Book of Judges (VIDEO • overview): Overview of Judges detailing Israel 's downward moral and spiritual spiral through cyclical sin, oppression, deliverance, and civil corruption when there was no king in Israel . It is closely linked with Gustave Dor é — Samson Slays a Thousand with Donkey's Jawbone (IMAGE • artwork): The Nazarite judge Samson victorious at Lehi over the Philistine army.
Overview of Judges detailing Israel 's downward moral and spiritual spiral through cyclical sin, oppression, deliverance, and civil corruption when there was no king in Israel .
The Nazarite judge Samson victorious at Lehi over the Philistine army.
Geographic zones of Deborah, Gideon, Jephthah, and Samson battling Canaanites, Midianites, and Philistines.
Overview of 2 Samuel highlighting David 's reign as king over Israel , God's eternal covenant promise of an enduring dynasty in chapter 7, followed by tragic domestic and national consequences of David 's sin.
Assyrian stele documenting the Battle of Qarqar (853 BCE), listing 'Ahab the Israelite' contributing 2,000 chariots and 10,000 troops.
Intricate openwork ivory plaques with Egyptianizing motifs from the royal palace at Samaria ( 1 Kings 22:39 ).
Preserved basalt and limestone theater and colonnaded street of the chief city of the Decapolis .
Preserving Paul's declaration of adoption as sons ('Abba, Father') and the Spirit's intercession.
Military campaigns of Ben-Hadad, Tiglath-Pileser III, and Shalmaneser V culminating in the siege of Samaria .
Ninth-century BCE basalt stele fragment discovered in northern Israel preserving the earliest extra-biblical reference to King David 's dynasty (' House of David ').
Seminal theological monograph examining the biblical doctrine of divine inspiration (theopneustos) and inerrancy.
The angel descending from heaven to guide the pen of the Evangelist Matthew as he writes his Gospel.
The Apostle Paul proclaiming the Unknown God and the resurrection to the philosophers of the Areopagus .
Rock-cut tomb inscription in the Kidron Valley attributed to Shebna, the royal steward rebuked by Isaiah ( Isaiah 22:15 ).
Clay sealing unearthed just south of the Temple Mount bearing the inscription 'Yesha'yahu [N]vy' ( Isaiah the Prophet).
Iconic high Renaissance fresco painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel illustrating God breathing life into Adam ( Genesis 2:7 ).
The quintessential Renaissance marble statue of the youthful shepherd David gazing toward Goliath.
Overview of Romans 5 –16 covering life in the Spirit, God's covenant faithfulness to Israel , and unified church community embodying self-giving love.
Carved hippopotamus ivory plaque showing an enthroned ruler receiving tribute and drinking from a lotus chalice.
Excavated 4th-century white limestone synagogue built directly upon the basalt foundation of the 1st-century synagogue where Jesus taught.
Traditional and scholarly proposed routes of the Israelite Exodus from Goshen across the Red Sea into the Sinai peninsula.
Greco-Roman league of 10 cities east of Galilee including Scythopolis, Gadara, Pella, and Gerasa.
Prophetic opening folio of Isaiah surviving from the Aleppo Crown before its mid-20th century loss.
Herodian and Hadrianic high-level aqueduct carrying fresh spring water from Mount Carmel to the port city of Caesarea .
The prophet Ezekiel prophesying to the dry bones as the breath of God (Ruach) resurrects a mighty army.
Traditional site of Mount Sinai in the southern Sinai Peninsula where the Mosaic Covenant and Ten Commandments were given.
