The Living Bible Series

The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth of both Judaism and Christianity.

The motive for Cain's crime is typically assumed to be jealousy, but the narrative never states this, nor does it provide a reason for God's rejection of his sacrifice.

The Genesis flood makes up chapters 6 to 9 in the book of Genesis.

Even though the rainbow is a natural phenomenon today, it must be remembered that it had never rained before this event.

There was a severe famine in the land of Canaan, so that Abram and Lot and their households, traveled south to Egypt.

Abraham and Lot divide the land and settle in separate lands.

God speaks to Abraham and makes a covenant with him.

Three angels bring a message to Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah is destroyed.

God promises that Sarah will give birth to a son. She gives birth to Isaac.

Isaac married Rebekah. She gave birth to two sons, Esau and Jacob.

Jacob decieved his father by pretending to be Esau and thereby taking his birthright.

Jacob fell in love with Rachel. He was deceived into taking her sister Leah as his wife. Rachel was barren but Leah gave birth to four sons.

Shechem is killed by Jacob and Simeon for defiling their sister.

Joseph interprets a dream for Pharaoh and is then put in charge of the whole of Egypt.

Joseph is reunited with his father and brothers.

Moses is found in a basket in a river by Pharao's daughter.

God comands Moses to bring his chosen people out of Egypt into the Promised Land.

From Egypt, Moses led the Israelites to biblical Mount Sinai, where he was given the Ten Commandments from God, written on stone tablets.

Some of the Isaraelites make a golden calf to worship instead of God. The tabernacle is built.

Moses sends men who discover that Canaan is a good land. People loose trust and God says that they will never see the Promised Land.

The Israelites arrive in the desert of Zin. There was no water for them and the people questioned why Moses had led them out of Egypt.

The death of Moses was at God's command: So Moses died according to the word of the Lord.

The march around the city for seven days, the shouts and blowing of the ram's horn trumpets, the crumbling of Jericho's walls all are dramatic and unforgettable.

So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar.

The Israelites had been under the control of the Canaanite king Jabin and the commander of his army, Sisera.

Gideon was a military leader, judge and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites is recounted in the chapters 6 to 8 of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible.

The good fruits are symbols of good works. The olive is the type of a person who loves the Lord and does good works full of the oil of love.

The book tells of Ruth's accepting the God of the Israelites as her God and the Israelite people as her own.

Samuel's mother was Hannah and his father was Elkanah. Elkanah lived at Ramathaim in the district of Zuph.

The Philistine captivity of the Ark was an episode described in the biblical history of the Israelites.

David, sent by his father to bring provisions to his brothers serving in Saul's army, declares that he can defeat Goliath.

With the death of Saul's son, the elders of Israel come to Hebron and David is anointed king over all of Israel.

David calls her husband, Uriah the Hittite, back from the battle to rest, hoping that he will go home to his wife and the child will be presumed to be his.

Absalom, David's third son, by Maacah, was born in Hebron. He moved at an early age along with the transfer of the capital to Jerusalem.

The Bible credits him as the builder of the First Temple in Jerusalem, beginning in the fourth year of his reign, using the vast wealth he had accumulated.

Solomon was a king who sinned. His sins included idolatry, marrying foreign women and, ultimately, turning away from Yahweh.

Elijah warns Ahab that there will be years of catastrophic drought so severe that not even dew will form.

War broke out east of the Jordan River, and Ahab with Jehoshaphat of Judah went to recover Ramoth-Gilead from the Arameans.

Before Elijah was taken up into the whirlwind, Elisha asked to "inherit a double-portion" of Elijah's spirit.

Nehemiah is the central figure of the Book of Nehemiah, which describes his work in rebuilding Jerusalem

The Book of Esther, it relates the story of a Hebrew woman in Persia, born as Hadassah but known as Esther, who becomes queen of Persia and thwarts a genocide of her people.

Addressing the problem of theodicy – the vindication of the justice of God in the light of humanity's suffering.

The people of Judah think that performing the sacrifices is sufficient to fulfill their part of the Covenant, and that God will protect them.

The Book of Daniel is a biblical apocalypse, combining a prophecy of history with an eschatology.

The Book of Jonah tells of a Hebrew prophet named Jonah son of Amittai who is sent by God to prophesy the destruction of Nineveh but tries to escape the divine mission.

In Christian theology the nativity marks the birth of Jesus in fulfillment of the divine will of God, to save the world from sin.

The Gospels include eight pre-resurrection accounts concerning Jesus' power over nature.

In the accounts of the four canonical Gospels, Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem takes place in the days before the Last Supper, marking the beginning of his Passion.

The Last Supper is the final meal that, in the Gospel accounts, Jesus shared with his Apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion.