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Joshua; parting of waters, sent out spies, death speech
God’s presence is with them if they keep the covenant (success), God’s presence is not with them if they break the covenant (defeat)
Establishment via victories of the Lord
Circumcision
8)
1&2 Samuel
Wisdom, wealth, women
Makes the golden calves
Older people
Younger people, his friends
Scribe and priest
Cup-bearer/governor
1. Built up the military, constructed the temple and palace, established Israel as a trade nation, organized the government, wrote wisdom literature, gained wealth
1. 2nd temple, Jerusalem wall, religious reforms (no foreign wives)
It allowed some Israelites to return to Jerusalem and rebuild, God uses someone not of the Hebrew faith to accomplish his purpose
Solomon was King
Rehoboam (Saul if you count the combined Israel)
The scattered people
Joshua
He developed a cavalry
700 wives 300 concubines
1. A rich man with many sheep and a poor man with one sheep; the rich man took the poor man’s sheep
2nd temple, Jerusalem wall, religious reforms
Regional political dominance, stabilization of monarchy, establishment of Jerusalem as capital, preservation of religious identity, model for idealized future
The Messiah will come from David’s line
Military leadership, ruler with equity and justice
Legacy, line would carry on (The ruler would always be from the line of David)
Discipline without withdrawing love, steadfast love, unending mercy
Discipline without withdrawing love, steadfast love, unending mercy
God usually approved of everything David did
God did not ask for a house
Great Name, Place of Peace, Dynasty, Hesed
Absalom
David
Amnon
Saul is trying to kill him, Absalom is plotting to take over the throne
A desolate woman
43)
Amnon
His neighbor will sleep with his wives in public view
45)
David’s daughter, Absalom’s sister, Amnon’s half-sister
Uriah the Hittite
Bathsheba
1. The sword would never depart from his family, his neighbor would sleep with his wives in public, the child would die
Parable of the sheep
40 years
David
Revenge
City of David, Jerusalem, Holy City
Bringing back the Ark of the Covenant
Hosea, Jesus
God's presence
1st victory, God’s instrument of judgment against evil people, living with the Canaanites will corrupt them
Judge, justify, deliverer
1. Kills Eglon by sneaking in his sword (he’s left handed) and stabbing him in his fat stomach, then locking the doors so the servants won’t go in
1. Kills Eglon by sneaking in his sword (he’s left handed) and stabbing him in his fat stomach, then locking the doors so the servants won’t go in
64)
Judge who led Barak to defeat Sisera, Jael killed Sisera, females get spotlight, most honorable, behaves most like an actual judge
Israel is unfaithful, oppression, Israel cries out, Lord raises a deliverer, Israel has rest
Israel is unfaithful, oppression, Israel cries out, Lord raises a deliverer, Israel has rest
Samson, super strong, defeats all his enemies, falls in love with Delilah, Delilah betrays him to the Philistines, they cut his hair, he is weak, pulls down house on all the Philistines
68)
Judge who led 300 men to battle against Midianites, people wanted him to be king, he said to let God rule
69)
Judge who led 300 men to battle against Midianites, people wanted him to be king, he said to let God rule
Faithful=prosper, unfaithful= bad things… evaluates how much people have stuck to God’s assessment
There is no king, the people did what was right in their own eyes (implies that they would be faithful if they had a king)
There is no king, the people did what was right in their own eyes (implies that they would be faithful if they had a king)
Kinship redeemer
Naomi, Ruth, Boaz
Judges and 1&2 Samuel and a bridge to David!
House of Bread!
There was a famine
Elimilech, Ruth and Orpah’s husbands
Bitter...this is what Naomi wanted to be called.
Bitter...this is what Naomi wanted to be called.
Covenant commitment
Boaz
Work ethic, devotion to Naomi, good-looking
Work ethic, devotion to Naomi, good-looking
To the threshing floor
Davidic lineage… leads to Jesus
Phillistines
11 and 10
Samuel, Saul, and David
1. They have metal weapons, organized government/taxes, bigger
97)
Samuel's mother
98)
Priest that teaches Samuel
Hophni and Phineas
100)
Judge/prophet/anointer of kings
Kings will take from you
Kings will take from you
Samuel’s sons are corrupt
Saul
105)
He is handsome and taller than everyone else
1. He usurps Samuel at Gilgal, he does not destroy the animals or Agog, built a monument to himself
He was instructed to dedicate to destruction but saved the best animals, saved Agog, and set up a monument to himself, asks Samuel to honor him
He was instructed to dedicate to destruction but saved the best animals, saved Agog, and set up a monument to himself, asks Samuel to honor him
He had the right heart
Musician/armor bearer
Goliath=really big, scared the Israelites, David=tiny, not afraid, called on God to be victorious, killed Goliath
Jonathan/Michal, people, Lord
Saul and Jonathan die
Judah, 7 years
1. Abner and Ishabaal, David and Joab
Abner and David want to negotiate, Joab kills Abner
118)
Prophet who counsels David
God establishes David’s house (make his name great, place of peace, dynasty, hesed)
God establishes David’s house (make his name great, place of peace, dynasty, hesed)
1. David does nothing, Absalom kills Amnon
1. Absalom
Solomon-fall of Judah (961-587)
Narrative
Unfaithful, influenced by wives’ religions
David
Judah (and Benjamin)
Other 10 tribes (Israel)
19 kings, 9 dynasties, 200 years
20 kings, 1 dynasty, 335 years
1. Worst king and queen of the North (tries to get rid of God’s presence)
133)
Prophet of the North, same time as Ahab and Jezebel
Assyria
135)
Rehoboam (inbetween), Hezekiah (faithful), Manasseh (worst EVER), Josiah (best, returns Passover/Covenant, DH hero), Jehoiachin (taken into exile and treated well, gives HOPE)
Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon
1. Jehoiachin
1. Ruth (discussion on turning away from foreign wives)
1. summary of Old Testament, worship/priests
Poetry (Hebrew Parallelism)
Emotions (highs and lows, joy and despair
Laments (most are)
Worship book of 2nd temple
Practical, reflective
145)
Proverbs (wisdom statements)
1. Prose, poetry (speeches), prose
1. Job is upright, Everything is taken away from Job, Job mourns his birth, friends blame him, Job cries out to God for answers, God says he is powerful and wise
Blameless, upright, turns away from evil, fears God, wealthy
Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar
1. Sons/daughters die, Job’s possessions destroyed, Job covered in sores