Bible and World History - Jewish History

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Israel and Judaism

• WH I

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Creation of man - the flood

• First person God (YHWH in Hebrew) created was
  Adam
• He lived in the Garden of Eden, however because
  Adam and Eve
• About 2,500 BC, God sent the Great Flood of Noah
  which would kill all the people and animals on
  earth minze everything on the ark

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Abraham

• From Ur
• Told by God to move from Mesopotamia to Canaan,
  though he himself would not make it
• Went there with his wife, Sarai and birthed Isaac
  and Ishmael
• There ancestors today still fight each other

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Jacob

• Jacob was the son to Isaac
• He was brothers with Esau
• The two would fight with each other too
• Jacob had 12 sons, one of them would be Joseph

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Joseph

• Was sold by his brothers to slave masters from
  Egypt
• There he was arrested falsely
• While in jail he interrupted a dream for the
  Pharaoh
• In return he was made Prime Minister
• He saved Egypt from a major famine and through
  Egypt the whole middle east was feed

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Joseph cont.

• His brothers came to Egypt to get food from
  Mesopotamia
• While in Egypt his brothers asked for forgiveness
  and Joseph did
• His family moved to live in Egypt with him

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Slavery

• Many generations after Joseph death, his family's
  descendants were still living in Egypt, and still
  had the promise from God to get land because they
  were the direct descendants of Abraham
• God had however told Abraham that his descendents
  would be slaves in Egypt for 400 years
• A Pharaoh long after Joseph death had all the
  Hebrews made slaves because they had a larger
  population than the Egyptians

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Moses

• Getting closer to the 400 year term, it did not
  seem that YHWH was going to free his people
• The Egyptians were killing all Hebrew males to
  cut down on their population
• One boy named Moses was born, and was put into a
  basket and placed in the Nile to be hidden from
  the Egyptian soldiers

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Moses cont.

• The Pharaoh's daughter was bathing in the river
  and found Moses
• She took him to her father who was the Pharaoh
• Moses was adopted as her son
• He would be Prince of Egypt until he killed a
  slave maste for beating up a Hebrew slave, and
  had to go on the run where god would speak to him
  and tell him to lead his true people out of
  slavery

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Let My People Go

• Moses told the Pharaoh to let the Hebrews go
• The Pharaoh refused
• So YHWH sent 10 Plagues to Egypt to show his
  power but also to make the Pharaoh let his people
  go
• The Pharaoh finally let the Hebrews leave

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Let My People Go cont.

• Along the way the Pharaoh changed his mind again
  and had his army go after the Hebrews
• It was here that Moses split the Red Sea
• Every year the Jews celebrate passover to
  remember what God did for them

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10 Commandments

• Moses went to talk with God to get the 10
  Commandments
• While he was gone the people built a cow to
  worship made of gold instead of worshiping YHWH
• Because they did this many of the Hebrews were
  killed by the ones who had not worshipped the cow

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10 Commandments cont.

• The 10 Commandments would be the basis for many
  more Hebrew laws, along with other separate ones
  YHWH would give to his people.

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Scouting the Promise Land

• Moses sent scouts into the promised land to see
  if they could move in
• Of the scouts sent only two, Joshua and Caleb
  trusted that God would give them the land,
  because Giants lived in the country

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Giants remains found
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In the desert

• Because of the people not trusting God the
  Hebrews would be in the desert for forty years,
  and Moses would not be able to enter
• Joshua would replace him

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Joshua

• While many different groups would stand in the
  Hebrews way, like Jericho
• The people would establish their country in the
  promise land where they had been promised by God
• After Joshuas death the people would fall into
  sin and would be judged over by many different
  Judges from God