Old Testament

Old Testament

1. 2. Abraham

   • God tells Abram that He will make him into a great nation and commands him to go live in the land of Canaan
   • God makes a covenant with Abram, promising him a son and that his offspring will become a great nation
   • Abram and Sarai are impatient with God, so Abram has son named Ishmael with a the slave-girl Hagar.
   • 3 men/angels sent by God visit Abraham and tell him Sarah will have a son, she laughs
   • Isaac is born, and Hagar and Ishmael are sent away.
   • To test Abraham's faith, God commands him to sacrifice Isaac. God stops him right before Isaac is killed

2. 3. Jacob/Israel

   • Jacob steals Esau's blessing
     • Jacob runs away from fearing the Esau will kill him
   • Jacobs meets up with Esau, and they settle their differences .
   • Jacob wrestles with God, and has his named changed to Israel
   • Jacob flees from Laban because he has become to rich and wealth
   • Jacob works for a total of 14 years to earn Rachel and Leah

3. 4. Joseph

   • Joseph is the favorite son of Jacob, so he is given a coat of many colors.
     • His older brothers become jealous of Joseph, and sell him into salvery
       • Joseph becomes a slave in the house of Potiphar, but he is thrown in jail after Potiphar's wife acusses Joseph of trying to sleep with her.
   • While in jail, Joseph tells the meaning of the Pharaoh's cupbearer and cook's dreams
     • The Pharaoh has a dream and summons Joseph to figure out the meaning. Joseph tells of 7 years of prosperity folllowed by 7 years of terrible famine.
       • Joseph is put in 2nd command of all of Egypt, controlling all the food.

4. 5. Moses and the Exodus

   • Moses is put in a basket and sent down the Nile by his mother. This saves him from being killed by the Pharoah
     • Moses flees Egypt after killing an egyptian
   • God speaks to Moses through a burning bush, He wants Moses to lead Israel out of Egypt
   • Egypt is faced with the 10 plagues
     • Pharoah lets the people go
   • Moses parts the Red Sea and the Israelities escape
   • God gives the 10 commandments to Moses

5. 6. Joshua and the Judges

   • Joshua and the Israelites defeat Jericho
     • The Israelites enter the promise land
   • The Israelites are lead by 12 judges during the time of conquest through Canaan
     • The people always disobey God and are taken into slavery by opposing nations
   • Joshua was called by God to succeed Moses
     • Joshua did great miricles such as parting the Jordan River

6. 7. King Saul

   • First and youngest king of Israel
   • Was from tribe of Benjamin
   • Defeated the Philistines and other surrounding nations
     • Saul dies in battle by his own hand
   • God eventually abandoned Saul, because he disobeyed him multiple times
     • Saul becomes depressed and hires David to play the harp, which soothes him
       • Saul becomes jealous of David and begins to hunt him down across Israel

7. 8. King David

   • Second King of Israel, succeeded Saul as king
   • As a young boy, he defeated Goliath
     • Samuel also came and anioted David when he was a shepherd; he is also the youngest son of Jesse
   • David had an affair with Bathsheba and then he killed her husband
     • David was not allowed to build the temple because he had too much blood on his hands
   • Wrote most of Psalms

8. 1. Noah and the Flood

   • The world was filled with wicked people except for Noah
   • God commands Noah to build an ark to survive the flood
   • God tells Noah that he will send a flood to destroy mankind
   • It rains for 40 days and 40 nights, and the earth is flooded for 150 days
   • Noah and his family, along with at least a pair of every animal, enter the ark.
   • God makes a covenant to Noah saying he will never destroy mankind by flood again, and he creates the rainbow as a sign.

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