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God made a promise to Abraham that required nothing of him. God promised Abraham 3 things land, descendants, blessing and redemption.
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Abraham was sent to kill his own son Isaac when they arrived to Moriah.
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The Book of Exodus was written by Mosses. It recorded Israel's experience as slaves in Egypt.
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King took over Jerusalem.
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King Solomon becomes king when he builds the temple. King Solomon was king for 40 years.
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The city of Samaria was overtaken by Assyrians. The following three years, Assyrians manage to conquer Israel altogether.
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In the narrative of I Maccabees, after Antiochus issued his decrees forbidding Jewish religious practice, a rural Jewish priest from Modiin, Mattathias the Hasmonean, sparked the revolt against the Seleucid Empire by refusing to worship the Greek gods.
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In 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzer II, king of Babylon defeated Pharaoh Necho at the Battle of Carchemish, and subsequently invaded Judah. To avoid the destruction of Jerusalem, King Jehoiakim of Judah, in his third year, changed allegiances from Egypt to Babylon.
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In October 539 BCE, the Persian king Cyrus took Babylon, the ancient capital of an oriental empire covering modern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel. In a broader sense, Babylon was the ancient world's capital of scholarship and science.
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The Roman army, led by the future Emperor Titus, with Tiberius Julius Alexander as his second-in-command, besieged and conquered the city of Jerusalem, which had been occupied by its Jewish defenders in 66.