Transcript Historical Books Part 2 © John Stevenson, 2009 1st Samuel Samuel & Saul 2nd Samuel David as King 1 Kings 1-11 United Kingdom under Solomon 1 Kings Solomon & Divided Kingdom 2 Kings Fall of the Divided Kingdoms 1

Historical Books
Part 2
© John Stevenson, 2009
1st Samuel
Samuel &
Saul
2nd Samuel
David as
King
1 Kings 1-11
United Kingdom
under Solomon
1 Kings
Solomon &
Divided
Kingdom
2 Kings
Fall of the
Divided
Kingdoms
1 Kings 12 - 2 Kings 17 2 Kings 18-25
Northern Kingdom
Southern Kingdom of Judah
Dan
ISRAEL
Samaria
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Shechem
Bethel
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JUDAH
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Penuel
Southern Kingdom of
Judah
Category
Northern Kingdom of
Israel
19 Kings, 1 Queen
Kings
19 Kings
Jerusalem
Capital
Shechem/Samaria
Judah & Benjamin
Tribes
Ten Northern Tribes
Legacy of
Kings
All were bad; Ahab
and Ahaziah were idol
worshipers
Conquered by Babylon
in 586 B.C.
Fall
Conquered by Assyria
in 721 B.C.
Returned to the land
Return
No Return
Most were unstable;
some were good,
some were bad
Sidon
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SIDON
Ethbaal
(Itto-Baal)
ISRAEL
OMRI
Israel
Jezebel
Ahab
Judah
Now Elijah the
Tishbite, who was of
the settlers of Gilead,
said to Ahab, “As the
Lord, the God of Israel
lives, before whom I
stand, surely there
shall be neither dew
nor rain these years,
except by my word.” (1
Kings 17:1).
Sidon

Israel
Judah
Mount
Carmel
Yahweh
Baal
Elijah
Ahab
Who will
you serve?
Sidon

Israel
Judah
An Outline of 1st & 2nd Kings
The United Kingdom of Solomon (1 Kings 1-12)
Wars of Judah and Israel (1 Kings 13-16)
The Ministry of Elijah (1 Kings 17 - 2 Kings 1).
The Passing of the Prophetic Mantle from Elijah
to Elisha (2 Kings 2).
The Ministry of Elisha (2 Kings 3-13).
Wars of Judah and Israel 2 Kings 14-17).
The Kingdom of Judah (2 Kings 18-25).
SIDON
ISRAEL
JUDAH
Ethbaal
(Itto-Baal)
OMRI
ASA
Jezebel
Ahab
Jehoshaphat
Ahaziah
Joram
Athaliah
Jehoram
Ahaziah
Joash
• Nineveh
• Jerusalem
Assyrian
Terror
Tactics
Samaria
2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the
king of Assyria captured Samaria and
carried Israel away into exile to
Assyria. and settled them in Halah and
Habor, on the river of Gozarx and in
the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings 17:7-8
Now this came about, because the
sons of Israel had sinned against the
Lord their God, who had brought them up
from the land of Egypt from under the
hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and they
had feared other gods 8 and walked in
the customs of the nations whom the
Lord had driven out before the sons of
Israel, and in the customs of the kings of
Israel which they had introduced.
Hezekiah’s Reformation
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Religious Reform
Envoys from Merodach-Baladan
Assyrian threat
Hezekiah’s Tunnel
2 Kings 19:35-36
Then it happened that
night that the angel of the
Lord went out, and struck
185,000 in the camp of the
Assyrians; and when men
rose early in the morning,
behold, all of them were
dead.
So Sennacherib king
of Assyria departed and
returned home, and lived at
Nineveh.
Taylor Prism
“As for Hezekiah, the
Jew, who did not submit to
my yoke, 46 of his strong
walled cities, as well as the
small cities in their
neighborhood, which were
without number, by escalade
and bringing up siege
engines... Himself, like a
caged bird, I shut up in
Jerusalem, his royal city.
Reform under Josiah
• Religious Reform
• Fall of Assyria
Scythians
Carchemish
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Assyria
Megiddo
EGYPT
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Medes
Babylon
Scythians
Carchemish

Assyria
Megiddo
EGYPT

Medes
Babylon
605 B.C.
597 B.C.
586 B.C.
Hostages taken from among
the nobility including Daniel
and his three friends
A total of 10,000 of the
craftsmen are taken along
with Ezekiel
The Temple is destroyed
and all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem are taken into
captivity
And he burned the
house of the LORD,
the king’s house,
and all the houses
of Jerusalem; even
every great house
he burned with fire.
(2 Kings 25:9).
Kings
Chronicles
Prophetic
Perspective:
Judgments
Priestly Perspective:
Hope
Wars Prominent
History of thrones
Temple Prominent
History of Davidic
line
Mostly Judah
Redemption
Israel & Judah
Morality
610
600
590
580
Jerusalem &
Temple
Destroyed
Zephaniah
560
550
Babylonian
Captivity
Kings of Judah
Joel?
570
Amos
The Prophet of Social Justice
Daniel
Jeremiah
Habakkuk
Obadiah?
Ezekiel
540
530
Return
from
Exile
Lydians
Medes
Persians
Babylon 
Ezra 1:2-3
Thus says Cyrus king of Persia,
“The LORD, the God of heaven, has
given me all the kingdoms of the earth
and He has appointed me to build Him
a house in Jerusalem, which is in
Judah. 3 Whoever there is among you
of all His people, may his God be with
him! Let him go up to Jerusalem which
is in Judah and rebuild the house of
the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the
God who is in Jerusalem.
Ezra 1:4
Cyrus
the
Great
“Every survivor,
at whatever place he
may live, let the men
of that place support
him with silver and
gold, with goods and
cattle, together with a
freewill offering for the
house of God which is
in Jerusalem.”
Cyrus the
Great
Cambyses
Construction
halted
Permission
given to
rebuild
Haggai &
Zechariah
prophesy
and urge
construction
to begin
again
Cyrus the
Great
Darius the
Great
Cambyses
Construction
halted
Permission
given to
rebuild
Permission
given to
complete
1st Return under
Zerubbabel &
rebuilding Temple
Events of Book
of Esther
Ezra 1-6
Book of
Esther
538-516 B.C.
473 B.C.
2nd Return under
Ezra
Ezra 7-10
458-457 B.C.
3rd Return under
Nehemiah &
rebuilding walls
Book of
Nehemiah
445-444 B.C.
Cast of Characters
• Esther (also known as Hadassah).
• Ahasuerus: Xerxes
• Mordecai & Haman
The Narrative
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A new queen
Mordecai saves the king
Haman’s jealousy
A plan for ethnic cleansing
Plea to Esther
Haman’s plan
The king’s plan
Esther’s revelation
The Jewish deliverance
Esther 9:24
For Haman the son of Hammedatha,
the Agagite, the adversary of all the Jews,
had schemed against the Jews to destroy
them, and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to
disturb them and destroy them.
Haman
Mordecai
A descendant of Agag
(Esther 3:1), the king of
the Amalekites whose life
Saul spared in
disobedience to the
command of God.
From the tribe and family
of Saul (Esther 2:5).
The enemy of the people
of God
The savior of the people
of God
Points to Ponder
• Esther is the book of God’s
Providence
• The Success of Haman’s plot
would also exterminate the
seed through which the
Messiah would come
• This book reminds us that God
works in the lives of both the
great and the small
A Picture of Christ
The Story
The Picture
Esther was the virgin
bride who married
the king.
The church is the
spotless bride who
marries the King
The king’s former
wife had been
displeasing and had
been set aside.
The natural branches
were broken off due
to unbelief.
A Picture of Christ
The Story
The Picture
Haman plotted
against Mordecai
and against all the
Jews.
Satan has set
himself against
Christ and against
all men
Mordecai convinces
Esther to intercede
on behalf of her
people.
Jesus Himself
interceded on behalf
of His church.
A Picture of Christ
The Story
The Picture
Esther agrees to
intercede after the
people have fasted
for three days.
Christ interceded on
our behalf and then
was in the grave
three days.
Haman plans to have
Mordecai executed
for not bowing down
to him.
Jesus was tempted by
Satan to worship him;
Satan’s attack
culminated in the
cross.
A Type of Christ
The Story
Haman met his end
on the gallows he
had intended for
Modecai.
The Picture
Christ intentionally
went to the cross
that was prepared
for us.
In both cases, that which looked like
certain death and defeat was turned
into ultimate victory.