nations before him # 23_ISA_40_17 # All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. 
nations before him # 23_ISA_41_02 # Who raised up the righteous [man] from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made [him] rule over kings? he gave [them] as the dust to his sword, [and] as driven stubble to his bow. 
nations before him # 23_ISA_45_01 # Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; 
nations before him # 45_ROM_04_17 # [As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,] before him whom he believed, [even] God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.