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Table of ContentsUse the following links to jump directly to any of the Bible Digest Sub-sections. Introduction INTRODUCTIONAll the words of this story are drawn directly from the Bible, with the exception of some of the section titles, pronouns and conjunctions. The King James Version is used for the Old Testament, but some words unfamiliar in modern parlance are changed to their modern equivalents. A list of the verses used, in the same order as in the text, is found at the end of each chapter. The combination and the order of the scriptural passages is entirely due to the compiler. It is conceded that the exact chronological order of many of these books cannot be known with certainty. This abbreviated story of the Old Testament is taken partly from the New Testament, since many parts of that history are summed up there, and is interpreted in a Christian sense. Hence this story gives a Christian view of Old Testament history. Note: The special choice of verses in this Bible Digest may be used by those who might like to make similar summaries in other languages than English. The references at the end of each chapter of this summary would make it fairly easy to compose similar digests, especially if a help such as the Online Bible is used. If you use the same choice of verses, I would be glad to advertise your web site in this site. Words of chapters 1 to 4 are taken mainly from the King James version of the Bible, while chapters 5 to 10 are mainly from the Weymouth Version.
CHAPTER 1From Adam to SamuelEvents Before the Flood"Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. In six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. In the day that God created man, he made him in the likeness of God; he created them male and female, and blessed them. Adam was formed first, then Eve. Out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden (in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began). By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for all have sinned. Adam was not deceived, but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression. God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?". The woman said, "The serpent deceived me.” God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, I will put hatred between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man from the Lord.” She also bore his brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying to his gifts; Cain was of the wicked one, and killed his brother, because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous. By faith Enoch, the seventh from Adam, was translated, so as not to see death; and he was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he pleased God. God made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, and predetermined the times, and the bounds of their habitation, that they should seek the Lord, if by chance they might feel after him, and find him, although he is not far from every one of us, for in him we live, and move, and have our being. For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and divine nature; so that they are without excuse because, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, birds, four footed beasts, and creeping things. God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The earth was corrupt before God, and filled with violence. The Lord regretted that he had made man, and it grieved him at his heart and the Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; man, beast, the creeping things, and the birds of the air." By faith Noah, being warned by God of things not seen as yet, moved with
fear, prepared an ark to save his household, by which he condemned the world,
and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. In longsuffering God
waited, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls
were saved through water. After the FloodThe sons of Noah, who went out of the ark, were Shem, and Ham and Japheth, and by them the whole earth was overspread. Nimrod began to be a mighty one in the earth. The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, in the land of Shinar. The Lord confused the language of all the earth there and from there the Lord scattered them abroad on the face of all the earth. The Faith of AbrahamTerah, the father of Abraham, served other gods. The God of glory appeared to Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, and said to him, "Get out of your country and away from your family and come into the land which I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and curse him that curses you, and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed." By faith Abraham obeyed and went out, not knowing where he went, and moved into this land. God gave him no inheritance in it, yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child. The Lord brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the stars, if you are able to number them. So shall your seed be.” And he believed in the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousness. And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive, and had a child, when she was past the age, because she counted him faithful who had promised. By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, of whom it was said, "In Isaac shall your seed be counted", considering that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead. From which also he received him figuratively. The angel of the Lord called to him out of heaven, and said, "Lay not your hand upon the lad, neither do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not held back your son, your only son, from me. By myself have I sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this, in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice." LotGod, by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to ruin, making them an example to those who afterwards would live ungodly lives. He delivered just Lot, grieved with the immoral behaviour of the wicked. For that righteous man, living among them, seeing and hearing them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds. In the days of Lot they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and sulphur from heaven, and destroyed them all. Remember Lot's wife. His wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. Whoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; whoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. The PatriarchsBy faith Abraham lived for a time in the land of promise, as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. They were but few in number, very few, and strangers in it. They went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people. He did not let any man do them wrong. He reproved kings for their sake, saying, "Don't touch my anointed ones, and do no harm to my prophets." Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah as wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian. Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren, and his wife conceived. And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, look! there were twins in her womb. The boys grew: Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field and Jacob was a peaceful man, living in tents. Esau, for one morsel of food, sold his birthright. Afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no room for repentance, though he sought it with tears. Esau dwelt in mount Seir. Esau is Edom. Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and for a wife he kept sheep. Jacob fathered the twelve patriarchs. The patriarchs, moved by envy, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him, and delivered him out of all his troubles and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his household. A famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, but when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers once. At a second occasion Joseph was made known to his brothers. Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls. So Jacob went down to Egypt, and died. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on earth. Those that say such things show that they seek a better country, namely, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared them a city. JobThere was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God. You have heard of the patience of Job, and of all the evil that the Lord brought upon him, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very full of pity, and compassionate. MosesWhen the time of the promise drew near, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, until another king arose, who did not know Joseph. He dealt artfully with our relatives, and mistreated our fathers, so that they exposed their young children, so they would not live. In those times Moses was born and nourished in his father's house for three months. When he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter took him, and nourished him as her own son. Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. When he was fully forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers the children of Israel. Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and struck the Egyptian. When Pharaoh heard of it, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled and dwelt in the land of Midian, where he fathered two sons. When forty years had expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. When Moses saw it, he marvelled at the sight: and as he drew near to look at it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying, "I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses trembled, and did not dare to look. Then the Lord said to him, "Put off your shoes from your feet: for the place where you are standing is holy ground. I have seen the affliction of my people, and I have heard their groaning, and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you into Egypt." "He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen. Through faith he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them. By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land, which the Egyptians trying to do were drowned. "He brought out his people with joy, and his chosen ones with gladness; The Covenant of Mount SinaiIn the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of
Egypt, to the day, they came into the wilderness of Sinai, and there Israel
camped before the mount. On the third day, in the morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain, and the sound of the trumpet, very loud, so that all the people in the camp trembled. And Moses led out the people from the camp to meet with God. Mount Sinai was all in smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. When the trumpet sounded a long time, and increased louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice. And he declared his covenant, namely ten commandments, and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. All the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they moved away from there, and stood far off. They said to Moses, "You, speak with us, and we will listen; but don't let God speak with us, lest we die.” And the Lord said, "They have well spoken what they have said. I will raise up for them a prophet from among their brothers, like you, and will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them all that I shall command him. And it shall happen that whoever will not listen to my words, which he shall speak in my name, I will make him pay for it." When Moses had spoken every commandment to all the people in accordance with the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats and sprinkled the book, and all the people, saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has set out for you.” Almost all things are in the law cleansed with blood and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. Moses received the living oracles to give to us. Our fathers would not obey him, and in their hearts turned back again towards Egypt, saying to Aaron, "Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.” They made a calf, offered sacrifice to the idol, and worshipped the works of their own hands. Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen one stood before him in the breach, to turn away his anger. The Tabernacles and the SacrificesThe first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and a sanctuary. For there was a tent made, the first, in which was the candlestick, the table and the bread of the presence; after the second veil was the tent which is called the Holiest of all, which had the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, and the cherubims of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. And on the day that the tent was pitched the cloud covered the it, and at evening there was upon the tent as if it were the appearance of fire, until morning. Moses said to Aaron, "Go to the altar, and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them, as the Lord commanded.” (The law, having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they continually offered year by year make the comers to them perfect. But in those sacrifices a remembrance is made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins). HolinessThe Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say, "You shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy. You shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another. You shall not go up and down as a gossip among your people. You shall not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbour, rather than tolerate sin upon him. You shall not avenge yourself, nor keep any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbour as yourself. I am the Lord. Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a whore, lest the land become full of wickedness. You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. Pay no attention to mediums, and don't seek spiritists, to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God. You shalt rise up before the white head, and honour the face of the old man. And if a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not trouble him, but the stranger shall be to you the same as one born among you, and you shalt love him as yourself. For you were strangers in Egypt. You shall not cheat in judgment, in weight, or in measure. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am the Lord your God. PenaltiesThe Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Say to the children of Israel, Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live with Israel, gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him. "Every one that curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. And the man who commits adultery with another man's wife, the adulterer, and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death. "If a person turns to mediums and spiritists, to prostitute himself with them, I will set my face against him, and will cut him off from among his people. He that offers sacrifices to any god, except to the Lord only, shall be utterly destroyed. He that strikes a man, so that he dies, shall surely be put to death." Times and SeasonsThe Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the children of Israel about the feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim as holy gatherings. "Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a holy assembly; you shall not do any work in it. "On the fourteenth day of the first month at evening is the Lord's Passover, and on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to the Lord. Seven days you must eat unleavened bread. "When you come into the land which I give you, and reap its harvest, you shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. And he will wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you. On the morning after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. "And you shall count for yourself from the morning after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, seven Sabbaths complete. Until the morning after the seventh Sabbath, you shall number fifty days (Pentecost); and you shall offer a new meal offering to the Lord. You shall bring out of your homes two wave loaves of two tenth parts: they shall be of fine flour and shall be baked with leaven. "On the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy assembly. You shall do no menial work in it, but offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. "Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of
atonement, a holy assembly for you. You shall afflict your souls, and offer an
offering made by fire to the Lord. "The seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath for the Lord. You shall neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard. "And you shall number seven Sabbaths of years for you, seven times seven years; the time of the seven Sabbaths of years will be forty-nine years. Then you shall cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the day of atonement you shall make the trumpet sound through all your land. You shall make holy the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty through all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his possession, every man to his family. "And if your brother who lives near you has become poor, and is sold to you, you shalt not compel him to serve as a slave, but as a hired servant, or as a temporary resident. He shall stay with you, and shall serve you until the year of jubilee, and then shall leave you, both he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the property of his fathers. They are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, so they shall not be sold as slaves." The Second Year After the ExodusThe Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, on the first day of the
second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt,
saying, "Count all the congregation of the children of Israel, in accordance
with their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their
names, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go to
war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their armies.” Aaron and his FamilyThese are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. They are the priests who were anointed to serve in the priest's office. Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, which he did not command them. Eleazar and Ithamar served in the priest's office, under the surveillance of Aaron their father. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is how you shall bless the children of Israel: say to them, The Lord bless you, and keep you: The Tribe of Levi Served for the First-Born SonsThe Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Look, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that open the womb among the children of Israel. Therefore the Levites shall be mine. All the firstborn are mine, for on the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I set apart for myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast; mine shall they be." "My covenant with Levi," says the Lord of hosts, "my covenant was with him for life and for peace; and I gave them to him because of the fear in which he feared me. The law of truth was in his mouth, and sin was not found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and equity, and turned many away from sin. For the priest's lips should guard knowledge, and all should seek the Law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts." Israel Goes Toward His Promised RestAnd it so happened that on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, the cloud was taken up off the tabernacle of the testimony. Then the children of Israel started their journey out of the wilderness of Sinai. They departed from the mount of the Lord on a three days' journey. The ark of the covenant of the Lord preceded them, to search out a resting place for them. But they sinned even more against Him All these things happened to them as examples and they are written to warn us on whom the final times of the world have come. The RevoltAfterward, the people moved from Hazeroth, and pitched their tents in the wilderness of Paran. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Send men to search out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. From every tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, each a ruler among them." These went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land. They discouraged the hearts of the children of Israel, so that they would not go into the land which the Lord had given them. Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They would not believe his word, but murmured in their tents, and did not listen to the voice of the Lord. Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness. The Lord's anger was kindled and he swore, saying, "Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. For they have wholly followed the Lord." "To day therefore, if you hear his voice, The Forty Years in the DesertThe Lord's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was consumed. Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, and On, sons of Reuben, took men and rose up against Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown. They gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. "They envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord. The children of Israel journeyed from Kadesh, and came to mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom. And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the command of the Lord and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel came out of Egypt. The DetourIsrael sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray you, pass through your land. But the king of Edom would not listen. And in the same way they sent to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. They journeyed from mount Hor, to go around the land of Edom; and the hearts of the people were very discouraged because of the route, and the people spoke against God, and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and we loath this light bread." The Lord sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against you. Pray to the Lord, that he may take away the snakes away from us.” And Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said to Moses, "Make for yourself a snake, and put it on a pole: and it will come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looks on it, shall live.” And Moses made a snake of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the serpent of brass, his life was preserved. Then they went along through the wilderness, and went around the land of Moab, by the east side of the land of Moab, but not within the border. And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites and said to him, "Let us pass, we pray you, through your land to my place.” But Sihon did not trust Israel. He gathered all his people together, and fought against Israel. And the Lord God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them. Og king of Bashan, was of the remnant of the giants. The children of Israel defeated them. So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country, and Moses the servant of the Lord gave it to be possessed by the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh. BalaamThere were false prophets also. Balak, king of Moab, arose and made war against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you. Nevertheless the Lord your God would not hearken to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the Lord your God loved you. Balaam took up his parable, and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear; listen to me, son of Zippor: God is not a man, that he should lie. Look, I have received a commandment to bless, and he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it. Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel. It shall be said of Israel, What has God accomplished!" And Balak's anger was aroused against Balaam, and he struck his hands together, and said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and look, you have completely blessed them, three times. Therefore now run off to your place! I intended promoting you to great honour; but, look, the Lord has kept you back from honour." Balaam, who loved the wages of unrighteousness, taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication. Women caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to sin against the Lord. They called the people to the sacrifices of their gods and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. There was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. Then Phinehas stood up, and executed justice and so the plague was stopped. After the plague, the Lord spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, "Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go to war in Israel." Those that were the numbered of the children of Israel were 601,730. But among these there was not a man of those whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. So there was not a man of them left, but Caleb and Joshua. Moses Explains the LawIn the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying, "Your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he did. Therefore you shall keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land. "When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to possess, and has expelled many nations before you, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, and when the Lord your God delivers them before you, you shall strike them and completely destroy them. You shall not make any covenant with them, or have mercy on them. "Neither shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son. For they will turn away your son from following me, to serve other gods: thus the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you. "For you are a holy people for the Lord your God. The Lord has chosen you to be a special people to himself, more than all peoples that are upon the earth. The Lord did not set his love upon you, or choose you, because you were more numerous than other peoples; for you were the fewest of all peoples. But because the Lord loved you, and because he wanted to keep the oath which he had sworn to your fathers, he brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. "Understand therefore, that the Lord your God does not give you this good land, to possess it, because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff necked people. You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you. "So circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and don't be stiff necked any more. For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of Lords, a great God, mighty, and terrible, who does not pay respect to persons, or take a reward. "When you have come into the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to do the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all those that do these things are an abomination to the Lord and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you. You shall be perfectly sincere with the Lord your God. "But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies round about, then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. It is there that you shall you bring all that I ordain for you, your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes and all your choice vows which you vow to the Lord. And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God. "Whatever I command you, observe it to do it. You shall not add to it or diminish it. You shall do just as those ordain who are at that place which the Lord shall choose. You shall observe and do all as they inform you, making decision by the Law, which they shall teach you. And the one who acts presumptuously, and will not listen to the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or to the judge, that man shall die. You shall put away that evil from Israel. And all the people shall hear, and fear, and act presumptuously no more . "Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which he shall choose, at the feast of unleavened bread, at the feast of weeks, and at the feast of tabernacles. They shall not appear before the Lord empty but every man shall give as he is able, in accordance with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you." The Hope of the Last DaysMoses, with the elders of Israel, commanded, saying, "Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. The Lord will establish you as a holy people to himself, if you walk in his ways, and all people of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will be afraid of you. And the Lord will make you plentiful in goods, in the offspring of your body, and in the offspring of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. "But it will happen, if you will not listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day; that all these curses shall come upon you, and overtake you: the Lord will send upon you cursing, vexation, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to, to do, until you are destroyed, and perish quickly; because of the wickedness of your doings, in which you have forsaken me. The Lord will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose tongue you shall not understand; and they will besiege you inside all your gates, until your high walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land. And the Lord will scatter you among all people, from one end of the earth even to the other; and among those nations you shall find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the Lord shall give you there a trembling heart, failing eyes, and sorrow of mind. "But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you shall find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in tribulation, and all these things have come on you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the Lord your God, and are obedient to his voice, then the Lord your God will reverse your captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you from all the nations, where he has scattered you. If any of you are driven out to the outermost parts of heaven, from there will the Lord your God gather you, and from there will he fetch you, and the Lord your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. And he will do you good, and multiply you more than your fathers. And he will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, so that you may live." The Song of MosesThe Lord said to Moses, "Look, you will sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the harlot with the gods of the strangers of the land where they go, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. "Now therefore write this song, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel: " The Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is opposite Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land. And the Lord said to him, "This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed. I have caused you to see it with your own eyes, but you shall not go over there.” So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, and he buried him there, opposite Bethpeor but no man knows the place of his grave until this day. Joshua Succeeds MosesNow after the death of Moses, the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' servant, saying, "Moses my servant is dead; now therefore rise, go over this Jordan, you, and all this people, to the land which I give them. Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given to you, as I said to Moses. The Conquest of CanaanAnd it came to pass, when the people left their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the feet of the priests who carried the ark dipped into the water, (for Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest,) that the waters which came down from above stood and rose up as a heap far from the city of Adam, and those that went down toward the salt sea stopped. The people passed over opposite Jericho. The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, until all the people had passed over. And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, who were on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of Jordan in front of the children of Israel, their hearts melted. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were surrounded seven days. By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with the unbelievers, when she received the spies with peace. Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and anger fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man did not perish alone in his iniquity. There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the inhabitants of Gibeon: all others they took in battle. Joshua took the whole land, just as the Lord said to Moses, and he gave it for an inheritance to Israel, by their tribes. And the land rested from war. No good thing which the Lord had spoken to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass. They took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all kinds of goods, wells dug, vineyards, and olive yards, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves. And Joshua said to all the people, "Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve
him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served
on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. And if it
seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose this day who you want to serve. But
as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." The JudgesThey forgot the Lord their God. God sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them. And they cried out to the Lord, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord; but now deliver us from our enemies, and we will serve you. After that he gave them judges for about a time of four hundred and fifty years, who delivered them from those who plundered them: Jerubbaal, Jephthah, Gedeon, Barak, and Samson, who through faith escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, grew valiant in fight and turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Yet they would not listen to their judges, but followed other gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly out of the way. In those times there was no peace to anyone who went out, or came in, but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the countries. Nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city: for God troubled them with all kinds of adversity. RuthAll Israel was counted in genealogies. Jacob fathered Judas and his brethren; Judah fathered Phares; Phares fathered Esrom; Esrom fathered Aram; Aram fathered Aminadab; Aminadab fathered Naasson; Naasson fathered Salmon; Salmon fathered Booz, a man of wealth, in the days when the judges ruled. Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to his servant who was set over the reapers, "Whose maiden is this?" And the servant said, "It is the Moabite maiden who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab. She said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves. So she came, and has continued from morning until now." Then Boaz said to Ruth, "Listen, my daughter? Do not go to glean in another field, or away from here, but stay here close to my maidens. It has been fully shown to me all that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you left your father and your mother, and the land of your nativity, and came to a people which you did not know before. May the Lord recompense your work, and may a full reward be given you by the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to trust." Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. When he went in to her, the Lord granted her to conceive, and she bore a son. And all the people that were at the gate, and the elders, said, "May the Lord make the woman that has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, the two who built the family of Israel. Do worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem." Boaz fathered Obed by Ruth, and Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David the king. Verses used to construct this history: Chapter 1: Ge18:17-19 BEFORE THE FLOOD Ps90 1,2,4; Ex20 11; Ge5 1,2; 1Ti2
13; Ge2 9; Tit1 2; Ro5 12; 1Ti2 14; Ge3 13,15. Ge4 1,2; Heb11 4; 1Joh 3:12.
Jude14; Heb11 5,Ac17 26,27; Ro1 20-23. Heb11 7. Ge6 5-7,11; 1Pe3 20; Mt24
38,39. AFTER THE FLOOD Ge9 18; Ge10 32,8,10; Ge11:9; FAITH OF ABRAHAM Jos24 2
Ac7 2,3; Ge12 2,3. Heb11 8; Ac7 4,5; Ge15 5,6; Ga3 9. Ac7 8; Heb11 11,17-19;
Ge22 11,12,16,18. LOT 2P2 5-7; Ge19 26; Lu17 28,29,32,33. PATRIARCHS Heb11
8,9. Ps105 12-15. Ge25 20,21,24,27; He12 15-17; Ge36 8; Ho12 13,4,5; Ac7 8-16;
Heb.11 13-16 JOB Job1 1; Job42 11; Jas5 11. MOSES Ac7 17-24; Ex2 15; Ac7
26-34. Ps105 26-37. Heb11 28,29. Ps105 43,39-41. COVENANT OF SINAI Ex19
1-6,9,16-19; De4 13. Ex20 18,19; De18 17-19; Heb9 19,20,22. Ac7 35,39-41.
Ps106 23. TABERNACLE & SACRIFICES Heb9 1-5; Nu9 15. Le9 7; Heb10 1,2;
HOLINESS Le19 1,2,11,16-18,28,31-34,36. PENALTIES Le20 1,2,9,10,6; Ex22 20;
Ex21 12. TIMES & SEASONS Le23 1-6, 10,15-17,24,27,34; Le25
4,8,10,23,35,47,39-43. (Ac2 1); SECOND YEAR AFTER THE EXODUS Nu1 1-3,46,47.
AARON & FAMILY Nu3 2-4; Le10 1; Nu6 22-26. THE TRIBE OF LEVI Nu3 6,12,13;
Mal2 4,6 TOWARD THE PROMISED REST Nu10 11,12,23. Ps78 17-19,21, 27-31 THE
REVOLT Nu12 16; Nu13 1,2; Nu32 9; Ps106 24,25; Nu32:10-12; Heb3 7-11. 40 YEARS
IN THE DESERT Nu32 13; Nu16 1,2; Ps106 16. Nu20 22,23; Nu33 38. DETOUR Jud11
17; Nu21 4-9. Jud11 18-21 Jos12 4,6. BALAAM 2Pe2 1.; Jos24 9; De23 5; Nu23
18,20,21,23. Nu24 10,11; 2Pe2 15; Re2 14; Nu31 15,16; Nu25 1,2; Ps106 30.
Nu26 1,2,51,64,65. MOSES EXPLAINS THE LAW De1 5; De11 7,8. De7 1-4. De7 6-8;
De9 6,24; De10 16,17. De18 9-12. De12 10,11,32; De17 10,12. De16 16,17. LAST
DAYS De27 1; De28 9-11. De28 15,20,49,52,64,65; De4 29,30; De30 3,4,6. SONG
OF MOSES De31 16,19; De32 9,10,15,21,43. De34 1,5,6. > Click on Next to move on to Bible Digest Chapter 2 or on Back to go to the Introduction of the Bible Reading Guide. |
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