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Amathlaah gives birth to her first son
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God promised Abraham that the land would be his children’s land.
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Sarah was finally able to birth a child after years of being barren.
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Rebekah gives birth to Jacob and Esau not knowing that there would be trouble with inheritance in the future.
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Settled in the town of Goshen, Egypt.
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Through the Red Sea, and Mount Sinai where he eventually receives the ten commandments.
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Joshua takes the role as leader, since Moses is gone. God tells him that no one will be able to defeat the Israelites.
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Started out with spies going into to Canaan to investigate. Israelites cross the Jordan River. The walls of Jericho fall.
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According to the Tanakh, Saul was the son of Kish, of the family of the Matrites, and a member of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel. It appears that he came from Gibeah.
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About 3,000 years ago, King David conquered Jerusalem from the Jebusites and established the capital of his kingdom there. The city continued as the capital of the kingdom for 400 years, until its first destruction at the hands of the Babylonians in 586/7 BCE
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The temple was elaborate and beautiful. Was known as the temple of the Lord
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When Solomon's successor Rehoboam dealt tactlessly with economic complaints of the northern tribes, in about 930 BCE (there are differences of opinion as to the actual year) the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah split into two kingdoms
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One of the Twelve Minor Prophets. An older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah, Amos was active c. 760–755 BCE during the reign of Jeroboam II (786–746 BCE). He was from the southern Kingdom of Judah but preached in the northern Kingdom of Israel
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In 722 BCE, nearly ten to twenty years after the initial deportations, the ruling city of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, Samaria, was finally taken by Sargon II after a three-year siege started by Shalmaneser V. Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents
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In 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon defeated Pharaoh Necho at the Battle of Carchemish, and subsequently invaded Judah.
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Cyrus decreed throughout his empire that any captive Jews in Babylonia who desired to could return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple.
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Cyrus decreed throughout his empire that any captive Jews in Babylonia who desired to could return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple.
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In the narrative of I Maccabees, after Antiochus IV issued his decrees forbidding Jewish religious practice, a rural Jewish priest from Modiin, Mattathias the Hasmonean, sparked the revolt against the Seleucid Empire by refusing to worship the Greek gods.
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The Roman Empire expanded and attacked the Holy Land.
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Mary gives birth to Jesus in a stable.
