1. Old Testament History

2. Old Testament History Part 3
Overview
1900 – Abraham…Isaac…Jacob
1700 – Joseph to Egypt (Hyksos)
1300 – Moses …. Joshua
– Judges
– Saul, David (1000BC), Solomon
922 – Division of kingdoms
722 – North into Exile (Assyrians)
589 – South into Exile (Babylonians)
540 – 440 – Exiles return -Zerubbabel, Ezra, Nehemiah

3. Twelve Tribes of Israel
A s h e r
Simeon
Naphtali
Zebulun
Issachar
Ephraim
M a n a s s e h
G a d
Dan
Reuben
J u d a h
Benjamin
Jerusalem
Dead Sea
Galilee
Jordan
River
Jericho
Mt.Nebo
12 Tribes
of Israel
Mediterranean
Twelve Tribes of Israel
Manasseh Asher
Naphtali Zebulun
Issachar Gad
Ephraim Dan
Benjamin Reuben
Simeon Judah
Twelve Tribes of Israel

4. Life under the Judges
? Samson

5. Life under the Judges
? Gideon

6. Life under the Judges
? Deborah

7. Life under the Judges
? Jephthah

8. Life under the Judges
? Ehud

10. Life under the Judges

11. Life under the Judges
Coalition
Adaptation
Syncretism

12. The Philistines
Philistine soldier, dated
1200BC, found in Egypt

13. The glory has departed

14. Tabernacle at Shiloh

16. Samuel

17. King Saul – 1050BC Big, strong, humble (insecure?)
Accountable to Samuel
National victories
Head and shoulders man!
BUT
Fear of men not God – 1 Samuel 15
Defective devotions; Reluctant repentance
Descent to insanity …
Suicide at Gilboa
“Surely I have acted like a fool”
NBD: “One of the most pathetic of all God's chosen servants."

18. David – after my own heart Israel’s singer of songs
Virtues:
Integrity
Courage
Diplomacy
Zeal for God
A man after my
own heart
Failings:
Adulterous
Murderer
Parenthood
Adonijah - "His father had
never interfered with
(crossed) him by asking
"Why do you behave as you
do?" 1 Kings 1:6
Later Absalom rebelled,
David fled! (2 Sam. 18:5)

19. Prophetic Expectation “Great David’s greater son”
The Making of a Nation
David’s legacy
A Capital – Jerusalem
Centre for worship
Accessible & acceptable
A united kingdom to be passed on to Solomon
Prophetic Expectation
“Great David’s greater son”

20. King Solomon Wise Diplomatic Wealth Built the temple BUT…
Own interests first
700 wives
Heavy burden on Nation
Sowing seeds of discontent

21. "His growing splendour was matched by his diminishing spirituality"
Solomon
"His growing splendour was matched by his diminishing spirituality"
"The continuance of his ruling house was not dependant on his outward splendour but his inner spiritual state“
“Solomon held fast to them in love…as he grew old his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of his father David had been…."
1 Kings 11:4

22. The Kingdom Divided (Judah) Rehoboam 922BC | Zedekiah 587 BC (Israel)
Southern Kingdom
(Judah)
Rehoboam 922BC |
Zedekiah BC
Northern Kingdom
(Israel)
Jeroboam 922BC |
Hoshea BC

23. The North - Israel

24. Old Testament History Part 4
Overview
1900 – Abraham…Isaac…Jacob
1700 – Joseph to Egypt (Hyksos)
1300 – Moses …. Joshua
– Judges
– Saul, David (1000BC), Solomon
922 – Division of kingdoms
722 – North into Exile (Assyrians)
589 – South into Exile (Babylonians)
540 – 440 – Exiles return -Zerubbabel, Ezra, Nehemiah

25. Falling apart…. Just 80 years united - Israel’s Golden Age
Then Northern kingdom lasted 200 years
Southern kingdom lasted 350 years

26. The North falls first… 722BC
Stage 1…
Tiglath-Pileser III
Pekah - Defaults on taxes
Stage 2…
Shalmaneser Engraving – British Museum
Hoshea – Defaults on tax
3 year siege
27,290 deported

27. Black Obelisk – British Musuem
Jehu son of Omri bows before Shalmaneser III

28. 2 Kings 17:3-18 Black Obelisk – British Library records Shalmanesers
achievements
“I besieged and captured Samaria, carrying off of the people who dwelt therein, 50 chariots from among them I gathered” - Shalmanesar

29. Sennacherib
Baked clay cylinder of Sennacherib, King of Assyria, from B.C. 705 to 681, inscribed with an account of eight campaigns of the king, including the capture and sack of Babylon, the invasion of Palestine and the siege of Jerusalem.
Sennacherib
- The Louvre

30. Empires – A, B, C
Assyrians
Babylonians
Cyrus - Persians

31. Judah - Off to Babylon Stage 1 - 597BC
Jerusalem surrenders, King Jehoiachin & leading officials taken off
Zedekiah left as puppet king for 8 years.
Stage BC
Zedekiah seeks allies
Babylonians attack & destroy Jerusalem
The End …??

32. The Exile – 589BC, 70 years Life in Judah… Life in Babylon…
Many died, others lived in the ruins
Life in Babylon…
Small but significant remnant – 4,600 & Ezekiel

33. Babylon Babylonian Chronicle – confirms date fall of Jerusalem =
Ishtar Gate –
reconstruction:
Babylonian Chronicle – confirms date fall of Jerusalem =
16th March 597 BC

34. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
One of the 7 wonders of
the ancient world
"In addition to its size, Babylon surpasses in splendour any city in the known world." Herodotus, a historian in 450 BC.

35. Life in Babylon..
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” How can we sing the songs of the Lord while we are in a foreign land?
- Psalm 137

36. Cyrus the Great ( BC)
                                  
"I am Cyrus, who founded the empire of the Persians. Grudge me not therefore, this little earth that covers my body."

37. The Cyrus Cylinder – 539BC
“…I restored them to their dwelling places”

38. The Return begins… Nebuchadnezzar dies - 562BC
Cyrus captures Babylon – 538BC
3 Stages
1. Zerubbabel begins the gradual return – 538BC
2. Ezra returns 80 years later
3. Nehemiah returns 10 years later

39. Rebuilding Jerusalem 1. The Temple - 520-515BC
- Zerubbabel, Haggai, Zechariah,
2. The Walls - 444BC
- Nehemiah
3. The Spiritual life
- Ezra

40. Overview 1900 – Abraham…Isaac…Jacob 1700 – Joseph to Egypt (Hyksos)
1300 – Moses …. Joshua
– Judges
– Saul, David (1000BC), Solomon
922 – Division of kingdoms
722 – North into Exile (Assyrians)
589 – South into Exile (Babylonians)
540 – 440 – Exiles return -Zerubbabel, Ezra, Nehemiah