Overview of Old Testament history

GENESIS

• Creation
• The Fall
• Noah and the Flood
• Abraham
• Isaac
• Jacob (Israel) and Esau
• Jacob's twelve sons
• Joseph
• Move to Egypt

EXODUS

• Israelites in slavery in Egypt
• Birth and call of Moses
• Ten plagues
• Crossing the Red Sea
• Journey through the desert
• Ten Commandments and other laws and instructions given

NUMBERS CHAPTERS 10-36
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTERS 1-10, 32-34

• Further journeying in the desert
• Death of Moses

JOSHUA

• Israelites enter the Promised Land
• Jericho and other cities defeated
• Land divided between the twelve tribes of Israel

JUDGES

• Early history of Israel in the Promised Land
• Led by judges including Gideon
• Various wars with neighbouring countries

1 AND 2 SAMUEL

• Birth of Samuel
• Saul becomes first king of Israel
• David kills Goliath
• Saul's attempts to kill David
• Death of Saul
• David becomes king of Israel

1 AND 2 KINGS

• Death of David
• Solomon becomes king
• Solomon builds the temple
• Solomon's reign and death
• Rehoboam becomes king
• The kingdom divides into two
• - Judah - Southern Kingdom - two tribes, Judah and Benjamin - capital is Jerusalem - first king is Rehoboam
• - Israel - Northern kingdom - remaining ten tribes - capital is Samaria - first king is Jeroboam I
• Reigns of remaining kings of Judah and Israel  (click here for timeline)
• Samaria falls to the Assyrians 722 BC
• Jerusalem falls to the Babylonians 587 BC

EZRA

• First return of exiles to Jerusalem 538 BC
• Rebuilding of the temple
• Ezra returns to Jerusalem

NEHEMIAH

• Nehemiah returns to Jerusalem 445 BC
• Rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem



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1 AND 2 CHRONICLES give an overview of the history and genealogy of Israel from Adam to the fall of Jerusalem