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| Creation of the world in seven days |
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| Account of the “day” the earth was created- focus on Adam and Eve |
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| Garden of Eden and the Fall |
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| Noahic covenant- God won't flood the earth, rainbow |
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| Abrahamic covenant- land and people |
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| Abraham tested with the sacrifice of Isaac- renewal of the covenant |
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| Jacob blesses his sons and their progeny |
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| God calls Moses from the burning bush, and establishes his name as YHWH. |
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-Moses tells the Israelites that God will free them, but they don't listen
-Geneology of Moses and Aaron |
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-Aaron builds the people a golden calf that they worship while Moses is gone
-Moses pleads with God to spare the people
-God strikes them with a plague |
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| List of clean and unclean foods |
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| Day of Atonement- high priest makes a sacrifice for the people in the most holy place |
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| List of the sacred assemblies |
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| Designation of the Levites for priestly duty |
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| Regulations for the water of cleansing that makes people ceremonially clean and able to worship again |
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| Balak, king of Moab, tries to get Balaam to curse Israel, but Balaam only blesses them |
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| Reubenites and Gadites settle to the east of the Jordan, but still cross over with the other tribes in order to fight with them |
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-Recap of the Ten Commandments
-The people want Moses to intercede with God for them
-God longs for the people to follow them for their own good |
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| Greatest commandment- love God with all your heart, soul, and strength |
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-Do not worship other gods
-Worshiping other gods or inciting others to do so is a capital offense |
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-Occult practices forbidden
-Prophets must have predictions that come true in order for them to be considered valid prophets |
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| Establishment of the Deuteronomistic covenant- written on the stone altar at Ebla, and recited by the people. |
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| Fall of Jericho- the Israelites march around it for seven days and then shout, and the walls fall |
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-Five kings of the Amorites attack Gibeon for making a treaty with Israel
-Israel attacks, Joshua prays and the sun stands still
-The Amorites flee and are killed by hail |
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| List of kings defeated by Israel |
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| Designation of the cities of refuge, to which someone who accidentally killed someone can flee |
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-Designation of the Levite towns
-Fulfillment of God's promises for land and for rest on every side |
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-Israel clears out more Canaanites and take Jerusalem, but they don't clear out everybody
-God causes the people they don't drive out to be a thorn in Israel's side
-Israel follows God in Joshua's lifetime, but then turn away to worship other gods |
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| Deborah and Barak's song of victory after defeating the Canaanites under King Jabin and Sisera |
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-Samson is seduced by Delilah and gets captured by the Philistines
-At the point of his death, Samson kills many Philistines by pulling down the temple on them |
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-Some Benjamites rape and murder a Levite's concubine
-The husband dismembers her body and sends her around the country to show what's been done
-The story is a graphic example of everyone doing "what was right in his own eyes" because there was no king |
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| God calls Samuel as a child. Eli, the priest, doesn't realize what is happening because visions and revelations were rare in those days. |
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-Saul is anointed as king and established
-Samuel rebukes the people for rejecting God as he establishes Saul's throne |
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-Saul is rejected by God as king of Israel because he spares Agag king of the Amelekites and takes some livestock after God commanded him to destroy everything
-Samuel says that to obey is better than sacrifice |
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| David kills Goliath and Israel routs the attacking Philistines |
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| Saul goes to a witch at Endor when God does not answer his query about the attacking Philistines. The witch summons the ghost of Samuel, who rebukes Saul and tells him that he will die. |
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-David becomes king of Israel in Hebron
-He removes the Jebusites from Jerusalem and sets it up as the political capital |
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-the ark is brought to Jerusalem, making it the spiritual as well as political capital
-David dances before the Lord |
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| Davidic Covenant- peace as long as his sons obey, and an ongoing line of kings |
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| David sleeps with Bathsheba and kills her husband Uriah |
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| David calls for a census, which displeases God, who strikes the people with a plague. |
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-God tells Solomon to ask him for anything. Solomon humbly asks for wisdom, so God gives him that and riches.
-Solomon resolves the dispute between the two mothers. |
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| The ark is brought to the temple and the Lord manifests his presence |
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-Queen of Sheba visits Solomon
-Solomon breaks all of the commands for kings in Deuteronomy 17, multiplying gold, wives, and horses |
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-Reheboam threatens to increase demands on the people, so the northern tribes rebel under Jereboam
-Jereboam sets up golden calves |
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| -Elijah challenges the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel |
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| -Micaiah, the prophet of God, predicts Ahab's death, so Ahab imprisons him |
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| -Elijah gives Elisha a double-portion of his spirit before ascending to heaven, and Elisha performs miracles |
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| -Jehu kills the descendants of Ahab and all Baal worshipers in Israel |
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-Israel is exiled to Assyria by Shalmanezer
-This happened because they turned away from God |
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| -Hezekiah, king of Judah during the exile of Israel, rids Judah of idol worship |
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| 2 Kings 22, 2 Chronicles 34 |
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| -Josiah, king of Judah, finds the Book of the Law and repents on behalf of the nation for turning away from God |
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| -Babylon, under Nebuchadnezzar, lays siege to Jerusalem, destroys the city and the temple, and exports the people |
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| -Descendants of David through the exile |
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| -David celebrates the bringing of the ark to Jerusalem |
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| -David recommissions the Levites for the roles they will have in the transition from worship at the tabernacle to worship at the temple |
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-Solomon dedicates the temple
-God appears to Solomon, and urges him to follow him |
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| -Hezekiah purifies the temple and rededicates it to be used solely to worship Yahweh |
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| -Hezekiah reestablishes the Passover celebration, and all Israel assembles for it for the first time in a long time |
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| -Assyrians under Sennacherib surround Jerusalem and threaten the people, but an angel strikes them |
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| -Cyrus King of Persia decrees that the temple in Jerusalem will be rebuilt |
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| -Zerubbabel and the Israelites rebuild the temple |
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| -Nehemiah, Isrealite cupbearer to Artaxerxes King of Persia, gets permission from him |
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| -List of the builders of the wall during the rebuilding of Jerusalem |
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| -Upon returning to the Promised Land, the Israelites acknowledge God's faithfulness throughout their nation's history and they repent |
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| -Nehemiah recommits the people to separating themselves from the surrounding nations and observing the Sabbath |
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| -Esther is chosen by Xerxes King of Persia to be his wife, but she does not tell him she is an Israelite |
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| -Esther asks Xerxes to throw a banquet and invite Haman |
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| -Mordecai rises to great power under Xerxes, and the Israelites begin to take over the Promised Land again. |
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| -Satan accuses Job of being a fair-weather follower of God, so God allows Satan to strike his family and his health. Job accepts it from God and doesn't sin. |
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| The rulers of the world conspire against the plans of the Lord in vain, because God is sovereign over them. |
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| Wonder at God having any concern for people, considering how awesome he is |
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-Quoted by Jesus at the cross
-Lament of David that closely parallels Jesus' crucifixion |
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| -Expression of intimacy and utter dependence on God |
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-David's repentance after his sin with Bathsheba and Uriah
-David expresses great remorse as well as confidence in God's grace |
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| -Prayer of Moses, acknowledging the people's sin and pleading for God's favor |
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| -Short praise song about God's goodness and love |
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| -Messianic psalm used by Jesus and the book of Hebrews to demonstrate Jesus' authenticity |
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| -Song of praise and petition that centers on the importance and goodness of God's word |
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| -A call to deeply value and pursue wisdom |
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| -Description of the wife of noble character |
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| -There are different times for different events, and this is from God |
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| -A call to take risks, to work hard, and to remember God during the prime of life |
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| -Lovers express delight in each other |
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| -Israel is rebellious, but will be purified by God |
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| -Isaiah is commissioned in a vision from God. Isaiah asks to be sent to speak God's message, even though the people will not listen |
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| -Promise from God that a virgin will be with child, and that before the child is grown, the nations Ahaz king of Judah fears (Israel and Aram) will be destroyed |
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| -Messianic prophecy- he will be called wonderful counselor, mighty God, etc., he will sit on David's throne and rule forever |
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| -Messianic prophecy- he will delight in the fear of the Lord, the world will be at peace |
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| -God's people are comforted because God in his great power and goodness will see to it that he will set things right |
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| -Servant song- the sin of the people will fall on him, he will die and be with a rich man in his death, God will prolong his days |
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| -Jeremiah is called to pronounce judgments on the people, about trouble coming from the north |
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| -The people are condemned for honoring God superficially, but rejecting him by murdering in the streets and worshiping Baal |
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-Jehoahaz condemned for dishonest gain and mistreating the people
-To uphold the cause of the needy is "what it means to know me" |
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| -God will establish a new covenant with Israel when he writes his laws on their hearts |
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| -Nebuchadnezzar lays siege to Jerusalem, destroys the temple, and captures Zedekiah the king |
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| -Israel mourns, but they should accept their punishment from the Lord |
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| A vision of God's glory, with winged creatures surrounding him |
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| A vision of God's glory leaving the temple |
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| God will punish each person for their own deeds, not their ancestors' |
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| God punished Israel and will later bless its mountains, all for the sake of his name |
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| Vision of the valley of dry bones, about the regathering of Israel |
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| Vision of the future temple |
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-Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar's dream without having heard it
-The dream concerns a succession of kingdoms |
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| -Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are thrown into the furnace for not worshiping the image of Nebuchadnezzar, but God spares them |
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-Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar's dream concerning his own downfall
-Nebuchadnezzar becomes insane, but then prays and is restored |
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| -Darius throws Daniel in the lions' den for worshiping God, but God spares him |
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| -Prophecy of the 70 weeks, concerning the coming of the Messiah and the redemption of Israel |
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| -God calls Hosea to marry a prostitute because Israel is guilty of adultery towards the Lord |
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| -God's case against Israel about her being like an adulterous wife |
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-An army of locusts will invade Israel
-"Rend your hearts, not your garments"
-Description of the Day of the Lord- prophecies, dreams, darkened sun, fire and billows of smoke |
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| -Woe to those who are complacent in the face of their sin and the warnings of destruction from the prophets |
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| -Amaziah threatens Amos and tells him not to prophecy in Israel, but Amos falls back on the calling he received from God |
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| -Edom is condemned for taking advantage of Israel when they were in distress |
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| -Jonah is called to preach in Ninevah, but he runs away. He boards a ship going the other way, but God sends a storm, and then a fish to swallow Jonah for 3 days |
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| -Jonah prays from inside the fish, and God has him vomited out on land |
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| -God's case against Israel, and what they need to do: "To act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God." |
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| -God will utterly destroy Ninevah |
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| -God answers Habakkuk's second complaint by telling him of the impending destruction of nations who destroy their neighbors |
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| -Jerusalem will be destroyed for ignoring God and for their arrogance, but God will save a remnant that is meek and humble |
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| -God calls Zerubbabel and the people to start to rebuild the temple |
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-The king will come into Jerusalem on a donkey with salvation
-The Lord will appear |
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| -God says "they will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child." |
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| -God challenges people to give the whole tithe, and says that he would bless them greatly if they would |
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| Hyksos period in Egypt. They had little influence in Canaan, so this was probably the time of the patriarchs. |
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| Beginning of the united monarchy- Saul comes to power |
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| Beginning of the divided kingdom, and Solomon's death |
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-Battle of Qarqar- dated in Assyrian sources. The best extra-biblical date for dating the entire old testament
-End of the reign of Ahab |
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| Destruction of the 10 Northern tribes by Assyria |
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| Battle of Carchemish- 1st time Nebuchadnezzar comes to Jerusalem (chasing the Egyptians) |
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| -Jerusalem is taken by Nebuchadnezzar |
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| -Cyrus allows Zerubbabel to lead the first 50,000 Israelites back from Babylon to Jerusalem |
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