# רִאשׁוֹן (rishon)

Israeli respelling: rishon. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7223. 174 Old Testament occurrences.

first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun)

King James renderings: ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/rishon-h7223

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 8:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/8/13) — And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off…
- [Genesis 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/13/4) — Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
- [Genesis 25:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/25/25) — And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
- [Genesis 26:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/26/1) — And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Phil…
- [Genesis 28:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/28/19) — And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
- [Genesis 32:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/32/17) — And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou?…
- [Genesis 33:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/33/2) — And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
- [Genesis 38:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/38/28) — And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, sayi…
- [Genesis 40:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/40/13) — Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand…
- [Genesis 41:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/41/20) — And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
- [Exodus 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/4/8) — And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice…
- [Exodus 12:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/2) — This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
- [Exodus 12:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/15) — Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bre…
- [Exodus 12:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/16) — And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of wor…
- [Exodus 12:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/18) — In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month…
- [Exodus 34:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/34/1) — And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in t…
- [Exodus 34:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/34/4) — And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had…
- [Exodus 40:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/40/2) — On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
- [Exodus 40:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/40/17) — And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
- [Leviticus 4:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/4/21) — And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the congregati…
- [Leviticus 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/5/8) — And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, bu…
- [Leviticus 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/9/15) — And he brought the people’s offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as…
- [Leviticus 23:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/23/5) — In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s passover.
- [Leviticus 23:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/23/7) — In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
- [Leviticus 23:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/23/35) — On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
- [Leviticus 23:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/23/39) — Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven d…
- [Leviticus 23:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/23/40) — And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of th…
- [Leviticus 26:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/45) — But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heat…
- [Numbers 2:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/9) — All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout t…
- [Numbers 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/6/12) — And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the…
- [Numbers 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/12) — And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
- [Numbers 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/9/1) — And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egy…
- [Numbers 9:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/9/5) — And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD comm…
- [Numbers 10:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/10/13) — And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
- [Numbers 10:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/10/14) — In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son…
- [Numbers 20:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/20/1) — Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; a…
- [Numbers 21:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/26) — For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of h…
- [Numbers 28:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/28/16) — And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
- [Numbers 28:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/28/18) — In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
- [Numbers 33:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/33/3) — And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children o…
- [Deuteronomy 4:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/32) — For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side…
- [Deuteronomy 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/18) — And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all you…
- [Deuteronomy 10:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/10/1) — At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an…
- [Deuteronomy 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/10/2) — And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
- [Deuteronomy 10:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/10/3) — And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in…
- [Deuteronomy 10:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/10/4) — And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the mid…
- [Deuteronomy 10:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/10/10) — And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and…
- [Deuteronomy 13:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/13/9) — But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
- [Deuteronomy 16:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/16/4) — And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sac…
- [Deuteronomy 17:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/17/7) — The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the ev…
- [Deuteronomy 19:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/19/14) — Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land…
- [Deuteronomy 24:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/24/4) — Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before t…
- [Joshua 4:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/4/19) — And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
- [Joshua 8:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/5) — And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at th…
- [Joshua 8:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/6) — (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore…
- [Joshua 8:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/33) — And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levite…
- [Joshua 21:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/21/10) — Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot.
- [Judges 18:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/18/29) — And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was La…
- [Judges 20:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/22) — And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array…
- [Judges 20:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/32) — And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw…
- [Judges 20:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/39) — And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said…
- [Ruth 3:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/3/10) — And he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch…
- [1 Samuel 14:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/14) — And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a y…
- [1 Samuel 17:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/30) — And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
- [2 Samuel 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/7/10) — Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; n…
- [2 Samuel 18:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/18/27) — And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a…
- [2 Samuel 19:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/19/20) — For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet…
- [2 Samuel 19:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/19/43) — And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why…
- [2 Samuel 20:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/20/18) — Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.
- [2 Samuel 21:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/21/9) — And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together,…
- [1 Kings 13:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/13/6) — And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored…
- [1 Kings 17:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/13) — And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after m…
- [1 Kings 18:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/25) — And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name…
- [1 Kings 20:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/9) — Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will d…
- [1 Kings 20:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/17) — And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out…
- [2 Kings 1:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/1/14) — Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now…
- [2 Kings 17:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/34) — Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or…
- [2 Kings 17:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/40) — Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
- [1 Chronicles 9:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/9/2) — Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.
- [1 Chronicles 11:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/11/6) — And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.
- [1 Chronicles 12:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/12/15) — These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valley…
- [1 Chronicles 15:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/15/13) — For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.
- [1 Chronicles 17:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/17/9) — Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neit…
- [1 Chronicles 18:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/18/17) — And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.
- [1 Chronicles 24:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/24/7) — Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
- [1 Chronicles 25:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/25/9) — Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons were twelve:
- [1 Chronicles 27:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/27/2) — Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
- [1 Chronicles 27:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/27/3) — Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month.
- [1 Chronicles 29:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/29) — Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prop…
- [2 Chronicles 3:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/3/3) — Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure…
- [2 Chronicles 9:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/9/29) — Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah…
- [2 Chronicles 12:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/12/15) — Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealo…
- [2 Chronicles 16:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/16/11) — And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
- [2 Chronicles 17:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/17/3) — And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
- [2 Chronicles 20:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/20/34) — Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned i…
- [2 Chronicles 22:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/22/1) — And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the ca…
- [2 Chronicles 25:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/25/26) — Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
- [2 Chronicles 26:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/26/22) — Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
- [2 Chronicles 28:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/28/26) — Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
- [2 Chronicles 29:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/29/3) — He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
- [2 Chronicles 29:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/29/17) — Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so t…
- [2 Chronicles 35:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/35/1) — Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- [2 Chronicles 35:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/35/27) — And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
- [Ezra 3:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/3/12) — But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of t…
- [Ezra 6:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/6/19) — And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
- [Ezra 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/7/9) — For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, acc…
- [Ezra 8:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/8/31) — Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us,…
- [Ezra 9:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/9/2) — For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of…
- [Ezra 10:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/17) — And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
- [Nehemiah 5:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/5/15) — But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekel…
- [Nehemiah 7:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/5) — And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And…
- [Nehemiah 8:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/8/18) — Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on th…
- [Esther 1:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/1/14) — And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which s…
- [Esther 3:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/3/7) — In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day…
- [Esther 3:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/3/12) — Then were the king’s scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had command…
- [Job 8:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/8/8) — For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
- [Job 15:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/15/7) — Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
- [Psalms 79:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/79/8) — O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
- [Psalms 89:49](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/49) — Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
- [Proverbs 18:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/18/17) — He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
- [Proverbs 20:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/21) — An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
- [Ecclesiastes 1:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/1/11) — There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come afte…
- [Ecclesiastes 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/10) — Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
- [Isaiah 1:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/26) — And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteo…
- [Isaiah 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/9/1) — Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land…
- [Isaiah 41:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/4) — Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
- [Isaiah 41:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/22) — Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and kno…
- [Isaiah 41:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/27) — The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
- [Isaiah 42:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/42/9) — Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
- [Isaiah 43:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/43/9) — Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let…
- [Isaiah 43:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/43/18) — Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
- [Isaiah 43:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/43/27) — Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
- [Isaiah 44:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/6) — Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no Go…
- [Isaiah 46:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/46/9) — Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
- [Isaiah 48:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/48/3) — I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they…
- [Isaiah 48:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/48/12) — Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
- [Isaiah 52:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/52/4) — For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
- [Isaiah 60:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/9) — Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unt…
- [Isaiah 61:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/61/4) — And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of…
- [Isaiah 65:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/7) — Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed…
- [Isaiah 65:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/16) — That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God…
- [Isaiah 65:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/17) — For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
- [Jeremiah 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/7/12) — But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people…
- [Jeremiah 11:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/11/10) — They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them:…
- [Jeremiah 16:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/16/18) — And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with…
- [Jeremiah 17:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/17/12) — A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.
- [Jeremiah 33:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/33/7) — And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
- [Jeremiah 33:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/33/11) — The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Pra…
- [Jeremiah 34:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/34/5) — But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for t…
- [Jeremiah 36:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/36/28) — Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burn…
- [Jeremiah 50:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/17) — Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king…
- [Ezekiel 29:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/29/17) — And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me,…
- [Ezekiel 30:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/30/20) — And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, sayi…
- [Ezekiel 40:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/21) — And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the…
- [Ezekiel 45:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/18) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse th…
- [Ezekiel 45:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/45/21) — In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
- [Daniel 8:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/8/21) — And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
- [Daniel 10:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/10/4) — And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;
- [Daniel 10:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/10/12) — Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before…
- [Daniel 10:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/10/13) — But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and…
- [Daniel 11:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/13) — For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain yea…
- [Daniel 11:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/29) — At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.
- [Hosea 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/2/7) — And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she sa…
- [Joel 2:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/23) — Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to…
- [Micah 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/4/8) — And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shal…
- [Haggai 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/haggai/2/3) — Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothi…
- [Haggai 2:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/haggai/2/9) — The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the…
- [Zechariah 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/1/4) — Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways,…
- [Zechariah 6:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/6/2) — In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
- [Zechariah 7:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/7/7) — Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the citi…
- [Zechariah 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/7/12) — Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spir…
- [Zechariah 8:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/8/11) — But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.
- [Zechariah 12:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/12/7) — The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do no…
- [Zechariah 14:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/14/10) — All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from…