Old Testament History Syllabus Student Copy

Old Testament History

Student Syllabus

Creation

______under the _________ of the Holy Spirit wrote Genesis, the first book in the Bible and the book of beginnings. The beginning of the _____, the beginning of ____, and the beginning of the _____people.

According to _______ 1, God ________ the world in 6 days:

The First Day. _______.

Gen 1:3-5

Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.

The Second Day. The __________

Gen 1:6-8

Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.

The “__________” here refers to the ___________ heaven where the clouds are as well as the _________ heaven where the stars are.

The Third Day. _____ and ___________

Gen 1:9-13

Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. So the evening and the morning were the third day.

The Fourth Day. The _____, Moon, and ________

Gen 1:14-19

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; “and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

The Fifth Day. Sea _________, and ________

Gen 1:20-23

Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

The Sixth Day. Land ________, and _______

Gen 1:24-31

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. “Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so. Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

On the _________ day, He ceased from His labor and established the ________. Scholars disagree as to how long these “days” might have been. The Bible seems to indicate a _______ 24 hour day. Scholars also differ on the date of _________. It would be impossible to know exactly the number of years back to the creation since the Bible’s lists of generations sometimes ______ names, and any other __________ records are limited. According to the Bible and ___________ man has been here for about 6,000 - 10,000 years _____________. No one can be certain.

The purpose of the Bible is not to ______________ sketch every detail of creation but to reveal to man that God is prior to and _________ from His creation, that He is directly ____________ for its having come into being, through His Word, that its continued __________ is dependant upon Him, and that man has been given the ________ position of honor and ______________ in that creation.

Ps 8:3-4

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?

Isa 40:12

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, measured heaven with a span and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

Isa 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name, by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power; not one is missing.

Adam and Eve

Adam & Eve

After God created Adam, He gave to him _________ over all His creation and the garden of Eden as a home to ______ it and keep it. But He gave one ___________:

Gen 2:16-17

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; “but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Adam would know what it meant to ___________ in ______, and the result would be ___________ and death. Death is ___________ from God.

Then God _________ the woman:

Gen 2:18-24

And the LORD God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field.

ut for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Adam loved Eve, who was later _________ by the serpent, who was actually Satan, the one who leads the evil spirits in their ___________ against God and His purposes and she ate of the forbidden fruit (the Bible doesn’t say what kind of fruit it was). Then Adam, who was with her, chose to eat of the fruit also and they _________. When they sinned, ___________ and __________death came into the world and fellowship with God was broken. Like a rose being plucked off the vine, they were immediately _____________from their source of life. You can almost see the _______and ________ and fear of their new nature taking over:

Gen 3:7-10

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?” So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

But all was not ______. As God was revealing the _____________ of their actions He also gave a glorious ________. God promised Adam and Eve that He would send a __________ (Messiah), who would destroy Satan and restore them to a right ____________ with Him (Gen 3). In the meantime they could only approach God with a ________ __________. This animal acted as a substitute for the penalty of sin until “the lamb of God” who is Jesus Christ would come and pay the full debt.

The Bible mentions alot between the time of _______ and the _______. For example there was the first _______. Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters but there is only two ___________ because they are important to the history of __________. Eve thought that her firstborn, Cain, was the one who would destroy ________ and deliver them from the curse of sin and death. But Cain __________ killed his brother Abel. Cain was _______ at God because He would not _______ his sacrifice (the best of his good works) as he ________ Abel’s blood offering (God’s prescribed way) so he rose up and _______ his brother. God __________ him by driving him out of the midst of the people who served God. Then God gave Adam and Eve another son, _______, who replaced Abel. The ___________ of the world would come from Seth’s family.

But what about ______ family? The Bible reveals that Cain’s son, _______, inherited Cain’s evil ways (Gen 4:19-24). Sin added unto sin and Lamech boasted that he didn’t _______ God’s protection because he had his _______. He rejected God’s holy ___________ for marriage and took many wives. He also killed a man for __________ him showing his contempt for God and his __________ for human life. Evil spread very rapidly to all mankind through the ________ line of _______.

The Flood

The ________

Gen 6:5

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Gen 6:11-15

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. “Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch. “And this is how you shall make it . . .”

The earth had become completely _________ so God sent a great flood to punish sinful mankind but He would not break His promise to ________ man so He preserved the lives of Noah and His family as well as two of every kind of living __________ in an ark (a large wooden ship).

Gen 7:13-16

On the very same day Noah and Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark - they and every beast after its kind, all cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life. So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.

The Ark was about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. It had ______decks and was divided into compartments. Calculations have been made __________ that there was room in the Ark for ______ species of animals.

Gen 7:11-12

. . . on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

The flood covered the entire world. After a period of _____days the Ark rested on Mt. Ararat (17,000 ft.) 200 miles North of the ancient city of _________.

Before the _______ there was kind of a vapor _______that enveloped the whole earth which ___________ it in probably a tropical ___________ so that people were recorded as living up to ages of 900 - 950 years, but when the upper waters were released upon the earth, ___________were decreased and the __________ characteristics of the world changed dramatically. After the flood, God put the ______of man on the animals, and gave man ____________ to eat animals for food. God ___________ the death penalty for murder and ordered that men establish a form of _________.

Gen 9:6

“Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God he made man.

God also put a __________in the sky to be a constant reminder that He would _______ destroy the world again by water. Yet right after the flood, Noah’s son, Ham, sinned against God by showing ____________ to his father, Noah (Gen 9) and Noah cursed Ham’s son, Canaan, why we are not told. Then God _______ through Noah again and prophesied about his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth and also that the _________ would come through Shem’s family, and Japheth’s family would share in that ___________.

The Tower at Babel

According to the Bible, the _________of the sons of Noah represent all of the _______ groups upon the earth. Chapter 10 of Genesis lists a total of 70 individual __________ of nations or racial groups, and divides them into three primary _________________: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. It is interesting to note that Ethnologists generally agree that mankind divides into three basic groups. Here is how the Bible divides them ________________:

Shem’s Descendants. Central Nations

Shemites included Jews, Assyrians, Syrians, Elamites, in north ___________ Valley and its borders.

Ham’s Descendants. South Nations

Hamites went ___________. The names given seem to be South and Central Arabia, Egypt (Heb. Mitzraim or Lands of Ham), East ______________, and East Africa. There was at one point a great __________ to Egypt, but Canaan (son of Ham) settled in the land later called _______.

Japheth’s Descendants. North Nations

Japhethites went Northward, and settled in the areas around the _______and Caspian Seas. They became the great ___________races of Europe and Asia.

An interesting event __________in Genesis 11. Proud and rebellious men desired to build a city and make a name for themselves under the ___________of Nimrod, so they built a tower, in the land of ________(Babel), that would reach to heaven. This was the first ___________system of idolatry recorded after the flood. They also ___________God’s command to be _________ and fill the earth. God condemned their _________ ways by coming down and confusing their languages (probably racial distinctions also) which forced them to ________throughout the whole earth. Before this they all spoke one ___________.

So what does all this tell us? There are many things but two facts should be ___________. First, man is given over to _____ and ___________, as Jeremiah’ the prophet said:

Jer 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

Secondly, it tells us that God loves man _______________ and, though He will not _________ disobedience, He will fulfill His promises to redeem _________ and go to whatever measure to keep anyone from thwarting His _________.

Abraham

We now move on to another very important subject. That is the subject of Abraham, who became the first ________, and whose family God chose to _______His scarlet thread through the linen of ________. It was through Abraham’s descendants that the Jewish ________ would arise, a people who would receive the __________of the Lord, and that One of those ____________ would be the Savior, not only for the Jews but for the whole world. Abraham lived in the city of Ur (capital of the ancient ________ of Sumer). Sometime around 2,000 BC. God called Abraham to leave his home and go to a new land that God would show Him. The Bible _______Abraham’s steps from Ur to Haran (north of Canaan), through the land of ________, into Egypt, and back into Canaan (which later became Israel).

God _________to give Abraham a son through his wife Sarah who was ________(unable to bear children). Through this son, a mighty _______ would arise and also an ____________amount of descendants, and One of those descendants would be a _________to all the nations in the world.

his promise seemed impossible because they were so old but Abraham believed what God said, though later he ________ and tried to force God’s hand by having a son through Sarah’s servant girl, Hagar. In ________times this was accepted, but not in God’s sight. It _________ His law for marriage (Gen 2), and Abraham suffered greatly for his sin. His son from Hagar, __________, turned against Isaac, Abraham’s son of the promise, who was born 13 years after Ishmael, when Abraham was ____and Sarah was 90. So Ishmael had to leave Abraham’s __________.

Abraham was called the first “Hebrew” which probably means “to cross over” because he was supposedly so foolish for __________that there was just one God and if he crosses over the ___________ river that he would find this new land that God had _________. But it was with Abraham that God ___________His covenant. This was God’s promise:

Gen 12:1-3

Now the LORD had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Abraham believed the Lord as it says:

Gen 15:6

And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.

Circumcision was the seal and __________ of the covenant, and so all of Abraham’s male _____________ would be circumcised to remind them that God would __________ fulfill all the promises that He made to Abraham. Notice that Abraham believed before he was circumcised. Faith came before works. This is an __________ point that Paul makes in the book of Romans that ___________ is by grace through faith alone (Rom 4).

There was a very beautiful yet ________ place in Canaan called Sodom and Gomorrah and the Lord told Abraham that He was going to ________ it but Abraham pleaded with God to _______ the sinful cities for that is where his __________ Lot lived. God sent an angel to _______ Lot and his family but __________ the cities because of their homosexualities and other ______________.

Now there were many important that took place in Abraham’s life but there is one that is ____________ to mention. As Abraham grew _________in faith, God told him to offer his son Isaac as a burnt __________to prove his faith (Gen 22), Abraham ________and brought Isaac to Mount Moriah, laid him on the ______ and at the last minute the Lord told him not to kill _______ and gave him a ram for the sacrifice. Here we see Abraham’s faith (Heb 11:17-19) and a ___________ picture of Christ. The Bible calls Abraham a _______ of God:

Isa 41:8

“But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the descendants of Abraham My friend.

Before we move on keep in mind that the Lord made this peculiar promise to Abraham:

Gen 15:13-14

Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. “And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.

Jacob

The Bible follows the __________ line to Abraham’s son, Isaac, and then to Isaac’s son, Jacob who lived around 1900 BC. Jacob was a _________and deceitful con man who tricked his brother ______ and lied to his father so he could steal his older brothers ____________. Afraid, Jacob fled to Haran, in Mesopotamia, where his uncle Laban lived, but on the way he met the Lord and saw a ______of a ladder reaching from earth to _________ with angels on it. Jacob had his first ____________with God and the Lord revealed to him the __________ He had made to Abraham and how he would be part of those ___________, so Jacob began to trust in God and named that place, Bethel, which means, “house of God”.

Gen 28:10-19

Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran. So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. And behold, the LORD stood above it and said: “I am the LORD God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.

“Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed. “Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.”

Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.” And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!” Then Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it. And he called the name of that place Bethel; but the name of that city had been Luz previously.”

hen he arrived in Haran, his uncle was more ____________ than he was, con-man meets super _________. Laban tricked him into working for him for 14 years in ___________ for a wife. He wanted Rachel, but he got Leah first and then Rachel. ___________the muscle of trust was a long, slow job for Jacob. Jacob had 12 sons and great ____________ when he finally returned to Canaan not because he was more shrewd than Laban but because God was with him. God __________ Jacob all the way and also prepared his brother Esau’s _______ so that he was no longer angry. God changed Jacob’s name to “Israel.” Jacob was next in the Messianic line. His 12 sons became the _________ of the 12 tribes of Israel.

Joseph

Next we move on to another __________ person in God’s plan whose name was Joseph. The story of Joseph is among those that are most ________ in the Bible. As Jacob grew older, ten of his sons got ________ of their younger brother, Joseph, because Jacob ________ Joseph. Joseph was receiving ____________ and dreams at a very young age and _________they would all bow down to him someday. The 10 brothers got so mad that they sold him to a _________ going to Egypt and then told their father that he was dead. Later Joseph ______________Pharaoh’s dreams by the Holy Spirit:

Gen 41:15-16

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that you can understand a dream, to interpret it.” So Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”

Joseph was __________to God and became a main ruler in Egypt:

Gen 41:39-44

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Inasmuch as God has shown you all this, there is no one as discerning and wise as you. “You shall be over my house, and all my people shall be ruled according to your word; only in regard to the throne will I be greater than you.” And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.” Then Pharaoh took his signet ring off his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand . . .”

Just as the dream had foretold, a ________came throughout the world and in the land of Canaan it was very _________so Joseph’s 10 brothers came to Egypt in ________of food. They all _______ down to him, and after testing them, Joseph __________ to them his true identity, and ________ them. God saved the whole family from the ________ and they came down to live in Egypt.

he story of Joseph is an __________ story because it reveals how God in His foreknowledge, planned far in advance, _________ that the Hebrews wouldn’t survive in Canaan because of the ________famine and other circumstances, but needed to be __________down into Egypt where they would not only ________ but multiply exceedingly. God ordained the ___________ with Joseph so that He would preserve His people and fulfill His ___________ to Abraham.

Later Joseph said to his brothers:

Gen 50:20

“But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.

Gen 50:24-26

And Joseph said to his brethren, “I am dying; but God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land to the land of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” Then Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.” So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Moses and the Exodus

ow the Bible turns its ___________ to Moses, who was born about 1500 BC. He was chosen to lead Israel out of _________ and give them God’s laws. When the Book of _______ begins, the Hebrews were living in Egypt and after time they grew in ________ and the new Pharaoh didn’t remember Joseph and put them into slavery. The Hebrew slaves had been _____________ so fast that the king felt threatened by a potential ________ against his authority. He gave orders that no more ______ Hebrew children should be allowed to live. To save the infant Moses, his mother made a little vessel of _________waterproofed with asphalt and pitch. She placed Moses in the vessel, __________ among the reeds on the bank of the Nile River.

By God’s ____________, Moses– the child of a Hebrew slave– was found and _________ by an Egyptian princess, the daughter of the Pharaoh himself. He was reared in the _______court as a prince of the Egyptians: “And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds” (Acts 7:22). At the same time the Lord ___________ that Moses should be taught in his _________ years by his own mother. This meant that he was founded in the faith of his fathers, although he was ________ as an Egyptian (Ex. 2:1-10).

Moses was educated in a ______________unsurpassed by any people at that time. His training was designed to prepare him for a high ________, or even the throne of Egypt. He became familiar with life at Pharaoh’s courts and the pomp and grandeur of ____________ religious worship. He was schooled in the writing and __________ideas of the time. He witnessed the administration of ________. When he was 40 years old, Moses became angry at an Egyptian __________ who was beating a Hebrew slave; he killed the Egyptian and ________ him in the sand (Ex. 2:12). When this _________ known, however, he ________ for his own life and fled from _______ to the desert land of Midian where he married a _________ of Jethro in agreement to tend Jethro’s flocks.

After about 40 more years, _____spoke to Moses from a bush that was on fire but didn’t burn. God sent Moses back to Egypt to lead the Hebrews out of ________, and into the land promised to _________. God demonstrated His power to Moses and __________ to Him His holy Name “YHVH” or “Yaweh” (Jehovah became a popular pronunciation in the 16th century through German ___________ although there is no “J” sound in the Hebrew).

God anointed Aaron to go with Moses to be the ___________ and they persuaded the people of Israel to follow them but _________ would not let them go. Then God sent 10 ___________ plagues on the Egyptians, the last plague being the ______of the firstborn in every home whose doors were not ________ with blood.

First Plague: Blood

Second Plague: Frogs

Third Plague: Lice

Fourth Plague: Flies

Fifth Plague: Disease on Livestock

Sixth Plague: Boils

Seventh Plague: Hail

Eighth Plague: Locusts

Ninth Plague: Darkness

Tenth Plague: Death of the First Born

God commanded the _____________to celebrate yearly the “Passover”, where the death angel passed over the houses that had the _______ of a lamb.

Exod 12:1-14

Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. “Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ’On the tenth day of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. ’And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb. ’Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

’Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. ’And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. ’Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. . . roasted in fire . . . ’You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.

’And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD’S Passover. ’For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. ’Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. ’So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations.

After this ________ finally gave in and agreed to let Israel go (and with all the _______of Egypt), but as soon as they left, Pharaoh ________ his mind. He sent his army after them where ________ was cornered against the Red Sea. God parted the ________ and led them through on dry _______.

Exod 14:21-22

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided. So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

Then the waters ________ in on Pharaoh’s armies:

Exod 14:28-29

Then the waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. Not so much as one of them remained. But the children of Israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

The Israelites were guided by the ___________ Shekinah glory cloud that led them to Mount Sinai. On the way their faith was tested as they _____________ intense heat, hunger, thirst, and war. God did many _________ including “manna”, bread that fell from heaven.

The Giving of the Law

When the Israelites arrived at Mount Sinai, _____ went up into the mountain for 40 days. God revealed Himself and they were terrified.

Exod 19:16-18

Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

Out of this momentous encounter came the __________ between the Lord and ______, including the Ten Commandments (Ex. 20:1-17). When Moses delayed in coming down from Mount Sinai, the _________ people became restless. They _________ Aaron to take their golden earrings and other articles of ________ and to fashion a golden calf for _______. When he came down from the mountain, Moses was _________ at the idolatry and _________ of his people. The sons of _____ were loyal to Moses, however; and he ordered them to ______ the rebels (Ex. 32:28).

Because of his anger at the golden calf, Moses cast down the two ________ of stone with the Ten Commandments and ______ them at the foot of the mountain (Ex. 32:19). After the rebellion had been put down, Moses went up into ______ ______ again and there received the ____ ______________ a second time (Ex. 34:1,29). There was given hundreds of laws in three phases:

Moral Laws (10 Commandments written by the finger of God),

Civil Laws (Dietary and Judicial also), and

Ceremonial Laws (Sacrifices, Feast Days, etc.).

In giving the Law to the _______ people, Moses taught the Israelites what the _____ expected of them– that they were to be a _____ people _________ from the pagan immorality and idolatry of their surroundings. Here the __________ of Judaism was laid., a _____ given religious system all centering around the __________ (the place where the ______ was sprinkled on the ark), the Sacrifices, and the __________. The Levites were the _______ tribe, and Aaron (Moses’ brother) was the first _____ _____. BKA2The_Tabernacle.htmBKA2The_Tabernacle.htm

Israel was ________ and organized for ____. The 12 tribes were established (Sons of ______) and _______ were appointed for each tribe.

The Wilderness Wanderings

From Sinai, ____ led the Israelites through “the great and terrible wilderness” to _______ (the border of the ________ land). Moses sent ___ spies, one from each of the 12 ______ of Israel, into Canaan to _______ the land. The spies returned with ________ reports of the ____________ of the land. They brought back _______ of its figs and pomegranates and a cluster of _______ so large that it had to be _______ between two men on a pole (Num. 13:1-25)

The _________ of the spies, however, voted _______ the invasion of the land because of the huge ___________ of Canaan, and _________ cities “walled to heaven”. It was a report of ______. Yet two of the spies, ______ and ______, brought back a report full of ______ and encouragement.

Num 13:30-33

But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. “There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.” . . . Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”

But the people lost heart and ________, refusing to enter Canaan and ______ for a new leader who would take them back to ______. To punish them for their _____ of faith, God __________ all of that generation, except Caleb and Joshua, to perish in the ___________ for 40 years (Num. 14:26-38). All those __ years old and up would indeed ______ in the wilderness with the exception of Joshua and Caleb.

During these years of _________ in the wilderness, Moses’ ________ was continually tested by the murmurings, grumblings, and __________ of the people. At one point, Moses’ patience reached its _________ point and he ______ against the Lord, in ______ against the people. When the people again ________ against Moses, saying they had no _____, the Lord told Moses to _____ to the rock and water would ____ forth. Instead, Moses lifted his ____ and struck the rock _____ with his rod. Apparently because he _____ the Lord in this act, Moses was not _________ to enter the Promised Land (Num. 20:1-13). That ___________ would belong to his successor, Joshua.

After 40 years the ________ ran out and Moses brought the _______ back to Kadesh. They camped on the ______ of Moab where _____ spoke to them for the last ____. Moses then turned his __________ over to Joshua.

Joshua and the Conquest of Canaan

Joshua & the Conquest of Canaan

When Israel finally crossed over the ______ _____ (on dry land) and entered ______ and celebrated their first Passover in the ________ land. God spoke to ______ and made him a strong ______.

Josh 1:5-6

“. . . as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you. “Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

The ____ of the Canaanites were at the _______ point and Joshua was to __________ destroy them lest Israel inherit their ____ ways. Some of the ____________ happening in the land were ______ prostitution, father and son _________ sexual acts with the same prostitute, _____ sacrifice, homosexualities, _______, and on and on. God spoke about their ____ ways throughout the entire Old Testament.

Lev 18:25-30

’For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants. ’You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who dwells among you ’for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled), ’lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

’For whoever commits any of these abominations, the persons who commit them shall be cut off from among their people. ‘Therefore you shall keep My ordinance, so that you do not commit any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.’”

Deut 18:9-22

“When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. “There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, “or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. “For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you. “You shall be blameless before the LORD your God. “For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for you.

The ___________ of Canaan were _________. The first ____ they conquered was _______. It was a _______, when the ________ were blown, the walls ____.

Josh 6:20

So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

Under ______, the Israelites conquered the ______ country (Josh 21). The only ______ was at Ai, where an Israelite named _____ disobeyed God’s orders. In _ years they defeated __ kings in the land. Joshua _______ the land among the __ tribes of Israel as God ________.

Joshua was a _____ leader but he made 2 _____ mistakes. First, he ______ to completely defeat the __________ (especially the ___________, Amalekites, and __________), and second, he failed to ____ out completely the ______ and __________ fertility cults of the land. Joshua’s _______ to cut this ______ completely out of society resulted in __________ times for about the next ___ years of ______ history.

The Judges

Before he died, ______ urged Israel to keep _________ God and obeying His commands, but they didn’t. After Joshua _____, “every man did what was right in his own eyes”. They would _______ God, the enemy would severely ________ them, they would cry out to God for help, and God would raise up a _________ (Judge) to free them of their misery. This was the sad _______ for the Israelites for almost 400 years. The main deliverer-judges were: Othniel, Deborah, Gideon, Jephthah, Samson, Eli, and Samuel. (Ruth also lived during this period). Probably the most important person in this era was Samuel.

Judg 2:10-19

When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the LORD nor the work which He had done for Israel. Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baals; and they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them, and they bowed down to them; and they provoked the LORD to anger.

They forsook the LORD and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel. So He delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies. Wherever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for calamity, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn to them. And they were greatly distressed. Nevertheless, the LORD raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them. Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they played the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to them.

They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do so. And when the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed them and harassed them. And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they reverted and behaved more corruptly than their fathers, by following other gods, to serve them and bow down to them. They did not cease from their own doings nor from their stubborn way.

The _______ that seems to become evident during the dark period of the ______ is that man is __________ sinful and will always revert to his _____ ways, and the Lord will ______ be there for those who ___ out to Him, but __________ God can only result in _______ and ______.

The Judges

Some of them received only a brief mention in the Book of Judges. These _____ judges were:

Shamgar 3:31,

Tola 10:1-2,

Jair 10:3-5,

Ibzan 12:8-10,

Elon 12:11-12, and

Abdon 12:13-15.

The other judges are viewed in _______ detail in the Book of Judges:

Othniel 3:7-11 a ______ of Caleb, deliverered Israel from the _____________.

Ehud 3:12-30 was __________ and killed _____, king of Moab.

Jephthah 11:1–12:7 was a ________ son who defeated the ________.

Gideon 6:11-8:35 led ___ Israelites to defeat the ______ army of the Midianites.

Samson 13:1–16:31 delivered Israel from the ___________. Known for his great ________.

Deborah 4:1–5:31 urged _____ to attack the mighty army of the __________.

Samuel the Prophet

And moving on we come to ______ who was the first of Israel’s great ________, and the last of the ______. Samuel’s mother _______ (who was barren) had ______ for a son.

Sam 1:10-11

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the LORD and wept in anguish. Then she made a vow and said, “O LORD of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, and not forget Your maidservant, but will give Your maidservant a male child, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life. . .”

She _______ God when He answered her ______ and gave her a child. Hannah gave Samuel to the ______, Eli, so he could be taught to _____ the Lord. As a _____, Samuel, heard from ___ that he was going to be a prophet and _____ in Israel. Before Samuel’s time, a _______ was called a “seer.” But Samuel was not just a __________ of the future but became a ____________ for God. He was used by God to ______ Eli that his house would be ________ for the ______ and the ___________ of his sons who were the _______ of the people. The priest was a ________ for God to the ______ and for the people to ___. But they were completely ________. Samuel also rebuked the ______ about their evil ways. The ___________ and other enemies _________ Israel so severely that they became ____________. They complained that the nation had no ____ of survival as long as it remained a __________ of tribes. They were ______ of being a _________ under God. They wanted something more ________. They wanted a ________. They cried for a ____. They longed for a ______ nation headed by a _______ king. The more Samuel tried to ___ them closer to _______ and His ______ rule over them, the more discontent they became. They wanted what the _____ nations had, an _______ king. At last, a ______________ Samuel let them have their way. (1 Sam 1-8).

Sam 8:4-22

Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, and said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.” But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” So Samuel prayed to the LORD. And the LORD said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them. “According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt, even to this day– with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods– so they are doing to you also. “Now therefore, heed their voice. However, you shall solemnly forewarn them, and show them the behavior of the king who will reign over them.”

So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who asked him for a king. And he said, “This will be the behavior of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them for his own chariots and to be his horsemen, and some will run before his chariots. “He will appoint captains over his thousands and captains over his fifties, will set some to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and some to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. “He will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers. “And he will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants. “He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage, and give it to his officers and servants. “And he will take your male servants, your female servants, your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work. “He will take a tenth of your sheep. And you will be his servants. “And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the LORD will not hear you in that day.”

Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No, but we will have a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.” And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he repeated them in the hearing of the LORD. So the LORD said to Samuel, “Heed their voice, and make them a king.”

Saul, The First King

The Lord had always ________ to give Israel a ____ (Deut 17), but Israel’s ___ was in demanding a king from the wrong _______, in looking for that king in the _____ tribe, and in demanding a king ______ it was God’s ____ to give them one. A man named ____, from the tribe of ________ was chosen, a man of __________ stature, who embodied the ______ ideals Israel had at the time, being much more _________ with his appearance than his ______. It’s sad how Saul’s _________ turned out to be a __________ of Israel as a whole.

Sam 9:1-2

There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish the son of Abiel, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power. And he had a choice and handsome son whose name was Saul. There was not a more handsome person than he among the children of Israel. From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people. . . And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said to him, “There he is, the man of whom I spoke to you. This one you shall anoint to reign over My people.”

Saul was a ____ and ___________ king who didn’t do much with his ____ except try to ______ David, his son-in-law, despite ______ repeated expression of loyalty, because he knew David was ________ to take his place one day on the ______. Saul’s ______ and ________ for David made him fail as a king and ______ regretted anointing him. Saul’s _____ ended in disaster. He received no ______ for his prayers, and even sought the help of a _____.

The ______ that took place the next day at ______ was a bitter defeat for Israel, Saul himself was _______, and he committed ______ by throwing himself on his own _____. Three of his sons, including ________ also died.

The greatest _______ for Saul, the first king of Israel, was when he _________ God at Gilgal. The Philistines were ________ against Israel and Saul’s troops were _________ daily. The prophet ______ had promised him that all would be ____, only he must ____ for God’s time. Samuel would come at the ___ of a week and would _____ a sacrifice. Then Saul’s ______ would have the victory. Saul _________ went ahead and offered the ________ himself. No _______ had he finished than the prophet appeared. Saul had greatly ______ in officiating as a ______.

Sam 13:11-14

And Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Michmash, “then I said, ‘The Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the LORD.’ Therefore I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.” And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which He commanded you. For now the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. “But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be commander over His people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.”

David, The Rightful King

Like Jesus, David was from _________. He grew up as a ________ and was skillful in music and __________. Samuel ________ anointed him as king and God _______ showed Israel His ______ by his singlehandedly slaying of the giant, _______ of Gath.

Sam 17:43-50

So the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. And the Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!” Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. “This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. “Then all this assembly shall know that the LORD does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD’S, and He will give you into our hands.”

So it was, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hastened and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him.

But ____ began to hate David more and more. David had ______ at Saul’s court, had been _______ to his youngest daughter, and had ____ to battle ________ times at Saul’s command, and Saul began to ____ that David would ___ in battle. When Saul ______ tried to murder him was when _____ took to the hills.

For some __ years David hid in the __________ from Saul where he gathered an army from the ________ of Israel. David _____ most of the _______ at this time and God called him, “a man after My own______.” Finally, 7 years after Saul ____, the tribes ______ David king at _______. (about 1000 BC). He brought the ___ of the ________ (gold box containing the 10 ____________ and symbolizing the ______ of God) to Jerusalem, which he established as the _______ (2 Sam 1-5).

David was Israel’s ________ and truly _____ king. He was a great _______ and a man who _____ God. He brought great _____ and _________ to the land. But David also had his __________. He took many _____, like other kings, and this was _________ by God. He even ________ the murder of one of his ________ so that he could marry the _____ wife who he had already _______. David was a great ______, but he was also very __________ and repentant. David also took a ______ (headcount) of his army, showing a ____ of trust in God. God punished _____ and ______ for his sins. The good _________ found in David are a picture of ______ who would be a descendant of David.

As David, in his old age, looked back on his ____ and pondered on how God had _________ him from all of his _______ he sang:

Sam 22:4

I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.

2 Sam 23:1-2

Now these are the last words of David. Thus says David the son of Jesse; thus says the man raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel: “The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and His word was on my tongue. . .”

The next king was Solomon.

Solomon

David ________ that his son Solomon become the next ____. He then gave Solomon the _____ for the Temple and said:

Chr 28:9-11

“As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever. “Consider now, for the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong, and do it.”

Soon after this, the ____ appeared to Solomon and offered him ________ he wished for:

IKing 3:5-14

At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask! What shall I give you?” And Solomon said: “You have shown great mercy to Your servant David my father, because he walked before You in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You; You have continued this great kindness for him, and You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. “Now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king instead of my father David, but I am a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. “And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted. “Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?”

The speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this thing. Then God said to him: “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked long life for yourself, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice, “behold, I have done according to your words; see, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall any like you arise after you. “And I have also given you what you have not asked: both riches and honor, so that there shall not be anyone like you among the kings all your days. “So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

Afterwards Solomon became Israel’s most __________ king. He _____ the marvelous Temple and God’s _____ was with him. When he had ________ the Temple he made sacrifices and said a ______ prayer:

IKing 8:27-30

“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built! “Yet regard the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O LORD my God, and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today: “that Your eyes may be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place. “And may You hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Hear in heaven Your dwelling place; and when You hear, forgive. . .”

Then God revealed His _____:

Chr 7:1-3

When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. And the priests could not enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD’S house. When all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD on the temple, they bowed their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped and praised the LORD, saying: “For He is good, for His mercy endures forever.”

During his _____ he made Israel a _____ power and great ______ flowed into the kingdom. He had such great ______ from God that people came from _______ lands to here him. He taught many ________ and wrote Ecclesiastes and _____. Yet Solomon ___ more than any other king to _____ down the kingdom and to _______ its true ___________. His biggest _______ was in disobeying God by taking many _____, and marrying the daughters of _______ kings. He had ___ wives and ___ concubines. He allowed them to _____ altars to “Astarte” (Ishtar in Babylonia and Astoreth in Phoenicia) the _________ goddess and other _____ gods.

The ____________ in the Law for a king were as follows:

Deut 17:14-20

“When you come to the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,’ “you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses; one from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. “But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the LORD has said to you, ‘You shall not return that way again.’ “Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.

“Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from the one before the priests, the Levites. “And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes, “that his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel.”

Though _______ was gifted with __________ wisdom, his _____ led him astray. Toward the ___ of his life troubles began to appear through ________ factions, and enemies rose up both ______ and without the nation. Though Solomon made _________ one of the wonders of the ______, the kingdom was ready for a ________. When Solomon ____ (about 922 BC) the kingdom ____ in two.

The Kings

The Kings of Israel (all wicked)

Jeroboam I

Nadab

Baasha

Elah

Zimri

Omri

Ahab

Ahaziah

Jehoram (Joram)

Jehu

Jehoahaz

Jehoash (Joash)

Jeroboam II

Zechariah’

Shallum

Menahem

Pekahiah

Pekah

Hoshea

Kings of Judah (8 were good)

Rehoboam

Abijam

Asa (Good)

Jehoshaphat (Good)

Jehoram

Ahaziah

Athaliah

Joash (Good)

Amaziah (Good)

Azariah (Uzziah) (Good)

Jotham (Good)

Ahaz

Hezekiah (Good)

Manasseh

Amon

Josiah (Good)

Jehoahaz

Jehoiachim

Jehoiachin

Zedekiah

The Divided Kingdom

After Solomon the ____ and fortunes of Israel went ________. The nation ________ against God and his laws. God might have _________ Israel had He not ________ to Abraham a redeemer and He still _______ to use the house of _____ for this.

When Solomon ____ a civil war broke out as Solomon’s sons and ________ fought for the throne. _________ had his fathers __________ to be the new king, but Jeroboam had more ________ influence. In the end, Rehoboam took the ________ half of the country and called it “______”. Jeroboam took the _______ half and kept the name ______ . Each _______ to be God’s _______ king.

The Northern Kingdom (Israel)

The ________ Kingdom consisted of __ of the tribes (excluding _____ and Benjamin). It lasted for about ___ years until it was _________ by ________ in 722 BC. Its capital was _______. Every ____ of Israel was evil. In the ________ kingdom there were _ dynasties (family lines of kings) and __ kings in all. An _______ of 11 years to a reign. 8 of these _____ met death by ________.

The ________ written over _____ one of its kings was:

IKing 15:34

and he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin by which he had made Israel to sin.

It was King ____ who introduced ____ worship to them.

IKing 16:30-33

Now Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him. And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal and worshiped him. Then he set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. And Ahab made a wooden image. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

The ____ king was Hoshea (2 Ki 17). The petty wars of the past, wars with _____ and Edom, _____ and Philistia, were now to ____ way to war on an _______ new scale. A _____ empire was being gathered into the ________ hands of the _________. The ruthless and _____ Assyrians (under Sargon II) besieged _______ for 3 years and finally it ____, Israel was doomed. The _________ hauled them away into __________ (722 BC).

But the Lord always _________ them of why judgement came:

II Kings 17:7-23

For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they had feared other gods, and had walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

Also the children of Israel secretly did against the LORD their God things that were not right, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from watchtower to fortified city. They set up for themselves sacred pillars and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree. There they burned incense on all the high places, like the nations whom the LORD had carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger, for they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”

Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His prophets, every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.” Nevertheless they would not hear, but stiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God. And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed idols, became idolaters, and went after the nations who were all around them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them that they should not do like them.

So they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves a molded image and two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.

Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah alone. . And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them from His sight. For He tore Israel from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. Then Jeroboam drove Israel from following the LORD, and made them commit a great sin. For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they did not depart from them, until the LORD removed Israel out of His sight, as He had said by all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it is to this day.

The Southern Kingdom (Judah)

The ________ kingdom consisted of _ tribes (Judah and Benjamin). The kingdom extended in the _____ as far as Bethel, while in the _____ it ended in the dry area known as the _____. Its eastern and western __________ were the ______ River and the _____________ Sea. Jerusalem was its _______ and it lasted from about 922-586 BC,

Judah was left suddenly ___________ when Rehoboam flatly refused to _______ the heavy load of ______ labor and high ________ imposed on the Israelites by his ______ Solomon (1 Kin. 12:1-24). Upon __________ refusal, the ___ tribes living north of Bethel promptly declared their independence.

But something else ________along with this Division. An entirely __________ blow that devastated Judah. Shishak, Pharaoh of Egypt, _______ the country, _________ the treasures of the ______ and the royal ______, and destroyed a number of _____ built fortresses (2 Chr. 12:1-12). Judah never _________ from the sudden loss of her ________ wealth. Because her ____ was not as fertile as that of the ________ kingdom of Israel, Judah never enjoyed the same degree of __________. Rehoboam wanted to ______ Israel and reunite the _______ by force, but a ____ from the Lord came to Shemaiah the _______ saying,

IKing 12:24

’Thus says the LORD: “You shall not go up nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel.”

_____ had somewhat of a ______ record. Only _ of Judah’s kings ______ God. These were: Asa, Jehoshaphat, Joash, Amaziah, Uzziah, Jotham, Hezekiah, and Josiah. The rest of the __ kings were wicked. In the ________ kingdom there was only ___ dynasty, that of King David, except _______ Athaliah from the ________ kingdom, who by ________, broke into David’s line, and ___________ the succession for _ years, 20 kings in all. An average of about __ years to a reign.

Jehoshaphat’s son _______ (about 848-841 BC) married Athaliah, daughter of King ____ and the wicked Queen _______; and their marriage led to ____ worship also being ___________ in Jerusalem (2 Kin. 8:18). Jehoram’s son _______ reigned only for ___ year (841 BC) before he was ______. The _____ queen mother Athaliah ______ the throne and nearly brought the _______ line to extinction by _______ most of Ahaziah’s ____. Only the infant _____ escaped. He was _______ by his Aunt Jehoshabeath and her _______ Jehoiada, the _____ high priest (2 Chr. 22:10-12). After ___ years Joash was proclaimed the ______ king, and Athaliah was ________.

____ worship climaxed in Judah during the reign of ____ (2 Ki 16). Ahaz (about 732-715 BC), was faced with _________ rise to power under TiglathPileser III; but Ahaz resisted the _______ of Rezin of _____ and Pekah of Israel to join an ________ against Assyria. Instead, Ahaz sought ____ from Assyria, against the prophet ________ advice, and received __________ in return for heavy tribute. Syria and the kingdom of ______ were destroyed in 722 BC, leaving _____ at the mercy of the Assyrians.

When ________ (about 714-686 B. C.) succeeded Ahaz, he also ___________ Isaiah’s advice and became involved in a _________ with Babylonia and Egypt against Assyria. Assyria, now ruled by ___________, moved against Jerusalem in 701 B. C. It was at this time that ________ constructed the ______ Tunnel to bring water from the Spring of _____ into the city of Jerusalem (2 Chr. 32:30). But then something very strange happened. Somehow, ____________ the Assyrians withdrew from _________ Jerusalem after suffering heavy losses, perhaps from a ______. History leaves a big question mark at this point. Why didn’t ___________ build a seige _____ against Jerusalem and completely _______ it? The Bible reveals something very interesting:

Isa 37:33-38

“Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: ‘He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor build a siege mound against it. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return; and he shall not come into this city,’ says the LORD. ‘For I will defend this city, to save it for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’ “Then the angel of the LORD went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, there were the corpses– all dead. So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at Nineveh. Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.

_______ came during the reign of ________ but it was immediately swept aside by ________, who was Judah’s most wicked and _______ ruling king. The nation never fully _________ from the effects of this evil king. Manasseh’s son ____ continued in his father’s _________, but he soon was murdered. His successor ______ (about 640-609 BC) restored traditional ________ religion, which was based on the ____ of the ___ newly discovered in a Temple _________ (2 Chr. 34:14). Many did not follow Josiah’s _______, however, and the prophet _________ foretold disaster for the ______. By 610 BC the ________ Empire had collapsed under Babylonian _______, and Babylon prepared to _____ against Egypt, which had been _______ the Assyrians. Against __________ advice, Josiah intervened and was ______ at Megiddo.

After Josiah there was no ____ for Judah, the last _ kings were all evil. The Babylonians _____ down upon Jerusalem in 597 B. C. and ________ it. A second attack led to Jerusalem’s second defeat in 586 B. C. ________ from both campaigns were taken to _________ to mark the captivity of the ________ Kingdom.

The Babylonian Captivity

Around 605 BC. _______ and Assyria had fallen. It was just ______ and Babylon who were _______ world supremacy. The young, brilliant, new king of _______, Nebuchadnezzar, went out and ________ the Egyptians at Carchemish. He _______ on to Judah, during ___________ reign, and took thousands of _______ back to Babylon (including Daniel , who became one of the ________ prophets). Nebuchadnezzar made ___ more attacks when he heard of _________ in Judah. Each time he took ________ (including Ezekiel the prophet). Only a _______ of the weakest, _______, and least ___________ Jews remained. King Nebuchadnezzar set up a ______ king (Zedekiah) of _______ line to sit on the throne of _____ and made him _____ an oath of allegiance (2 Chr 36:10-12).BKA2Babylon.htmBKA2Babylon.htm

________ was as faithless as the rest of the ____ kings of Judah. He then _________ and allied with other enemies. When Nebuchadnezzar _____ he came back for the ____ time (586 BC) to reduce Jerusalem to ______ and send the ______ up in flames. Zedekiah was ______ to witness the slaughter of his ____, then his ____ were put out, and he himself was _______ off to Babylon. The _______ was over and the “_________________” had begun.

2 Kin 24:13-14 13 And he carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house, and he cut in pieces all the articles of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said. 14 Also he carried into captivity all Jerusalem: all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained except the poorest people of the land.

The Captivity to the Return

The Return from Babylon

The ______ of Judah were ________ distressed. They ____ their home, their city, their _____, their Temple, the ________________, and they were taken as _________ to Babylon, the homeland of ________. But God raised up great ___ to remind them of __________ prophecies, that they would only be there for __ years. Babylon _____ not be their home:

Jer 29:10-14

For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.

They would return and the temple would be rebuilt, and the Messiah would still come. Daniel and Ezekiel sought to keep the true faith alive.

The Decree of Cyrus

By 538 BC. _______ had passed into history and the ____________ Empire took its place. _____ the Persian issued a ______ to allow the ____ to go back to their land, and with the ________ of The Persian Empire.BKA2The_Persian_Empire.htmBKA2The_Persian_Empire.htm. The Jews were ______ moved. Babylon was their home. Only a _______ returned (Neh 7) and only __ of the Levites, who were ________ to be known for their __________ to the things of ___.

Zerubbabel

The _____ move back to _________ was led by Zerubbabel, of the _____ of David. He was the _____ one of royal _____ to pay any attention to the ______ of Cyrus (Ezra 2). When he returned, he found just ______. No temple, torn down walls, and a mixed _____ of corrupt Jews (Samaritans) ______ there. In 536 BC. he laid the __________ for a new ______, built an altar and __________ the Lord. The prophets ______and ________helped urge the Jews on. They ________ the work on the ______ in 516 BC. (exactly 70 years).

Ezra and Nehemiah

58 years later (458 BC) more ____ returned (Ezra 7) under the leadership of ____. 12 years later, ________, received permission to _______ the walls of Jerusalem and to _______ Judea. He arrived in 444 BC. Despite much __________, Nehemiah completed this _________ hopeless task in __ days. Then a _______ followed. Ezra and Nehemiah _________ the books of the Old Testament. They read ______ to the people and gave ______________. About __ years later, the prophet _______condemned the ______ for slipping back into their ______ ways.

The Prophets

The history of the ____ and ____ of the Hebrew nation is found in the _______ books (Genesis-Esther). The ________ appeared during the days of the ____ of the Hebrew nation. At the moment of the ________ of the 10 tribes at the _____ of Solomon’s reign and ________ golden age the ________ of the prophets began. The prophets gave a ____ __ call as soon as people began to ______ God.

Prophets of the ________ Period Jonah Joel Amos Hosea Isaiah Micah Zephaniah Nahum

Prophets of the __________ Period BKA2untitled.htm - 91b890b1Jeremiah Habakkuk Ezekiel Obadiah Daniel

Prophets of the _______ Period Haggai Zechariah Malachi

God ______ Israel and Judah over and over again through the ________. The people _______ God, worshipped idols, did _________, and loved ____. But God was ____ enough to forewarn them of ______ judgements because of sin and ________, and he would do _________ miracles through the ________ that would give them ____ and encouragement. The prophets even ________ their faith in the coming _______ and His glorious _______. Prophets like ________ warned both ______ and _____ even after it was too late and there was no ______ for recovery.

Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you, “and say to them, ’Thus says the LORD of hosts: Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury them till there is no place to bury. “Thus I will do to this place,” says the LORD, “and to its inhabitants, because of all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and poured out drink offerings to other gods.“Then Jeremiah came from Tophet, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord’s house and said to all the people, “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all her towns all the doom that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their necks that they might not hear My words.’”

God was also very _____ about prophets who spoke _______ and worked ________ to back up their words:

Deut 13:1-3

“If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, “and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’– which you have not known–’ and let us serve them,’ “you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deut 18:20-22

‘But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’ “And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?’–“when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.

Messianic Prophesy

A) The Importance of Prophesy

Beginning in Old _________ times there were ___ known as prophets who ________ or spoke forth God’s word. These ________ were “mouthpieces” of God with ______________ similar to ours, and they would get a ____ from the Lord and _____ it out using their ___ personalities, and the _______ spoken out or written was the very ____ of God. Therefore it says:

2 Pet 1:20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

These __________ declared _________ or curses, dealing with the ________ or future. They were given _______ to __________ the people and give them ____ in the Lord. The ______ faith was preserved through the ________ and the Lord was _______ near to Israel. _______ was seen as the _____ of the world, in whose _____ are the destinies of the ______. Through these __________ the Jews __________ their God and realized His ________ and divine providence. As a ______ they experienced __________ and sorrow, and so also as a nation they were often _______ up by the prophets with ________ of future deliverance and _______ over their enemies. They could say with the Psalmist:

Ps 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

God used the ________ to strengthen His ______ and give them hope. Something I often wonder about is when the _______ of Judah was __________ by Babylon, the holy ______ that Solomon built destroyed, the vessels and riches _____, and the people ___ captive to Babylon (an idolatrous land ___ miles across the desert), they might have _______ “where is our God now,” if it wasn’t for the _____________ words of Jeremiah the prophet that there was a _____ to their banishment, and that after __ years the Babylonian ______ would be destroyed, and they would be ________ to “the land” of their _______. And what’s amazing is that we actually find______, one of these exiles, ___________ these 70 years, strengthening himself through the ____ of the prophet, though ___________:

Dan 9:2-3 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

God’s ________ bring His people ____ to Him, regardless of _______ when they will be _________.

B) The Messianic Prophesies

The most important prophecies to the Jewish _______ and nation were the “_________ ___________”. Words about a _______ King who would _____ in righteousness. This was the Jewish _____ and ____. In His days _____ would be saved, and ______ would dwell in ______. This more than anything else, __________ the faith of the nation to Jehovah their ___. Though ______ down by their enemies, though _______ captive into foreign lands, yet their _______ rose with the hopes of final ___________ and future greatness. They looked _______ to a time when Messiah their ________ King, to whom the _______ would be given for an ___________, and the _________ parts of the _____ for a __________, would rule over them.

It may be that they _____________ the nature and _______ of their prophecies; it may be that they __________ the predictions relating to the __________ of the Messiah, thinking only of His ________ reign, but still these Messianic _____ were the ____ of the nation, and the ______ of all that was _________ in it. Were it not for the hope in a _______, the Jewish ________ would have degenerated into a dry ___________ of ceremony and ritual, without any _______ into their meaning, without any _____________ of the ___________ of mere form and _______ religion and of the _________ of spiritual _______.

We sometimes think that the _______ were the heart of _______ and the ceremonies within the ______ and tabernacle, but the ________ made very clear that _______ was there, in their _____, and they were to ____ with clean _____ and a ____ heart. When the people would ___ up spiritually and just ________ outward observance the prophets would ____ them up and ________ their sacrifices and offerings and ________ their discontinuance. These prophets were the great _________ preachers among the Jews continually _________ them that sacrifices were _________ unless performed by pure hands; _____, and assemblies, and new _____, if done outwardly, were _____ than useless. As Isaiah said:

Is 1:11-13 “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?” Says the LORD. “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed cattle. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or goats. “When you come to appear before Me, who has required this from your hand, to trample My courts? Bring no more futile sacrifices; incense is an abomination to Me. The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies– I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting.

The Messianic ______ was to be an era of moral ______, war was to _____, and total peace was about to ____ upon the earth; God’s ______ was to be poured upon all _____; and on and on were the _________ promised to Jerusalem, as Isaiah said:

Is 62:1-7 For Zion’s sake I will not hold My peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns. The Gentiles shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD will name. You shall also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

You shall no longer be termed Forsaken, nor shall your land any more be termed Desolate; but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married. For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you. I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the LORD, do not keep silent, And give Him no rest till He establishes and till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Therefore it was by the _________ prophecies that ____ religion was _________ and nourished among the ____, spiritual _______ which alone _______ God. The ____ worshippers realized that God’s ________ brought them near to ___, regardless of exactly when they would be _________.

The ____ could find _____ hope in promises yet to come, but even more _________ are the promises _______ fulfilled. Our _____ and hope rest on a still _____ foundation, the fulfillment _____ the prophecy with the _____ of divinity. That which was to the Jews as a _____ shining in a ____ place, is to us the _______ of the day, the rising of the ________ in our hearts. And if, among all the __________ in the Old Testament, the _________ predictions were of special __________ to the Jews, just think how much more important they are to us, who _______ that we see the __________ in _____ of Nazareth.

All _____ prophecies are of _____ importance. The prophecies about the _______ cities of Babylon, ____, and Nineveh are very important and __________ our faith in the _____ as prewritten _______, but the prophecies concerning _______ are so much more important and so __________ with Christianity and an essential ________ of our faith.

Here is a list of some of the __________ about Jesus. First the _____, then the Old Testament __________, and the New _________ fulfillment:

Messianic Prophesies

The seed of the woman

Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.”

Gal 4:4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

The seed of Abraham

Gen 12:3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Gal 3:16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ.

The Tribe of Judah

Gen 49:10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; and to Him shall be the obedience of the people.

Matt 1:2 Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers.

The seed of Jacob

Num 24:17-19 “I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near; a Star shall come out of Jacob; a Scepter shall rise out of Israel… Out of Jacob One shall have dominion, and destroy the remains of the city.”

Lk 3:34 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

The seed of David

Ps 132:11 The LORD has sworn in truth to David; he will not turn from it: “I will set upon your throne the fruit of your body.

Jer 23:5-6 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; a King shall reign and prosper, and execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely; now this is His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Rom 1:3 concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,

A prophet like Moses

Deut 18:15-19 “The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear… `I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. `And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him.

Jn 6:14 Then those men, when they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

The Son of God

Ps 2:7 “I will declare the decree: the LORD has said to Me, `You are My Son, today I have begotten You.

Prov 30:4 Who has ascended into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is His Son’s name, if you know?

Matt 3:17 And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Resurrected from the dead

Ps 16:10 For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

Acts 13:35-37 “Therefore He also says in another Psalm: `You will not allow Your Holy One to see corruption.’ “For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and saw corruption; “but He whom God raised up saw no corruption.

Betrayed by a friend

Ps 41:9 Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

Matt 26:48-49 Now His betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “Whomever I kiss, He is the One; seize Him.” Immediately he went up to Jesus and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” and kissed Him.

Ascend into Heaven

Ps 68:18 You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive; you have received gifts among men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God might dwell there.

Acts 1:9 Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.

A priest like Melchizedek

Ps 110:4 The LORD has sworn and will not relent, “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”

Heb 5:5-6 So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him: “You are My Son, today I have begotten You.” As He also says in another place: “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek”

Seated at the right hand of God

Ps 110:1 The LORD said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”

Matt 26:64 Jesus said to him, “It is as you said. Nevertheless, I say to you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

The rejected stone to become the chief cornerstone

Ps 118:22-23 The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This was the LORD’S doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.

Is 28:16 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; whoever believes will not act hastily.

Matt 21:42-43 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: `The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it.

Born of a Virgin

Is 7:14 “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

Lk 1:34-35 Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?” And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.

Minister in Galilee

Is 9:1-2 Nevertheless the gloom will not be upon her who is distressed, as when at first He lightly esteemed the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward more heavily oppressed her, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, in Galilee of the Gentiles. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined.

Matt 4:13 And leaving Nazareth, He came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the regions of Zebulun and Naphtali,

Will be meek and humble

Is 42:2-3 He will not cry out, nor raise His voice, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed He will not break, and smoking flax He will not quench; he will bring forth justice for truth.

Is 53:7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; he was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He opened not His mouth.

Matt 26:62-63 And the high priest arose and said to Him, “Do You answer nothing? What is it these men testify against You?” But Jesus kept silent….

Bring salvation to the Gentiles

Is 11:10 “And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse, who shall stand as a banner to the people; for the Gentiles shall seek Him, and His resting place shall be glorious.”

Is 42:1 “Behold! My Servant whom I uphold, my Elect One in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.

Is 49:6 Indeed He says, `It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, that You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

Matt 15:21 Then Jesus went out from there and departed to the region of Tyre and Sidon.

Will be beaten

Is 50:6 I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.

Matt 26:67 Then they spat in His face and beat Him; and others struck Him with the palms of their hands,

Will establish a New Covenant

Jer 31:31-33 “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah– “not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. “But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

Matt 26:28 “For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Will have two missions

Is 61:1-2 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; he has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God;

Will perform miracles

Is 35:5-6 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb sing. For waters shall burst forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

Jn 11:47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, “What shall we do? For this Man works many signs.

Called Jehovah God

Is 9:6 For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Jn 8:24 “Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I Am, you will die in your sins.”

Jn 8:58 Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”

Born in Bethlehem

Mic 5:2 “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.”

Lk 2:4-6 Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered.

Will enter the Temple with authority

Mal 3:1 “Behold, I send My messenger, and he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He is coming,” says the LORD of hosts.

Matt 21:12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.

Will enter Jerusalem on a donkey

Zech 9:9 “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; he is just and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Matt 21:2-3 2 saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loose them and bring them to Me. 3 “And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, `The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.”

Will be pierced

Ps 22:16 For dogs have surrounded Me; the congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and My feet;

Zech 12:10 “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they have pierced; they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.

Is 53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

Jn 19:34 one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

Forsaken by His disciples

Zech 13:7 “Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the Man who is My Companion,” says the LORD of hosts. “Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; then I will turn My hand against the little ones.

Matt 26:31 Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: `I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

Victory over death

Is 25:8 He will swallow up death forever, and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; the rebuke of His people he will take away from all the earth; for the LORD has spoken.

Heb 2:14 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

Jn 19:30 So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.

The exact time of His death predicted

Dan 9:26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off….