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Beginnings

Patriarchs

The call of Abram · draft
Abram in Egypt · draft
Abram and Lot part ways · draft
Abram rescues Lot; Melchizedek · draft
The covenant between the pieces · draft
Hagar and the birth of Ishmael · draft
Abraham and the sign of the covenant · draft
Three visitors at Mamre · draft
The destruction of Sodom · draft
Abraham at Gerar · draft
The birth of Isaac · draft
Abraham offers Isaac · draft
Sarah’s death and the cave of Machpelah · draft
A wife for Isaac · draft
Jacob and Esau are born · draft
The death of Abraham · draft
Esau sells his birthright · draft
Isaac at Gerar and Beersheba · draft
Jacob takes the blessing · draft
Jacob’s dream at Bethel · draft
Jacob in Haran · draft
Jacob returns and wrestles with God · draft
Dinah and Shechem · draft
Return to Bethel; Rachel dies · draft
Esau’s descendants in Edom · draft
Joseph is sold into Egypt · draft
Judah and Tamar · draft
Joseph in Potiphar’s house and in prison · draft
The death of Isaac · draft
Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dreams · draft
The brothers come for grain · draft
Joseph makes himself known · draft
Jacob goes down to Egypt · draft
Jacob blesses his sons · draft
Jacob buried; Joseph’s last words · draft

Exodus & Wilderness

Oppression in Egypt; Moses is born · draft
Moses flees to Midian · draft
The burning bush · draft
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh · draft
The plagues on Egypt · draft
The Passover · draft
The journey begins · reviewed
Out into the wilderness · reviewed
A way through the sea · reviewed
Bitter water, new trust · reviewed
Rest beside the springs · reviewed
Manna and quail · draft
Water from the rock · reviewed
Jethro’s advice; judges appointed · draft
A covenant at the mountain · reviewed
The golden calf · draft
Complaints at Taberah and Kibroth-hattaavah · draft
Miriam and Aaron oppose Moses · draft
At the edge of the land · reviewed
Korah’s rebellion · draft
The long wilderness years · reviewed
Water at Meribah; Moses’ failure · draft
Around the land of Edom · reviewed
Aaron dies on Mount Hor · draft
Across the Arnon · reviewed
North into Bashan · reviewed
Balak and Balaam · draft
Sin at Baal-peor · draft
On the plains of Moab · reviewed
A view of the promise · reviewed

Conquest & Judges

Joshua is charged to lead · draft
Rahab shelters the spies · draft
Across the Jordan · reviewed
Covenant signs at Gilgal · draft
The first city ahead · reviewed
Defeat at Ai and Achan’s sin · draft
The second attack on Ai · draft
The law read before all Israel · draft
A treaty made without seeking counsel · draft
Joshua comes to Gibeon’s aid · draft
The northern coalition and Hazor · draft
Caleb asks for the hill country · draft
An inheritance for the tribes · reviewed
Refuge and homes for the Levites · draft
An altar nearly divides the tribes · draft
Joshua’s warning to Israel’s leaders · draft
Remember. Choose. Serve. · reviewed
Joshua’s generation and the promises remembered · draft
Living among the remaining peoples · draft
Tears at Bochim, then a generation forgets · draft
Micah’s shrine and Dan’s migration · draft
A woman betrayed at Gibeah · draft
Israel fights Benjamin · draft
More violence in the attempt to preserve Benjamin · draft
Othniel and the first deliverance · draft
Ehud and the Moabite oppression · draft
Shamgar’s brief place in the story · draft
Deborah, Barak and Jael · draft
Remembering deliverance in song · draft
Gideon is called at Ophrah · draft
Three hundred at the spring · draft
Victory, vengeance and a new snare · draft
Abimelech and the cost of grasping power · draft
Tola and Jair: brief records of leadership · draft
Jephthah recalls the wilderness journey · draft
Jephthah’s victory and his daughter · draft
Civil conflict at the Jordan fords · draft
Ibzan, Elon and Abdon · draft
A promised son at Zorah · draft
A wedding and a cycle of retaliation · draft
Delilah and Samson’s capture · draft
Samson’s final prayer in Gaza · draft
Ruth returns with Naomi · draft
Ruth gleans in Boaz’s field · draft
A request for a redeemer · draft
Boaz, Ruth and the line of David · draft

United Kingdom

Hannah prays and dedicates Samuel · draft
Samuel hears God amid corruption · draft
The ark is captured; Eli’s house falls · draft
The ark travels through Philistine cities · draft
Israel returns to the LORD at Mizpah · draft
Israel asks for a king like the nations · draft
Saul is anointed and publicly chosen · draft
Saul rescues Jabesh; Samuel warns Israel · draft
Saul acts before Samuel arrives · draft
Jonathan advances; Saul makes a rash oath · draft
Saul is rejected after the Amalek campaign · draft
David is anointed at Bethlehem · draft
David faces Goliath in the Elah valley · draft
Jonathan and Michal protect David · draft
David seeks bread, refuge and companions · draft
Saul orders the killing at Nob · draft
David rescues Keilah and escapes Saul · draft
David spares Saul in the cave · draft
Abigail prevents David’s revenge · draft
David takes Saul’s spear and spares his life · draft
David lives under Achish at Ziklag · draft
Philistine commanders send David back · draft
David recovers the captives from Ziklag · draft
Saul seeks a medium at Endor · draft
Saul dies; David laments Saul and Jonathan · draft
David reigns in Hebron amid civil war · draft
David becomes king over Israel and takes Jerusalem · draft
The ark is brought to Jerusalem · draft
The LORD promises David a lasting house · draft
David’s victories and the Ammonite war · draft
David welcomes Jonathan’s son · draft
Nathan confronts David over Bathsheba and Uriah · draft
Tamar is assaulted and left desolate · draft
Absalom takes revenge, flees and returns · draft
Absalom rebels; David flees across the Jordan · draft
Absalom dies; David mourns at the gate · draft
David returns, but the kingdom remains divided · draft
Famine, the Gibeonites and Rizpah’s vigil · draft
Songs and memories from David’s reign · draft
David’s census, the plague and the altar · draft
Solomon succeeds David amid a contested succession · draft
Solomon asks for wisdom to govern · draft
Solomon builds the temple · draft
Solomon dedicates the temple and prays · draft
The LORD warns Solomon against turning away · draft
The queen of Sheba visits Solomon · draft
Solomon’s wealth grows and his heart turns away · draft
Adversaries rise; Solomon’s reign ends · draft

Divided Kingdom

Rehoboam’s answer divides the kingdom · draft
Jeroboam establishes worship at Bethel and Dan · draft
A prophet warns Bethel, then disobeys · draft
Shishak takes Jerusalem’s treasures · draft
Ahijah announces judgment on Jeroboam’s house · draft
Abijam and Asa rule Judah · draft
Coups replace Jeroboam’s and Baasha’s houses · draft
Omri establishes Samaria as a capital · draft
Ahab promotes Baal worship in Samaria · draft
Jehoshaphat rules alongside Ahab’s house · draft
Elijah and a widow are sustained during drought · draft
At Carmel, Israel is called to choose · draft
Elijah reaches Horeb and calls Elisha · draft
Ahab defeats Aram, then releases its king · draft
Naboth is killed so Ahab can take his vineyard · draft
Micaiah warns; Ahab dies at Ramoth-gilead · draft
Ahaziah seeks an answer from Ekron’s god · draft
Elijah is taken up; Elisha carries on · draft
Three kings campaign against Moab · draft
A widow receives oil to repay her debt · draft
A Shunammite woman receives her son back · draft
Food is provided during a famine · draft
Naaman washes in the Jordan · draft
A borrowed axe head is recovered · draft
An enemy army is fed and released · draft
Samaria’s siege gives way to unexpected food · draft
The Shunammite woman’s land is restored · draft
Elisha weeps over Hazael’s future violence · draft
Judah’s kings join Ahab’s family · draft
Jehu’s coup reaches Jezreel · draft
Jehu destroys Ahab’s house but keeps the calves · draft
A hidden child becomes Judah’s king · draft
Joash repairs the temple but his reign ends violently · draft
Israel suffers under Aram, then receives relief · draft
Elisha’s last sign points to limited victories · draft
Amaziah wins in Edom, then loses to Israel · draft
Jeroboam II restores Israel’s territory · draft
Azariah and Jotham rule Judah amid northern upheaval · draft
Israel’s last dynasties face Assyrian expansion · draft
Ahaz seeks Assyrian help and changes temple worship · draft
Hezekiah reforms Judah before Samaria falls · draft
Samaria falls and Israelites are deported · draft
Kings explains Israel’s exile through the covenant · draft
Assyria resettles Samaria’s towns · draft
Hezekiah recovers, then shows his treasures to envoys · draft
Assyria threatens Jerusalem; Hezekiah seeks the LORD · draft
Manasseh and Amon lead Judah back to forbidden worship · draft
The book of the law is found and read to Josiah · draft
Josiah renews the covenant and celebrates Passover · draft
Josiah dies after confronting Pharaoh Neco · draft
Judah passes from Egyptian to Babylonian domination · draft
Jehoiachin surrenders and is taken to Babylon · draft
Zedekiah rebels against Babylon · draft

Exile & Return

Jerusalem is breached and Zedekiah is captured · draft
The temple burns and more people are deported · draft
Gedaliah’s assassination shatters life at Mizpah · draft
Refugees take Jeremiah to Egypt despite his warning · draft
Lament remembers Jerusalem and the rivers of Babylon · draft
News of Jerusalem’s fall reaches Ezekiel · draft
Dry bones and joined sticks picture renewed Israel · draft
Jehoiachin receives favor in Babylon · draft
Writing at Belshazzar’s feast announces a kingdom’s end · draft
Daniel confesses the covenant’s broken commands · draft
Daniel continues praying under a hostile decree · draft
Cyrus authorizes a return and releases temple vessels · draft
Families and servants are counted among the returnees · draft
Worship resumes before the temple is rebuilt · draft
A temple foundation brings both joy and tears · draft
Opposition interrupts the temple work · draft
Haggai calls the people back to the temple work · draft
Officials investigate the rebuilding authorization · draft
Haggai speaks of glory, holiness and Zerubbabel · draft
A record at Ecbatana confirms the temple decree · draft
Zechariah connects restored worship with justice · draft
The rebuilt temple is dedicated and Passover is kept · draft
Vashti is removed from the Persian court · draft
Esther becomes queen; Mordecai reports a plot · draft
Haman obtains a decree to destroy the Jews · draft
Esther risks approaching the king · draft
Haman must honor the man he wants killed · draft
Esther identifies Haman as the threat to her people · draft
A second decree permits the Jews to defend themselves · draft
The threatened day becomes a day of violent reversal · draft
Purim remembers sorrow turned to joy · draft
Ezra receives authority to return and teach · draft
Ezra prepares the company and accounts for its gifts · draft
Ezra confesses the community’s unfaithfulness · draft
The assembly undertakes a painful marriage investigation · draft
Artaxerxes halts work on Jerusalem’s city defenses · draft
Nehemiah hears Jerusalem’s plight and prays · draft
Nehemiah receives permission to rebuild · draft
A night inspection leads to a rebuilding proposal · draft
Many households rebuild while guards face threats · draft
Nehemiah confronts debt and exploitation within Judah · draft
Intimidation fails and the wall is completed · draft
A rebuilt city still needs residents and trustworthy leaders · draft
The people hear the law and receive its meaning · draft
The people celebrate the Feast of Booths · draft
A long prayer remembers mercy through Israel’s history · draft
The community commits to concrete obligations · draft
Households settle Jerusalem and the surrounding towns · draft
Two thanksgiving processions dedicate the wall · draft
A reading about Ammon and Moab leads to exclusion · draft
After an absence, Nehemiah restores temple provision · draft
Final reforms expose an unfinished renewal · draft

Between the Testaments

Alexander’s conquests bring Greek rule · draft
Jewish communities grow in Ptolemaic Egypt · draft
The Torah is translated into Greek · draft
Judea passes from Ptolemaic to Seleucid rule · draft
Jerusalem’s leadership disputes Greek customs · draft
Antiochus IV suppresses Jewish practices · draft
Mattathias’s family begins armed resistance · draft
Judas rededicates the temple · draft
Judas seeks an alliance with Rome · draft
Jonathan becomes high priest · draft
Simon’s leadership brings a measure of independence · draft
Hasmonean expansion imposes new conditions · draft
The scrolls reveal a diverse Jewish manuscript culture · draft
Rival Hasmonean brothers contest Jerusalem · draft
Pompey captures Jerusalem · draft
Herod is appointed king, then takes Jerusalem · draft
Herod enlarges Jerusalem’s temple · draft
Caesarea connects Herod’s kingdom to the sea · draft
Herod’s death leaves a divided succession · draft

Life of Jesus

John's birth predicted · draft
The Annunciation · draft
Mary Visits Elizabeth · draft
Birth of John the Baptist · draft
Mary’s betrothal and Matthew’s genealogy · draft
An Angel Speaks to Joseph in a Dream · draft
Birth of Jesus · draft
Jesus Circumcised · draft
Temple Presentation of Jesus · draft
Wise Men Visit Herod · draft
Wise Men Visit Jesus · draft
Joseph and Mary Flee to Egypt · draft
Herod slays male children · draft
Joseph and Mary return from Egypt · draft
Joseph and Mary return to Nazareth · draft
Childhood of Jesus · draft
Jesus as a child in the Temple · draft
Jesus Growing Up · draft
John the Baptist Begins Ministry · draft
John Baptizes Jesus · draft
Temptations of Jesus · draft
John's Witness · draft
First Disciples Gathered · draft
Water to Wine · draft
Visiting Capernaum · draft
First Passover and Temple Cleansing · draft
Jesus and Nicodemus · draft
John the Baptist Witnesses · draft
John the Baptist Imprisoned · draft
Jesus Leaves Judea toward Galilee · draft
The Samaritan Woman · draft
Return to Galilee; an official’s son healed · draft
Jesus Rejected at Nazareth · draft
Jesus in Capernaum · draft
Fishers of Men · draft
Deliverance in Capernaum’s synagogue · draft
Peter's Mother-in-law and Others Healed · draft
Preaching beyond Capernaum · draft
Healing the Leper · draft
Forgiveness and healing of a paralyzed man · draft
A tax collector called; a meal with sinners · draft
Fasting Question · draft
Parable of the Wineskins · draft
Bethesda pool healing · draft
Grain picked on the Sabbath · draft
Healing a Withered Hand · draft
Healing Multitudes · draft
Apostles Chosen · draft
Sermon on the Mount · draft
Healing Centurion's Servant · draft
Widow's Son Resurrected · draft
Jesus' Message on John the Baptist · draft
Woe to Chorazin and Bethsaida · draft
An unnamed woman anoints Jesus · draft
Traveling with the Twelve and supporting women · draft
Deliverance, accusations and hearing God’s word · draft
Kingdom parables, discipleship and a storm · draft
Deliverance across the lake · draft
Jairus’s daughter, a woman healed and other miracles · draft
Rejection in the hometown accounts · draft
The Twelve sent out · draft
John Beheaded · draft
Feeding of Five Thousand · draft
Jesus Walks on Water · draft
Healing in Gennesaret · draft
Bread of Life Sermon · draft
Commandments and Tradition Discourse · draft
Healing Canaanite Daughter · draft
Healing a Crowd near Sea of Galilee · draft
Feeding of Four Thousand · draft
A demand for a sign; a warning about leaven · draft
Healing a Blind Man at Bethsaida · draft
Peter confesses Jesus as the Christ · draft
Foretelling the Death and Resurrection · draft
The Transfiguration · draft
Healing a Boy with a Demon · draft
Second Foretelling of Death and Resurrection · draft
Tax Coin in a Fish's Mouth · draft
Humility, reconciliation and forgiveness · draft
Samaritans Reject Jesus · draft
Feast of Tabernacles · draft
Woman Caught in Adultery · draft
Light of the World/I am discourse · draft
Blind Man Healed · draft
The Good Shepherd Teaching · draft
Jesus sends a wider circle of disciples · draft
Good Samaritan Parable Taught · draft
Jesus meets Martha and Mary · draft
Lord's Prayer Taught · draft
Hypocrisy, possessions, readiness and repentance · draft
Healing Woman With 18-year Infirmity · draft
Mustard Seed and Leaven Teaching · draft
Feast of Dedication · draft
Teaching along the journey; a stay beyond the Jordan · draft
Lazarus Raised from the Dead · draft
Chief Priests Conspire Against Jesus · draft
Jesus Withdraws to Ephraim · draft
Lepers Healed · draft
The kingdom, persistence and humble prayer · draft
Teaching on the way to Jerusalem · draft
Sight restored near Jericho · draft
Zacchaeus and the parable of entrusted money · draft
The Bethany anointing before Passover · draft
The Jerusalem entry and John’s public-ministry conclusion · draft
Fig Tree Cursed · draft
Temple Cleansed · draft
Teaching by the Fig Tree · draft
Temple debates, warnings and the widow’s gift · draft
The temple’s future and watchfulness · draft
Sanhedrin Conspiracy · draft
Judas Plans Betrayal · draft
The Last Supper · draft
The farewell discourse and Jesus’s prayer · draft
Prayer and Betrayal in Gethsemane · draft
Hearings before priestly authorities; Peter’s denials · draft
Judas' Suicide · draft
Before Pilate and Herod · draft
Bearing Cross to Golgotha · draft
Crucifixion and Burial · draft
Resurrection appearances, commission and ascension · draft

Early Church

The Holy Spirit is promised · draft
Jesus ascends to Heaven · draft
Matthias replaces Judas · draft
The Holy Spirit comes · draft
Peter preaches at Pentecost · draft
The church grows · draft
Lame man healed · draft
Peter preaches in Solomon’s Colonnade · draft
Peter and John before the council · draft
Believers pray for boldness · draft
Believers share all things · draft
Ananias and Sapphira lie to God · draft
Signs and wonders in Solomon’s Colonnade · draft
Apostles arrested, put on trial · draft
Gamaliel advises the council and apostles freed · draft
Seven chosen to serve · draft
Stephen is seized · draft
Stephen addresses the council · draft
Stephen is stoned · draft
Saul persecutes the church · draft
Philip preaches in Samaria · draft
An Ethiopian official believes · draft
Saul is converted · draft
Saul proclaims Jesus · draft
Peter heals Aeneas and Dorcas · draft
Peter meets Cornelius · draft
Peter preaches to gentiles in Caesarea · draft
Peter defends Gentile salvation · draft
Disciples first called Christians · draft
Herod kills James · draft
Herod imprisons Peter · draft
An angel rescues Peter from prison · draft
Herod dies · draft
First missionary journey begins · draft
Barnabas and Saul go to Cyprus · draft
Mission to Antioch in Pisidia · draft
Mission to Iconium · draft
Mission to Lystra and Derbe · draft
Return to Antioch in Syria · draft
Jerusalem Council · draft
Paul and Barnabas part ways · draft
Second Missionary Journey begins · draft
Timothy Joins Paul and Silas · draft
Mission to Phrygia, Galatia and Asia · draft
Call to Macedonia · draft
Lydia believes · draft
A slave girl set free · draft
Paul and Silas imprisoned · draft
The jailer believes · draft
Paul and Silas released · draft
Uproar in Thessalonica · draft
Berea · draft
Paul preaches in Athens · draft
Paul in Corinth · draft
Return to Antioch · draft
Apollos in Ephesus and Achaia · draft
Paul in Ephesus · draft
Riot in Ephesus · draft
Mission to Macedonia and Greece · draft
Eutychus revived · draft
Voyage to Miletus · draft
Paul speaks to Ephesian Elders · draft
Voyage from Miletus to Jerusalem · draft
Paul visits elders in Jerusalem · draft
Paul arrested in the Temple · draft
Paul gives his testimony · draft
Paul before the Sanhedrin · draft
The conspiracy to kill Paul · draft
Paul sent to Felix · draft
Paul appeals to Caesar · draft
Agrippa and Bernice meet Festus · draft
Paul goes before Agrippa · draft
Journey to Rome begins · draft
Paul is shipwrecked by a storm · draft
Paul stays at Malta · draft
Paul arrives at Rome · draft
Two years in Rome · draft

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