Genesis

Genesis has 50 chapters, 1,533 verses, and contains 38,267 words. The word Genesis means "beginning".

Genesis 1.
1. The creation of this earth and heavenly age.
2. God creates fowl from the waters.
3. The creation of animals.
4. The creation of mankind, both male and female.
Genesis 2.
1. God rested on the seventh day.
2. The eighth day creation, (the forming of the man Adam). Puts him in the Garden of Eden.
3. Commandment about the tree of knowledge of good and evil. There is another tree. The Tree of Life.
4. Formed some beast from the ground. (The second creation of animals).
5. Formed some fowl from the ground. (The second creation of fowl).
6. Creates Eve for Adam, from one of his ribs, (curve)?
Genesis 3.
1. Eve, and Adam, are taken in by the serpent's lies. (The serpent is one of Satan's names, see Revelation 12:9). They partake of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
3. God's punishment to the three, for their disobedience.
4. * The first prophecy in the Bible, (about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, along with the destruction of Satan).
5. Adam and Eve are put out of the Garden of Eden.
Genesis 4.
1. The birth of Cain and Abel.
2. The murder of Abel by Cain.
3. The curse of Cain by God.
4. Cain dwells in the land of Nod. Nod? Wonder who he was? He's only mentioned in the Bible one time. Hmm.
5. The descendants of Cain.
Genesis 5.
1. The birth of Seth.
2. Adam's descendants. Note Cain is not listed?
Genesis 6.
1. The sons of God, (fallen angels), came in unto the daughters of men, and children were born unto them.
2. God sets man's average life span to one hundred twenty years.
3. God tells Noah to build an ark.
4. Noah builds the ark.
Genesis 7.
1. Noah enters the ark.
2. The flood comes upon the earth.
Genesis 8.
1. The flood waters start to recede.
2. Noah sends out a raven and a dove.
3. The ark rest upon mount Ararat.
4. Noah exits the ark.
5. Tells the length of time, of the flood.
Genesis 9.
1. God blesses Noah, gives him a few commandments, and tells him to be fruitful and multiply.
2. God's covenant with Noah. The rainbow.
3. Noah gets drunk.
4. An incestuoes affair between Noah's wife and his son, Ham.
5. Noah curses Canaan, the son produced from that incesteous affair.
Genesis 10.
1. The linage of Noah's sons.
Genesis 11.
1. The tower of Babel.
2. The confusion of language.
2. The descendants of Shem, through which comes Abram, (Abraham).
Genesis 12.
1. God calls Abram, (Abraham).
2. Tells him that He well make him a great nation and will make his name great.
3. While in Egypt during a famine, Abram, (Abraham), has his wife Sarai, (Sarah), to tell the pharaoh that she is his sister.
Genesis 13.
1. Abram, (Abraham), returns from Egypt.
2. Lot and Abram, (Abraham), separate. Lot goes to live in the city of Sodom. Abram, (Abraham), dwelt in Canaan.
3. God shows Abram, (Abraham), the land that is to be his, and his offspring, forever.
Genesis 14.
1. Lot, (Abraham's nephew), is captured in the battle of the kings.
2. Abram, (Abraham), rescues Lot.
3. * Abram, (Abraham), meets Melchizedek, the priest of The Most High God, and gives tithes to Him.
4. Abram, (Abraham) takes nothing from the king of Sodom, so no one can say he made Abram, (Abraham), rich.
Genesis 15.
1. God reassures Abram, (Abraham), that he shall have children and they shall be in number as the stars of the heaven.
2. God tells him that his seed will be in bondage in Egypt for four hundred years and come out with great substance. And that he will live to an old age.
Genesis 16.
1. Sarai, (Sarah), tells Abram, (Abraham), to have children through her maid Hagar.
2. Sarai, (Sarah), gets jealous of Hagar.
3. Hagar leaves.
4. An angel of the Lord tells Hagar to return and submit, that she is with child and his name is to be Ishmael.
5. God changes Abram's name to Abraham, and Sarai's name to Sarah.
Genesis 17.
1. The covenant of circumcision.
2. God tells Abraham that Sarah will conceive and for him to call his name, Isaac.
3. Through Isaac, will God establish His everlasting covenant.
4. Ishmael is to become a great nation also.
Genesis 18.
1. Three angels visit Abraham.
2. Sarah is promised a son.
3. Sarah laughed within herself.
4. The angels go towards Sodom, to destroy it.
5. Abraham asked them about the righteous of Sodom.
Genesis 19.
1. Two angels visit Lot in Sodom.
2. The wicked men of Sodom call on Lot to give to them, the angels.
3. The angels blind the wicked men.
4. Lot is told to take his family and leave before they destroy the city.
5. Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed.
6. Lot's wife looks back and becomes a pillar of salt.
7. The birth of Moab and Ben-am-mi, through the incesteous affair of Lot and his daughters.
Genesis 20.
1. Abraham meets Abimelech, king of the Gerar.
2. Again Abraham tells Sarah to tell that she is his sister.
3. God speaks to Abimelech in a dream, and tells him that Sarah is Abraham's wife, and to restore to Abraham his wife for he is a prophet.
4. Abraham tells Abimelech the truth about Sarah. That she is not only his wife but that she is his half sister also.
5. God had made all the women of the kingdom of Abimelech barren.
Genesis 21.
1. Isaac is born.
2. Abraham, at the request of Sarah, sends Hagar and Ishmael away.
3. God reassures Abraham that through Isaac shall the seed be called, but that Ishmael would become a great nation also, because he was of Abraham's seed.
4. Abraham and Abimelech make an agreement at Beer-sheba.
Genesis 22.
1. God commands Abraham to offer up Isaac as a sacrifice.
2. God reaffirms His covenant with Abraham.
3. News comes to Abraham about his brother Nahor and all the children born unto him.
Genesis 23.
1. The death and burial of Sarah.
2. Abraham purchases the cave of Mach-pel-lah from E-phron for a place to bury his dead. The place is in Hebron. In the land of Canaan.
Genesis 24.
1. Abraham sends his eldest servant to his kindred, to get a wife for Isaac.
2. The servant ask God for divine intervention about this.
3. The woman chosen is Rebekah, the daughter of Be-thu-el, the son of Nahor, Abraham's brother.
4. Be-thu-el and Laban, (Rebekah's brother), give their approval of the marriage.
5. Rebekah and Isaac are married when they meet.
Genesis 25.
1. Abraham takes another wife, (Keturah). She bares him six sons.
2. Abraham dies at one hundred seventy five years of age and was buried beside Sarah, his first wife.
3. The descendants of Ishmael.
4. Esau and Jacob are born unto Rebekah and Isaac.
5. Esau sells his birthright to Jacob.
Genesis 26.
1. God tells Isaac not to dwell in Egypt.
2. Confirms to Isaac the covenant He made with his father Abraham.
3. Isaac tells Abimelech that Rebekah is his sister. Like father like son.
4. Isaac and the Philistines have a dispute over ownership of some wells, which he and his servants dug.
5. Isaac and Abimelech make an agreement.
6. Esau takes wives of foreigners.
Genesis 27 and 28.
1. Jacob receives the blessing from Isaac.
2. Esau is very angry and vows to kill Jacob.
3. Rebekah asked Jacob to go stay with her brother Laban, till Esau calms down. Isaac agrees and tells Jacob the same.
4. Jacob's pillow of stone, and dream, (Jacob's ladder).
5. God reaffirms His covenant with him.
6. Jacob set up the stone for a pillar and vows to return to God, a tenth of all God gives him.
Genesis 29.
1. Jacob meets Rachel and works seven years for her hand in marriage.
2. Jacob is tricked by Laban and is married to Rachel's sister Leah. After a very heated discussion, Laban also gives him Rachel to wife, for another seven years of work.
Genesis 30.
1. Rachel is barren and gives Bilhah, (her maid), to Jacob to bare children for her.
2. Leah gives her maid, (Zilpah), to Jacob for a wife also.
3. Jacob's children listed so far.
4. God opens Rachel's womb, and Joseph is born.
5. Laban and Jacob agree on Jacob's wages for his duration of time spent and Jacob makes certain his wealth is increased in the deal.
Genesis 31.
1. Laban hears that Jacob has tricked him, and gets mad.
2. Jacob takes his family and all his possessions and leaves Laban, to return to his own homeland.
3. Laban follows and catches up with them. Tempers fly. Finally Laban and Jacob reach an agreement.
Genesis 32.
1. Afraid, Jacob sends messengers before him to meet Esau.
2. He wrestles with God.
3. God changes Jacob's name to Israel.
Genesis 33.
1. Jacob and Esau have a happy meeting.
Genesis 34.
1. Dinah, (the daughter of Leah), is raped.
1. Her brothers, (Simeon and Levi), slew all the males of the city, and take the spoils.
Genesis 35.
1. God has Israel, (Jacob), to go dwell at Bethel.
2. God blesses him there.
3. Rachel bares another son, (Benjamin), and dies giving him birth.
4. Now Jacob, (Israel), has a total of twelve sons, and one daughter.
5. Jacob returns to his father Isaac.
6. Isaac dies, and is buried by Jacob and Esau.
Genesis 36.
1. The offspring of Esau.
Genesis 37.
1. Jacob shows partiality towards Joseph and Benjamin. The coat of many colors, etc.
2. Joseph, at seventeen, has several dreams and tells his family. This leads to him being sold by his brothers and taken into Egypt.
Genesis 38.
1. The story of Judah and Tamar, (his daughter-in-law).
Genesis 39.
1. Joseph is sold to Pot-i-far, an officer of Pharaoh.
2. Joseph rejects the advances of Potifars's wife's and she has him thrown into prison.
Genesis 40.
1. While in prison, Joseph interprets dreams for the Pharaoh's baker and butler, which had been put into prison also.
Genesis 41.
1. Pharaoh has two dreams. None of his people could interpret them. His butler remembers Joseph.
2. Joseph is summoned by Pharaoh, interprets his dreams, which is about a coming seven year famine.
3. Pharaoh promotes Joseph to rule over Egypt. Only Pharaoh will be greater then him.
4. The famine begins.
Genesis 42.
1. Joseph's brothers come to Egypt for food.
2. He recognizes them and treats them as spies.
3. They don't recognize Joseph.
4. He tests his brothers to see if they will betray Benjamin.
5. Demands that they bring Benjamin.
Genesis 43.
1. Joseph's brothers return with Benjamin.
2. They have a big feast.
3. They still don't recognize Joseph.
4. Joseph treats Benjamin special.
Genesis 44.
1. Joseph test his brothers one last time. Devises a plan to make it appear as though Benjamin has stolen from Joseph.
2. Judah begs for Benjamin's life. Wants to take Benjamin's place.
Genesis 45.
1. Joseph tells his brothers who he is. All are happy.
2. Pharaoh is told of it and tells Joseph to send for his father and his family to come dwell in Egypt.
3. Joseph sends his brothers with wagons and provisions to get his father Jacob, and all his family.
Genesis 46.
1. God speaks to Israel, (Jacob), in a vision, telling him not to be afraid to go down into Egypt. That He would make him a great nation.
2. The names of all of Jacob's family who came into Egypt.
3. Joseph and his father, (Jacob), meet.
Genesis 47.
1. Jacob meets and blesses Pharaoh.
2. They are given the best of the land of Egypt.
3. Joseph continues his work for Pharaoh.
Genesis 48.
1. Jacob, (Israel), blesses Joseph's sons, (Ephraim and Manasseh).
Genesis 49.
1. Jacob, (Israel), tells his sons, (the twelve tribes of Israel), what will befall them, (their offspring), in the last days.
2. Jacob dies immediately thereafter.
Genesis 50.
1. The burial of Jacob, (Israel).
2. Joseph reassures his brothers that no harm will come to them.
3. Joseph asked, that when God brings the children of Israel out of Egypt, that they carry his bones with them.
4. Joseph dies.

Exodus

Exodus has 40 chapters, 1,213 verses, and contains 32,692 words. Exodus means "departure", "names". Some scholars date this event as late as 1200 bc. Some say as early as 1400 bc.

Always Remember this verse.
1 Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

There are several repeats of the same thing in this book. Don't skip over it just because of this. It's been done, I believe for emphasis.

Exodus 1.
1. The leadership of Egypt changes.
2. They begin to fear the Israelites.
3. The Egyptians start to afflict the Israelites.
4. Pharaoh orders all Hebrew male babies to be killed.
Exodus 2.
1. The birth of Moses, hid three months, laid in a basket and put into the water. The Pharaoh's daughter found him. Moses' sister watches and has Pharaoh's daughter to get his own mother to nurse him.
2. Moses kills an Egyptian and flees Egypt.
3. Moses meets his soon to be wife.
Exodus 3.
1. The burning bush.
2. God talks to Moses.
3. Tells Moses to return to Egypt and bring forth the children of Israel.
4. Talks of how He's going to bring plagues on Egypt and harden the Pharaoh's heart.
Exodus 4.
1. Aaron is to return to Egypt with Moses.
2. God gets mad at Moses over his boys not being circumcised.
3. Aaron and Moses return to Egypt and Aaron tells the children all that God has said and demonstrated some of the things God told them to do.
Exodus 5.
1. Moses and Aaron's first talk with Pharaoh.
2. Pharaoh gives orders for the Israelites to gather the straw which is used in making the bricks. (Increasing their work load).
Exodus 6 thru 12.
Describes the ten plagues which God sends on Egypt. (1) Waters turned to blood. (2) Frogs. (3) Lice. (4) Flies. (5) All the cattle of Egypt die. (6) Boils. (7) Hail mingled with fire. (8) Locust. (9) Darkness for three days. (10) The death of all the firstborn of Egypt.
Exodus 12.
1. The Passover.
Exodus 13.
1. God commands the Passover to be kept each year.
2. A cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
Exodus 14.
1. God parts the Red Sea and the Israelites walk across on dry land.
Exodus 15.
1. Israel rejoices over the victory at the Red Sea. They sing songs and dance.
2. They then travel into the wilderness to Marah, where the waters were bitter. God shows a tree unto Moses, and when he cast the tree into the water, the waters were made pure.
Exodus 16.
1. God supplies manna and quail for food.
Exodus 17.
1. Water from a rock. The first time.
2. War with Amalek. As long as Moses holds his hands upward the Israelites prevail. When they hang down, they don't. Aaron and Hur hold up Moses' hands till the battle is won.
Exodus 18.
1. Moses' father-in-law, (Jethro), brings Moses' wife and his children to be with him. Suggest to Moses to appoint rulers, over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, to help Moses judge. And Moses did so.
Exodus 19.
1. God has Moses prepare the people so He can speak to them.
Exodus 20.
1. God speaks to the children and gives them the ten commandments. They're afraid, and ask Moses for God not to speak to them anymore.
Exodus 21 and 22.
1. Deals with the judgments set before the people concerning bondage, marriage, murder, stealing, restitution, etc. The lending of money, witches, sex with animals, just to mention a few.
Exodus 23.
1. False reports.
2. Don't follow the crowd.
3. Let the land rest the seventh year.
4. Rest on the seventh day.
5. Three feast every year.
6. God tells of how He will drive out some of the enemies before them.
Exodus 24.
1. God commands Moses to bring seventy of the elders of Israel upon the mount, and they saw the God of Israel.
2. Moses alone to come near the Lord.
3. Moses writes down all that God tells him.
4. He reads it to all the people and they agree to obey.
5. Moses was on the Mount forty days and forty nights.
Exodus 25, 26, and 27.
1. God instructs Moses on the building of the tabernacle.
Exodus 28.
1. Aaron and his sons to minister in the tabernacle.
2. God gives instructions for the holy garments.
Exodus 29 and 30.
1. Instructions on ministering in the tabernacle.
2. Offerings, sacrifices, and such.
Exodus 31.
1. An example of God instantly putting knowledge into a mans mind.
2. Repeats of some prior subjects.
Exodus 32.
1. While Moses is on the Mount with God, the children turn to worshiping idols.
2. Moses is given the ten commandments on two tablets, written by God.
3. Moses breaks them.
Exodus 33.
1. Moses wants to see God. God allows him to see only His back parts.
Exodus 34.
1. God commands Moses to make two more tablets to replaces the ones he broke.
2. God is a jealous God.
3. He warns of making covenants with the Inhabitants of the lands before them.
4. Commands them to destroy all signs of pagan worship.
5. The face of Moses shines so bright, he has to wear a veil.
Exodus 35 thru 39.
1. The actual making of the tabernacle, per the instructions that God had given Moses.
Exodus 40.
1. The tabernacle is assembled for the first time.
2. The glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
3. When the cloud was raised up from the tabernacle, the children of Israel journeyed. But not until.
4. The cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

Leviticus

Leviticus has 27 chapters, 859 verses, and contains 24,546 words.

Always Remember this verse.
1 Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Leviticus 1 thru 7.
1. God is revealing to Moses how the people are to sacrifice.
Leviticus 8 thru 10.
1. Moses is enacting the commandments God gave him pertaining to sacrificing.
Leviticus 11.
1. Pertains to things we should and should not eat.
Leviticus 12.
1. Pertains to childbirth.
Leviticus 13 thru 14.
1. Is about leprosy.
Leviticus 15.
1. Pertains to personal hygiene both men and women, (menstrual etc.)
Leviticus 16.
1. Instructions for Aaron to make atonement for himself, his house, and the congregation of Israel.
Leviticus 17.
1. About those who don't offer sacrifices.
2. Not to eat anything in it's blood.
Leviticus 18.
1. Regarding sexual do's and don'ts.
Leviticus 19.
1. I believe God is repeating, for emphasis, the things He requires of us, concerning His laws, statutes, and commandments.
2. How we are to treat others as well as other peoples who dwell among us.
Leviticus 20.
1. Some punishments resulting from disobeying some of God's ways.
Leviticus 21.
1. Some rules concerning the priesthood.
Leviticus 22.
1. More rules for the priesthood.
Leviticus 23.
1. God's instructions concerning the feast days. Feast of the LORD.
Leviticus 24.
1. Rules concerning oil for the lamps of the tabernacle, that are to burn continually.
2. An example of capital punishment.
Leviticus 25.
1. God's rules for the planting of crops.
2. Letting the land rest after each seven years.
3. Every fifty years is Jubilee.
Leviticus 26.
1. Rewards for obeying God's instructions. Also what happens, If you don't.
Leviticus 27.
1. Vows, tithes, etc.

Numbers

Numbers has 36 chapters, 1,288 verses, and contains 32,902 words.

Always Remember this verse.
1 Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Numbers 1.
1. The numbering, (or counting), of all the men of Israel for warfare.
Numbers 2.
1. God's instructions on how the tribes of Israel were to encamp.
Numbers 3.
1. The numbering of the Levites and their linage.
2. More instructions of how they were to camp. Also what their duties were to be.
Numbers 4.
1. God's instructions for the packaging of the tabernacle prior to moving it.
Numbers 5.
1. Instructions for health.
2. Quarantining of the sick.
3. The laws of jealously.
Numbers 6.
1. The vow of a Nazarite and the rules for such.
Numbers 7.
1. This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel.
Numbers 8.
1. God's instructions for the lighting of the lamps and the cleansing of the Levites.
Numbers 9.
1. Rules for observing the Passover for some who were defiled by a dead person and rules for those who would not observe the Passover.
2. Also a description of how, when, and where, God commanded the children to journey or camp.
Numbers 10.
1. The blowing of the trumpets and the meanings thereof.
2. The first journey or movement of Israel under the guide of the cloud.
Numbers 11.
1. The people complain. They want meat. God gives them quail.
2. God eases some of the burden for Moses.
Numbers 12.
1. Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses. God gets mad. Miriam is made leprous for seven days.
Numbers 13.
1. Moses sends scouts into the land of Canaan. They return, scared of the giants. All but Caleb and Joshua.
Numbers 14.
1. Some want to return to Egypt.
2. God is about to destroy them, but Moses intervenes on their behalf.
3. God repents of it, but sentenced them to forty years in the wilderness. One year for each day they were scouting in Canaan.
4. None above twenty years old will go into the promised land. The only exceptions are Caleb and Joshua.
Numbers 15.
1. God's instructions on making an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock, when they come into the land which God gives them.
2. God tells them something to do, in order to remember, to do His commandments, etc. See verses 37 thru 39.
Numbers 16.
1. Korah and his followers rebel against Moses and God destroys them.
Numbers 17.
1. God commands Moses to take a rod from each of the leaders of the twelve tribes, with their names written thereon.
2. Aaron's rod budded.
Numbers 18.
1. Aaron, his sons, and descendants thereof, are chosen by God, to make up the Levitical Priesthood.
Numbers 19.
1. The ashes of the red heifer, used for a purification.
Numbers 20.
1. Miriam dies.
2. Water from the Rock. Moses strikes the Rock twice instead of speaking to it as God commanded him to do.
3. Aaron dies. His command position is passed to his son Eleazar.
4. They mourn Aaron for thirty days.
Numbers 21.
1. Israel destroys the Canaanites, defeated the Amorites, and destroyed all of Bashan. With God's help of course.
Numbers 22 thru 24.
1. The story of Balaam, the talking ass, and those affected by it.
Numbers 25.
1. Some of the children of Israel start to whore around with other peoples.
2. Phinehas does a great deed, and is rewarded of God.
Numbers 26.
1. The numbering, (or census), of the Israelites. Twenty and upward, for warfare.
2. Caleb and Joshua, the only two of the original people who came out of Egypt. As God had stated.
Numbers 27.
1. God's instructions concerning family inheritance.
2. Moses sees the Promised Land.
3. Joshua replaces Moses to lead the children of Israel.
Numbers 28 thru 29
1. A repeat about offerings, sacrifices, etc.
Numbers 30.
2. Statutes between man and wife, and father and daughter.
3. Concerning vows.
Numbers 31.
1. Moses' last mission before God takes him home. Destroy the Medianites.
2. Describes the spoils taken in the battle.
Numbers 32.
1. The children of Reuben and Gad make a deal for some of the land on the east side of the Jordan. Jazer and Gilead. They will go over and fight until all others have their habitations, but they want the land the east side of the Jordan river.
Numbers 33.
1. These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
2. Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out. Also, the consequences, if you don't drive out those before you.
Numbers 34.
1. God describes the borders of Israel, (The Promised Land), given to nine and one half of the twelve tribes if Israel. The one half tribe, is Manasseh. Reuben and Gad's inheritance is on the east side of the Jordan River.
Numbers 35.
1. The inheritance for the Levites.
2. Cities for refuge.
3. God's laws concerning murder.
Numbers 36.
1. The inheritance of a tribe, is to stay within that tribe.
2. They are to marry within their own tribe.

Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy means "repetition of the law". It has 34 chapters, 959 verses, and contains 28,461 words.

Always Remember this verse.
1 Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Beings this book is about law, there's a New testament verse we should remember.
Mat 5:18 (Jesus talking). For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Deuteronomy 1.
1. Moses reminds the people of the promises of God regarding the promised land
2. His appointment of judges.
3. The incident of the giants and their fear of them.
4. Only Caleb and Joshua would enter into the promise land.
5. Because of their fear, the Amorites defeat the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 2.
1. Moses recounts some more of the years in the wilderness.
2. The defeating of Sihon the king of Heshbon.
Deuteronomy 3.
1. Moses describes Israel's defeat of Og, the giant. His bed measured 6 feet x 13-1/2 feet.
2. About Reuben and Gad wanting the land east of the Jordan.
3. About Moses viewing the promise land, and God telling him to put Joshua in charge.
Deuteronomy 4.
1. Moses reminds the people to be obedient to God, reminding them of what happened at Baalpeor.
2. Also about God giving the ten commandments directly to the children, verbally.
3. How and why God was mad at Moses and wouldn't allow him to enter the promise land.
4. Moses predicts that they, (their future generations), would be scattered among the nations, and when that happens, if they would seek God, they would find Him.
5. That they would be in tribulation in the latter days.
6. Moses chooses three cities for refuge.
Deuteronomy 5.
1. Moses repeats the ten commandments to the people.
2. Reminds them of how they were afraid when God spoke to them.
3. Reminds them that they're to walk in the ways God commanded.
Deuteronomy 6.
1. Moses gives the greatest commandment of all.

Deu 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

2. Warns again of being disobedient.
Deuteronomy 7.
1. Moses gives instructions of what to do and how to act when they enter into the promised land.
2. Have no fear.
3. Stay away from, and have nothing to do with the heathen.
4. Declares that Israel is a Holy people unto God.
5. God's people are the fewest in number of all peoples.
Deuteronomy 8.
1. God chastises His own.
2. The promise land is a land of plenty.
3. Be sure to bless God for the land He has given.
4. When things are going good, don't forget God.
5. God is the one who gives the power to get wealth.
Deuteronomy 9.
1. Moses tells the children that they will pass over into the promise land and possess nations greater than they.
2. That God is a consuming fire.
3. For them not to even think in their mind, that they inherited the land because they were righteous.
4. They are a stiffnecked people.
5. Repeats the incident at Mount Horeb, (Moses' forty days and nights on the mount, and them turning to idols).
6. Moses reminds them of their continual provoking God.
Deuteronomy 10.
1. A repeat of God telling Moses to hew two tables of stone, for Him to write the ten commandments.
2. For Moses to make an ark of Shittum wood and put in it, the ten commandments of stone.
3. Repeats of Aaron's death.
4. Tells of the separation of the tribe of Levi.
5. Tells what God requires of His people. Sacrifice is not mentioned. But love sure is.
6. The fatherless, widows, and strangers.
7. Tells of how seventy went into Egypt and came out in numbers as the stars of heaven.
Deuteronomy 11.
1. A repeat of mentioning some of the great miracles they'd seen with their own eyes.
2. How great is the land, where they're going.
3. Warns against serving other gods. Tells how powerful they will become.
4. Some Ifs.
5. God sets before them a blessing and a curse. A blessing if they obey. A curse if they don't.
Deuteronomy 12.
1. Commands them to destroy all places of Pagan worship.
2. God will choose the place for worship. Repeats it for emphasis.
3. Do not forsake the Levites.
4. God is very particular where they eat things sacrificed.
5. Do not eat the blood.
6. Warns again of worshiping idols.
Deuteronomy 13.
1. Warns of false prophets.
2. God will test you.
3. Put the false prophets to death, even if they're a family member.
4. Destroy all cities that serve other gods.
Deuteronomy 14.
1. Do not mutilate or deform your body.
2. Thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto Himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
3. Foods to eat and not to eat.
4. Tithing.
5. Do not forsake the Levites, fatherless, or widows.
Deuteronomy 15.
1. The Lord's release, every seven years.
2. Do not borrow from other nations.
3. How to treat a poor brother.
4. How to treat a bondman.
Deuteronomy 16.
1. Keep the Passover.
2. Instructions on keeping the Passover.
3. Feast of Weeks, (Pentecost).
4. Remember that you were a bondman in Egypt.
5. Feast of Tabernacles.
6. Judges and officers.
7. Rules for judgment, (no bribery).
8. No Idols.
Deuteronomy 17.
1. Nothing blemished is to be sacrificed.
2. Stone to death, those who worship other gods, the sun, the moon, and the host of heaven.
3. Must have at least two witnesses for a death penalty.
4. Hands of the witnesses must cast the first stone.
5. Matters too hard for them to judge.
6. The setting up of kings.
7. The king is to write a copy of this law in a book. (You know when you write something down, you're more apt to remember it).
Deuteronomy 18.
1. The Levites.
2. Stay away from all that is an abomination to God.
3. * God will raise up a prophet, Jesus.
4. How to determine a false prophet.
5. Don't be afraid of false prophets.
Deuteronomy 19.
1. Cities of refuge.
2. Laws concerning the accidental killing of another person, with an example thereof.
3. Also premeditated murder.
4. Landmarks, (or boundaries).
5. Laws concerning witnesses, both true and false.
6. An eye for and eye, tooth for tooth, and life for life.
Deuteronomy 20.
1. Laws concerning going to war.
Deuteronomy 21.
1. Laws concerning how to handle an unsolved murder.
2. The taking of a captured woman for a wife.
3. Inheritance when a man has two wives.
4. What to do with a rebellious son.
Deuteronomy 22.
1. Laws concerning lost livestock and other things.
2. Men and women's clothing.
3. Virginity, adultery, and rape.
Deuteronomy 23.
1. Those who cannot participate in the congregation of the LORD.
2. Laws concerning illicit acts in the military.
3. God doesn't want the money from prostitution in His House.
4. Lending, with and without usury, (interest).
5. Making a vow to the LORD.
6. The neighbor's vineyard and corn.
Deuteronomy 24.
1. Laws on divorce.
2. A man's responsibility to a new wife.
3. The selling of people.
4. Leprosy.
5. The people told to remember the Miriam incident regarding leprosy.
6. Lending.
7. Do not oppress an hired servant.
8. The fathers will not pay for the children's sin and vise versa.
9. Provide for strangers, widows, and the fatherless.
10. Told to remember that they were bondmen in Egypt.
Deuteronomy 25.
1. Laws concerning the handling of controversy between men.
2. Laws concerning a man to have his brother's wife.
3. Punishment for a woman grabbing a man's private parts.
4. The keeping of proper weights and measures.
5. Remember Amalek. Pay-backs are hell.
Deuteronomy 26.
1. The first of the fruits of the earth to be offered.
2. Tithes of the third year.
Deuteronomy 27.
1. Commanded, upon entering into the promised land, to set up an altar with these laws written there-on.
2. Curses to be announced upon Mount Ebal.
Deuteronomy 28.
This chapter, I feel refers to the United States, for it's the only nation in history, to my knowledge, which has had these blessings.
1. Blessings and curses described in detail for those who obey, and for those who don't.
Deuteronomy 29.
1. A covenant between God and Israel.
2. Moses reminds the people of just how angry God is capable of being and that they can be destroyed just as Sodom and Gomorrah.
Deuteronomy 30.
1. Repeats that Israel will be scattered among all the nations and gathered again.
2. God places before them, life and death, blessings and cursings. Therefore choose life.
3. God is thy life and thy length of days.
Deuteronomy 31.
1. Moses is 120 years old.
2. Reminds the people that he cannot go over Jordan, but that God will go before them.
3. Tells them to be of good cheer and fear not.
4. Moses talks to Joshua in front of all Israel.
5. Tells Joshua to be strong and of good cheer.
6. The law is to be read before all Israel, that they may learn.
7. God Himself commissions Joshua to lead.
8. God tells Moses that he must die and that they will go whoring after other gods and forsake Him and that His anger will rise against them.
9. God commands Moses to write a song and teach it to them. The Song Of Moses.
10. Moses commands the Levites to put a writing of the law into the ark.
Deuteronomy 32.
1. The song of Moses, that God told him to write.
2. Tells of how God cared for Israel. Very blessed of God.
2. Tells of, when things were good, they forsook God.
3. How they provoked God by going after strange gods.
4. That they were a froward, (or perverse), generation.
5. States that God will take vengeance on His enemies.
6. Moses tells the people to set their minds unto all the words spoken to them this day.
7. Command your children to observe and do the words of this law.
8. God tells Moses to get upon Mount Nebo, and behold the land of Canaan, The Promised Land, and to die there.
Deuteronomy 33.
1. Moses blesses the tribes of Israel before he dies. Simeon is not mentioned here. I wonder why. See Genesis 49:1-28 for a comparison, where Jacob, (Israel), tells his sons, (who make up the twelve tribes of Israel), what is to befall then in the last days.
Deuteronomy 34.
1. As God commanded, Moses climbs Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah. There God shows to him, the promised land.
2. Moses dies and is buried by God. I add the next verses out of curiosity.

Jude 1:9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
Wonder what this is all about? Another few verses.

Mat 17:1 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
Mat 17:2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
Mat 17:3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.

Moses, with Elijah and Jesus? Do you think maybe Moses was taken by God, as was Elijah? A good question for them. When we get there.

Joshua

Joshua has 24 chapters, 658 verses, and contains 18,858 words.

Always Remember this verse.
1 Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Joshua 1.
1. Joshua prepares the people to cross over the river Jordan.
2. Reminds the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of the agreement they made with Moses in Numbers 32:1-22.
Joshua 2.
1. Joshua sends two spies to check out the land.
2. Rahab, the harlot, hides the men and sends the king's men, (which had found out they were there), in another direction to look for them.
3. She tells the spies, that all the inhabitants have heard of them, and that all were afraid.
4. She asked them to remember her, and her family, when they come to destroy the city.
5. They agree not to harm her and her family. Her life, for their life.
Joshua 3.
1. Joshua gives the instructions from God, on how to cross the Jordan River.
2. Just as God parted the Red Sea, He does likewise here.
Joshua 4.
1. God commands Joshua to take twelve stones from the Jordan River for a memorial of the crossing on dry land.
2. When the priest come up out of the river, the waters of the Jordan returned as they were before. Just like at the Red Sea.
3. Joshua reminds the people of the Red Sea incident.
4. They put up the twelve stones at Gilgal.
Joshua 5.
1. When the inhabitants of the land west of the Jordan River hear that God had parted the waters of the Jordan, and the children of Israel crossed over on dry land, they became very afraid.
2. God commands Joshua to have all the males that crossed over to be circumcised.
3. They keep the Passover at Gilgal.
4. God stops feeding them manna, (angel's food).
5. When by Jericho, Joshua meets a Man, with His sword drawn. Read this.
6. He tells Joshua the same thing He told Moses, at the burning bush.
Joshua 6.
7. The destruction of Jericho.
2. Joshua tells the two spies to save Rahab and her household. They did.
3. She and her family lived with Israel thereafter.
Joshua 7.
1. Achan does the accursed thing.
Joshua 8.
1. God reassures Joshua.
2. They destroy Ai.
3. Joshua builds an altar in Mount Ebal, as Moses had instructed.
4 Joshua reads all the words of the law to the people.
Joshua 9.
1. When they heard what happened at Ai, all the kings of the west side of Jordan gathered themselves together to fight with Israel.
2. Some Gibeonites try to deceive Joshua.
3. They make peace with him.
Joshua 10.
1. Israel saves Gibeon.
2. God destroys more with hailstones than was killed by the sword.
3. Joshua asked God for the sun and the moon to stand still. It does, for nearly a day.
4. Israel traps five kings in a cave.
5. Joshua has them brought to him. He personally kills them and has their bodies put back into the cave.
6. Israel, (with the help of God), destroys all the kings and armies that joined together against Gibeon.
Joshua 11.
1. Kings Jabin, Jobab, the king of Shimron, the king of Achshaph, and others, joined forces to fight against Israel.
2. Only the Gibeonites and the Hivites made peace with Israel.
3. God hardened the others hearts that they would come against Israel.
4. The land rested from war.
5. Joshua divided the land, (the promised land), according to the tribes.
Joshua 12.
1. Kings defeated by Moses and Kings defeated by Joshua.
Joshua 13.
1. Joshua is old now, and there is yet land to be possessed.
2. The dividing of the land east of the Jordan.
3. Balaam is slain.
Joshua 14.
1. The land of Hebron is given to Caleb. Be sure and read this.
Joshua 15.
1. The land allotted to the tribe of Judah and it's borders described.
2. Caleb is given a part of Judah's inheritance.
3. Caleb clears all his land of it's former inhabitants.
Joshua 16.
1. The land given to the children of Joseph, and it's borders described.
Joshua 17.
1. An extra lot for the tribe of Manasseh, (a son of Joseph), because he was a great man of war.
2. Also another lot, for the tribe of Manasseh.
3. At their request, Joshua gives the children of Joseph some more land.
Joshua 18.
1. The children of Israel set up the tabernacle at Shiloh.
2. Joshua sends three men from each of the seven remaining tribes, into the land to describe, (write in a book), and divide it into seven parts.
3. The land given to the tribe of Benjamin and the description of it's borders.
Joshua 19.
1. The land given to the tribe of Simeon. They receive some of Judah's portion because it was too large for Judah.
2. Zebulun's inheritance and it's description.
3. The land of Issachar and it's borders described.
4, The lot for Asher and it's borders described.
5. The land of Naphtali and it's borders.
6. The land given to the tribe of Dan. It was too small, so they fought against Leshem, (former inhabitants), and took their land from them.
7. The children of Israel give an inheritance to Joshua.
8. The dividing of the promised land is complete.
Joshua 20.
1. Six cities appointed as, cities of refuge.
Joshua 21.
1. Cities appointed for the Levites.
2. Israel now possesses all the land that God promised to them.
Joshua 22.
1. The tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the ½ tribe of Manasseh return to the east of the Jordan river.
2. A misunderstanding arises over an altar built by the 2-1/2 tribes.
3. The misunderstanding is settled and war is averted.
Joshua 23.
1. Joshua is old.
2. He reminds the people how that God, has not failed them, and for them to love Him.
3. Warns them against serving other gods.
4. God will no longer drive out any nations from before them. They shall be snares, traps, scourges, and thorns to the Israelites.
Joshua 24.
1. Joshua's farewell address to the children of Israel. "As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD".
2. Joshua dies at one hundred ten years old.
3. The bones of Joseph are buried.
4. Eleazar, (the son of Aaron), dies.

Judges

Judges has 21 chapters, 618 verses, and contains 18,976 words.

This book is the continued history of the Israelites with the leadership of judges. It covers approximately three hundred years starting at the death of Joshua. Some of the incidents could have been happening at the same time, since one judge did not rule over all the tribes. There were judges from each tribe.

Always Remember this verse.
1 Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Judges 1.
1. The capture of Adoni-bezek.
2. Overall, Israel isn't doing so well at driving out the inhabitants of the land. They do overcome them and make them pay taxes, but don't drive them out. See Joshua 23:13 for the reason why.
Judges 2.
1. Israel gets a visit from an Angel of the LORD.
2. They start worshiping other gods.
3. God raises up a judge to deliver them.
4. After the judge dies, they return to the same ole evil.
5. God leaves the nations to prove, (or test), Israel.
Judges 3.
1. Nations that God left to test Israel.
2. Some of Israel took their daughters to wife.
3. They began to worship other gods.
4. Othniel is judge and frees Israel and they have peace forty years.
5. Othniel dies. Israel does evil again and serves Moab eighteen years.
6. Ehud kills the king of Moab and frees Israel. They have peace for eighty years.
7. Shamgar delivers Israel.
Judges 4.
1. Deborah, (a judge and prophetess), along with Barak, deliver Israel.
2. Sisera is killed by a woman, just as Deborah said.
Judges 5.
1. Deborah and Barak sing a song about the battle.
2. Israel has peace for forty years.
Judges 6.
1. Israel does evil and God delivers them into the hands of Median.
2. They call upon God.
3. God calls Gideon to deliver Israel.
4. Gideon test God.
Judges 7.
1. Gideon raises a 32,000 man army. God reduces it to 300.
2. Gideon and his servant, sneak into the enemy camp, and overhear a man telling of his dream.
3. Gideon, (with God's help), has the victory.
4. They kill Oreb and Zeeb, (two Medianite princes), and bring their heads to Gideon.
Judges 8.
1. Gideon pursues the kings of Midian.
2. Ask for food along the way, but was refused.
3. He captures and kills the kings of Median.
4. The men of Israel ask Gideon to rule over them, but he refuses.
5. Israel has forty years of peace.
6. Gideon dies of old age.
7. Israel turns to other gods.
Judges 9.
1. Abimelech, (one of Gideon's sons), kills all his brothers, except one who escaped.
2. The men of Shechem declare him king.
3. A woman crushes Abimelech's head.
Judges 10.
1. Tola judges Israel twenty three years.
2. Jair judges for twenty two years.
3. Israel forsakes God once again.
4. The Philistines take over Israel.
5. The Ammonites fight against Judah.
6. Israel calls on God again. God tells them to have the gods, they've chosen, deliver them.
Judges 11.
1. Jephthah becomes judge, (or leader).
2. He makes a vow to God. One that will tear at his very soul.
3. Jephthah defeats the Ammonites.
Judges 12.
1. Jephthah has to fight the Ephraimites. He dies after judging Israel for six years.
2. Ibzan judges for seven years, Elon for ten, Abdon for eight.
Judges 13.
1. The children of Israel do evil and God puts them under the Philistines for forty years.
2. The birth of Samson.
Judges 14.
1. Samson wants a woman of the Philistines.
2. Samson's wedding feast and his riddle.
3. Samson kills thirty of the Philistines.
4. His father-in-law gives his wife to another man.
Judges 15.
1. Samson is offered his former wife's younger sister.
2. Samson destroys the Philistine's corn.
3. They murder, (burn), his former wife and father-in-law.
4. Samson kills one thousand men with a jawbone of an ass.
Judges 16.
1. An episode at Gaza.
2. Samson meets Delilah.
3. Samson is captured and blinded.
4. The death of Samson.
Judges 17.
1. In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
2. Micah's house of gods.
3. He hires a priest.
Judges 18.
1. Micah's gods, the Levite priest, and the tribe of Dan.
Judges 19.
1. The Levite, his concubine, (wife), and the evil at Gibeah.
2. The Levite sends a portion of his wife's body to each of the tribes of Israel.
Judges 20.
1. The levite tells all Israel about the incident at Gibeah.
2. All of Israel go to war with Benjamin, (Gibeah), after they refuse to turn over the men who kill the Levite's wife.
3. Gibeah had seven hundred chosen men, all left handed, who were experts with sling shots.
4. Israel first goes against Gibeah before repenting of their own sins.
5. After two defeats, they go to Phinehas, the high priest, for God's instructions.
6. Six hundred men of Gibeah flee to the wilderness unto the rock, Rimmon.
Judges 21.
1. Israel repents for their extreme treatment of Benjamin.
2. Be sure to read, how the six hundred remaining Benjamites, get their wives.

Ruth

Ruth has 4 chapters, 85 verses, and contains 2,578 words. This story takes place in the time of the judges.

Always Remember this verse.
1 Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Ruth 1.
1. The death of Naomi's husband, and sons, in the country of Moab.
2. One of her daughter-in-laws, return with her to Bethlehem.
3. It was the time of barley harvest.
Ruth 2.
1. Ruth gathers grain from Boaz' field.
2. Boaz comes along and notices her.
3. The sparks of love begin to fly.
Ruth 3.
1. Naomi advises Ruth on just how to handle Boaz.
2. Ruth does all that Naomi instructs her to do.
3. This is a great love story. You wont regret reading this. It could be about your ancestors.
Ruth 4.
1. Boaz redeems Ruth.
2. Ruth and Boaz are married.
3. Naomi helps raise their son Obed.

First Samuel

I Samuel has 31 chapters, 810 verses, and contains 25,061 words.

The two books of Samuel were at one time called First Kings and the now First and Second Kings were called Second Kings. The author cannot be identified. It's not Samuel the prophet because his death is recorded in chapter 25. This book is the start of the kings of Israel. They go from a theocracy to a monarchy.

Always Remember this verse.
1 Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

I Samuel 1.
1. Elkanah has two wives. Peninah and Hannah.
2. Hannah is barren and is provoked by Peninah each time Elkanah goes to Shiloh to worship.
3. Hannah prays to God for a son and makes a vow to God concerning it.
4. Hannah has a son and she keeps her vow.
I Samuel 2.
1. * Hannah prays and praises God, and in verse 10, makes reference to Jesus Christ.
2. Her child, (Samuel), ministers to God before Eli the priest.
3. The sons of Eli, the priest, are wicked.
4. Hannah bares three more sons and two daughters.
4. Eli is told by a man of God that his two sons will die on the same day.
I Samuel 3.
1. God calls Samuel.
I Samuel 4.
1. The Philistines defeat Israel in battle.
2. They take the Ark of God and kill Eli's two sons.
3. Upon hearing this news, Eli dies.
3. Eli judged Israel for forty years.
4. Eli's daughter-in-law, upon hearing the news, died giving birth to Ichabod.
I Samuel 5.
1. Dagon, (the god of the Philistines), is destroyed when the Ark of God is placed beside it.
2. The Philistines suffer great destructions from God. I feel there was a great plague of mice. Those that did not die, had severe hemorrhoids.
I Samuel 6.
1. The Philistines return the Ark of God.
I Samuel 7.
1. The Ark is in the house of Abinadab for twenty years.
2. Samuel beckons the house of Israel to return to the LORD and they did.
3. The Philistines attack Israel once again.
4. They ask Samuel to seek God's help, to deliver them from the Philistines, and God does.
5. Israel defeats the Philistines.
6. Samuel judges Israel all the days of his life.
I Samuel 8.
1. Samuel is old and makes his sons judges over Israel. They're not at all like him.
2. The elders of Israel want Samuel to give them a king.
3. God tells Samuel to do it, for they have not rejected Samuel, but God.
4. God tells Samuel to inform them what it's going to be like under a king. They will not listen.
I Samuel 9.
1. Saul, and a servant, is sent to find his father's missing asses. Instead, he finds Samuel.
2. God tells Samuel about Saul and that he is to be king.
I Samuel 10.
1. Saul is anointed king by Samuel
2. Samuel tells Saul some things that are to come to pass that very day, and they did.
I Samuel 11.
1. The Ammonites come against Israel
2. Saul gathers all of Israel and Judah to prepare for battle.
3. They defeat the Ammonites and although Samuel has already anointed Saul king, the people make Saul king and rejoice.
I Samuel 12.
1. Samuel addresses all the people.
2. Reminds them of their coming out of Egypt. How they would turn from God, go into captivity, and then call on God to deliver them from their enemies.
3. They're the ones who want a king.
4. Samuel calls on God to send thunder and rain as a demonstration from God concerning their wickedness.
5. Samuel ask the people to serve God.
I Samuel 13.
1. Saul attacks a Philistine military post.
2. The Philistines gather a huge army to fight.
3. Saul ask Samuel for guidance. Samuel tells Saul that his kingdom will not continue.
4. Israel is totally dependent on the Philistines for all their metal goods, (weapons etc).
I Samuel 14.
1. Jonathan, (Saul's son), and his armourbearer slay about twenty of the Philistine army. He had a sign from God regarding the matter.
2. An earthquake, confusion, and the Philistines kill each other. God delivers Israel from the Philistines.
3. Saul will not allow his army to eat. Jonathan disobeys the order.
4. The people save Jonathan's life.
5. Some of Saul's victories.
6. Saul's family.
I Samuel 15.
1. Saul is told to smite Amalek and destroy all.
2. Saul spares the life of king Agag.
3. God is sorry that He ever made Saul king.
4. God rejects Saul.
5. Samuel kills king Agag.
I Samuel 16.
1. God sends Samuel to the house of Jesse, to anoint David king.
2. David becomes Saul's musician and armourbearer.
I Samuel 17.
1. The Philistines and the Israelites are prepared for battle.
2. A physical description of the giant, Goliath.
3. David returns to his father's house to feed the sheep.
4. Jesse, (David's father), sends him to his brothers, (soldiers is Saul's army), with food, and to check on their well being.
5. David hears Goliath make his challenge.
6. David kills Goliath.
I Samuel 18.
1. Jonathan, (Saul's son), makes a covenant with David.
2. Saul becomes jealous of David.
3. All Israel and Judah love David.
4. Saul tries to kill David twice, and through trickery, tries to have others kill him.
5. David marries Michal, (Saul's daughter).
6. Saul is afraid of David.
7. David is a very wise man. This is stated throughout this Chapter.
I Samuel 19.
1. Saul tells Jonathan, (his son), and all his servants, that they should kill David.
2. Jonathan talks Saul out of killing David.
3. Jonathan brings David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.
4. An evil spirit comes upon Saul and he tries to kill David once more with a javelin.
5. Saul sends men to David's house to kill him. Michal, (David's wife and Saul's daughter), helps David escape.
6. David flees and stays with Samuel.
7. Saul sends more men to kill David, but when they see David and Samuel, they begin to prophecy. After this happens three times, Saul himself, goes to do the job. The same thing happens to him.
I Samuel 20.
1. Jonathan vows to tell David all he is able to find out about Saul's plans to kill him.
2. Saul talks of killing David and when Jonathan speaks good of him, Saul tries to kill him, (his own son, Jonathan).
3. Jonathan keeps his promise, (or vow), to David.
I Samuel 21.
1. David goes to Nob and has no weapons.
2. He visits with a priest. Asked him for food and a spear, sword, or something.
3. The priest has Goliath's sword, and gives it to David.
4. David then flees to Gath, where he has to act crazy, in order to escape.
I Samuel 22.
1. David escapes from Gath to the cave Adullam. There his friends came to join him, about four hundred men.
2. David asked the king of Moab for refuge for his father and mother till whatever happens, happens.
3. King Saul commanded his soldiers to kill the priest at Nob. They refuse. He asked ole Doeg, (be sure to read about him), and he was anxious to do the job. He kills his whole family, all and everything in the town.
4. One of the sons of Ahimelech, (the priest at Nob), named Abiathar, escaped, and tells David. He stays with David.
I Samuel 23.
1. After asking God, and getting His go ahead, David defeats the Philistines.
2. King Saul is in hot pursuit of David.
3. David inquires of God and asked if Saul will come to Keilah after him. God replies, "he will come down". David asked if the men of Keilah would turn him over to Saul. God says, "they will deliver thee up".
4. David flees from Keilah.
5. Saul remains in chase after David every day.
6. Jonathan meets with David. Tells him that he, (David), will be king over Israel and that his father, (Saul), knows it.
7. Saul has David surrounded but hears that the Philistines have invaded the land, and has to take leave of chasing David.
I Samuel 24.
1. After fighting the Philistines, Saul takes three thousand men to seek David.
2. Unknowingly to Saul, he and David wind up in the same cave.
3. Instead of killing Saul, as David's men suggest, David cuts off a piece of his, (Saul's), skirt.
4. The next morning David talks to Saul, (probably from a distance). Saul weeps, and tells David that he knows that he, (David), will be king, and asked him not to destroy his family. David agrees, and Saul goes home.
I Samuel 25.
1. Samuel dies.
2. David sends messengers to Nabal to ask for help. Food and such. Nabal refused.
3. Upon hearing this, his wife, (Abigail), a woman of good understanding, came to David and gave to him and his men all that he'd asked for.
4. This act causes David to stop his intended destruction of all the males of Nabal's family and town.
5. When Abigail tells her husband Nabal, he loses his mind, had some kind of sickness, as though he turned to stone. Ten days later, he dies.
6. Abigail becomes David's wife. David also takes Ahinoam to wife.
7. Saul had given his daughter Michal, (David's wife), to another.
I Samuel 26.
1. King Saul searches for David once again. David hears of it and sends spies to check it out. It is so. David and one of his men slip into Saul's camp. Saul is asleep, surrounded by his men. His spear is beside his head-piece, as he sleeps. God had caused them to be in a deep sleep. David takes Saul's spear and cruise of water that was by his head. At some distance David awakens Saul and his three thousand men, and talks to Saul. Saul repents of his actions. David returns home and so does Saul.
I Samuel 27.
1. David feels that one day Saul will kill him. So he goes to the land of the Philistines, (Gath).
2. When Saul hears this, he seeks to kill David no more.
3. David stays there sixteen months. King Achish gives David some land. He has to take it by force.
I Samuel 28.
1. The Philistines gather an army to fight against Israel. King Achish ask David to join them in the battle.
2. When Saul sees the army, he's afraid. Inquires of God. God don't answer. Saul visits the witch of Endor for advice.
3. He asked her to summon up Samuel, who was dead. She did. Saul gets bad news from Samuel. Saul and his sons are to die in battle the following day.
I Samuel 29.
1. Some of the Philistine army leaders don't trust David, and doesn't want him to be with them in this battle.
2. King Achish, (who likes David very much), has to dismiss David.
I Samuel 30.
1. While David and his men were with the Philistine army, the Amalekites invade and burn Ziklag, (his home that Achish gave him). They carry away captive all the women and children.
2. After much sorrowing, David inquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? Shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.
3. It happens just as God said.
4. David sends some of the spoils gained from the Amalekites, to the inhabitants of Judah, for a present.
I Samuel 31.
1.Saul commits suicide, and his sons die in battle.
2. The Philistines send the head of Saul, along with his armour to the land round about to make it known.
3. They fastened Saul's body to the wall of Bethshan.
4. The bodies of Saul and his sons are cremated.

Second Samuel

2 Samuel has 24 chapters, 695 verses, and contains 20,612 words. The two books of Samuel were at one time called First Kings and the now First and Second Kings were called Second Kings.

Always Remember this verse.
1 Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

II Samuel 1.
1. David learns of the death of Saul and his sons. The bearer of the news brings Saul's crown and bracelet to David. The man states that at Saul's request, he killed Saul, and that he was sure Saul could not have lived. David has the man killed. David writes and sings a song about Saul and Jonathan. Bids them to teach it to the children of Judah.
II Samuel 2.
1. David is anointed king over the house of Judah.
2. A small battle takes place between David's men and of the men of Israel.
II Samuel 3.
1. A long war takes place between the house of Saul, (Israel), and the house of David, (Judah). Sounds kinda like the civil war of the United States. The war between the North and the South.
2. David gets stronger and stronger.
3. David fathers six sons while in Hebron.
4. Abner, (captain of Saul's army), deserts from Israel to David. Wants David to become king of Israel also. Joab kills Abner.
5. David is very grieved at the death of Abner.
II Samuel 4.
1. Ishbosheth, (king of Israel), is murdered by his brothers.
2.They personally deliver his head to King David. David has them killed.
II Samuel 5.
1. David is made king over Israel also.
2. He takes Zion, (the city of David).
3. Hiram, (king of Tyre), builds David a house.
4. David takes on more concubines and wives, and has eleven more sons.
5. Two times, David defeats the Philistines. One of which, with instructions from God, concerning mulberry trees.
II Samuel 6.
1. David brings the ark of God to Zion, (the city of David). In the process Uzzah is killed by God for touching it.
2. Michal and David have words over him dancing in front of the young women. She never had any children.
II Samuel 7.
1. David wants to build a temple to God.
2. God tells him that it will be his son Solomon, that will build the temple, and that He, (God), will establish the kingdom for ever.
II Samuel 8.
1. King David defeats the Philistines, Moabites, and Syria. Some surrendered up front. These actions got David a great name.
2. King David sets up his rulers, (or government), of which his sons are the chief rulers.
II Samuel 9.
1. David shows kindness to the only remaining of Saul's house, Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, David's best friend. Mephibosheth is crippled. David gives to him, everything that had belonged to Saul. Land and all. Mephibosheth ate at king David's table thereafter.
II Samuel 10.
1. David, wanting to show an act of kindness to Hanun, (son of the king of Ammon), leads to a great battle.
II Samuel 11.
1. It appears that there was a particular time of the year that nations went to war.
2. David and Bathsheba, (the wife of Uriah, a captain in David's army), have a sexual affair. She becomes pregnant.
3. David has Uriah killed.
4. David takes Bathsheba for his wife.
II Samuel 12.
1. God sends Nathan the prophet to rebuke David. Tells David that the child will not live.
2. Tells David that because you have taken a man's wife secretly, God will have his wives taken in front of all Israel.
3. David repents for his wrongdoing. God forgives David.
4. Solomon is born. God gives Solomon another name, (Jedidiah). In another book we find that Solomon was named by God before he was even born.
5. David captures Rabbah.
II Samuel 13.
1. Amnon, rapes Tamar, his half sister, and Absalom's full sister.
2. Absalom waits two years then has Amnon killed.
3. David is told that all his sons are killed, but the story is soon corrected.
4. Absalom fled to Geshur, and was there three years.
5. David longs for his son Absalom.
II Samuel 14.
1. In order to get Absalom home, Joab devises a plan. He makes up a story and has a woman tell it to king David. It works. Absalom is allowed to come home but cannot see the king's face.
2. In all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty.
3. Absalom burns a field of barley belonging to Joab.
4. Absalom finally gets to see his father, king David.
II Samuel 15.
1. Absalom revolts, (treason), against his father David.
2. David and his family flee Jerusalem.
3. David sets up a spy network.
II Samuel 16.
1. As David travels, a man, (Shimei), curses him, throws stones at David and all with him. One of David's men wants to kill him, but David said no.
2. As foretold by God, Absalom has sex with David's concubine wives in front of all Israel.
II Samuel 17.
1. Absalom receives counsel from Ahithophel and Hushai.
2. David's spy network works.
3. Two messengers are almost caught by Absalom's men. They are hid in a well to avoid capture. It's a real dramatic story.
4. Ahithophel hangs himself.
II Samuel 18.
1. David lays out his battle plan to defeat Israel and Absalom.
2. He wants to go to battle with them. The people refuse to let the king go.
3. David gives command to be gentle with Absalom. All the people hear it.
4. During the battle, Absalom's mule goes under a tree and his head, (I think hair), is caught and he is left hanging there. Joab and ten of his men kill Absalom.
5. Joab informs his men, (messengers), not to inform David of Absalom's death. It can wait till another day. But I guess after thinking it over, he decides to tell him all.
II Samuel 19.
1. Victory turns to mourning. Joab talks very straight forward to king David concerning his actions, (a self pity party).
2. King David returns to Jerusalem.
II Samuel 20.
1. David has his concubine wives put in ward, (custody). I guess for what they did with Absalom.
2. Sheba leads a revolt against king David.
3. Joab and his army chase him to Abel of Bethmaachah. A wise woman is responsible for saving the city and it's inhabitants. After talking with Joab, she agrees to deliver Sheba to Joab. She and the people of the city be-head Sheba and throw it over the wall of the city to Joab.
4. Joab and his army return to Jerusalem and king David.
5. A list of king David's rulers.
II Samuel 21.
1. Seven sons of Saul are hanged.
2. David got faint in a battle and was thought to have been killed. But Abishai killed the giant that was fighting David and saved his life. After that the people would not let David go out to battle anymore.
3. There were more battles with the Philistines and more giants were killed.
II Samuel 22.
1. David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul.
II Samuel 23.
1. David's last words.
2. A list of David's mighty men. Read this.
II Samuel 24.
1. David commands Joab to number, (or take a census), of Israel and Judah. It took nine months and twenty days.
2. David gets sick after the census is taken.
3. God says to David, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
4. God sends a pestilence upon Israel and seventy thousand people die.
5. At God's command, David raises up an altar unto the LORD.

First Kings

The first book of Kings has 22 chapters, 816 verses, and contains 24,524 words.

Always Remember this verse.
1 Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come

I Kings 1.
1. David is old and very sick.
2. Abishag, (a young lady), is summoned to lay with David for warmth.
3. Adonijah, (one of David's sons by Haggith), makes plans to be king.
4. Nathan tells Bathsheba, (the mother of Solomon). She and Nathan the prophet, tell king David. Solomon is made king that very day.
I Kings 2.
1. David advises Solomon before he dies.
2. David reigned for forty years.
3. Solomon carries out David's wishes.
4. The death of Adonijah.
5. The death of Joab.
6. The death of Shimei.
7. The kingdom of Solomon is established.
I Kings 3.
1. Solomon marries the daughter of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
2. Solomon ask God for wisdom.
3. Solomon's first test of judgment. To determine which woman was the mother of a child.
4. Solomon is held in great reverence by the people.
I Kings 4.
1. Solomon assigns his officers.
2. A description of how well things are in his kingdom.
3. His lifestyle and awesome wisdom.
I Kings 5.
1. Solomon plans to build the temple.
2. Solomon makes an agreement with Hiram, (king of Tyre).
3. A description of the workforce for building the temple.
I Kings 6.
1. A description of the temple built by Solomon. Also described in 2 Chronicles 3.
2. It took seven years to finish the temple.
I Kings 7.
1. King Solomon builds his own home. Builds a home for his wife, (the daughter of Pharaoh, king of Egypt). A brief description of both.
2. A description of the temple furnishings.
I Kings 8.
1. The ark is brought into the temple. As soon as the priest leave, the glory of God, in the form of a cloud, enters the temple.
2. Solomon prays to God.
3. Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep.
4. King Solomon and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
I Kings 9.
1. God appears to Solomon a second time.
2. King Hiram, (of Tyre), is not pleased with the presents Solomon gave to him, for his help.
3. The reason for the levy, (or taxes), which king Solomon raised.
4. Solomon levied a tribute of bondservice of the people not of Israel, that he could not utterly destroy.
5. Three times each year, Solomon offers burnt offerings and peace offerings to God.
6. Solomon creates a navy, and sends it to Ophir for gold.
I Kings 10.
1. The queen of Sheba comes to visit Solomon. They exchange gifts.
2. The fame and riches of Solomon.
I Kings 11.
1. Solomon takes on many foreign wives. Solomon had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. And as the scriptures warned, led Solomon to other gods.
2. For doing these things, God tells Solomon that He will take the kingdom away from his, (Solomon's), son.

1 Ki 11:12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

3. God stirs up some adversaries for Solomon.
4. The prophet Ahijah, tells Jeroboam that he's to be king.
5. Solomon seeks to kill Jeroboam. Jeroboam flees to Egypt, and stays there until the death of Solomon.
6. Solomon dies and Rehoboam his son, is made king. Solomon reigned for forty years.
I Kings 12.
1. Jeroboam is told of Solomon's passing.
2. Rehoboam plans to make life for tough for Israel and sends Adoram, (his tax collector), to collect taxes no doubt. All Israel stone him to death. Rehoboam flees to Jerusalem.
3. Jeroboam is made king over Israel.
4. Only Judah and Benjamin follow Rehoboam.
5. Rehoboam assembles an army and plans to fight Israel in order to regain control, but, the word of God came unto Shemaiah, the man of God, saying, speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying, "Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me." They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.
6. Jeroboam makes two calves for the children of Israel to worship. That, is a no no.
I Kings 13.
1. Jeroboam is warned by a prophet of Judah.
2. The prediction of the birth of king Josiah.
3. Jeroboam's hand is dried up and then made whole again. The story of the disobedient prophet. Another prophet wants his bones laid by the disobedient prophet's bones.
4. Jeroboam keeps getting worse.
I Kings 14.
1. Jeroboam sends his wife to Ahijah the prophet. She is told that the child will die, and that all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam. Is the soul of this child too good to have to go through this flesh life?
2. Judah, (king Rehoboam), also does evil in the sight of the LORD.
3. There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
4. Rehoboam dies.
I Kings 15.
1. Abijam, (son of Rehoboam), becomes king of Judah. Like father, like son. He reigns three years and dies. His son Asa is then king, reigns forty one years, and did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD.
2. There was war between Asa and Baasha, (king of Israel), all their days.
3. Asa makes a league with Ben-ha-dad, (king of Syria).
4. Asa dies.
5. Nada the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years. Again, like father like son. He does evil.
6. Baasha, (the son of Ahijah), smote him at Gibbethon, and reigned in his stead.
I Kings 16.
1. King Baasha is told by Jehu that his posterity will end. Just like Jeroboam.
2. Baasha dies and Elah, (his son) becomes King. He reigns for two years and is killed by Zimri, who reigns in his stead. He kills all the house of Baasha, fullfilling the prophecy of Jehu the prophet.
3. Zimri reigns seven days in Tirzah. All Israel makes Omri king that day. Omri and all Israel with him, besiege Tirzah. When this happens, Zimri sets fire to the king's house, and dies in the fire.
4. Some of Israel want Tibni to be king, some want Omri. The followers of Omri were victorious over those following Tibni. Tibni dies and Omri was king over Israel.
5. Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were before him.
6. Omri dies and Ahab, (his son), becomes king of Israel. Ahab reigns for twenty two years, and again, like father, like son. Ahab does evil also. He takes Jezebel to wife and worships Baal. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
I Kings 17.
1. The prophet Elijah tells Ahab about an upcoming drought and that it will not rain except by his word.
2. God tells Elijah to hide and has the ravens to feed him.
3. The widow woman whose barrel of meal did not go empty. Neither did her container of oil go dry.
4. The widow's son dies. Elijah prays to God, to revive him, and He does.
I Kings 18.
1. After three years, God tells Elijah to go to Ahab.
2. Jezebel has the prophets killed.
3. Obadiah hides one hundred of the prophets and feeds them bread and water.
4. Obadiah and Elijah meet.
5. The contest between Elijah and  a combination of 850 Baal and grove priest of Jezebel. The God that answers by fire, let Him be God. Guess who answers.
6. Elijah kills 450 Baal priest.
7. Elijah prays for rain.
I Kings 19.
1. Elijah flees for his life.
2. He prays to die.
3. An angel feeds him.
4. Elijah takes a forty day and night journey.
5. God talks to Elijah in a cave.
6. Elijah passes his mantel to Elisha.
I Kings 20.
1. Benhadad, (king of Syria), and thirty two other kings besieged Samaria, and made war against it.
2. Benhadad makes demands. Ahab agrees, then Benhadad increases his demands, and Ahab refuses.
3. A prophet of God tells Ahab that God will deliver Benhadad and his army into his hands.
4. Benhadad and the thirty two kings with him get intoxicated, (drunk).
5. Ahab defeats the Syrians.
6. The prophet tells Ahab to prepare, that Benhadad will return the next year. He does return and with a great army.
7. A man of God tells Ahab not to worry, that God will deliver them into his hand. Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day. Ahab spares the life of Benhadad.
8. The prophet of God tells Ahab that for sparing the life of Benhadad, he will die.
I Kings 21.
1. King Ahab wants Naboth's vineyard. Naboth refuses.
2. Jezebel, (Ahab's wife), has Naboth killed.
3. God has Elijah tell Ahab, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, shall dogs lick thy blood. Also, Jezebel will be eaten by dogs.
I Kings 22.
1. Jehoshaphat, (king of Judah), asked Ahab to go into battle with him against the king of Syria.
2. Ahab asked his false prophets, if he should go. They say yes.
3. Micaiah, (God's prophet), tells Ahab the truth. That he will die in this battle. It came to pass, and the dogs licked his blood, just as it also had been prophesied.
4. Jehoshaphat, (the son of Asa), began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. Like father like son, he was a good king.
5. Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
6. Jehoshaphat dies and Jehoram, (his son), becomes king of Judah.
7.Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel. He did evil in the sight of the LORD. For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

Second Kings

The second book of Kings has 25 chapters, 719 verses, and contains 23,532 words. The Talmud credits Jeremiah with writing both books of Kings.

Always Remember this verse.
1 Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come

II Kings 1.
1. King Ahaziah has a bad fall.
2. Sends messengers to Baalzebub the god of Ekron, to ask if he will recover. They meet the prophet Elijah and he relays the word from God that Ahaziah will not recover.
3. Fire from Heaven consumes those who came to get Elijah.
4. Ahaziah died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken, and Jehoram reigned in his stead because Ahaziah had no son.
II Kings 2.
1. God, (through Elijah), parts the Jordan River.
2. Elisha asked Elijah for a double portion of his spirit be upon him. Elijah tells Elisha how he will know if he has the double portion.
3. Elijah is taken up by a whirlwind, (chariot of fire).
4. God, (through Elisha), parts the Jordan River again.
5. Fifty men search for the body of Elijah for three days to no avail.
6. God, (through Elisha), heals Jericho's water.
7. Forty two children are killed by two she bears, for mocking Elisha.
II Kings 3.
1. Jehoram reigns in Israel. He does the same type evil as did Jeroboam.
2. Moab rebels against Israel.
3. The kings of Israel, Judah, and Edom plan to fight Moab. They run out of water and get afraid.
4. They call upon Elisha, (God's prophet). He gives to them God's word. This chapter is a must to read.
II Kings 4.
1. The widow with two sons, a flask of oil, a debt, and a miracle from God.
2. A miracle child for a Shunammite woman and her husband.
3. Another miracle concerning the child.
4. Food to eat during a famine.
II Kings 5.
1. Naaman is cured of Leprosy and offers lots of gifts to Elisha for his healing. Elisha refuses to take them.
2. Gehazi, (Elisha's servant), goes after Naaman and takes some of the gifts. For which he is made a leper and turns white as snow.
II Kings 6.
1. The head of an axe falls into the Jordan river. Elisha, (no doubt with God's help), makes the axe head float.
2. Elisha is pursued by the Syrian army.
3. Elisha asked God to show his servant His army that is around them. God does. Elisha asked God to blind the army of men. God does. Elisha leads them to Samaria. God restores their sight. Elisha has the people feed them, give them provisions, and allows them to return to the Syrian Army.
4. The Syrians lay siege to Samaria. There's no food in the city. Cannibalism takes place.
5. The king of Israel wants Elisha's head.
II Kings 7.
1. Elisha prophecies that on the following day, there will be plenty to eat.
2. The messenger from the king makes light of it and is told he will not eat of it but will die.
3. Four Lepers decide to go to the Syrians, maybe they will kill them, but certainly they are going to die of starvation in the city.
4. God makes the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots and they flee, leaving all their belongings.
5. The lepers find the abandoned camp of the Syrian Army and go tell the people of the city of Samaria.
II Kings 8.
1. Land restored to the mother of the child that Elisha, (through God), raised from the dead.
2. King Benhadad of Syria sends Hazael to Elisha to enquire if he will recover from a disease he has. Elisha weeps and tells Hazael that he will become king of Syria. A ruthless king.
3. Hazael kills Benhadad and reigns in his stead.
4. Jehoram begins to reign over Judah. Joram dies and his son Ahaziah is made king.
II Kings 9.
1. Elisha sends one of the children of the prophets to anoint Jehu, king over Israel.
2. Jehu kills Joram, king of Israel. He also kills Ahaziah, king of Judah.
3. Jehu kills Jezebel. The dogs eat her body. Fulfilling the prophecy about her.
II Kings 10.
1. Jehu kills all the sons of Ahab and the brethren of King Ahaziah.
2. He Destroys all the Baal worshipers.
3. Jehu does not follow the law of God with all his heart.
4. Jehu dies and Jehoahaz, (his son), reigns in his stead.
II Kings 11.
1. When Athaliah, the mother of king Ahaziah, saw that he was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal, so she could reign in his stead. Unknown to her, there was a baby son, (Joash), of Ahaziah that was taken away and hid in the house of the LORD for six years. He is surrounded by armed guards continuously.
2. After seven years Joash was made known to the public and made king.
3. Athaliah is killed and all the people rejoice.
4. Jehoiada, (the priest), makes a covenant, and all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
II Kings 12.
1. Jehoash, (or Joash), did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
2. Jehoash commands that the house of the LORD be repaired. After twenty three years it's still not repaired. The priest were keeping the money gathered for the job. Jehoash puts a stop to that and gathers the money in the appropriate fashion.
3. Hazael, king of Syria, comes to take Jerusalem, so Joash gives him all the hallowed things of the temple and gold of the king's house. For which Hazael leaves them alone.
4. Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, Joash's servants, killed him, and Amaziah, his son, reigned in his stead.
II Kings 13.
1. Jehoahaz starts his seventeen year reign over Israel.
2. He does evil and God delivers Israel to the Syrians.
3. Jehoahaz dies and his son, Joash, reigns in his stead.
4. Joash dies and Jeroboam becomes king.
5. Elisha gives his last prophecy to king Jeroboam then dies.

1 Ki 13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

6. Hazael king of Syria dies and Benhadad his son reigns in his stead.
7. Joash beat Syria three times, and recovered the cities of Israel, fulfilling Elisha's last prophecy.
II Kings 14.
1. Amaziah begins his reign in Judah. He immediately kills those that killed his father.
2. Amaziah wants to fight Israel. Israel obliges and wins the battle.
3. Jehoash, king of Israel, dies and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
4. A conspiracy to kill Amaziah is successful.
5. Azariah, the son of Amaziah is made king of Judah.
6. Jeroboam reigns over Israel.
7. Jeroboam dies and Zachariah, his son, reigns in his stead.
II Kings 15.
1. Azariah begins his reign at the age of sixteen and reigns for fifty two years. He does that which is right in the sight of the LORD. With some exceptions.
2. God strikes him with leprosy till the day he dies, and Gotham, his son, took over for him and judged the people.
3. Azariah dies and Gotham becomes king of Judah.
4. Zachariah, king of Israel, does evil. After reigning only six months, Shallu the son of Jewbush conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
5. The promise from God to Jehu is fulfilled.
6. After one month, Menahem slays Shallu and reigned in his stead.
7. Menahem pays Pul, the king of Assyria, to keep him from warring with Israel.
8. Menahem dies and Pekahiah, his son becomes king. Does evil, reigns two years and is killed by Pekah, who reigns in his stead. He does evil also.
9. Hoshea, son of Elah, slays Pekah, and reigned in his stead,
10. Gotham, the son of king Uzziah becomes king of Judah. He does right but some still have pagan worship.
11. Gotham dies and Ahab, his son, reigns in his stead.
II Kings 16.
1. Ahab starts his reign of Judah at twenty years of age, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of God.
2. Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahab, but could not overcome him.
3. Ahab offers Tiglathpileser, king of Assyria, silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, to help save him out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel.
4. Ahab turns from the house of the LORD, for the king of Assyria.
5. Ahab dies and Hezekiah, his son, reigns in his stead.
II Kings 17.
1. Hoshea the son of Elah, reigns in Israel for nine years, and did evil in the sight of the LORD.
2. Hoshea becomes a servant to Shalmaneser king of Assyria. Even gives him presents.
3. Hoshea conspires with So, king of Egypt, and is put in prison.
4. In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
5. The king of Assyria placed men from other nations in charge of Samaria, the capital of Israel. Lions devoured some of them. At the peoples request the king of Assyria allowed a priest of God, whom they had carried away from Samaria, to come and dwell in Bethel, and teach them how they should fear the LORD.
II Kings 18.
1. Hezekiah, the son of Ahab, becomes king of Judah. He trusted in the LORD God of Israel, and there was no king before or after, like Hezekiah.
2. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not. He also smote the Philistines.
3. Sennacherib takes control of Judah. Hezekiah agrees to pay to Sennacherib all he ask. They even take the gold off the doors of the temple of the LORD.
4. Lots of threats are made to the people of Jerusalem. Things are beginning to get a little tense for Hezekiah and the people of Judah.
II Kings 19.
1. Hezekiah sends a message to Isaiah. Isaiah responds with good news.
2. Sennacherib sends a letter to Hezekiah. More threats.
3. Hezekiah prays to God. God answers through Isaiah.
4. God kills 185,000 of the Assyrian army around Jerusalem.
5. Sennacherib, king of Assyria departs from Jerusalem. While he's worshiping his god, (little g), two of his sons kill him. A third son reigns in his stead.
II Kings 20.
1. Hezekiah is sick and is told by the prophet Isaiah to get his house in order, that he's going to die.
2. Hezekiah prays to God. God answers his prayer and gives Hezekiah fifteen more years to live. Hezekiah wants a sign. God turns time back ten degrees, (which equals forty minutes of time).
3. Hezekiah shows off all he has to Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon. He will be sorry.
4. Isaiah delivers bad news to Hezekiah for showing off all his possessions.
5. Hezekiah dies and Manasseh, (his son), reigns in his stead.
II Kings 21.
1. Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty five years in Jerusalem, Judah. He was an evil king. His mother's name was Hephzibah.
2. He builds pagan places of worship, altars for Baal, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
3. Manasseh was more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel. Shed innocent blood very much.
4. Manasseh dies and Amon, his son, becomes king of Judah. He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
5. The servants of Amon slew him, in his own house.
6. The people of the land made Josiah, his son, king in his stead.
II Kings 22.
1. Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath. He was a good king.
2. Josiah commands that the house of the LORD be repaired.
3. A book of the law is found and taken and read to Josiah. Realizing their forefathers had not followed the laws of God, he wept and sends the book to Huldah for the understanding of it.
4. Huldah sends these words to Josiah from the LORD. "I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place".
II Kings 23.
1. Josiah and all of Jerusalem go the house of the LORD. There he read in their ears, all the words of the book of the covenant, which was found in the house of the LORD.
2. Josiah makes a covenant with the LORD.
3. He cleans the temple of all items of pagan worship and then really cleans all of Jerusalem, Bethel, and Samaria. Kills all Baal priest. Even digs up the bones of former pagan priest and grinds them to powder.
4. He comes upon a certain grave of a man of God. When he asked who he was, they told him that it was the grave of the man who had prophesied that Josiah would be doing all this.
5. This is an incredible story. One we all should read.

II Ki 23:25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.

6. God said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel.
7. Josiah is killed in a battle with Assyria and Jehoahaz, his son, reigns in his stead.
8. Jehoahaz is an evil king. Reigns only three months. He's put in prison.
9. Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
10. Jehoiakim is an evil king also.
II Kings 24.
1. Judah is taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
2. King Jehoiakim rebels against Nebuchadnezzar.
3. Jehoiakim dies and Jehoiachin, his son, becomes king.
4. Jehoiachin reigns three months and is taken to Babylon. Zedekiah is made king in his stead. He is an evil king.
5. Zedekiah rebels against Babylon.
II Kings 25.
1. Nebuchadnezzar comes against Judah. Zedekiah watches as his sons are killed. His eyes are then put out, (or blinded).  He's then bound  with fetters of brass, and carried to Babylon.
2. A description of items carried away to Babylon.
3. Gedaliah is made governor over those that remain at Judah.
4. Ishmael kills Gedaliah and all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.
5. A new king of Babylon, Evilmerodach, in the year that he began to reign took Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon. Allowed him to eat from his own table. An allowance was given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life. There he remained till his death.

First Chronicles

First Chronicles has 29 chapters, 942 verses, and contains 20,369 words. The first nine chapters contain some genealogy records. The rest of the book contain an account of king David's forty year reign.

Always Remember this verse.
1 Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come

I Chronicles 1.
1. Adam's descendants. Note Cain is not listed.
2. Descendants of Japheth.
3. Descendants of Ham.
4. Descendants of Shem.
5. Shem to Abraham, (father of many nations).
6. Descendants of Ishmael, a son of Abraham.
7. Descendants of Keturah, Abraham's wife after the death of Sarah.
8. The descendants of Esau.
I Chronicles 2.
1. The descendants of Jacob, (Israel).
2. The descendants of Judah. Through which comes king David.
I Chronicles 3.
1. The sons of king David.
2. The sons of king Solomon.
I Chronicles 4.
1. Again, the descendants of Judah.
2. The descendants of Simeon.
I Chronicles 5.
1. The descendants of Reuben.
2. The descendants of Gad.
3. The story of Reuben, Gad, and one half of the tribe of Manasseh.
I Chronicles 6.
1. The descendants of Levi.
2. A list of those who king David set over the singing in the house of the Lord.
3. Aaron's descendants, (the Levites), and their dwelling places.
I Chronicles 7.
1. The sons of Issachar.
2. Among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might.
3. The descendants of Benjamin which were mighty men of valour.
4. The sons of Naphtali.
5. The sons of Manasseh. The firstborn of Joseph.
6. The sons of Ephraim. The second son of Joseph.
7. The sons of Ashur.
I Chronicles 8.
1. Once more the descendants of Benjamin, including the descendants of king Saul.
I Chronicles 9.
1. Tells of who was left to dwell in Jerusalem after they were carried away captive into Babylon.
2. List the priest and Levites remaining in Jerusalem at that time, along with their duties to perform.
3. Again, the linage of king Saul.
I Chronicles 10.
1. King Saul and his sons die in battle.
2. Saul's armor bearer commits suicide.
3. The Philistines put Saul's armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
4. When the people of Jabeshgilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul, they arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. (In another book it declares that their bodies were cremated).
I Chronicles 11.
1. David is made king over all of Israel.
2. David takes the castle Zion and the city Jebus, (Jerusalem). It's called the city of David.
3. David waxes greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts was with him.
4. The story of David longing for a drink of water from the well at Bethlehem. That was the garrison of the Philistines. Three of his captains break through the Philistine army and drew water from the well and took it to king David. Read the story to find out what David did with the water.
5. A list of the chief of the mighty men of David and some of the valiant men of his army.
I Chronicles 12.
1. Some men in David's army who could use either their right or left hand in archery and hurling of stones. They were of the tribe of Benjamin. There is another story in Judges 20 regarding left handed men of the tribe of Benjamin.
2. The tribes of Israel gather around David to create a mighty army. Some interesting comments about some of them. They have a three day celebration.
I Chronicles 13.
1. King David consults with all his leaders. Wants to send messengers to all the remnant of Israel so they may gather together with them. Also to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim.
2. They bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim with music and song.
3. God strikes Uzza dead for touching the ark.
4. David was afraid of God that day.
I Chronicles 14.
1. Hiram, king of Tyre, sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.
2. David's children born in Jerusalem.
3. The Philistines come to make war.
3. David inquires of God regarding the Philistines. Two battles take place. One concerning the mulberry trees.
4. David, (with God's help), conquers the Philistines.
5. The fame of David went out into all lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.
I Chronicles 15.
1. David builds houses in the city of David.
2. Has the ark of God brought to Jerusalem. He makes sure to follow all the rules from God concerning it.
3. The appointment of singers and musicians.
4. The ark of God is brought into the city with singing and music.
5. Michal, (David's wife and the daughter of Saul), gets mad at David when she sees him playing and dancing.
I Chronicles 16.
1. After the ark is in place, David offers burnt sacrifices and peace offerings to God. He then blesses the people.
2. David appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, to record, thank, and praise the LORD God of Israel.
3. David sings a song, (psalm).
4. Again, the Levites appointed for the service before the ark, along with their duties.
I Chronicles 17.
1. As David sat in his house, he tells Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.
2. God tells David, (through Nathan the prophet), that he is not to build the house.
3. David is told that his son, (Solomon), will build the house, (or temple).
4. David gives thanks and great praise to God.
I Chronicles 18.
1. David goes on a conquest. Defeating all his enemies round about. Takes lots of spoils and expands his territory.
2. King Tou of Hamath sends congratulations to David, by his son Hadoram.
I Chronicles 19.
1. Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.
2. David sends messengers to show kindness to his family, which take it for some trickery. They humiliate those sent by David. David gets quite mad.
3. When the children of Ammon hear this, they hire the Syrians to go to war with them against David.
4. David defeats both the children of Ammon and the Syrians.
I Chronicles 20.
1. King David's army, led by Joab, captures Rabbah and waste the children of Ammon. Be sure to read how those remaining were executed.
2. Elhanan, the son of Jair, slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath. Another giant no doubt.
3. And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant.
I Chronicles 21.
1. Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
2. David tells Joab to take the census. Joab doesn't want to do this, knowing it's against God's will. David prevails.
3. God was not happy about this and gives David his choice of three things for his punishment. Be sure to read about David's decision.
4. David saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem.
5. David sets up an altar unto the LORD, in the threshingfloor of Ornan, the Jebusite.
6. Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves.
7. David is afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
I Chronicles 22.
1. King David makes abundant preparations for the temple and gives instructions to Solomon, his son.
I Chronicles 23.
1. Solomon is made king.
2. David assigns the duties of the Levites according to God's instructions.
I Chronicles 24.
1. The twenty four courses, (or lots), and who are assigned to them.
2. The rest of the sons of Levi.
I Chronicles 25.
1. Two hundred eighty eight musicians and singers for the service of the house of God. Lots were cast for their time of service.
I Chronicles 26.
1. The setting up of the porters, (door or gate keepers). They were assigned by lot to the North, South, East, and West gates.
2. The setting up of those whose job it was to be over the treasure of the house of God. Also of the things dedicated, (or holy).
3. The spoils taken in battle were dedicated to maintain the house of the Lord.
4. David makes rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for all matters pertaining to God.
I Chronicles 27.
1. Twenty four thousand men, with a captain over them, to serve the king. The tour of duty was one month each year. Twelve courses.
2. Rulers set over the twelve tribes of Israel.
3. Overseers of things like trees, storehouses, vineyards, herds, etc.
4. Joab was made general over the king's army.
I Chronicles 28.
1. King David gathers all his leaders about him. Tells them how that he wanted to build a temple for God, but that God had told him it would be after his death, and that his son, Solomon, would build it.
2. David exhorts them to seek and keep the commandments of God.
3. David advises Solomon on the importance of serving God. Gave to him all that God had shown him regarding the temple, all the plans, right down to the smallest detail.
4. Tells Solomon to be strong and of good courage, and do it.
I Chronicles 29.
1. David speaks to all the congregation. Tells them that Solomon is yet young and the work is great. But the palace, (or temple), is not for man, but for God.
2. David tells of how he has prepared, (or made provisions), for the building of the temple. Gold, silver, precious stones, etc. He asked if there was any willing to contribute to this. There were many who responded with much riches for the purpose of building the temple.

I Chr 29:9 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

3. David gives thanks to God before all the people.
4. Solomon is made king, for the second time. This time he sits on the throne instead of David his father.
5. King David dies at an old age. His reign was forty years.

Second Chronicles

Second Chronicles has 36 chapters, 822 verses, and contains 26074 words. First and Second Chronicles were originally one book called, "The Words Of The Days". Most scholars seem to think the author was Ezra.

Always Remember this verse.
1 Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come

II Chronicles 1.
1. King Solomon and all the congregation travel to Gibeon, to the place of the tabernacle of God. There he prays for wisdom to lead the people.
2. Tells of the chariots and horsemen Solomon had at Jerusalem.
3. Tells of how Solomon gathered an abundance of wealth of different materials.
II Chronicles 2.
1. Solomon makes preparations to build the temple. He also makes this statement. "But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him?"
2. King Huram, (Hiram), of Tyre agrees to help King Solomon as he had dealt with his father king David.
3. Solomon numbers, (or counts), the strangers that were in the land of Israel for to be workers on this project.
II Chronicles 3.
1. Solomon begins construction of the temple.
2. The measurements of it are given, along with some of the details.
II Chronicles 4.
1. The contents of the temple along with their description. It's also described in 1 Kings 7.
II Chronicles 5.
1. The work of the temple is finished and the ark is brought into it.
2. Solomon along with all the congregation make a huge sacrifice unto God.
3. As they were singing and playing music unto the LORD, the temple was filled with a cloud. The glory of God.
II Chronicles 6.
1. In front of all the congregation, Solomon dedicates the temple and prays to God, giving Him much praise and honor. He also prays on behalf of all the people, including any strangers that may be among them, covering almost all situations that could possibly arise.
II Chronicles 7.
1. When Solomon had made an end of praying, fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house. Because the glory of the LORD had filled the temple, the priests could not enter therein.
2. They keep the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast lasted seven days. On the eighth day, Solomon sends the people to their homes, (or tents).
3. God appears to Solomon by night. Makes a covenant, (an agreement), with him. There are several Ifs, in it. Just like all God's blessings and curses, they are conditional.
II Chronicles 8.
1. After Solomon completes the temple and his house, he restores some cities, and builds others.
2. Those of the enemy that were not destroyed, were made to work and pay taxes. The children of Israel were exempt from this, and were men of war, leaders, etc.
3. Solomon brings the daughter of Pharaoh unto the house he had built for her.
4. He makes appointments over certain duties of the temple, according to David his father.
5. Solomon receives gold from Ophir.
II Chronicles 9.
1. Solomon's fame is widespread.
2. The queen of Sheba visits Solomon, bearing many gifts, and having many questions.
3. Tells of Solomon's tremendous earthly wealth and fame.
4. After a reign of forty years, Solomon dies.
II Chronicles 10.
1. Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, is made king. He is very hard on the people.
2. When Rehoboam sends Hadoram, his tax collector, to Israel to gather the taxes, the people stone him to death.
3. The house of Israel rebels against Rehoboam, the House of David.
II Chronicles 11.
1. Rehoboam gathers an army to fight Israel, but God sends him word by the prophet Shemaiah, telling him not to do it, that it's of God.
2. This is where Israel is split into two nations. Israel, (the ten tribes), and Judah along with the tribe of Benjamin. They will become one again. This is yet to happen.
3. Rehoboam builds many cities and sets up great defenses for them.
4. Jeroboam, now king of Israel, does away with worshiping of The True God and starts serving other gods.
5. The Levites, and others who want to serve God, leave Israel, and go to Judah, and help strengthen it.
6. Tells of Rehoboam's many wives and his children.
II Chronicles 12.
1. Rehoboam, forsakes the laws of God.
2. Shishak, king of Egypt, comes against Jerusalem because they had transgressed against the LORD.
3. Rehoboam and the princes of Judah get a visit from the prophet Shemaiah.
4. Rehoboam dies and Abijah, his son, reigns in his stead.
II Chronicles 13.
1. There is war between Abijah, (king of Judah), and Jeroboam, (king of Israel).
2. Abijah stands on a mountain and speaks to Jeroboam and all of Israel. Giving them some good reasons not to have this war. Judah has 400,000 troops and Israel has 800,000. All on both sides were mighty men of valor.
3. Jeroboam pays no heed. You just gotta read this stor