Tribes of Israel

servants gave Jacob twelve sons. The twelve sons formed the twelve tribes of Israel. The twelve tribes sons comprised of, Judah, Benjamin, Reuben, Naphtali, Issachar, Zebulun, Simeon, Dan, Gad, Asher, Ephraim and Manasseh(Young J.E. 108). The northern and southern Kingdoms of Israel came to be, after there was a disagreement among the twelve tribes of Israel. Ten of the twelve tribes formed the Northern Kingdom. Two of the twelve tribes formed the southern Kingdom. The split of the two kingdoms came

Many of the tribes in Palestine like Israel participated in sacrifices. They like Israel believed that sacrifice was a pleasing aroma to their god or gods. While Israel participated in peace, whole, and burnt offering of various animals, the tribes around them participated in both animal and human sacrifices. It stands to reason then, that what many people would say was pleasing to their god would not be pleasing to Jehovah. Yahweh required a perfect sacrifice to be given for sin, but unlike the

Main Ideas The Philistines were the strongest people of Canaan because they had large cities and knew how to deal with iron. The Israelites followed the Philistine religion and decided that they needed a king. A king would help unite the tribes and fight against their enemies. In 1020 BC, the Israelites appointed Samuel, who was a prophet and judge, to choose the first king. He chose Saul, who was a handsome and mighty warrior. Although Saul had won many battles against Israel’s enemies, he had

David brought political stability and spiritual renewal to the nation of Israel. The good work of David did not last beyond the next generation. Solomon succeeded David and expanded the territories of Israel. Unfortunately, Solomon’s expansionary policy was done with spiritual compromises. Consequently, evil and apostasy started to creep into Israel during Solomon’s reign to eventually break up the kingdom after his death. Israel moved from a period of tranquillity under the reign of Solomon to a period

a week, which include one rest day. We can imagine that God just have one-day rest in a week (seven days), but right now, most of us has two days to rest, so God did more than we do. One more interesting aspects is the way that the different tribes of Israel are established in the book of Genesis. The story of how Jacob worked for Laban for seven years to earn Rachel as his wife and the way Laban tricked Jacob and gave him Leah, Rachel’s older sister instead forcing Jacob to continue working for

many of his examples. One of the main examples was the case when the 12 tribes of Israel approached the prophet Samuel. The 12 tribes requested a King, and for that, Samuel responded everything that they will loss. The King will take their women and children, their vineyards, their best trees, 10% of every animal and everything that they have, everything will be given to those close to the King and the people of the 12 tribes will be

Song Of Solomon The book Song of Solomon or Songs of Songs is written by Solomon filled with rhythmic elements that are poetic. Some refer to this book as a poem for God’s love for Israel, God’s love for the church or just marriage. Written with drama and imagery, Songs of Songs was written during Solomon’s reign in Israel in 971-931 BC. Scholars who hold to Solomon’s authorship agree that the song was written early in his reign, not because of the poetry but because his household of 140 women. Also

historical narrative. The book of Joshua is a historical narrative that was written to shape our worldview about God’s eternal plan for humanity. Joshua 1 gives insight to the continuity of God’s children, the nation of Israel. Furthermore, the passage continues the story of the leaders of Israel as Moses’ role is passed on to Joshua. When reading Joshua 1, the reader must not over personalize the chapter for the passage is about God and not the reader. 1. Why does the writer say “this Book of the Law”, does

Israelite nation. To understand the theory we need to apprehend what is the Deuteronomistic History’s main belief. The strongest belief was that when Israel is faithful, it prospers, but when unfaithful, it is cursed with defeat, disaster, and exile from their land. First, the earlier form of government was the confederation of the Israelite tribes. The Israelites believe that they could what they believe was right and worship just Yahweh. “11Then the Israelites did what was evil in the sight of

TESTAMENT LECTURER: Dr. THUO TASK: DESCRIBE THE HISTORY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT DUE DATE: 28th January, 2013 Introduction The Old Testament was written over a wide historical period, it describes the relationship of God and the people of Israel before the coming of Jesus. To make it easy to explain the history in the Old Testament, I have seen it best to look at it under the following periods: 1. Primeval History Primeval history refers to the earliest history in the Bible. Genesis