The decline of ancient Israeli civilization. An overview of the books of 1 & 2 Kings.
Leviticus 19:18, “you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.” Did you expect this to be a lesson from the Old Testament? And it’s not just this one verse; the Torah and prophets are riddled with commands about this.
God kills a man for grabbing onto the Ark of the Covenant when it fell off a cart. 2 Samuel 6:1-15
2 Samuel 11 and 12:1-25. David commits adultery with Bathsheba and then has her husband murdered.
The first (human) king of Israel. Ever. He was handsome and tall (1Sa 9:2) and from a wealthy family (v. 1), so therefore he was a great leader, right?
We naturally assume that a book of the Bible tells the events in order. I would say most do just that. But not always. Like the ending of 2 Samuel, for example.
Not Noah’s ark. This was a box, about the size of a small sofa, that contained the two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. It was holy in every sense of the word – like, “touch it and you die” kind of holy.