Old Testament Review

Old Testament Review

1. 4. The Exodus

   • The Jews are enslaved by Pharaoh
     • They cry out to God for help
       • God hears their crys and answers them with Moses
         • Moses is born as an Israelite but is taken into Pharaoh's palace by Pharaoh's daughter
         • Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt, and across the Red Sea
     • Pharaoh is concerned with their increasing population
       • He enslaves the Jews so that they cannot take over Egypt

2. 6. The Exile

   • The Babylonians conquer Israel
     • They exile them from their homeland
       • During this time the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed
         • The Israelites were exiled for 70 years
         • The Babylonians killed a lot of people in Jerusalem
     • King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon was the king who conqured Israel

3. 1. Creation

   • God creates the heavens and the earth
     • God separates light from darkness
   • God says that everything except for one thing is good.
     • The one thing that God says is not good is lonlieness
   • God creates all of the animals and plants
     • The only thing that God creates in his image is mankind

4. 7. Judges

   • The Israelites have been conquered by the Babylonians
     • God sends the Israelites Judges to help them during this time
       • The Judges were Deborah, Samson, Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Gideon, Tola, Jair, Jephthah, Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon
         • There were 12 Judges
       • The Judges were military leaders
         • Judges such as Samson had more power or wisdom than normal people

5. 2. The Flood

   • The intentions of every man's heart was evil
     • God decides to kill all people except for one
       • Noah is the one righteous man that God does not kill
   • God instructs Noah to build an arc
     • Noah obeys God when everyone else around him laughed at him and called him a fool for building a giant arc
       • In time Noah's obedience pays off when he and his family are the only people to survive the flood
         • God makes a covenant with Noah
           • He promises never to destroy the earth by water again
             • He uses a rainbow as a symbol of the covenant
       • God also tells Noah to put one female and male of every species of animals on the arc

6. 5. Mt. Sinai

   • The Israelites need a law to live by
     • Moses goes to the top of Mt. Sinai to receive God's law
       • Moses was on Mt. Sinai for 40 days
       • Moses was gone for a long time and the Israelites wanted something to worship
         • Aaron decides to make a golden calf
           • The people worship the golden calf
             • Moses now comes down from Mt. Sinai and sees the people worshiping the golden calf
               • He smashes the 10 commandments on the ground and has to go back up the mountain to receive them again
       • Moses takes 2 blank stone tablets with him to write on

7. 3. Jacob and His Family

   • Jacob is the youngest of two brothers
     • Esau, Jacob's older brother has a birthright that Jacob wants
       • One day Esau comes in from hunting, and he is starving
         • Jacob sells Esau some of the stew that he is cooking for Esau's birthright
           • Jacob later also takes Esau's blessing
           • Esau becomes very angry with Jacob because of this and tries to kill him, but Jacob escapes
             • Jacob then works to marry Rachel, but instead marries Leah unknowingly
               • He then works for a couple more years in order to marry Rachel

8. 8. Post Exile

   • Babylon is finally conqured by Persia 70 years after the Exile
     • The Persian King allows the Israelites to return home and rebuild
       • The Israelites must start rebuilding
         • They needed to rebuild the temple because it was destroyed by the Babylonians
           • They rebuild the temple

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