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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Day one God created light. Day two God created the sky. Day three he created land, seas, plants and trees. Day four God created the sun, moon and stars. Day five God created animals. Day six God created humans. Finally God rested on the seventh day. -
The Flood happened because everyone but Noah was doing what was evil in God's eyes. So God sent water to rain for 40 days and 40 nights. So God told Noah to build a big boat for him and all of his family to not die in the Flood. And after the Flood was over God put a rainbow in the sky to say that He will never Flood the earth again. -
Abraham was a good and righteous man who loved God.
One day God spoke to Abraham and said he would be "A Father Of Many Nations" and that he must travel to Canaan and have all his descendants circumcised. So because Abraham did everything God told him to do Abraham was blessed with a son named Isaac. -
Joseph was A brother to 11 other brothers. Their father liked Joseph more than his other sons and gave Joseph a colorful coat. One day God gave Joseph a dream that one day all of Joseph's brothers would bow down to Joseph someday. When Joseph's brothers heard about this They Got so mad. They threw Joseph down a well. sold him to slave traders took his coat put blood on it and told their father that Joseph got attacked by a bear and died. -
In 722 B.C. Assyria swept out of the north, captured the Northern Kingdom of Israel, and took the ten tribes into captivity. From there they became lost to history. Assyria, named for the god Ashur (highest in the pantheon of Assyrian gods), was located in the Mesopotamian plain. -
Moses was trying to let the Israelite's out of Egypt but the pharaoh would not let them go. so God sent ten plagues on Egypt including killing everyone's firstborn. But when Pharaoh finally did let them go, he changed his mind and chased them until Moses parted the red sea. Pharaohs army died when the red sea went back to normal. -
One day Moses went up to mount Sinai and prayed for 40 days and 40 nights to get the ten commandments. He did this twice since the first time he broke the ten commandments on the way down. The second time he did not break them and brought them down telling the Israelites how to act and live for God. -
During the transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age—probably about 1406 bce—the Israelites entered Canaan, settling at first in the hill country and in the south. The Israelites' infiltration was opposed by the Canaanites, who continued to hold the stronger cities of the region. -
As Israel's second king, David built a small empire. He conquered Jerusalem, which made Israel's political and religious Centre. He defeated the Philistines so thoroughly that they never seriously threatened the Israelites' security again, and he annexed the coastal region. -
After the death of Solomon, a schism over taxation divided the nation into two kingdoms. Rehoboam, Solomon's son and anointed successor, ruled over the Southern Kingdom, which was composed of the territory belonging to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. -
Around 709 BCE, King Hezekiah of the Hebrew kingdom of Judah renounced Assyrian allegiance, refusing to pay tribute. This angered Sennacherib, causing him to march on the capital city of Jerusalem. The capture of Jerusalem was a failed attempt in 709 BCE to capture the capital of Jerusalem. -
an account of the activities and visions of Daniel, a noble Jew exiled at Babylon", it combines a prophecy of history with an eschatology (a portrayal of end times) both cosmic in scope and political in focus, and its message is that just as the God of Israel saves Daniel from his enemies, so he would save . -
Babylonian Captivity, the forced detention of Jews in Babylonia following the latter's conquest of the kingdom of Judah in 598 and 586 BC. The captivity formally ended in 538 BC, when the Persian conqueror of Babylonia, Cyrus the Great, permitted the Jews to return to Palestine. -
The Exiles takes place primarily in 586 BC about the fate of two women sentenced to be transported to a life of servitude, and a young indigenous girl who is forcefully taken from her people and her land to become an object in the Governor's home. -
Cyrus the Great was the founder of the Assyrians. His empire, stretching from the Aegean Sea to the Indus River, was the largest that had ever existed at the time of his rule. Cyrus pieced his kingdom together using a mixture of conquest and diplomacy, attesting to his skills as a warrior and a statesman. -
Solomon then led the whole assembly of Israel in prayer, noting that the construction on the temple represented a fulfilment of God's promise to David, dedicating the temple as a place of prayer and reconciliation for the people of Israel and for foreigners living in Israel,