Hezekiah was the son of King Ahaz and assumed the throne when he was 25 and reigned for 29 years. He did what was pleasing in the Lord’s sight, just as his ancestor David had done. In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the gates of the temple of …
King Ahaz is one of the kings mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. When Ahaz was 20, he succeeded his father Jotham as king of Judah and ruled for 16 years. He did not do what was pleasing in the sight of the Lord, as his ancestor David had done. …
The Ark of the Covenant is also known as the “Ark of the Testimony” because the Ten Commandments were a testimony to the world of the covenant God made with Israel. When the Ark was in the Tabernacle, it contained the golden pot that had manna, Aaron’s rod that budded and the second set of …
Pharaoh, the king of Egypt was afraid that the Hebrews were outnumbering them and might join with their enemies to fight against them. He ordered every Hebrew boy that was born be thrown into the Nile river but to let every girl live. The ark of bulrushes was a papyrus basket, coated it with slime …
In the beginning, the whole world spoke one language. As the people migrated to the East, they found a plain in the land of Shinar to live. The location of Shinar encompassed both Babylon (Babel) and Uruk (Erech). Here they made bricks of clay and baked them in fire. These bricks were used as stones …
God saw that the people on earth were very wicked, their hearts were always evil and regretted that he had made humankind on the earth. God brought a flood of water over the earth to destroy every living thing except Noah, his family and a male and female for each kind of bird, livestock and …