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The prophet Samuel dies and King Saul continues to hunt David. As David is hiding from the king he takes another wife, Abigail. When the city where David and his men are staying is burned, the men are ready to kill David but he finds strength in the Lord. Saul continues his slide into disobedience and asks a medium to bring up the Prophet Samuel. The message of the prophet Samuel comes true and Saul is killed in battle. Civil war ensues between the...

The Prophets Vol. 1 covers the major prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah, both who were called to prophesy to the nation of Judah. Judah was threatened by both Assyria and Egypt; Isaiah proclaimed to Judah a message of repentance from sin and hopeful expectation of God's deliverance in the future. Jeremiah contains the final prophecies to Judah, warning of oncoming destruction if the nation does not repent. As a result of Judah's continued and unrepentant...

Abraham is the first of the Hebrew patriarchs and a figure revered by the three great monotheistic religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. According to the Bible, Abraham left the idol worshipping region of Mesopotamia, to establish a new nation in an undesignated land that he later learned was Canaan. He is identified as the father of faith through unquestionably obeying even the most difficult commands of God, including offering up his own son....

The days of the judges were termed the days when "everyone did what was right in their own eyes." As the people of Israel began following the customs and gods of the nations around them God began delivering them into the hands of their oppressors. Judges 3 covers the time of Samson leading the people of Israel and the days after Samson, when the people again turned away from God to do whatever they saw fit.

After the prophet Elijah leaves in a fiery chariot, his appointed prophet successor Elisha comes to the forefront of spiritual service to the nation of Israel. Like Elijah, his ministry is marked with great miracles. Axeheads float, people are healed, mockers are hunted down by bears and many other events mark the ministry of Elisha. God also reveals future political leaders to Elisha and the damage they will do to the nation of Israel.

In the Prophets Vol. 2 we are introduced to two prophets to whom God gave unusual messages and illustrations. The Book of Ezekiel was written during the Babylonian captivity of the Jews. He sought to bring his fellow Jews to repentance and to give them hope for the future. Ezekiel sought to remind the Jews that God was sovereign even in defeat and despair and they must obey to receive God's blessings. Through the illustration of a wayward wife, the...

King David is the most beloved of the Jewish kings. Volume 1 provides the history and the setting for David's rise to power as it tells of the prophet Samuel's selection of Saul to the kingship and then his subsequent disobedience to God. In a little shepherd boy, God finds one ready to serve Him with all his heart. David steps into world history with his historic and titanic clash with the solder giant Goliath.

The instructional epistles of Paul to the churches in Philippi, Colossae, Thessalonika and his personal pastoral letters to Timothy, Titus and Philemon.

The days of the judges were termed the days when "everyone did what was right in their own eyes." The people of Israel began following the customs and gods of the nations around them. So God began sending judges to deliver His people. Judges 2 covers the time of the judges Gideon, Abimelech and Jephthah.

Paul's pastoral and instructional letters to the churches in Rome, Corinth, Galatia and Ephesus.