1. Old Testament
Historical Books
Part 2

3. Dan
ISRAEL
Samaria  
Penuel 
Shechem
Bethel 
JUDAH

4. Southern Kingdom of Judah
Category
Northern Kingdom of Israel
19 Kings, 1 Queen
Kings
19 Kings
Jerusalem
Capital
Shechem/Samaria
Judah & Benjamin
Tribes
Ten Northern Tribes
Most were unstable; some were good, some were bad
Legacy of Kings
All were bad; Ahab and Ahaziah were idol worshipers
Conquered by Babylon in 586 B.C.
Fall
Conquered by Assyria in 721 B.C.
Returned to the land
Return
No Return

5. Sidon 
SIDON
ISRAEL
Ethbaal
(Itto-Baal)
OMRI
Israel
Jezebel
Ahab
Judah

6. Sidon 
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” (1 Kings 17:1).
Israel
Judah

7. Yahweh Baal Elijah Ahab Who will you serve? Sidon  Mount Carmel
Israel
Judah

8. An Outline of 1st & 2nd Kings

9. SIDON
ISRAEL
JUDAH
Ethbaal
(Itto-Baal)
OMRI
ASA
Jezebel
Ahab
Jehoshaphat
Ahaziah
Joram
Athaliah
Jehoram
Ahaziah
Joash

10. • Nineveh
• Jerusalem
Jonah's World

11. Samaria

12. 2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried Israel away into exile to Assyria. and settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of Gozarx and in the cities of the Medes.

13. 2 Kings 17:7-8
Now this came about, because the sons of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and they had feared other gods 8 and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the sons of Israel, and in the customs of the kings of Israel which they had introduced.

14. Hezekiah’s Reformation
Religious Reform
Envoys from Merodach-Baladan
Assyrian threat
Hezekiah’s Tunnel

16. 2 Kings 19:35-36
Then it happened that night that the angel of the Lord went out, and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men rose early in the morning, behold, all of them were dead.
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home, and lived at Nineveh.

17. Taylor Prism
“As for Hezekiah, the Jew, who did not submit to my yoke, 46 of his strong walled cities, as well as the small cities in their neighborhood, which were without number, by escalade and bringing up siege engines... Himself, like a caged bird, I shut up in Jerusalem, his royal city.

18. Reform under Josiah
Religious Reform
Fall of Assyria

19. Scythians
Carchemish 
Medes
Assyria
Megiddo 
Babylon
EGYPT

20. Scythians
Carchemish 
Medes
Assyria
Megiddo 
Babylon
EGYPT

22. And he burned the house of the LORD, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.
(2 Kings 25:9).

23. Prophetic Perspective: Judgments
Kings
Chronicles
Prophetic Perspective: Judgments
Priestly Perspective: Hope
Wars Prominent
Temple Prominent
History of thrones
History of Davidic line
Israel & Judah
Mostly Judah
Morality
Redemption

24. The Prophet of Social Justice
Babylonian Captivity
Return
from
Exile
Kings of Judah
Amos
Jerusalem & Temple Destroyed
Joel?
Zephaniah
The Prophet of Social Justice
Daniel
Jeremiah
Habakkuk
Obadiah?
Ezekiel

25. Lydians
Medes
Persians
Babylon 

26. Ezra 1:2-3
Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, “The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and He has appointed me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3 Whoever there is among you of all His people, may his God be with him! Let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah and rebuild the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem.

27. Ezra 1:4
“Every survivor, at whatever place he may live, let the men of that place support him with silver and gold, with goods and cattle, together with a freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.”
Cyrus
the
Great

28. Permission given to rebuild
The Temple
Cyrus the Great
Haggai &
Zechariah
prophesy
and urge
construction
to begin
again
Cambyses
Construction halted
Permission given to rebuild

29. Permission given to rebuild
The Temple
Cyrus the Great
Darius the Great
Cambyses
Construction halted
Permission given to rebuild
Permission given to complete

30. 1st Return under Zerubbabel & rebuilding Temple
Ezra 1-6
Ezra 7-10
B.C.
Events of Book of Esther
Book of Esther
473 B.C.
2nd Return under Ezra
B.C.
3rd Return under Nehemiah & rebuilding walls
Book of Nehemiah
B.C.

31. The Esther Narrative

32. Cast of Characters Esther (also known as Hadassah). Ahasuerus: Xerxes
Mordecai & Haman

33. The Narrative A new queen Mordecai saves the king Haman’s jealousy
A plan for ethnic cleansing
Plea to Esther
Haman’s plan
The king’s plan
Esther’s revelation
The Jewish deliverance

34. Esther 9:24
For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the adversary of all the Jews, had schemed against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to disturb them and destroy them.

35. Haman
Mordecai
A descendant of Agag (Esther 3:1), the king of the Amalekites whose life Saul spared in disobedience to the command of God.
From the tribe and family of Saul (Esther 2:5).
The enemy of the people of God
The savior of the people of God

36. Points to Ponder Esther is the book of God’s Providence
The Success of Haman’s plot would also exterminate the seed through which the Messiah would come
This book reminds us that God works in the lives of both the great and the small

37. A Picture of Christ The Story The Picture
Esther was the virgin bride who married the king.
The church is the spotless bride who marries the King
The king’s former wife had been displeasing and had been set aside.
The natural branches were broken off due to unbelief.

38. A Picture of Christ The Story The Picture
Haman plotted against Mordecai and against all the Jews.
Satan has set himself against Christ and against all men
Mordecai convinces Esther to intercede on behalf of her people.
Jesus Himself interceded on behalf of His church.

39. A Picture of Christ The Story The Picture
Esther agrees to intercede after the people have fasted for three days.
Christ interceded on our behalf and then was in the grave three days.
Haman plans to have Mordecai executed for not bowing down to him.
Jesus was tempted by Satan to worship him; Satan’s attack culminated in the cross.

40. A Type of Christ The Story The Picture
Haman met his end on the gallows he had intended for Modecai.
Christ intentionally went to the cross that was prepared for us.
In both cases, that which looked like certain death and defeat was turned into ultimate victory.