn was Amnon by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second was Daniel by Abigail of Carmel;

They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,

These were the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. Though he was the firstborn, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, because Reuben defiled his father’s bed. So he is not reckoned according to birthright.

The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

All of them were reckoned in the genealogies during the reigns of Jotham king of Judah and Jeroboam king of Israel.

So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. And he brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this day.