Old Testament

Old Testament

1. 8. King David

   • David spares Saul's life two times.
   • Saul's son, Jonathon and David were best friends.
   • After seeing that his son had been killed, Saul falls on his own sword.
   • David shoots a rock at Goliath's head and Goliath falls to the ground. After killing him, David cuts off Goliath's head.
   • The Philistines and the Israelites are ready for battle and they are to pick 1 soldier from each nation to fight one another. The Philistine's soldier is Goliath the giant.
   • David volunteers to fight Goliath and Saul agrees and gives him armor. But David is not used to it and takes it off.

2. 5. Joseph

   • Pharaoh has a dream, but sees that no one can interpret it, the chief cupbearer tells Pharaoh that Joseph can interpret his dream. Pharaoh brings Joseph and he interprets Pharaoh's dream. Pharaoh is amazed and puts Joseph in charge of the palace.
   • When Joseph's brothers come to Egypt for food he tests them and tells them to bring Benjamin, Joseph's younger brother. They come back with Benjamin and Joseph reveals himself.
   • Joseph has dreams that "tell the future".
   • Genesis 37:3, Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate robe for him.
   • When Jacob finds out that Joseph is alive, he wants to go see him before he dies.
   • While Joseph was in Potiphar's house, his wife, wanted to sleep with Joseph, but Joseph refused and Potiphar's wife was mad and she accused Joseph of rape.

3. 7. Mt. Sinai & Giving Of The Law

   • God came in the cloud and spoke the ten commandments to the Israelites.
   • Exodus 20:1-2, And God spoke all these words: 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
   • God gave instructions on everything the Israelites should do and how they should do it, exactly the way God said it.
   • The Israelites could not touch the mountain or force their way through or else they would perish.
   • On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast.
   • Moses goes up the mountain and God speaks to him and tells him to tell the Israelites that he will come in a cloud on top of the mountain so they can hear God too.

4. 1: Creation

   • Main Characters: God, Adam, Eve
   • God made the world in 7 days.
   • Genesis 1:1, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
   • 1st day: God made the light and the darkness. - 2nd day: God made the sky and the oceans. - 3rd day god made the sun, moon, and stars. - 4th day: God made the land, plants, and trees.
   • God made Eve from Adam's rib.
   • 5th day: God made the fish and the birds. - 6th day: God made man and animals. - 7th day: God rested.

5. 2. The Fall

   • Main Characters: God, Adam, Eve, "the serpent"
   • Genesis 1:1, Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
   • Facts: The serpent tricked Eve and told her that she would be like God knowing good and evil.
   • God cursed Adam and Eve because the disobeyed him.
   • Adam and Eve hid from God because they realized they were naked and were afraid.
   • After God banished Adam and Eve, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard.

6. 4. Abraham

   • Harai was Sarai and Abraham's servant and she had Abraham's son, Ishmael, since Sarai could not have children.
   • Genesis 22:17-18, 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.”
   • Sarai gave birth to Isaac. Abraham was later tested to offer his son, Isaac as an offering, and God saw that Abraham believed in him.
   • Abraham and Lot separate, but when God tells Abraham that he will destroy Sodom the city that Lot lived in, Abraham went and rescued Lot and his family.
   • God promised Abraham he would be the father of many nations and his descendants would be as numerous as the stars.
   • Abraham and his family went to Egypt because there was a famine, Abraham told his wife to say she was his sister so that he would be spared.

7. 3. Noah & The Flood

   • Main Characters: Noah, God, Noah's wife, Shem, Ham and Japheth (Noah's sons)
   • God came to Noah and said he would destroy the wicked people and the earth. He told Noah to build an ark and how to build it in a specific way.
   • Genesis 7:1, The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
   • Facts: God told Noah to make the ark out of cypress wood.
   • God told Noah to take a female and a male of each kind of animal.
   • God sent rain to earth for 40 days and 40 nights

8. 6. Moses & The Exodus

   • The Israelite people lived in Egypt for 430 years.
   • Pharaoh's firstborn son dies and that is the final straw. He tells Moses to go and take his people with him.
   • Exodus 12:31, During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have requested. 32 Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.”
   • There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
   • Moses stretched out his hand over the red sea, and all night God drove the sea back and turned it into dry land.
   • Moses did not make it to the promised land since he did not obey God.

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