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Page: Foundations • Patriarchs • Egypt • Sojourn • Return • Theocracy • Monarchies • Israel • Judah • Prophets • Exile • Hope • Paradigm • Love • Explosion • Paul • Finale • Recap1 • Recap2

Foundations

Creation (GE 1:1-2:4)

Adam & Eve (GE 2:4-Ω)

The serpent & the choice that changed everything (GE 3)

Satan's exile (REV 12:3-9)

Cain & Abel (GE 4)

Noah & the ark (GE 6:5-7:10)

The flood that changed the world (GE 7:11-9:3)

The tower of Babel (GE 11:1-9)

Job tested (JOB 1-2)

God speaks of His power (JOB 38:1-40:5)

God speaks more & Job is forgiven (JOB 40:6-42:Ω)

Patriarchs

Abram and Sarai obey God (GE 12-13)

Abram rescues Lot & family (GE 14)

God's conversation with Abram (GE 15)

Sarai, Hagar, & Ishmael (GE 16)

God's covenant with Abram (GE 17)

Abraham and Sarah promised a son (GE 18)

Angels rescue Lot & family (GE 19:1-29)

Abraham's faith is tested with Isaac (GE 22:1-18)

Isaac's wife, Rebekah (GE 24)

Jacob, Esau, & the birthright (GE 25:19-Ω)

Jacob, Easu, & the blessing (GE 27:1-40)

Jacob's wives, Rachel & Leah (GE 27:41-29:20)

Jacob's first 11 sons (GE 29:21-30:24)

Jacob heads home (GE 30:25-32:21)

Jacob wrestles with God, renamed Israel (GE 32:22-Ω)

Jacob & Esau reunited (GE 33)

Simeon & Levi trick the Canaanites (GE 34)

Jacob's 12th son (GE 35)

Egypt

Joseph's dreams (GE 37)

Joseph & his master's wife (GE 39)

Joseph in jail (GE 40)

Pharaoh's dreams (GE 41)

Joseph's family needs food (GE 42)

Joseph's family needs food again (GE 43)

Joseph traps his brothers (GE 44)

Joseph reveals himself (GE 45)

Moses, born & raised in Egypt (EX 1:8-2:15)

Moses & the burning bush (EX 2:16-4:23)

Moses's first plea with Pharaoh (EX 4:27-6:13)

Plagues begin (EX 6:29-7:Ω)

Next five plagues (EX 8:1-9:12)

Crop destruction (EX 9:13-10:20)

Darkness delivered & death promised (EX 10:21-11:10)

Final plague [Passover] (EX 12:21-Ω)

God parts the Red Sea (EX 13:17-14:Ω)

Sojourn

Water, meat, & mana in the desert (EX 15:22-16:Ω)

Joshua's first battle (EX 17:1-13)

Moses's father-in-law brings relief (EX 18)

10 commandments (EX 19:1-20:21)

Golden calf (EX 31:12-32:Ω)

Replacement tablets (EX 33-34)

More cravings for meat (NUM 11)

Moses has family problems (NUM 12)

Spies sent into Canaan (NUM 13)

Price of rebellion (NUM 14)

Some Levites attempt a coop (NUM 16)

Moses's slip up (NUM 20:1-13)

Bronze snake (NUM 21:4-9)

Return of the Hebrews

Occupation begins (NUM 21:10-Ω)

Balaam blesses Israel (& his donkey speaks; NUM 22-24)

Phinehas saves Israel from their promiscuity (NUM 25)

Joshua commissioned (NUM 27:12-Ω)

Hebrews pick a fight (NUM 28:1-27)

God's stipulations for the occupation (NUM 33:50-34:12)

Rahab hides the spies (JOS 2)

God stops the Jordan river (JOS 3)

Defeating Jericho (JOS 5:10-6:Ω)

Achan's disobedience & consequences (JOS 7)

Defeating Ai (JOS 8:1-29)

Defending Gibeon (the Sun stands still; JOS 10:1-27)

Theocracy

Poor generational transition & consequences (JDG 2:6-3:6)

First few judges (Othniel, Ehud, & Shamgar; JDG 3:7-Ω)

Deborah (JDG 4)

Gideon's fleece tests (JDG 6:11-40)

Gideon & 300 fight the Midianites (JDG 7)

Gideon pursues the Midianite kings (JDG 8)

Abimelech & the people of Shechem (JDG 9)

Jephthah (JDG 10:6-12:7)

Samson born (JDG 13)

Samson's wife (JDG 14)

Samson's revenge (JDG 15)

Samson & Delilah (JDG 16)

Micah, the Danites, & Laish (JDG 17-18)

The Levite, the concubine, & civil war (JDG 19-21)

Ruth & Naomi (RU 1-2)

Ruth & Boaz (RU 3-4)

Samuel born (1SA 1)

Samuel & Eli (1SA 2:12-3:Ω)

Ark of the Covenant lost & returned, sort of (1SA 4-7)

People demand a king (1SA 8)

Monarchies

Saul crowned king (1SA 9-10)

Saul fights the Ammonites, then blows it (1SA 11-12)

Jonathan and his armor bearer take on the Philistine army (1SA 13:16-14:Ω)

Saul grieves God again (1SA 15)

Samuel anoints David (1SA 16)

David & Goliath (1SA 17)

Everyone (but Saul) loves David (1SA 18)

Saul tries to get rid of David (1SA 19)

Jonathan saves David (1SA 20)

Saul chases David (1SA 21-23)

David spares Saul (1SA 24)

David, Nabal, & Abigail (1SA 25)

David spares Saul, again (1SA 26)

David & the Philistines (1SA 27-30)

Saul's death and the liar who claims responsibility (1SA 31-2SA 1:16)

Saul's sons & David struggle for power (2SA 2-4)

David crowned king (2SA 5)

Ark of the Covenant brought to Jerusalem (2SA 6)

David's plans for God & God's plans for David (2SA 7)

David finishes off the neighboring enemies (2SA 8)

David shows compassion to Saul's last descendent (2SA 9)

The Ammonites treachery (2SA 10)

David's sin with Bathsheba (2SA 11)

Nathan confronts David (2SA 12:1-25)

David's family struggles begin (2SA 13-14)

David flees to avoid civil war (2SA 15-16)

Absolom pursues David (2SA 17-19)

Attempted coop of Sheba (2SA 20)

David's age begins to show (2SA 21:15-Ω)

Stories of their best soldiers (2SA 23:8-23)

David's census & Israel's payment (2SA 24)

Solomon crowned king (1KI 1:1-2:12)

Solomon's house cleaning (1KI 2:13-Ω)

Solomon's wisdom (1KI 3)

First temple (1KI 5)

Dedication of the temple (1KI 8:1-26)

Pinnacle of Israel (1KI 10)

Opposition arises (1KI 11)

Solomon's son splits the kingdom (1KI 12:1-24)

Kings of Israel (North)

Jeroboam (1KI 12:25-14:20)

Nadab, Baasha, Elah, Zimri, & Omri (1KI 15:25-16:28)

Ahab (1KI 16:29-Ω)

Ahab of Israel & Ben-Hadad of Aram (1KI 20)

Ahab wants Naboth's inheritance (1KI 21)

Ahab, Jehoshaphat, & Micaiah (1KI 22:1-40)

Ahaziah (1KI 22:51-2KI 1:Ω)

Joram (2KI 3)

Jehoahaz, Jehoash (2KI 13)

Jeroboam II (2KI 14:23-Ω)

Zechariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, Pekah (2KI 15:8-31)

Hoshea, & Israel falls to Assyria/Babylon (2KI 17)

Kings of Judah (South)

Rehoboam, Abijaah, & Asa (1KI 14:21-15:24)

Jehoshaphat (1KI 22:41-50)

Jehoram & Ahaziah (2KI 8:16-Ω)

Jehu (2KI 9-10)

Athaliah the queen (2KI 11)

Joash, 7 year old king (2KI 12)

Amaziah (2KI 14:1-22)

Uzziah/Azariah & Jotham (2KI 15:1-7, 32-38)

Ahaz (2KI 16)

Hezekiah (2KI 18-20)

Manasseh & Amon (2KI 21)

Josiah, the 8 year old king (2KI 22:1-23:30)

Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, & Zedekiah (2KI 23:31-24:20)

Judah falls to Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (2KI 25)

Prophets

Elijah's work (1KI 17)

Elijah's contest on Mt Carmel (1KI 18)

Elijah & Elisha (1KI 19)

Elijah taken up to heaven (2KI 2)

Elisha's work (2KI 4)

Naaman's skin disease (2KI 5)

Elisha protects the king (2KI 6:1-23)

Samaria at siege with Elisha & the king inside (2KI 6:24-7:Ω)

Elisha in Damascus (2KI 8:1-15)

Amos stands up for the word of God (AM 7:10-17)

Hosea called by God (HOS 1,3)

Isaiah's vision/commission (ISA 6)

Sennacherib intimidates Hezekiah (ISA 36-37)

Hezekiah's illness & respite (ISA 38:1-8)

Isaiah delivers bad news for Hezekiah (ISA 39)

Jonah & Tarshish (JNH 1)

Jonah & Nineveh (JNH 2:10-4:11)

Jeremiah called by God (JER 1)

Sample of Jeremiah's preaching (JER 25:1-14)

Jeremiah on trial (JER 26)

Hananiah pretends to speak for God (JER 28)

Jeremiah buys Hanamel's field (JER 32:1-19)

Jeremiah speaks to the Recabites (JER 35)

Jeremiah's message to Jehoiakim (JER 36)

Ezekiel called by God (EZE 1:1-3:15)

Ezekiel's vision of God's holy jealousy (EZE 8-11)

Ezekiel & the dry bones (EZE 37:1-14)

Jeremiah & Zedekiah (JER 37-38)

Jerusalem falls (JER 39:1-40:6)

Recap of Jerusalem's fall (JER 52)

Gedaliah, Johanan & Ishmael (JER 40:7-41:Ω)

Johanan consults Jeremiah (JER 42:1-43:7)

Exile

Four Jewish boys conscripted by Nebuchadnezzar (DA 1)

Nebuchadnezzar's secret dream (DA 2)

Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, & the furnace (DA 3)

Nebuchadnezzar's sabbatical (DA 4)

Daniel's first dream (Belshazzar, with 4 animals; DA 7)

Daniel's second dream (Belshazzar, with 2 animals; DA 8)

Belshazzar's writing on the wall (DA 5)

Daniel visited by Gabriel again (Darius; DA 9:1-3,20-Ω)

Daniel, Darius & the lions den (DA 6)

Cyrus authorizes building the second temple (EZ 1)

Daniel visited by an unnamed angel (DA 10-12)

Zerubbabel & Jeshua lay the foundation (EZ 3:1-4:6)

Xerxes needs a new queen (EST 1-2)

Haman condemns the Jews (EST 3-4)

Esther's first dinner (EST 5)

Haman's disappointment (EST 6)

Esther's second dinner (EST 7)

A new plan for the Jews (EST 8)

Revenge of the Jews (EST 9-10)

Artaxerxes grants stay on temple reconstruction (EZ 4:7-Ω)

Haggai admonishes the community (HAG 1)

Darius reauthorizes temple work (EZ 4:24-6:Ω)

Ezra commissioned by Artaxerxes (EZ 7)

Ezra & company go to Jerusalem (EZ 8:15-Ω)

Purging the foreigners (EZ 9:1-10:17)

Artaxerxes authorizes Nehemiah to fortify Jerusalem (NE 1-2:10)

Construction perseveres despite resistance (NE 4)

Jewish leaders confronted on selfishness (NE 5)

Nehemiah defies intimidation (NE 6)

Nehemiah reads the Revelation of Moses to the people (NE 8)

Nehemiah dedicates the wall (NE 12:27-13:Ω)

A New Hope

An angel appears to Zechariah (MT 1:5-25)

An angel appears to Mary (LK 1:26-38)

An angel appears to Joseph (MT 1:18-Ω)

Mary visits Elizabeth, John born (LK 1:39-66)

Census, Jesus born [Christmas] (LK 2:1-7)

Angels appear to the shepherds (LK 2:8-20)

Simeon's & Anna's prophecies (LK 2:21-40)

The wise men, sabbatical in Egypt (MT 2)

Jesus left behind (LK 2:41-Ω)

Ministry of John the Baptizer (LK 3:1-20)

Jesus baptized by John (MT 3)

Jesus tempted by Satan (MT 4:1-11)

Jesus calls Andrew, Peter, James, & John (LK 5:1-11)

Jesus turns water into wine (JN 2:1-11)

Paradigm Shift (highlights)

Woman at the well (JN 4:1-42)

Faith at face value (JN 4:46-Ω)

Sermon on the Mount (MT 5-7)

Roman centurion (MT 8:5-13)

Wind and seas obey Him (MT 8:23-27)

Out of men, into pigs (MT 8:28-Ω)

Forgiveness of sins & healing (MT 9:1-8)

Why Jesus came (MT 9:9-13)

Jairus's daughter & an old woman (MK 5:21-43)

Commissioning the 12 (MT 9:35-11:1)

John's doubt from prison (LK 7:18-35)

Simon & the canceled debts (LK 7:36-Ω)

Herod kills John (MK 6:14-29)

Invalid for 38 years (JN 5:1-18)

Five loaves & two fish (MK 6:30-44)

Walking on water (MT 14:22-33)

Stoning the woman (JN 8:1-11)

Blind from birth (JN 9)

Transfiguration (MT 17:1-13)

Necessity of child-like faith (MT 18:1-7)

Forgiveness expects reciprocation (MT 18:21-Ω)

Good Samaritan (LK 10:25-37)

Greedy farmer (LK 12:13-24)

Great Reversal (MT 20:1-16)

Prodigal son (LK 15:11-Ω)

Shrewd manager (LK 16:1-9)

Lazarus & the rich man (LK 16:19-Ω)

Zacchaeus (LK 19:1-10)

Return on investment (LK 19:11-27)

Lazarus raised to life (JN 11:1-48)

Triumphal entry (MT 21:1-17)

Truth versus virtue? (MT 21:28-32)

Greedy farmhands (MT 21:33-Ω)

Wedding banquet parable (MT 22:1-14)

Most important commandment (MK 12:28-34)

Relationship, not religion (MT 23:1-12)

Nicodemus (JN 3:1-21)

Jesus talks about the future & God's kingdom (MT 24-25)

Proof God Loves You (highlights)

Garden (MT 26:31-56)

Mock trial (MT 26:57-27:10)

Pilate (JN 18:28-19:19)

Crucifixion (MT 27:27-Ω)

Resurrection [Easter] (MT 28:1-11)

Road to Emmaus, Jerusalem (LK 24:13-Ω)

Doubting Thomas (JN 20:19-Ω)

Try the other side (JN 21:1-14)

Explosion of God's Kingdom

Jesus ascends, replacement of the 12th apostle (AC 1)

Holy Spirit comes, Peter preaches to the crowd (AC 2)

Peter heals a lame, preaches, jailed, released (AC 3:1-4:31)

Exemplary Christian unity, then Ananias & Sapphira (AC 4:31-5:11)

Apostles let out of jail by an angel (AC 5:12-Ω)

Stephen (AC 6-7)

Unwilling missionaries, a misguided wizard (AC 8:1-25)

Phillip & the Ethiopian (AC 8:26-Ω)

Saul's conversion (AC 9:1-31)

Peter's mission trip (AC 9:32-10:Ω)

Peter's report of the gentile believers (AC 11)

Peter jailed & freed by an angel (AC 12)

Paul

Missionary trip #1 begins, with Barnabas (AC 13:1-12)

At Antioch in Pisidia (AC 13:13-Ω)

Iconium, Lystra, Derbe & back (AC 14)

Apistolic letter to the gentile believers (AC 15:1-34)

Missionary trip #2 begins, with Silas (AC 15:35-16:15)

Philippi: beating, jailing, & miracle (AC 16:16-40)

Thessalonica: mobs (AC 17:1-15)

Athens: speech at the Areopagus (AC 17:16-Ω)

Corinth: a lynching backfires (AC 18:1-22)

MT3: Ephesus: Apollos, & the Jewish witches (AC 18:23-19:20)

Ephesus: revolt of the silversmiths (AC 19:21-20:2)

Troas: boy falls out a window (AC 20:2-16)

Jersalem: beatings, arrest, & witness (AC 21:17-22:29)

High Council accusations & ambush (AC 22:30-23:Ω)

Governor Felix (AC 24)

Governor Festus (AC 25:1-22)

King Agrippa (AC 25:23-26:Ω)

A free trip to Rome (AC 27-28)

Finale

The fruit of the spirit (GAL 5:16-26)

The armor of God (EPH 6:10-18)

The faith chapter (HEB 11)

A reminder about discipline (HEB 12:5-11)

Battles at the end of time [Armageddon] (REV 19:11-20:Ω)

New Heaven & new Earth (REV 21-22)

Recap of the Sojourn

Spies sent into Canaan & the price of rebellion (DT 1:19-Ω)

Wandering in the desert (DT 2-3)

The 10 commandments (DT 5)

An important discourse on God (DT 6)

Moses's many intercessions for Israel (DT 9-10)

Succession (DT 34)

Recap of Kings of Judah

Saul's disobedience (1CH 10)

David & his best men (1CH 11:1-25)

Uzzah dies touching the Ark (1CH 13)

David's conquests (1CH 14)

The Ark brought to Jerusalem (1CH 15:1-16,25-29)

David's plans for God & God's plans for David (1CH 17)

David finishes off the neighboring enemies (1CH 18)

The Ammonites treachery (1CH 19)

David's census & Israel's payment (1CH 21)

Solomon crowned king, asks for wisdom (1CH 29:26-2CH 1:13)

The Ark placed in the temple (2CH 5:1-6:16,7:1-3)

Solomon's greatness & Israel's prime (2CH 8-9)

Israel & Judah split (2CH 10)

Rehoboam (2CH 11-12)

Abijah (2CH 13)

Asa (2CH 14-16)

Jehoshaphat (2CH 17-20)

Jehoram (2CH 21)

Ahaziah (2CH 22:1-9)

Athaliah the queen (2CH 22:10-23:Ω)

Joash, the 7 year old king (2CH 24)

Manasseh & Amon (2CH 33)

Josiah, the 8 year old king (2CH 34-35)

Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, & Zedekiah (2CH 36:1-21)

Links

My summary of all books in the Bible

Ussher timeline chart [of the Bible] by Paul Hansen (200KB PDF) (source & copyright)

^† Note: the word "stories" in this case is not meant synonymously with fables or fairy tales but rather account or history.

Last Modified: Sunday, April 1, 2012

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