Outline of Israel - History of Israel

Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or israel:

“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”
—Lytton Strachey (1880–1932)

“If you look at the 150 years of modern China’s history since the Opium Wars, then you can’t avoid the conclusion that the last 15 years are the best 15 years in China’s modern history.”
—J. Stapleton Roy (b. 1935)

“appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 8:5.

Leaders of ancient Israel asking the last of the judges, Samuel, to appoint a king.