List of Hebrew Bible events

Torah

Genesis

• Creation
• Adam and Eve (covers creation and fall of man)
• The Fall of Man
• Cain and Abel
• Adam's descendants
• The Nephilim
• Noah and the Flood
• The Covenant of Noah
• The Curse of Ham
• Sons of Noah
• The tower of Babel
• Abram's migration
• Abraham and Lot's conflict
• Chedorlaomer
• Abraham and Melchizedek
• The Covenant of Abram
• A wife confused for a sister (featuring Abraham, Sarah, and Pharaoh, as characters)
• Hagar and Ishmael
• The first circumcision
• Sodom and Gomorrah
• Lot's drunkenness
• The cave of Machpelah
• A wife confused for a sister (featuring Abraham, Sarah, and Abimelech, as characters)
• The Binding of Isaac
• Keturah's sons
• Isaac and Rebekah
• Jacob and Esau
• The Covenant of Isaac
• A wife confused for a sister (featuring Isaac, Rebekah, and Abimelech, as characters)
• The blessing of Isaac
• The exile of Jacob
• Jacob's Ladder
• Jacob and Rachel/The sheep and the stone
• Rachel and Leah
• Jacob's children
• The blemished flock
• The stones of Galeed
• Jacob's gifts to Esau
• Jacob wrestling with the angel
• Jacob's reconciliation with Esau
• The rape of Dinah
• The birth of Benjamin
• Reuben and Bilhah
• The list of Edomite Kings
• Joseph enslaved
• Tamar and Judah
• Potiphar's wife
• The butler and the baker
• Pharaoh's Dreams
• Joseph and his brothers
• Israel's migration
• Ephraim's pre-eminence
• The blessing of Jacob
• The burial of Jacob
• The death of Joseph's generation

Exodus

See main article: Book of Exodus.

• The Hebrew midwives
• Moses' exile
• The Burning Bush
• The Signs of Moses
• Zipporah at the inn
• Let my people go
• Bricks without straw
• With a strong hand and an outstretched arm
• Aaron's rod becomes a serpent
• The Plagues of Egypt
• The Passover
• The Exodus
• Passage of the Red Sea
• The Song of the sea
• Massah U-Meribah
• Amalek
• Jethro
• Encamping at Sinai
• The Ten Commandments (first set)
• The Covenant Code
• The Golden Calf
• The Ten Commandments (second set)

Leviticus

See main article: Leviticus.

• The Priestly Code
• The Holiness Code
• The Ordination of Aaron and His Sons
• The Death of Nadab and Abihu (Leviticus 10:1-20)
• A Blasphemer Stoned (Leviticus 24:10-23)

Numbers

See main article: Numbers.

• The Israelite Census
• Departing Sinai
• The shower of quails
• Snow-white Miriam
• The report of the spies
• Korah, Dathan and Abiram
• Aaron's rod sprouts and bears fruit
• Waters of Meribah
• The short route to Canaan
• Lifting up of the brass serpent (Nehushtan)
• The conquest of the eastern route
• Balaam and the Donkey
• The Heresy of Peor
• The appointment of Joshua
• The War against the Midianites.
• Machir, Reuben, and Gad, in Gilead and Jazeer
• The distribution of Canaan

Deuteronomy

• Moses Begins to Retell Wilderness Stories, Deuteronomy 1-3
• The Deuteronomic Code
• The Song of Moses, Deuteronomy 32
• The Blessing of Moses, Deuteronomy 33
• The Death of Moses, Deuteronomy 34

Nevi'im

Joshua

• Charge from God to Joshua. Joshua takes charge, 1:1-18
• Rahab and the Spies
• The Fall of Jericho
• The Sun Stands Still

Judges

• Israel Disobeys God, 2:1-23

Othniel

• Othniel's Campaign as Judge, 3:7-11

Ehud

• Ehud gains the victory over Moabite King Eglon 3:12-30

Shamgar

3:31

Deborah

• Deborah, 4:1-24
• The Song of Deborah, 5:1-31

Gideon

• The Lord Appears to Gideon, 6:1-40
• The Sign of the Fleece and Gideon's Three Hundred, 7:1-25
• Midian Subdued, 8:1-35

Abimelech

• Abmilech, son of Gideon (Jerubbaal) made king at Shechem after destroying his own family, 9:1-6
• Jotham, the lone survivor and brother, tells The Parable of the Trees. He speaks against Abimelech then flees, 9:7-21
• Shechem betrays Abimelech. He attacks and destroys the city.
• Abimelech captures the town of Thebez, but he is mortally wounded by a woman. 9:22-57

Tola

• Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim. He judged Israel for twenty-three years, 10:1,2

Jair

Jephthah

• Jephthah and His Vow, 11: 1-40

Ibzah

12:8-10

Elon

12:11, 12

Abdon

12:13-15

Samson

• The Birth of Samson, 13:1-25
• Samson's Phlistine Wife, 14:1-20
• The Philistine's Defeated, 15: 1-20
• Samson and Delilah, 16:1-31
• The Death of Samson, 17:1-13

Other Stories

• Micah's Idolatry, 18: 1-31
• The Levite's Concubine and Gibeah's Crime, 19:1-30
• Battle of Gibeah. War with the Benjamites, 20:1-48
• Wives for the Benjamites, 21:1-25

1 & 2 Samuel

• Hannah and the Birth of Samuel
• David and Goliath
• David and Jonathan
• David and Bathsheba
• Absalom's Conspiracy

1 & 2 Kings

• The Wisdom of Solomon
• Solomon builds the Temple
• The Queen of Sheba
• Elijah on Mount Carmel
• Elijah Taken up to Heaven
• The Sunnamite's Son
• The Healing of Naaman
• Hezekiah

Jeremiah

• Call of Jeremiah, 1:1-10
• Jeremiah sees an almond rod then a boiling pot, 1:11-19
• Jeremiah's message at the temple gate, 7:1-34
• Jeremiah buys a linen waistband and puts it in the crevice of a rock near the Euphrates. 13:1-11
• The LORD tells Jeremiah that he can't get married or have children, 16:1-21
• Jeremiah stands at the city gate proclaiming the Sabbath's importance 17:19-27
• Jeremiah visits the potter, 18:1-23
• Jeremiah takes a potter's clay jar and some of the elders to the valley of Ben-hinnon, 19:1-15
• Pashur, the chief officer in the house of the LORD, beats Jeremiah and puts him in stocks. Jeremiah's complains to God. 20:1-18
• Zedekiah, Pashur, and Zephaniah ask Jeremiah if there is a positive message from the LORD. Jeremiah prophesies doom for them. He predicts the coming of the Branch. 21:1-23:40
• Jeremiah summarizes 23 years of prophetic ministry; lists the nations under judgment and predicts 70 years of captivity. 25:1-38
• Jeremiah prophesies against the temple and the city. He is accused of a capital crime. His life is spared after discussion of precedence. Thanks to Ahikam the son of Shaphan. 26:1-24
• Following the LORD's directive, Jeremiah puts himself in bonds and a yoke. He relates that the LORD has given Nebuchadnezzar the land until his time comes. Hananiah breaks Jeremiah's yoke and prophesies the opposite message. 27:1-22
• The Exile

Hosea

Hosea was a prophet who lived and prophesied just before the destruction of Israel in 722 BC. He preached to the northern kingdom. Throughout the book you will see that he refers to Israel and Ephraim. Ephraim was the largest tribe in Israel and sometimes the whole nation was referred to as Ephraim.

Jonah

• Jonah and the Fish

Ketuvim

Ruth

• Boaz and Ruth

Esther

• Esther and Mordechai

Daniel

• Nebuchadnezzar's Dream
• Daniel in the lions' den
• The Fiery Furnace
• The writing on the wall

Ezra/Nehemiah

• The Return to Jerusalem
• The Building of the Second Temple

See also

• Hebrew Bible
• List of New Testament stories

External links

• Great Stories of the Bible - an index of bible stories in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)