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The story of how the Israelites conquered the Promise Land and what they did when they settled there. The land had been made up of different races and cultures, God had given them plenty of time to change , but they only became more evil. So God used the Israelites to conquer them for their wickedness.

God tells Joshua how to be successful

Spies sneak into Jericho

The Israelites cross the Jorden River into the Promised Land

The people celebrate the Passover and 

recommit themselves to God

The walls of Jericho fall

The man who caused Israel to lose a battle

The people of Gibeon trick Joshua

The sun stands still

Joshua conquers the land

Pockets of resistance that remained

Joshua urges the people to conquer the pockets of resistance

A great misunderstanding among the people

Joshua’s final words to his people

Now that the Israelites had moved into the Promised Land… the people forgot about God and began doing the exact same things that God had warned them not to do.

Sin always has disastrous consequences and so the Israelites were oppressed and persecuted by other nations until a strong leader (a judge) called them back to God. This cycle of sin, defeat, repentance, and restoration repeats itself many times in Judges.

The Israelites fail to completely conquer the land disobedience leads to disaster, then God calls judges to save the people.

The story of Ehud

The story of Deborah

The story of Gideon

The story of Jephthah 

The story of Samson 

The story of Ruth and Naomi, two women who remained faithful to God despite very difficult circumstances.

Tragedy strikes Naomi and her family

Ruth and Naomi find kindness back in Israel

Ruth follows Naomi’s plan

Ruth and Boaz are married

The book of 1 Samuel tells of how Israel went from being a nation led by God to a nation lead by a king. 

Israels very 1st king was Saul. and it introduces us to Israel’s greatest king David with how and why David was chosen to succeed Saul.

Samuel is born

God talks to Samuel in the middle of the night

The Philistines capture the Ark of the Covenant

Saul becomes Israel’s 1stking

God rejects Saul for disobeying

Jonathan’s bravery

Saul disobeys again

Samuel anoints David

David battles the giant Goliath 

David and Jonathan become friends; Saul becomes jealous

David escapes from Saul

Jonathan saves David’s life

Saul chases David

David spares Saul’s life

David meets Abigail 

David spares Saul’s life again

David escapes to the land of the Philistines

Saul dies on the battlefield

The story of Israel’s greatest king David, 

including his successes and failures.

David becomes king over Judah

Civil War

Davis becomes king over all Israel

The Ark of the Covenant is brought to Jerusalem 

God’s promise to David

David conquers all his enemies

David is king to Mephibosheth

David and Bathsheba

Absalom rebels against David

David defeats Absalom

David’s song of praise

David’s mighty men

A great plague strikes Israel 

Israel was under Solomon but then a tragic split of the nation and its gradual downfall.

Records the events in the lives of each king of Israel.

Soloman becomes king of all Israel

Soloman asks for wisdom

Soloman demonstrates his wisdom

Soloman builds the Temple

The Temple dedication ceremony

The Queen of Sheba visits Soloman

The kingdom of Israel divides into north and south

Israel and Judah on decline

God takes care of the prophet Elijah

Elijah calls down fire from heaven

God appears to Elijah; Elijah called

King Ahab steals a vineyard

King Ahab dies in battle 

Throughout the terms of 19 kings in the northern kingdom and 20 kings in the southern kingdom, this is a book of what those kings did, or did not do, with the power they had.

Elijah is taken to heaven without dying

Elisha uses miracles to help many people

Elisha heals Naaman of leprosy

Elisha and his servant see an angel army

The enemy army is defeated without a fight 

Jehu the crazy driver, becomes king

Queen Athaliah’s conspiracy fails

King Joash repairs the Temple

The sad decline of Israel’s leaders

The nation of Israel is destroyed

The godly reign of King Hezekiah

Manasseh sends Judah into a tailspin

Revival under King Josiah

Jerusalem fails and Judah is defeated 

Tells the same story of 2 Samuel although it focuses on the spiritual themes rather than the historical events. 

The story of David’s reign as king and shows us the importance of passing on a spiritual heritage and teaches us that genuine worship should be the center of individual and national life.

A sampling of the genealogies

Saul dies and David becomes king

The warrior David and his mighty men

David brings the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem

God’s promise to David

David sins by counting his soldiers

David makes plans to build the Temple

The tragic story of how the nation of Judah neglected God and began to worship idols. 

At different times a good king would come to the throne , calling the people back to worship God; but for every good king there were several bad kings and over time the nation became corrupted to the point that God’s judgement was the only way to get their attention.

 Eventually the nation was conquered, and the people were carried away into captivity.

Solomon asks God for wisdom

Solomon builds the Temple

Solomon dedicates the Temple

The Queen of Sheba visits Solomon

The kingdom of Israel divides

Pharaoh Shishak invades Jerusalem

The rise and fall of King Asa

King Jehoshaphat and King Ahab

Jehoshaphat and the valley of Blessing

Athaliah seizes the throne

Joash repairs the Temple, then abandons the Lord

King Uzziah becomes a leper

The great reforms of King Hezekiah

King Sennacherib surrounds Jerusalem

The wicked reign of King Manasseh

An eight year old leads the people back to God

Judah fails and Jerusalem is destroyed 

Jerusalem and the land had been conquered and the people were carried away as captives to Babylon. Now Babylon itself had been conquered by Persia, and the Persian king Cyrus decided to let God’s people return to their homeland. 

Just as Moses led the people from bondage in Egypt to the Promise Land, so Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah led the people from bondage in Babylon back to the Promise Land.

The first exiles return

The Temple rebuilding begins

Enemies oppose and stop the Temple rebuilding

The Temple is completed

Ezra arrives in Jerusalem

Ezra urges the people to obey God’s laws

The story of how Nehemiah led the third return to Jerusalem after captivity, organizing the rebuilding of the city’s walls and encouraging the people to renew their faith in God.

(The book of Ezra tells of the first two groups that returned to Jerusalem, the capital of Judah)

Nehemiah’s Prayer

Nehemiah returns to Jerusalem

Nehemiah inspects the broken walls

Work on the walls begins

Enemies try to stop the rebuilding

Nehemiah helps the poor

Further opposition to the rebuilding

The wall is completed in just 52 days

Ezra reads the Book of the Law

The people confess their sins and recall the history of their nation

A young Jewish orphan in exile, who is chosen to become queen over the land of her captors. This gives her the opportunity to save her people from annihilation.

Queen Vashti is deposed

Esther becomes queen

Haman’s plot to kill the Jews

Mordecai persuades Esther to help

Esther goes before the king

Mordecai is honored 

Hamon is hanged

The king’s edict saves the Jews

The jews triumph; The Festival of Purim is celebrated