Chapter 3 Section 4 Notes

I. The Search for A Promised Land

Land of Canna

A. Hebrews lived in the land of Cannan

also called Palestine

B. First five books of the Old Testament

were called theTorah, the holy book of the Hebrews

C. Abraham was the father of the Hebrew

and lived in the Mesopotamian city

Ur around 2000 B.C.

D. Around 1650 B.C. his

descendents decided to move to Egypt where they became slaves

E. Hebrews had one God named

Yahweh, monotheism

F. Covenant was where Abraham

promised to obey God and God

promised to protect Abraham and his

descendants

G. Ark of the Covenant

                                                                   

             

Ark of Covenant

1. Where Yahweh lived

2. Ten Commandments

3. Moses staff

                

Moses by Michelangelo

H. Hebrews became enslaved

in Egypt

1. Forced to do hard work

3. Moses leads them out called the

Exodus

4. Passover

5. Mt. Sinai he receives the Ten Commandments

from God

I. Judges would govern in times of

emergency

1. One women judge named

Deborah

J. Religion teachers called prophets interpreted the

Torah

II. The Kingdom of Israel

A. The Hebrews were threatened by

the Philistines

David and Goliath

B. One of the large tribes was from Judah thus the

Hebrewsbecame known as Jews or Judaism

C. Three strong kings of Israel

1. Saul chosen because he drove out the Philistines

2. David establishes

Jerusalem as the capitol of the

Hebrews

Jerusalem today

3. Solomon

                                                           

            

Kingdom of David

And Solomon

a. Built trading empire

b. Built a large temple

1. Which held the Ark of the Covenant

D. Discontent divides the

kingdom with Israel in the north

and Judah in the south

III. The Babylonian Captivity

A. In 738 B.C. both Israel and Judah began paying a

tributeto the Assyrians

B. In 722 B.C. all of Israel and Judah

fell to the Assyrians

C. Babylonians conquered Syria and Palestine by

586 B.C.

1. Babylonian Captivity

2. Time of Nebuchadnezzar

D. Persian king Cyrus the Great conquered the

Babylonians and eased control over the Hebrews

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