Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not forsake me; until I have shown your strength to this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.
And the LORD said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly extinguish the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, of which the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
For whatever things were written in former times were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.