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| List of Maps | |
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| Foreword Publisher's | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction Source Material Importance of Israel Israel's Strategic Location Geography of Palestine History Divisions | |
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| Patriarchal Background Historical Accuracy Significance of Abraham's Call Date of Abraham Abraham's Country Departure | |
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| Abraham The New Land Shechem, Bethel, Egypt, Bethel Rescue of Lot (Gen. 14) | |
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| Destruction of Sodom (Gen. 18:1ndash;19:38) | |
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| Covenant Waiting the Promised Child (Gen. 16:1ndash;18:15) | |
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| Abimelech and the Philistines (Gen. 20ndash;21) | |
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| Near Sacrifice of Isaac (Gen. 22) | |
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| Death and Burial of Sarah (Gen. 23) | |
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| A Bride for Isaac (Gen. 24:1ndash;25:11) | |
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| Abraham, Man of Faith | |
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| Isaac, Jacob, Joseph Isaac (Gen. 25:9ndash;26:35) | |
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| Jacob (Gen. 28:1ndash;36:43) | |
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| Joseph (Gen. 37ndash;50) | |
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| Sojourn and Exodus Chronology Duration of Egyptian Sojourn Date of the Exodus | |
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| Life in Egypt Four Periods of Egyptian Rule Egyptian Life Jacob's Descendants in Egypt Israel in Servitude (Exod. 1:8ndash;22) | |
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| Moses (Exod. 2:1ndash;10) | |
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| Moses' Choice (Exod. 2:11ndash;25; Acts 7:23ndash;29; Heb. 11:24ndash;27) | |
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| Moses' Return to Egypt (Exod. 3:1ndash;4:31) | |
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| The Contest With Pharaoh (Exod. 5:1ndash;12:36) | |
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| Departure From Egypt | |
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| Israel in the Wilderness Israel's Route of Travel To Mount Sinai (Exod. 15:22ndash;18:27) | |
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| Giving the Law (Exod. 19:3ndash;24:18; 32:1ndash;34:35) | |
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| The Law The Tabernacle (Exod. 25ndash;31; 35ndash;40) | |
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| The Number of People Sinai to Kadesh-barnea (Num. 10:11ndash;17:13; 33:16ndash;19) | |
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| Thirty-seven Years and Six Months of Fruitless Wandering (Num. 15ndash;19; 33:19ndash;36) | |
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| Kadesh-barnea to the Jordan (Num. 20ndash;21; 33:37ndash;48; Deut. 2:1ndash;3:14) | |
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| At the Jordan (Num. 22ndash;27; 31ndash;32; Deut. 31, 34) | |
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| Deuteronomy | |
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| The Conquest The Land of Canaan Entrance to the Land (Josh. 2:1ndash;5:12) | |
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| Conquest of Central Palestine (Josh. 5:13ndash;9:27) | |
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| Conquest of the South and the North (Josh. 10ndash;12) | |
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| The Land Divided (Josh. 13ndash;22) | |
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| Institutions | |
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| The Judges Background Matters Failure to Occupy the Land Fully (Judg. 1:1ndash;3:7) | |
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| The Period of Mesopotamian Oppression (Judg. 3:8ndash;11; 17ndash;21) | |
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| The Period of Moabite Oppression (Judg. 3:12ndash;31) | |
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| The Period of Canaanite Oppression (Judg. 4ndash;5) | |
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| The Period of Midianite Oppression (Judg. 6:1ndash;10:5; Ruth 1ndash;4) | |
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| The Period of Ammonite Oppression (Judg. 10:6ndash;12:15) | |
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| The Period of Philistine Oppression (Judg. 13ndash;16) | |
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| Samuel | |
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| King Saul The Anointing of Saul (1 Sam. 9ndash;12) | |
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| The Rule of Saul The Rejection of Saul (1 Sam. 13ndash;15) | |
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| Saul and David (1 Sam. 16ndash;20) | |
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| Saul's Last Years (1 Sam. 22:6ndash;19; 28:1ndash;25; 31:1ndash;13) | |
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| David as Fugitive (1 Sam. 21ndash;27; 29ndash;30; 2 Sam. 1) | |
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| David David at Hebron (2 Sam. 1:1ndash;5:5) | |
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| David Establishes the Kingdom of Israel (2 Sam. 5:6ndash;8:18; 10:1ndash;19) | |
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| David's Government Significant Deeds Last Years of David (2 Sam. 13ndash;20; 1 Kings 1:1ndash;2:11; 1 Chron. 22; 28ndash;29) | |
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| Israel's Greatest King | |
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| Solomon Established as King (1 Kings 2:12ndash;46; 3:4ndash;28; 2 Chron. 1:1ndash;17) | |
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| Solomon's Kingdom Foreign Relations Building Activity (1 Kings 5:1ndash;9:9; 2 Chron. 2ndash;7) | |
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| Literary Age Spiritual Decline and Punis | |