List of Hebrew Bible events

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List of Hebrew Bible stories includes events and happenings recorded in the Biblical books, known to Judaism as the Tanakh, and to Christianity as the Old Testament.

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Genesis

See main article: Book of Genesis.

• Creation
• Adam and Eve (covers creation and fall of man)
• The Fall of Man
• Cain and Abel
• Adam's descendants
• The Nephilim
• Noah and the Flood
• The Covenant of Noah
• The Curse of Ham
• Sons of Noah
• The tower of Babel
• Abram's migration
• Partition between Abram and Lot
• Chedorlaomer
• Abraham and Melchizedek
• The Covenant of Abram
• A wife confused for a sister (featuring Abraham, Sarah, and Pharaoh, as characters)
• Hagar and Ishmael
• The first circumcision
• Sodom and Gomorrah
• Lot's drunkenness
• The cave of Machpelah
• A wife confused for a sister (featuring Abraham, Sarah, and Abimelech, as characters)
• The Binding of Isaac
• Keturah's sons
• Isaac and Rebekah
• Jacob and Esau
• The Covenant of Isaac
• A wife confused for a sister (featuring Isaac, Rebekah, and Abimelech, as characters)
• The blessing of Isaac
• The exile of Jacob
• Jacob's Ladder
• Jacob and Rachel/The sheep and the stone
• Rachel and Leah
• Jacob's children
• The blemished flock
• The stones of Galeed
• Jacob's gifts to Esau
• Jacob wrestles with an angel
• Jacob's reconciliation with Esau
• The rape of Dinah
• Reuben and Bilhah
• The birth of Benjamin
• The list of Edomite Kings
• Joseph enslaved
• Judah and Tamar
• Potiphar's wife
• The butler and the baker
• Pharaoh's Dreams
• Joseph and his brothers
• Israel's migration
• Ephraim's pre-eminence
• The blessing of Jacob
• The burial of Jacob
• The death of Joseph's generation

Exodus

See main article: Book of Exodus.

• The Hebrew midwives
• Moses' exile
• The Burning Bush
• The Signs of Moses
• Zipporah at the inn
• Let my people go
• Bricks without straw
• With a strong hand and an outstretched arm
• Aaron's rod becomes a serpent
• The Plagues of Egypt
• The Passover
• The Exodus
• Passage of the Red Sea
• The Song of the sea
• Massah U-Meribah
• Amalek
• Jethro
• Encamping at Sinai
• The Ten Commandments (first set)
• The Covenant Code
• The Golden Calf
• The Ten Commandments (second set)

Leviticus

See main article: Leviticus.

• The Priestly Code
• The Holiness Code

Numbers

See main article: Numbers.

• The Israelite Census
• Departing Sinai
• The shower of quails
• Snow-white Miriam
• The report of the spies
• Korah, Dathan and Abiram
• Aaron's rod sprouts and bears fruit
• Waters of Meribah
• The short route to Canaan
• The Nehushtan
• The conquest of the eastern route
• Balaam and the Donkey
• The Heresy of Peor
• The appointment of Joshua
• The War against the Midianites.
• Machir, Reuben, and Gad, in Gilead and Jazeer
• The distribution of Canaan

Deuteronomy

See main article: Deuteronomy.

• The Deuteronomic Code
• The Song of Moses
• The Blessing of Moses
• The Death of Moses

Joshua

• Rahab and the Spies
• The Fall of Jericho
• The Sun Stands Still

Judges

• Deborah and Barak
• Samson and Delilah
• Gideon

Ruth

• Boaz and Ruth

1 & 2 Samuel, 1 & 2 Kings, 1 & 2 Chronicles

• Hannah and the Birth of Samuel
• David and Goliath
• David and Jonathan
• David and Bathsheba
• Absalom's Conspiracy
• The Wisdom of Solomon
• Solomon builds the Temple
• The Queen of Sheba
• Elijah on Mount Carmel
• Elijah Taken up to Heaven
• The Sunnamite's Son
• The Healing of Naaman
• Hezekiah

Jeremiah/Lamentations/Daniel

• The Exile

Daniel

• Nebuchadnezzar's Dream
• Daniel in the Lion's Den
• The Fiery Furnace
• The writing on the wall

Jonah

• Jonah and the Fish

Esther

• Esther and Mordechai

Ezra/Nehemiah

• The Return to Jerusalem
• The Building of the Second Temple

See also

• Hebrew Bible
• List of New Testament stories
• Gospel harmony