Tribes of Israel

best known as Israel’s national poet. Amichai was born in Germany and at the age of 11, fled to Mandate Palestine (modern day Israel) because of the Holocaust. During much of his adult lifetime, there was a lot of trouble and unsettlement between the Jews and the Arabs- Arab-Israeli War and in addition, he fought in four wars. Worried about the wars, the state of Israel and language was quite important to him, and we know this is true because he said he “belonged” to Jerusalem. His works typically

Old Testament Timeline Narrative Rough Draft Creation (Genesis 1-2) / primeval history (Genesis 1-11:9) The first time in the Bible is the age of creation. This is the time from when the world was created to when Abraham was called (Genesis 1-11:9). The Bible contains four important events that are the Creation of the Universe, the Fall of Man, the Flood of Noah, and the Tower of Babel. God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day. He made the first man and woman, Adam and Eve

fifth-teen judges of Israel. His name means person who destroys, brakes, hacker, or he that cuts down. He was the weakest person in his clan of Abiezer in the tribe of Manasseh. Manasseh also happened to be the weakest tribe in Judah. His father, Joash, was the leader of Gideon’s clan. Gideon helps his father with his job which is farming and hiding the crops from the Midianites. The Midianites had taken control of all of Israel for seven years because God saw that the people of Israel were doing wrong

Beruit to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman The ongoing problems of the Middle East are complex and difficult to understand. In Beirut to Jerusalem Thomas Friedman uses the different tools to assess the state of affairs in the Middle East. Friedman uses the social sciences to analysis the situation that he observed when he was in Beirut writing for The New York Times. Being that Friedman is Jewish I rode off the book as a one-sided view of the happenings in the Middle East. What I found was

and disregard for the nation of Israel. Only through the next monarch, King David, would the wish of security of the nation be fulfilled. These fact can be seen through the ascension stories of king Saul and king David. While King Saul initially had the support of the Lord and the leaders of Israel, he did not correctly fulfil the position as monarch. On the other hand, David proved to be the legitimate king of Israel as he served the Lord and the People of Israel willingly and as he maintained the

They introduce a series of contrasts between good and evil judges, plus faithful and unfaithful kings. As 1 Samuel opens, the era of the judges is still in the forefront, but it is fading fast. The leadership of Israel rests on the undisciplined and elderly Eli, the high priest of the tabernacle at Shiloh and one of the last of the minor judges (1 Sam 4:18). Throughout the early chapters of 1 Samuel, the author draws a sharp contrast between Eli and his ungodly

12-14: When the sixth seal is opened, it “brings a variety of cosmic activities” such as earthquakes, the sun going dark, and the moon turning blood red. This alludes to Isaiah 34:4 where “the sky will be rolled up like a scroll” and Joel 2:31 when it says, “the sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood” in the night sky. This also shares striking similarity to Isaiah 50:3, where it says “I clothe the heaven with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering”, an almost identical

were the ancient inhabitants of Jerusalem (Joshua 15:8, 63; 18:28; Judges 1:21; 19:10-12; 1 Chronicles 11:4-6). When the children of Israel invaded the Jebusites who were the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Israelites were not able to eliminate or completely drive the Jebusites away from their home land because they were much stronger than the Israelites. Instead the tribes of Judah and Benjamin dwelled with the Jebusites and intermingled and intermarried

Israelites from Moabites. Shamgar – next judge of Israel. * Delivered them from Philistines. Deborah – 21 Century B.C. * First female judge. * She led Israel to victory against Sisera * Had Jael killed Sisera with a tent stake. * She defeated the Canaanites. * The song of Deborah is still sung today. Gideon 12 Century B.C. * Conquered the Midianite’s army. * Led Israel into forty years of peace. *

Hebrew Scriptures, or the Old Covenant, contains myth, history, faith, and culture of the Israelites. The Israelites are descendants of Abraham and Sarah, then the descendants of Jacob which become the 12 tribes of Israel, then the only tribe left after the Assyrians wiped them out was the tribe of Judah, hence the name: Jews. As Christians, we believe that the Old Testament is one story made up of many stories. We also believe that all the sections of it, the Torah ( also know as the Pentitute),