Israel

Also called ISRAELITES, and HEBREWS

• Genesis 43:32

  And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

• Exodus 1:15

  And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

• Exodus 9:7

  And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

• Exodus 10:3

  And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.

• Exodus 21:2

  If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

• Leviticus 23:42

  Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:

• Joshua 13:6

  All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephoth-maim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.

Etc

• 1 Samuel 4:6

  And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp.

• 1 Samuel 13:3

  And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.

• 1 Samuel 13:19

  Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:

• 1 Samuel 14:11

  And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.

• 1 Samuel 14:21

  Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan.

• Philippians 3:5

  Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

The descendants of Levi were consecrated to the rites of religion, and the two sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh, were adopted by Jacob in Joseph's place

• Genesis 48:5

  And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

• Joshua 14:4

  For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.

And their names appear in the catalogues of tribes instead of those of Levi and Joseph, as follows, ASHER, BENJAMIN, DAN, EPHRAIM, GAD, ISSACHAR, JUDAH, MANASSEH, NAPHTALI, REUBEN, SIMEON, ZEBULUN

Names of, seen in John's vision, on the gates of the New Jerusalem

• Revelation 21:12

  And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

Prophecies concerning

• Genesis 15:5

  And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

• Genesis 15:13

  And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

• Genesis 25:23

  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

• Genesis 26:4

  And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

• Genesis 27:28

  Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:

• Genesis 27:29

  Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.

• Genesis 27:40

  And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

• Genesis 48:19

  And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

Genesis 49, Deuteronomy 33

Prophecies about the multitude of

• Genesis 13:16

  And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

• Genesis 15:5

  And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

• Genesis 22:17

  That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

• Genesis 26:4

  And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

• Genesis 28:14

  And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Prophecies of their captivity in Eqypt

• Genesis 15:13

  And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

• Genesis 15:14

  And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

• Acts 7:6

  And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

• Acts 7:7

  And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.

Divided into families, each of which had a chief

• Numbers 25:14

  Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.

• Numbers 36:1

  And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:

• Joshua 7:14

  In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.

Numbers 26, 1 Chronicles 4, 1 Chronicles 5, 1 Chronicles 6, 1 Chronicles 7, 1 Chronicles 8

Number of, who went into Egypt

• Genesis 46:8–27

  And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. …

• Exodus 1:5

  And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

• Deuteronomy 10:22

  Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

• Acts 7:14

  Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

Number of, at the time of the exodus

• Exodus 12:37

  And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.

• Exodus 12:38

  And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.

• Genesis 47:27

  And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

• Exodus 1:7–20

  And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: …

• Psalms 105:24

  And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.

• Acts 7:17

  But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

Number of, fit for military service when they left Egypt

• Exodus 12:37

  And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.

Number of, at Sinai, by tribes

• Numbers 1:1–50

  And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls; From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies. …

Number of, after the plague

Numbers 26

Number of, when David counted (conducted a census)

• 2 Samuel 24:1–9

  And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah. For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people. And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing? …

• 1 Chronicles 21:5

  And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

• 1 Chronicles 21:6

  But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

• 1 Chronicles 27:23

  But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.

• 1 Chronicles 27:24

  Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.

Number of, after the captivity

• Ezra 2:64

  The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

• Nehemiah 7:66

  The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

• Nehemiah 7:67

  Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.

Number of, in John's apocalyptic vision

• Revelation 7:1–8

  And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. …

Lived in Goshen

• Genesis 46:28–34

  And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive. …

• Genesis 47:4–10

  They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. …

• Genesis 47:27

  And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

• Genesis 47:28

  And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

Lived in Egypt for four-hundred and thirty years

• Exodus 12:40

  Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

• Exodus 12:41

  And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 15:13

  And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

• Acts 7:6

  And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

• Galatians 3:17

  And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

Were enslaved and oppressed by the Egyptians

• Acts 7:18–21

  Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live. In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months: …

Exodus 1, Exodus 2, Exodus 5

Their groaning heard by God

• Exodus 2:23–25

  And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

Moses commissioned as the deliverer

• Exodus 3:2–22

  And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. …

• Exodus 4:1–17

  And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee. And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod. And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. …

The land of Egypt was plagued on their account

Exempt from the plagues

• Exodus 8:22

  And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.

• Exodus 8:23

  And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.

• Exodus 9:4–6

  And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children's of Israel. And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land. And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.

• Exodus 9:26

  Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.

• Exodus 10:23

  They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

• Exodus 11:7

  But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.

• Exodus 12:13

  And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

Children were spared when the firstborn of the Egyptians were killed

• Exodus 12:13

  And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 12:23

  For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.

Instituted the Passover

• Exodus 12:1–28

  And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: …

Borrowed jewels from the Egyptians

• Exodus 11:2

  Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.

• Exodus 11:3

  And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.

• Exodus 12:35

  And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:

• Exodus 12:36

  And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.

• Psalms 105:37

  He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

Urged by the Egyptians to depart

• Exodus 12:31–39

  And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said. Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also. And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men. …

Journey from Rameses to Succoth

• Exodus 12:37–39

  And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children. And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.

Made the journey by night

• Exodus 12:42

  It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.

The day of their deliverance to be a memorial

• Exodus 12:42

  It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.

• Exodus 13:3–16

  And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten. This day came ye out in the month Abib. And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month. …

Led by God

• Exodus 13:18

  But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 13:21

  And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:

• Exodus 13:22

  He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

Providentially cared for

• Deuteronomy 8:3

  And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

• Deuteronomy 8:4

  Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

• Deuteronomy 29:5

  And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

• Deuteronomy 29:6

  Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.

• Deuteronomy 34:7

  And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

• Nehemiah 9:21

  Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

• Psalms 105:37

  He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

Journey from Succoth to Etham

• Exodus 13:20

  And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

Journey to Pi-hahiroth

• Exodus 14:2

  Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.

• Numbers 33:5–7

  And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth. And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon: and they pitched before Migdol.

Pursued by the Egyptians

• Exodus 14:5–31

  And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us? And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him: And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. …

Pass through the Red Sea

• Exodus 14:19–22

  And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night. And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. …

• Deuteronomy 11:4

  And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;

Psalms 78, Psalms 105, Psalms 106, Psalms 136

The order of the march

Numbers 2

Journey to Marah

• Exodus 15:23

  And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

• Numbers 33:8

  And they departed from before Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.

Complained on account of the bitter water

• Exodus 15:23–25

  And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

Water of, sweetened

• Exodus 15:25

  And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

Journey to Elim

• Exodus 15:27

  And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.

• Numbers 33:9

  And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.

For the itinerary, see

Numbers 33

Complained for food

• Exodus 16:2

  And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

• Exodus 16:3

  And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

Provided with manna and quail

• Exodus 16:4–36

  Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no. And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt: …

Complained for lack of water at Rephidim

• Exodus 17:2–7

  Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD? And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. …

Water miraculously supplied from the rock at Meribah

• Exodus 17:5–7

  And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

Defeat the Amalekites

• Exodus 17:13

  And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

• Deuteronomy 25:17

  Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;

• Deuteronomy 25:18

  How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

Arrive at Sinai

• Exodus 19:1

  In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.

• Numbers 33:15

  And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.

At the suggestion of Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, they organize a system of government

• Exodus 18:25

  And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

• Deuteronomy 1:9–17

  And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!) …

The message of God to them, requiring that they must be obedient to his commandments, and as a reward they would be a holy nation to him, and their reply

• Exodus 19:3–8

  And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: …

Sanctify themselves for receiving the law

• Exodus 19:10–15

  And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: …

The law delivered to

• Exodus 24:1–4

  And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off. And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him. And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do. …

Exodus 20, Exodus 21, Exodus 22, Exodus 23, Leviticus 25, Leviticus 26, Leviticus 27

The people receive it and covenant obedience to it

• Exodus 24:3

  And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.

• Exodus 24:7

  And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.

Idolatry of

• Deuteronomy 9:17–21

  And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also. …

Exodus 32

The anger of the Lord in consequence

• Exodus 32:9–14

  And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? …

Moses' indignation; breaks the tables of stone; enters the camp; commands the Levites; three thousand die

• Exodus 32:19–35

  And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it. And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? …

Punished by a plague

• Exodus 32:35

  And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

Obduracy of

• Exodus 33:3

  Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

• Exodus 34:9

  And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

• Deuteronomy 9:12–29

  And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. …

God withdraws his presence

• Exodus 33:1–3

  And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it: And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

The mourning of, when God refused to lead them

• Exodus 33:4–10

  And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments. For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee. And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb. …

Tables renewed

Exodus 34

Pattern for the tabernacle and the appurtenances, and forms of worship to be observed

Exodus 25, Exodus 26, Exodus 27, Exodus 28, Exodus 29, Exodus 30, Exodus 31

Gifts consecrated for the creation of the tabernacle

• Exodus 36:1–7

  Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded. And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it: And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning. …

Exodus 35, Numbers 7

The erection of the tabernacle; the manufacture of the appurtenances including the garments of the priests; and their sanctification

• Exodus 36:8–38

  And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them. The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size. And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another. …

Exodus 37, Exodus 38, Exodus 39, Exodus 40

First sacrifice offered by, under the law

• Leviticus 8:14–36

  And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering. And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it. And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned it upon the altar. …

• Leviticus 9:8–24

  Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself. And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar: But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses. …

Second Passover observed

• Numbers 9:1–5

  And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it. …

March out of the wilderness

• Numbers 10:11–36

  And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony. And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran. And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. …

For the itinerary, see

Numbers 33

The order of camping sites and the march

Numbers 2

Arrive at the border of Canaan

• Numbers 12:16

  And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

Send twelve spies to view the land

• Numbers 32:8

  Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

• Deuteronomy 1:22

  And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

• Deuteronomy 1:25

  And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.

• Joshua 14:7

  Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.

Numbers 13

Return with a majority report and a minority report

• Numbers 13:26–33

  And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land. And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. …

• Numbers 14:6–10

  And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. …

Complaining over the report

• Numbers 14:1–5

  And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? …

The judgment of God upon them in consequence of their unbelief and complaining

• Numbers 14:13–39

  And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, …

Reaction, and their purpose to enter the land; are defeated by the Amalekites

• Numbers 14:40–45

  And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned. And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper. Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies. …

• Deuteronomy 1:41–45

  Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill. And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies. So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill. …

Abide at Kadesh

• Deuteronomy 1:46

  So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.

Return to the wilderness, where they remain for thirty eight years, and all die except Joshua and Caleb

• Numbers 14:20–39

  And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word: But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; …

Rebellion of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram

• Numbers 16:1–40

  Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men: And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD? …

• Deuteronomy 11:6

  And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:

Complain against Moses and Aaron, are plagued, fourteen-thousand and seven-hundred people die, plague stopped

• Numbers 16:41–50

  But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD. And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared. And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation. …

Complain for lack of water in Meribah; the rock is struck

• Numbers 20:1–13

  Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD! …

Are refused passage through the country of Edom

• Numbers 20:14–21

  And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us: How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers: And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border: …

The death of Aaron

• Numbers 20:22

  And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.

• Numbers 20:29

  And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

• Numbers 33:38

  And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.

• Numbers 33:39

  And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.

• Deuteronomy 10:6

  And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.

Defeat the Canaanites

• Numbers 21:1–3

  And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners. And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.

Are scourged with fiery (poisonous) serpents

• Numbers 21:4–9

  And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. …

Defeat the Amorites

• Numbers 21:21–32

  And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders. And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel. …

• Deuteronomy 2:24–35

  Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee. And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, …

Defeat the king of Baasha

• Numbers 21:33–35

  And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei. And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.

• Deuteronomy 3:1–17

  Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. …

Arrive in the plains of Moab, at the fords of the Jordan River

• Numbers 22:1

  And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.

• Numbers 33:48

  And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

• Numbers 33:49

  And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth-jesimoth even unto Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.

Commit idolatry with the people of Moab

• Numbers 25:1–5

  And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. …

Punished by a plague in consequence, twenty-four thousand people die

• Numbers 25:6–15

  And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. …

• Numbers 26:1

  And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

The people numbered for the allotment of the land

Numbers 26

The daughters of Zelophehad sue for an inheritance

• Numbers 27:1–11

  Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons. …

• Joshua 17:3–6

  But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father. And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan; …

Conquest of the Midianites

Numbers 31

Nations dread

• Deuteronomy 2:25

  This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.

Renew the covenant

Deuteronomy 29

Moses dies, and the people mourn

Deuteronomy 34

Joshua appointed the leader

• Numbers 27:18–23

  And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him; And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient. …

• Deuteronomy 31:23

  And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.

All who were numbered at Mount Sinai perished in the wilderness except Caleb and Joshua

• Numbers 26:63

  These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

• Numbers 26:65

  For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

• Deuteronomy 2:14–16

  And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them. For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed. So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

Piety of those who entered Canaan

• Joshua 23:8

  But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.

• Judges 2:7–10

  And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel. And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash. …

• Jeremiah 2:2

  Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

• Jeremiah 2:3

  Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.

Men chosen to allot the lands of Canaan among the tribes and families

• Numbers 34:17–29

  These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance. And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. …

Remove from Shittim to the Jordan River

• Joshua 3:1

  And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.

Cross the Jordan River

Joshua 4

Circumcision observed and the Passover celebrated

Joshua 5

Jericho captured

Joshua 6

Ai captured

Joshua 7, Joshua 8

Make a treaty with the Gibeonites

Joshua 9

Defeat the five Amoritish kings

Joshua 10

Conquest of the land

• Joshua 21:43–45

  And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand. There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

Judges 1

The land allotted

Joshua 15, Joshua 16, Joshua 17, Joshua 18, Joshua 19, Joshua 20, Joshua 21

Two and one-half tribes return from the west side of the Jordan River; erect a memorial to signify the unity of the tribes; the memorial misunderstood; the controversy which followed; its amicable resolution

Joshua 22

Joshua's exhortation immediately before his death

Joshua 23

Covenant renewed, death of Joshua

• Judges 2:8

  And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.

• Judges 2:9

  And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.

Joshua 24

Religious fidelity during the life of Joshua

• Joshua 24:31

  And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.

• Judges 2:7

  And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.

Public affairs administered four-hundred and fifty years by the judges

• Judges 2:16–19

  Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so. And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them. …

• Acts 13:20

  And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

The original inhabitants not fully expelled

• Judges 1:27–36

  Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land. And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out. Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them. …

• Judges 3:1–7

  Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan; Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath. …

Reproved by an angel for not casting out the original inhabitants

• Judges 2:1–5

  And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this? Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you. …

People turn to idolatry

• Judges 2:10–23

  And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. …

Delivered for their idolatry to the king of Mesopotamia during eight years, their repentance and deliverance

• Judges 3:8–11

  Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years. And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushan-rishathaim. …

Renew their idolatry, and are put under tribute to the king of Moab during eighteen years, repent and are delivered by Ehud, eighty years of peace follow

Judges 3:12–30

Shamgar resists a foray of the Philistines and delivers Israel

Judges 3:31

People again do evil and are put under bonds to the king of Syria for twenty years

Judges 4:1–3

Delivered by Deborah, a prophetess, and judged

Judges 4, Judges 5

Seven years of bondage to the Midianites; delivered by Gideon

Judges 6, Judges 7, Judges 8:1–28

Return to idolatry

Judges 8:33, Judges 8:34

Abimelech foments an inter-tribal war

Judges 9

Led by Tola for twenty-three years

Judges 10:1, Judges 10:2

Led by Jair for twenty-two years

Judges 10:3, Judges 10:4

The people backslide, and are given over to the Philistines for chastisement for eighteen years; they repent and turn to the Lord; they are delivered by Jephthah

Judges 10:6–18, Judges 11

The Ephraimites go to war against other tribes; they are defeated by Jephthah

Judges 12:1–7

Led by Ibzan for seven years

Judges 12:8–10

Led by Elon for ten years

Judges 12:11, Judges 12:12

Led by Abdon for eight years

Judges 12:13–15

The people backslide again are chastened by the Philistines for forty years

Judges 13:1

Led by Samson for twenty years

Judges 15:20, Judges 13, Judges 14, Judges 15, Judges 16

Scandal of the Bethlehemite's concubine, and the consequent war between the Benjamites and the other tribes

Judges 19, Judges 20, Judges 21

Led by Eli for forty years

1 Samuel 4:18, 1 Samuel 1, 1 Samuel 2, 1 Samuel 3, 1 Samuel 4

Struck down by the Philistines at Eben-ezer

1 Samuel 4:1, 1 Samuel 4:2, 1 Samuel 4:10, 1 Samuel 4:11

They demand a king

1 Samuel 8:5–20, Hosea 13:10

Saul anointed as king

1 Samuel 10, 1 Samuel 11:12–15, 1 Samuel 12:13

Ammonites invade Israel, are defeated

1 Samuel 11

Philistines struck down

1 Samuel 14

Amalekites defeated

1 Samuel 15

David anointed as king

1 Samuel 16:11–13

Goliath killed

1 Samuel 17

Israel defeated by the Philistines, and Saul and his sons are killed

1 Samuel 31

David defeats the Amalekites

1 Samuel 30, 2 Samuel 1:1

David made king

2 Samuel 2:4, 2 Samuel 2:11

Ish-bosheth made king

2 Samuel 2:8–10

The conflict between the two political factions

2 Samuel 2:12–32, 2 Samuel 3:1

David made king over all Israel

2 Samuel 5:1–5

Conquests of David

2 Samuel 8

Absalom's rebellion

2 Samuel 15:18

Solomon anointed as king

1 Kings 1:32–40

The Temple built

1 Kings 6

Solomon's palace built

1 Kings 7

Solomon's death

1 Kings 11:41–43

Disagreement after Saul's death

2 Samuel 2, 1 Chronicles 12:23–40, 1 Chronicles 13

Lukewarmness of the ten tribes, and zeal of Judah for David in Absolom's rebellion

2 Samuel 19:41–43

The rebellion of Sheba

2 Samuel 20

The two factions are distinguished as Israel and Judah during David's reign

2 Samuel 21:2

Providential

Zechariah 11:14

Revolt consummated under Rehoboam, son and successor of Solomon

1 Kings 12:4

Also called JACOB

Hosea 12:2

War continued between the two kingdoms all the days of Rehoboam and Jeroboam

1 Kings 14:30

War continued between Jeroboam and Abijam

1 Kings 15:7

War continued between Baasha and Asa

1 Kings 15:16, 1 Kings 15:32

Famine prevails during the reign of Ahab

1 Kings 18:1–6

Israel, also called SAMARIA, invaded by, but defeats, Ben-hadad, king of Syria

1 Kings 20

Moab rebels

2 Kings 1:1, 2 Kings 3

Army of Syria invades Israel, but peacefully withdraws through the tact of the prophet Elisha

2 Kings 6:8–23

The city of Samaria besieged

2 Kings 6:24–33, 2 Kings 7

The city of Samaria captured, and the people carried to Assyria

2 Kings 17

The land repopulated

2 Kings 17:24

The remnant that remained after the able-bodied persons were carried into captivity affiliated with the kingdom of Judah

2 Chronicles 30:18–26, 2 Chronicles 34:6, 2 Chronicles 35:18