THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS OF JOSHUA, JUDGES, RUTH, SAMUEL, AND KINGS ARE PART OF THIS SEQUENCE OF BOOK

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• THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS OF JOSHUA, JUDGES, RUTH,
  SAMUEL, AND KINGS ARE PART OF THIS SEQUENCE OF
  BOOKS.

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• THE SO-CALLED DEUTERONOMISTIC HISTORY COVERS THIS
  TIME SPAN.

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• ISRAELITE LEADER WHO LEADS THE PEOPLE INTO THE
  PROMISED LAND.

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• WHEN THE ISRAELITES ENTER THE PROMISED LAND,
  THEIR RELATIVELY EGALITARIAN SOCIETY COMES INTO
  CONFLICT WITH THE RIGID CLASS SYSTEM OF THIS
  PEOPLE.

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• THE ISRAELITES CROSS THIS BODY OF WATER IN
  CEREMONIAL AND MIRACULOUS FASHION AS THEY ENTER
  THE PROMISED LAND.

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• THE ACTUAL NAME OF THE PROM-ISED LAND, THE LAND
  FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY.

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• THIS PROSTITUTE ASSISTS THE ISRAELITE SPIES AT
  JERICHO, FOR WHICH SHE AND HER FAMILY ARE SPARED
  FROM DEATH.

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• THE SIEGE AND FALL OF THIS SUP-POSEDLY WALLED
  CITY MARKS THE FIRST MAJOR MILITARY VICTORY OF
  THE ISRAELITES UPON THEIR EN-TRANCE INTO THE
  PROMISED LAND.

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• THIS CONCEPT INVOLVED THE UTTER DESTRUCTION OF
  THE CANAANITES IN ORDER TO CARRY OUT GODS
  JUDGMENT ON THEM, PROTECT THE ISRAELITES FROM
  THEIR RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE, FULFILL THE PROMISES
  REGARDING THE LAND.

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• THESE ENEMIES OF THE ISRAELITES SAVE THEMSELVES
  BY PRETENDING TO BE POOR FOREIGNERS WHO HAVE COME
  BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE
  ISRAELITES GOD.

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• TERM FOR THE LESSER TRIBAL HEROES WHO EMERGED
  DURING THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD AFTER THE DEATH OF
  JOSHUA.

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• TERM FOR ANY ISRAELITE CON-SECRATED TO THE
  SERVICE OF GOD AND WHO LIVED BY A STRICT SET OF
  RULES OF CONDUCT SET FORTH IN NUMBERS 6.

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• EMERGED AS THE ISRAELITES CHIEF RIVALS DURING THE
  PERIOD AFTER JOSHUAS DEATH.

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• SAMSON USES THIS WEAPON TO SLAY 1000 PHILISTINES,
  THUS MARKING HIS RISE TO THE POSITION OF JUDGE
  OVER ISRAEL.

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• THIS RIDDLING STRONG MAN AND TRIBAL LEADER IS
  BETRAYED BY HIS WIFE, WHO DISCOVERS AND REVEALS
  THE SECRET OF HIS STRENGTH TO HIS ENEMIES.

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• SHE BETRAYS HER HUSBAND TO HIS ENEMIES BY
  REVEALING THE SOURCE OF HIS STRENGTH (HIS UNCUT
  HAIR).

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• ISRAELITE WOMAN FORCED BY FAMINE TO MOVE WITH HER
  FAMILY TO MOAB, WHERE SHE LOSES BOTH HER HUSBAND
  AND HER SONS.

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• MOABITE WOMAN WHOSE LOYALTY TO HER MOTHER-IN-LAW
  (AND HER MOTHER-IN-LAWS GOD) EARNS HER A PLACE
  IN HEBREW HISTORY AS THE GREAT-GRANDMOTHER OF THE
  ISRAELITES GREATEST KING.

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• TERM FOR THE PROCESS OF A POOR PERSON PICKING UP
  SCRAPS THAT FALL TO THE GROUND DURING A HARVEST.

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• ISRAELITE KINSMAN WHOSE KIND-NESS TOWARD A
  FOREIGN WOMAN RESTORES TWO GRIEVING WIDOWS TO
  HAPPINESS.

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• BARREN MOTHER OF A FUTURE PROPHET WHOSE PRAYER
  FOR A SON IS MISTAKEN AS DRUNKENNESS BY THE
  TEMPLE PRIEST.

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• TEMPLE PRIEST WHOSE SONS EN-GAGE IN ALL SORTS OF
  CORRUPT BEHAVIOR.

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• TRUSTED NATIONAL PROPHET BORN TO A BARREN
  WOMAN, HE SCOLDS THE ISRAELITES OVER THEIR
  RE-QUEST FOR A KING.

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• NATIONAL SYMBOL OF THE ISRAEL-ITES RELIGION
  CAPTURED BY THE PHILISTINES AND THOUGHT BY THEM
  TO BE THE CAUSE OF A PLAGUE OF TUMORS.

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• CHIEF GOD OF THE PHILISTINES.

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• FIRST KING OF THE ISRAELITES, EVENTUALLY REJECTED
  BY GOD AND POSSESSED BY AN EVIL SPIRIT.

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• SON OF SAUL AND BELOVED FRIEND
• OF DAVID.

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• SECOND KING OF THE ISRAELITES, RENOWNED FOR
  PLAYING THE LYRE, SECRETLY ANOINTED BY A PROPHET.

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• GIANT PHILISTINE WARRIOR SLAIN
• BY DAVID WITH A SLINGSHOT.

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• DAUGHTER OF ISRAELS FIRST KING,
• FIRST WIFE OF THE SECOND KING.

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• HE INSULTS DAVIDS MESSENGERS WHEN THEY ASK FOR
  FOOD, COMPEL-LING HIS WIFE TO INTERCEDE ON HIS
  BEHALF.

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• HER INTERVENTION WITH DAVID ON BEHALF OF HER
  HUSBAND PREVENTS AN ACT OF BLOOD-GUILT ON THE
  PART OF HER FUTURE HUSBAND.

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• ACTIVITY TO WHICH SAUL RESORTS WHEN THE SPIRIT OF
  GOD DESERTS HIM.

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• SITE OF THE BATTLE WITH THE PHILISTINES IN WHICH
  SAUL KILLS HIMSELF.

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• SAULS SON WHO BECOMES KING OF THE NORTHERN
  TRIBES (AND DAVIDS RIVAL) AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS
  FATHER.

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• NAME OF THE NORTHERN ISRAELITE KINGDOM DURING THE
  PERIOD OF THE DIVIDED MONARCHY.

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• COMMANDER OF THE NORTHERN ARMY, HE INSTIGATES A
  BLOOD FEUD WHEN HE KILLS THE BROTHER OF HIS
  SOUTHERN COUNTERPART.

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• TERM FOR A SECONDARY WIFE OR
• MEMBER OF A KINGS HAREM.

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• COMMANDER OF THE SOUTHERN ARMY WHO AVENGES THE
  DEATH OF HIS BROTHER AND INCURS THE DISPLEASURE
  OF HIS KING.

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• NAME OF THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE KINGDOM DURING THE
  PERIOD OF THE DIVIDED MONARCHY.

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• THE LAST CANAANITE STRONGHOLD CAPTURED BY THE
  ISRAELITES BE-COMES THE NEW CAPITAL OF THE UNITED
  KINGDOM.

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• PROPHET WHO INSTRUCTS DAVID ON GODS BEHALF NOT
  TO BUILD A TEMPLE, BUT TO CONCENTRATE ON BUILDING
  HIS OWN HOUSE.

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• SOLE REMAINING MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF SAUL,
  RESTORED TO A POSITION OF WEALTH AND HONOR BY
  DAVID.

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• THEY INSTIGATE WAR BY HUMILIAT-ING DAVIDS
  ENVOYS--MUTILATING THEIR BEARDS AND FORCING THEM
  TO EXPOSE THEMSELVES.

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• MARRIED WOMAN WITH WHOM
• DAVID COMMITS ADULTERY.

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• HUSBAND OF THE WOMAN WITH WHOM DAVID COMMITS
  ADULTERY, HE IS MANIPULATED INTO BEING KILLED IN
  BATTLE.

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• SON OF DAVID WHO RAPES HIS HALF-
• SISTER.

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• DAUGHTER OF DAVID RAPED BY HER
• HALF-BROTHER.

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• SON OF DAVID, HE AVENGES THE RAPE OF HIS SISTER
  BY KILLING HIS HALF-BROTHER, THEN LATER LEADS A
  REBELLION AGAINST HIS FATHER.

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• ASSUMES HE WILL SUCCEED HIS FATHER AS KING (AND
  ACTS THE PART) UNTIL HIS YOUNGER BRO-THER IS
  CHOSEN OVER HIM AND LATER HAS HIM KILLED.

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• SON OF DAVID, HE IS RENOWNED FOR HIS WISDOM AND
  BUILDS THE TEMPLE THAT HIS FATHER WANTED TO BUILD.

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• DAVIDS FEMALE ATTENDANT, RE-QUEST FOR WHOM BY
  ONE SON GIVES ANOTHER SON AN EXCUSE TO KILL HIS
  BROTHER.

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• THIS MEMBER OF FOREIGN ROYALTY VISITS SOLOMON TO
  TEST HIS WISDOM WITH HARD QUESTIONS.

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• THIS FOREIGN POWER DEFEATS THE NORTHERN ISRAELITE
  KINGDOM CARRIES THE PEOPLE INTO EXILE.

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• THIS BABYLONIAN KING BESIEGES AND SACKS JERUSALEM
  AND CAR-RIES THE INHABITANTS INTO EXILE.