1. Old Testament Overview ♦ Books ♦ Key People ♦ Events ♦ Timeline
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♦ Books ♦
Job
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The Judges
♦ Othniel ♦ Ehud ♦ Shamgar ♦Deborah ♦ Barak ♦ Gideon ♦ Abimelech ♦ Tola
♦ Jair ♦ ♦ Jephthah ♦Ibsan ♦ Elon
♦ Abdon ♦ Samson ♦ Eli ♦ ♦ Samuel
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Kingdom
Saul
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David
1011
Solomon
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Judah
Rehoboam
Abijah
Asa Jehoshaphat
Jehoram
Ahaziah
Athaliah
Joash
Amaziah
Uzziah
Jotham
Ahaz
Hezekiah
Manasseh
Amon
Josiah
Jehoahaz
Jehoiakim
Jehoiachin
Zedekiah
Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther
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Nadab
Baasha
Elah
Zimri
Timri
Omri
Ahab
Jehu
Jehoash
Jeroboam
Zechariah
Shallum
Menahem
Pekahiah
Pekah
Hoshea
Isaac
Jacob
Esau
Terah
Abraham
Sarah
Adam
Eve
Cain
Abel
Seth
Mahaleleel
Jared
Enoch
Methuselah
Lamech
Reuben ♦Simeon
Levi ♦Judah
Dan ♦Naphtali
Gad ♦Asher
Isaacar ♦Zebulun
Joseph ♦Ephram
Manasseh ♦Benjamin
Noah
Japheth
Shem
Ham
Moses
Joshua
Caleb
Divided Kingdom
Judah & Israel Exile
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♦ Key People ♦
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♦ Events ♦
2015
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400 years
of Silence
Between
Old & New
Testaments
Today
Jacob goes to Egypt
Wilderness Wanderings
Conquest of Canaan
Israel Crosses Jordan
Conquest of Canaan
Exodus from Egypt
United Kingdom
Divided Kingdom
Captivity of Israel
Captivity of Judah
Remnant Returns
Cain Kills Abel
Tower of Babel
Temple Rebuilt
The Judges
Creation
Adam Sins
Adam Dies
The Flood
Abraham
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4 Approximate Dates 000 B .C
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2. Adam & Eve Created on the 6th day Methuselah: Born 487th Year
Genesis 1-9: From Creation to the Flood
From Adam to Noah & his sons: ♦ Shem ♦ Ham ♦ Japheth
Today
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Adam & Eve Created on the 6th day
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Seth: Born 130th Year
912 years
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Enos: Born 235th Year
905 years
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Cainan: Born 325th Year
910 years
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Mahaleel: Born 395th Year
895 years
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Jared: Born 460th Year
962 years
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Enoch: Born 662nd Year
430 years
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Methuselah: Born 487th Year
962 years
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Lamech: Born 874th Year
777 years
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Noah: Born 1056th Year
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Shem: Born 1556th Year
Shem: Born 1556
600 years
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Ham: Born 1556th Year
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Japeth: Born 1556th Year
Abel: Born 120th Year
320 years
Jan 1 - Jan 9
Cain: Born 75th Year
500 years
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Enoch: Born 325th Year
365 years
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Irad: Born 380th Year
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The 6 Days of Creation
The Flood
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3. Genesis 10: The Genealogy of the Sons of Noah Shem, Ham, and Japheth
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Genesis 10: The Genealogy of the Sons of Noah
Shem, Ham, and Japheth
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10 Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.
2 The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 3 The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5 From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.
6 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtechah; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
8 Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.” 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, 12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (that is the principal city).
13 Mizraim begot Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 14 Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines and Caphtorim).
15 Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth; 16 the Jebusite, the Amorite, and the Girgashite; 17 the Hivite, the Arkite, and the Sinite; 18 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed. 19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. 20 These were the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands and in their nations.
21 And children were born also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder. 22 The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. 23 The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 24 Arphaxad begot Salah, and Salah begot Eber. 25 To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan. 26 Joktan begot Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. 30 And their dwelling place was from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east. 31 These were the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations.
32 These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.
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Japheth
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Gomer
Javan
Ham
Cush
Raamah
Mizraim
Canaan
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Aram
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Eber
Joktan
Noah
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4. Genesis 11: The Tower of Babel
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Genesis 11: The Tower of Babel
Confusion of Languages & Disbursement of Peoples
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Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. 4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6 And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. 9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
10 This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood. 11 After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
12 Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Salah. 13 After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
14 Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber. 15 After he begot Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg. 17 After he begot Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
18 Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu. 19 After he begot Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug. 21 After he begot Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
22 Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor. 23 After he begot Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah. 25 After he begot Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
26 Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. 32 So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
Shem
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5. Genesis 12-18: God’s Promises to Abraham
Promised Land ♦ Father of Nations ♦ Seed of Christ
175 years
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Isaac
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Jacob
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Genesis 12 Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. 2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
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Reuben
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Simeon
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Levi
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The Children
Of Israel aka
Jacob
Judah
Jan 1 - Jan 1
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Dan
Jan 1 - Jan 1
72 years
Naphtali
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Gad
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Asher
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72 years
Isaacar
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Zebulun
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72 years
Joseph
Jan 1 - Jan 1
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Ephram
Jan 1 - Jan 1
135 years
Manasseh
Jan 1 - Jan 1
125 years
Benjamin
Jan 1 - Jan 1
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Kohath
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Amram
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Esau
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6. From The Exodus From Egypt To the Conquest of Canaan
The Books of Exodus, Joshua and Judges cover this period of time.
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120 years
Moses
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Aaron
110 years
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Caleb
Othniel
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Tola
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Elon
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The Judges
Of Israel
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The Conquest of Canaan starts with the three campaigns of Joshua. The Conquest continued with the Judges.
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Judge after Joshua's death
Fought the Moabites
Led Israelites against the Philistines
Prophetess, guided Barak to victory over the Canaanites, only female judge
Defeated Midianites with 300 men
Only judge to win leadership through treachery
Judged Israel for 23 years
Judged Israel for 22 years
Defeated Ammonites
Judged people for 7 years
Judge for 10 years
Ruled for 8 years
Fought Phillistines singlehandedly
Priest, ruled people from the sanctuary at Gilo
Last judge before the kingdom came under the rule of Saul
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7. The United Kingdom of Israel The Reigns of Saul, David and Solomon
Today
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Adam & Eve Created on the 6th day
930 years
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Seth: Born 130th Year
912 years
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Enos: Born 235th Year
905 years
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Cainan: Born 325th Year
910 years
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Mahaleel: Born 395th Year
895 years
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Jared: Born 460th Year
962 years
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Enoch: Born 662nd Year
430 years
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Methuselah: Born 487th Year
962 years
Jan 1 - Jan 1
Lamech: Born 874th Year
777 years
Jan 2 - Jan 1
Noah: Born 1056th Year
950 years
Jan 2 - Jan 1
Shem: Born 1556th Year
Shem: Born 1556
600 years
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Ham: Born 1556th Year
Jan 10 - Jan 17
Japeth: Born 1556th Year
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Abel: Born 120th Year
320 years
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Cain: Born 75th Year
500 years
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Enoch: Born 325th Year
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Irad: Born 380th Year
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The 6 Days of Creation
The Flood
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8. The United Kingdom of Israel The Reigns of Saul, David and Solomon
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Saul anointed King:
1 Samuel 8 Now it came to pass when Samuel was old that he made his sons judges over Israel. 2 The name of his firstborn was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba. 3 But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.
4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, 5 and said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” So Samuel prayed to the Lord. 7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them. 8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt, even to this day—with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also. 9 Now therefore, heed their voice. However, you shall solemnly forewarn them, and show them the behavior of the king who will reign over them.”
1 Samuel  Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. 25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord.” ...
... 34 Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house at Gibeah of Saul. 35 And Samuel went no more to see Saul until the day of his death. Nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul, and the Lord regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.
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Samuel
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Saul
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David
Reigned from
Solomon
Reigned from 970-
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Raamah
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Aram
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Eber
Joktan
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9. The 12 Tribes – 10 Northern and 2 Southern
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The 12 Tribes – 10 Northern and 2 Southern
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Some of the Kings of the 2 Southern Tribes were good and some were bad.
All the of the Kings of the 10 Northern Tribes of Israel were bad.
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Saul
The Kings
of Israel
Kings of Judah Dates
Jeroboam
Nadab
Baasha
Elah
Zimri 882
Timri
Omri
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Pekah
Hoshea
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Rehoboam
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Asa
Jehoshaphat
Jehoram
Ahaziah
Queen Athaliah
Joash
Amaziah
Uzziah
Jotham
Ahaz
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Manasseh
Amon
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Jehoahaz 609
Jehoiakim
Jehoiachin 597
Zedekiah
of Judah
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Solomon
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Raamah
Mizraim
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Aram
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Eber
Joktan
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10. The Exile & Restoration The 12 Tribes – 10 Northern and 2 Southern
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Solomon
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Raamah
Mizraim
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Aram
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Eber
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