Jewish history

Abraham

1900 BCE

When Abraham followed one loving God in an age when people believed in countless gods. In the covenant with Abraham God promised to take care of Abraham's people and give them a land of safety and well-being in which to live, and Abraham and his people, in turn, were called to follow God loyally and lovingly.
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Part B. Moses

1900 BCE

1. A prophet of God, who freed his people from slavery, he lived between 1400-1201 BCE.
2. He saved his people from slavery and divided the red sea.
3. - "Don't let worry get you down remember, Moses started out a basket case."
4. " every mother is like Moses, she does not enter the promise land, she prepares world she will not see". 4.From this experience i learned that we need to obey the laws that Mose's gave me, and that just because you don't see a way it doesn't mean there isn't one.

Moses

1290 BCE

Moses was called by God so he can free his people from slavery in Egypt, and God made a path in the red sea so that Moses and his people can escape, so they crossed the river and Got into mount of Sinai. God gave Moses a covenant of Sinai called the ten commandments so the people can follow in order to go to heaven.
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Samson

1117 BCE

Samson was a giving from God to the Israelite's, that has strength and God told him that his power is from his hair, and that if he cuts his hair God will take away his strength and he will be weak as everyone else. Samson fell in love with women named Delilah and she was working with the philistines to know his secrets how he is so strong, so Delilah cut his hair and give him to the Philistines, but God gave him powers and then Samson God his strength back and killed all of them.

Entering the promise land

1050 BCE

Two hundred years after the Israelite's crossed the Jordan river into the land that had been promised to them by God. Israel confronted a few enemies against, the philistines and they captured the treasure ark of the covenant, in which Moses's written version of the ten commandments was stored and honored.
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David

1000 BCE

Jerusalem became known as the city of David, where he palace and desired to build a great temple in which the reclaimed ark of covenant could be kept and honored. Jerusalem therefore became the center of not only to political life of the people of Israel but also their religious life, and David was still recognized as the greatest of all the kings of Israel.
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Saul: Warrior king

1000 BCE

Saul was appointed for the first king of Israel, because he was a very strong leader and he was a very brave man in a battle, but he was a weak man personally because he was very jealous of a young man named David. When Saul became a king, the 12 tribes Israel was divided into two groups, ten tribes were north of Jerusalem kept the name Israel, and the two tribes living to the south of Jerusalem went by the collective name Judah.

Solomon; The son of David

721 BCE

Solomon served as king for forty years, it was a period of great building, increased trade, and prosperity, during the time David had dreamed of. Through the temple was beautiful and attracted the people to worship God, Solomon himself turned to idolatry, building pagan shrines and worshiping pagan idols.

The Babylonian Exile

597 BCE

Jerusalem was overrun by Babylonians, and the leading citizens of the kingdom of Judah were carried off the captives into Babylon the southern kingdom had been destroyed just as Isaiah had predicted. In Jerusalem everything worsened, and the city itself including the temple, was destroyed and thousands more captives were led off into the Babylonian Exile.

Jeremiah

587 BCE

He was a young priest of Anahoth who became a prophet of God, Jeremiah was told by God to not marry and he obeyed God's commands. He continued to plead God’s case against Judah during the time of Jerusalem’s destruction by the Babylonians.

A prophet's promise

538 BCE

The Persians overcome the Babylonians, and the Persian leader allowed all the exiles in the new empire to return to their native lands with the freedom of worship. The prophet Isaiah, who wrote some of the most beautiful passages in all the scriptures, including the famous "suffering servant" passages, which speaks of a great servant of God will one day save this people through his own sufferings and death rather than through the military conquest.