From: noahidebooksexecutive@gmail.com   
      
   A Basic History of Israel   
   God called Abram out of the land of the Chaldees, from Ur. Ur is probably in   
   modern day Iraq. Abram was a Hebrew. We see in the rest of Genesis 11, which   
   is from what we call 'The Hebrew Bible' which is Genesis 1 to Genesis 11.   
   Genesis 11 ends with the    
   naming of Abram as 20th in the line of Adam, through Shem and Eber. Eber is   
   the father of the Hebrew people. Hebrews fall under the Noahide Covenant and,   
   in our judgment, also partake of knowledge of Genesis 11:10 to the end of the   
   chapter. We feel that    
   Hebrew Noahides can make an assessment whether they take in knowledge of   
   Genesis 12 to 14, which is knowledge of the Hebrew Abram BEFORE he entered   
   into covenant with God. It is a difficult judgment to make, which we leave in   
   the hands of the Hebrew    
   Noahide community. It is not our place to make any judgment for their   
   concerns, though we might have an opinion which we would share if they asked   
   us. Abram was married to Sarai. Sarai was his half sister. Abram left Ur with   
   his family and came to Haran.    
   Then they came to Canaan and lived in places like Beersheba. Abram had a son   
   at 86 years of age which was named 'Ishmael'. By this time Abram had been   
   circumcised according to the covenant he had entered into with God. There was   
   also a covenant of land    
   given to Abram, which is from the river Euphtrates to the river of Egypt. The   
   northern and southern boundaries of Abram's land is not defined in the   
   writings. Abram's wife Sarai was coveted by various patriarchs of the land,   
   but she was restored to Abram.   
    Ishamel was Abram's son through Hagar. Sarai didn't like Hagar and had Abram   
   cast her out, with Ishmael, but they survived and the Angel of the Lord   
   watched over them. Abram was promised a child from God, and that child was   
   Isaac. Isaac had two sons,    
   Esau and Jacob. Esau was firstborn, but Jacob tricked him out of his   
   birthright. Jacob had 12 sons, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zebulun, Gad,   
   Naphtali, Asher, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin and Issachar and daughters Serah and   
   Dinah. Joseph got sold into slavery    
   to Ishmaelites by his brothers, who were jealous of him, and they took him to   
   Egypt. He had a lovely technicolour dreamcoat which had been given to him. In   
   Egypt Joseph gradually rose to power, and served the Pharaoh of Egypt. Jacob   
   came to Egypt when he    
   was old, having found out that Joseph was still alive, and the people of   
   Jacob, who had been renamed Israel, dwelt thereon in Egypt, in the land of   
   Goshen. The Egyptians made them slaves, though, and Moses was raised up by   
   God, who was from the tribe of    
   Levi, who delivered them by punishing Egypt with plagues. The law from Mt   
   Sinai was given to the wandering Israelites. They eventually conquered the   
   land of Canaan and Joshua was the one who divided up the land amongst the 12   
   tribes. There was a period    
   of various Judges, including Samson and Gideo, and Samson had amazing strength   
   because of his long hair. The monarchy soon started though, and Saul was the   
   first King followed by King David, a bloody man, but who was also after the   
   Lord's heart. He slew    
   Goliath, cutting off his head after hurling a stone at him from a sling, and   
   he became famous in Israel. There were monarchs for many centuries, and   
   Solomon, David's son, had the Temple built. The Temple was ultimately destroy   
   and Israel was sent into    
   exile in Babylon. They were in exile for 70 years. There had been many   
   prophets who preached God's message over the years, and in Babylon the prophet   
   Daniel gave prophecies about the Everlasting Kingdom of God. Israel was   
   redeemed from exile, and the    
   Temple was reinstituted. Finally, as shown in Apocryphal writings, the   
   Maccabeans recovered the temple after the persecutions of Anitochus Epiphanes   
   IV, and the last prophets spoke of Elijah returning one day, preparing the way   
   for the Angel of the Lord,    
   who would stand and redeem Israel, usherin in the world to come and the   
   resurrection of the dead.   
      
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