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First called Abram, he is an important figure of 3 major world religions; Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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Once they arrived in Canaan he built an altar in the land of the Canaanites so he could make offerings to God.
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Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time that God had stated.
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Esau was Isaac's favorite son. Jacob and Esau were twins.
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Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They received property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number.
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The Exodus from Egypt is 250 miles long.
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Joshua instructed the people "go through the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare your supplies, for within three days you will cross the Jordan River and begin the conquest of the land the Lord your God is ready to hand over to you."
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God threatens to abandon Israel because of the disobedience of the youth, but he selects a series of judges, or rulers, to act as temporary leaders for the people.
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Saul was the son of Kish, of the family of the Matrites, and a member of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel. It appears that he came from Gibeah.
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King David was buried in Jerusalem on Mount Zion.
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This temple took over 150,000 workers and was overseen by over 300,000 men
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All the tribes of Judah were made up of the grandsons of Jacob.
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Amos is a Hebrew name meaning strong, and brave.
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In 722 BCE, nearly ten to twenty years after the initial deportations, the ruling city of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, Samaria, was finally taken by Sargon II after a three-year siege started by Shalmaneser V. Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria.
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Like Assyria before it, Babylonia used a combination of conquest and deportation of whole populations to do so.
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The Jew's were allowed to return to Judah due to Cyrus the Great's decree, who was a king.
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Isreal is considered the Holy Land because it is associated with Jesus' early life and death.
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In the narrative of I Maccabees, after Antiochus IV 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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The Roman Empire becomes increasingly powerful and expands its empire, annexing the land of Israel.
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Jesus was crucified in 30 AD.
