Bible Outlines
Outlines of each book of the Bible
Genesis
- Primeval History
- The Creation (Genesis 1:1 - 2:3)
- Earth was formless and dark
- Creation of the World
- Day One – Light (vs. 3-5)
- Separated light and darkness
- @ 1 Peter 2:9-10 – spiritually, God separates light from darkness
- Day Two – Sky (vs. 6-8)
- Water under the expanse
- Water above the expanse – called Sky
- Day Three – Land, Seas and vegetation (vs. 9-13)
- Land gathered
- Seas gathered
- Vegetation
- Seed-bearing plants
- Fruit-bearing tree with seeds
- Day Four – Day and Night (vs. 14-19)
- Purpose
- Sign to mark day, seasons, and years
- Give light to the earth
- What was created
- Sun – “govern the day”
- Moon – “lesser light to govern the night”
- Stars
- @ Genesis 15:5 - God told Abram that his offspring would be as numerous as the stars
- Day Five - Creatures of Water and Air (vs 20-23)
- Fish
- ~ Teem = to be full, as though ready to bring forth young; abound; swarm
- Birds
- Day Six – Animals and Man (vs 24-31)
- Animals
- Man
- From God’s image
- & Film – images are made from the negatives
- % Be fruitful and increase in number
- % Rule over every living creature
- God gives all green plants for food
- God is pleased with what he made
- Day Seven – Rest (vs 2:1-3)
- SR# 7673 - Rested = to repose, desist from exertion
- @ Exodus 16:22-23 – Sabbath first commands to honor God’s rest
- Creation of Man (Genesis 2:4 - 2:25)
- Eden (vs 1-17)
- God placed man there
- Trees
- Trees that are pleasing and good to eat
- Tree of life
- Tree of knowledge of good and evil
- Rivers
- Pishon – winds through the land of gold (Havilah)
- Gihon - winds through the land of Cush
- Tigris – east side of Asshur
- Euphrates
- % Do not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil – you will die
- Adam names all the creators (vs 19-20)
- God watched to see what he would name them
- What ever he gave them, it was their name
- Formation of Woman (vs 18,20-25)
- While Adam was sleeping – God caused
- Formed from Adam’s rib
- SR# 6763 - Rib = a side, literally (of a person)
- Called Eve
- Woman = “taken from man”
- Will become one flesh
- @ Ephesians 5:31 – Quoted in the NT
- Naked and felt no shame
- The Fall of Man (Genesis 3:1 - 3:24)
- Eden (vs 1-17)
- God placed man there
- Trees
- Trees that are pleasing and good to eat
- Tree of life
- Tree of knowledge of good and evil
- Rivers
- Pishon – winds through the land of gold (Havilah)
- Gihon - winds through the land of Cush
- Tigris – east side of Asshur
- Euphrates
- % Do not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil – you will die
- Adam names all the creators (vs 19-20)
- God watched to see what he would name them
- What ever he gave them, it was their name
- Formation of Woman (vs 18,20-25)
- While Adam was sleeping – God caused
- Formed from Adam’s rib
- SR# 6763 - Rib = a side, literally (of a person)
- Called Eve
- Woman = “taken from man”
- Will become one flesh
- @ Ephesians 5:31 – Quoted in the NT
- Naked and felt no shame
- Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:1 - 4:26)
- Eve gave birth
- Cain - “help from the Lord” – He worked the soil
- Abel - Kept flocks
- Their offering
- Abel – fat portions from the first born of the flock
- Cain – fruits of the soil
- God looked with favor toward Abel not Cain
- Cain becomes angry
- Face became downcast
- God asks Cain his anger
- If you do what is right – you will be accepted
- Do not do what is right – sin is couching at your door
- % Master your desire
- Cain kills Abel
- Lead Abel into a field
- Attacked Abel
- God asks Cain about Abel
- God - Where is he?
- Cain – Am I my brother’s keeper?
- We are our brother’s (sister’s) keeper!
- & Hebrews 3:12-13 – See to it that encourage one another daily
- God – What have you done?
- God punishes Cain
- Drove him from the land
- Hidden from God’s presence
- Ground will no longer produce crops for you
- Cain’s response
- More than I can bear – who ever finds me will kill me
- God – anyone who kill you will suffer vengeance – 7x over
- God marked Cain to identify him
- Lived in the land of Nod
- Cain’s line
- Birth to Enoch – named city Cain built after him
- Enoch birth to Irad
- Irad birth to Mehujael
- Mehujael birth to Methushael
- Methushael birth to Lamech
- Lamech
- Adah – first wife
- Jabal – father of those who lived in tents
- Jubal – father of playing harp and flute
- Zillah – second wife
- Tubal-Cain – forged tools out of bronze and iron
- Naamah (sister)
- Says - Cain death would be avenged 7x over, then Lamech 77x over
- Eve gives birth to Seth
- “God has granted me another child in place of Abel”
- Seth son’s name – Enosh
- Men began to call on the name of the Lord
- From Adam to Noah (Genesis 5:1 - 5:32)
- Adam
- Lived to be 930
- Seth
- Adam was 130 at his birth
- Lived to be 912
- Enosh
- Seth was 105 at his birth
- Lived to be 905
- Kenan
- Enosh was 90 at his birth
- Lived to be 910
- Mahalalel
- Kenan was 70 at his birth
- Lived to be 895
- Jared
- Mahalalel was 65 at his birth
- Lived to be 962
- Enoch
- Jared was 162 at his birth
- Lived to be 365
- God took him away
- Methuselah
- Enoch was 65 at his birth
- Lived to be 969 – oldest person to ever live
- Lamech
- Methuselah was 187 at his birth
- Lived to be 777
- 10. Noah
- Sons – Shem, Ham, and Japheth
- The Flood (Genesis 6:1 - 9:29)
- Causes of the Flood
- God was not contend with man forever
- Man is to be mortal
- Man’s life will be 120 or less
- Wickedness
- Every inclination of the thoughts of the heart was evil
- @ Hebrews 4:12-13 – God knows what we are thinking
- God grieved that He made man
- Heart of God filled with pain
- God would wipe out men, animals and bird
- God goes to Noah
- Noah was a righteous man
- Found favor in the eyes of God
- Blameless
- He walked with God
- Commands from God to Noah
- Make an ark
- Cypress wood
- Coat rooms with pitch, inside and out
- Dimensions: 45ft x 75ft x 450ft
- Make a roof
- Make lower, middle and upper decks
- Bring into the ark
- Two of all living creature, male and female
- Kept them alive
- Take every kind of food for you and them
- Promises to Noah
- Floodwater will come and destroy all life.
- God is putting an end to man and earth
- Covent with Noah
- You (Noah)
- Your wife
- Your sons
- Son’s wives
- Seven day from now – rain on 40 day and nights
- I will wipe out every creature I have made
- Further commands to Noah
- Take seven of every kind of male and its mate
- Take two of every kind of male and its mate
- Take seven of every kind of bird, male and female
- Noah did just as God commanded him (vs 6:22, 7:5)
- Noah obeys
- Noah 600 years old (2nd month, 17th day) when floodwaters came
- Noah, Noah’s wife, sons, their wives enter the ark (8)
- Paris of clean and unclean animals enter the ark
- Lord shut them in
- Flood begins
- All springs of the great depth burst forth
- Floodgates of heaven opened up
- Rained for 40 days and 40 nights
- Ark rose high above the earth
- All the mountains were covered by more than twenty feet
- During the flood
- Every creature perished
- Animals that moved on the ground
- Birds
- Livestock
- Wild Animals
- All creatures that swarm over the earth
- Mankind
- Every on dry land that had the breath of life
- Waters flooded the earth for 150 days
- Receding waters
- God remembered Noah and the animals
- God stopped the water
- Sent a wind over the earth
- Springs of the deep closed
- Floodgates of the heavens closed
- Water receded steadily
- 150 days
- Seventeenth day of the seventh month came to rest
- Mountains of Ararat
- Continued receding until the tenth month
- 1st day of the tenth month – tops of mountains were visible
- Noah tests for dry land
- After 40 days – Noah opens the window
- Sent a raven - flying until water dried from the earth
- Sent a dove – found no place set its feet and returned to the ark
- Waited for 7days
- Returned in the evening with an olive branch
- Waited 7 days
- Sent dove but it did not return
- Noah sees surface
- 1st day of the 1st month
- Removed covering – saw the ground was dry
- By 27th day of the 2nd month it was completely dry
- Noah leaves ark
- & Come out of the ark
- Noah
- Wife
- Son’s and their wives
- Every kind of living creature
- & Multiply and increase in number; Fill the world earth
- Noah comes out along with his family and all living creatures
- After the Flood (9:18 – 9:29)
- Noah builds an alter to the Lord
- He uses clean animals and birds
- Sacrificed burnt offering
- Lord smelled the pleasing aroma
- God - Never again will I curse the ground because of man
- God – man’s every thought is evil from childhood
- God – Never again will I destroy all living creatures
- God - Will not cease
- Seedtime and harvest
- Cold and heat
- Summer and winter
- Day and night
- God’s Covent with Noah (9:1 – 9:17)
- Same commands like those given to Adam
- % Be fruitful and increase in number (vs 9:1,7)
- Everything that lives and moves will be foods for you
- People before the flood could only each plants – (vs 9:3)
- Exception – food with lifeblood still in it
- God will demand account for these lives
- God – Never will all life be cut off by the water of a flood to destroy the earth
- Sign of the covenant - Rainbow in the clouds
- Every time a rainbow appears it reminds God of the covenant
- An everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures
- Noah and his sons
- From them came the people who would scatter over the earth
- Noah was a man of the soil
- Planted a vineyard
- Drank some of the wine and became drunk
- Laid uncovered in his tent
- Ham (father of Canann) found him and told his brothers
- Shem and Japheth covered their father nakedness
- They turned their faces so they would not see
- Noah cursed Ham (Canann) for broadcasting rather than covering Noah
- Lowest of slaves
- Slave of Shem
- Slave of Japheth
- Noah lives 350 more year and dies at 950
- Table of Nations (Genesis 10:1 - 10:32)
- Sons of Noah (Son’s line of decedents formed nations)
- Japhethites
- Gomer
- Ashkenaz
- Riphath
- Togarmah
- Magog
- Madai
- Javan
- Elishah
- Tarhish
- Kittim
- Rodanim – spread into territories with their own language
- Tubal
- Meshech
- Tiras
- Hamites
- Cush
- Seba
- Havilah
- Sabtah
- Raamah
- Sheba
- Dedan
- Sabteca
- Nimrod – mighty warrior
- Centers of his kingdom
- Bsbylon
- Erech
- Akkad
- Calneh – in Shinar
- In Assyria he built
- Nineveh
- Rehonoth Ir
- Calah
- Resen – great city and between Nineveh and Calah
- Mizraim
- Ludites
- Anamites
- Lebabites
- Naphtuhites
- Pathrustics
- Casluhites – Where the Philistines came
- Caphtorites
- Put
- Canann (borders reached Sidom to Gerar, Gaza to Sodom, Gomorah, Admah and Zeboiim as far as Lasha
- Sidon – first born of the Hitties
- Jebusites
- Amorites
- Girgashites
- Hivites
- Arkites
- Sinites
- Arvadites
- Zemarites
- Hamathites
- Semites (Mesha toward Sephar) eastern him country
- Elam
- Asshur
- Arphaxad
- Shelah
- Eber
- Peleg – at the time the earth was divided
- Joktan
- Almodad
- Sheleph
- Hazarmaveth
- Jerah
- Hadoram
- Uxal
- Diklah
- Obal
- Abimael
- Sheba
- Ophir
- Havilah
- Jobab
- Lud
- Aram
- Uz
- Hul
- Gether
- Meshech
- The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1 - 11:9)
- Whole world had one language
- Men moved eastward
- Toward the Shinar plain
- Settled there
- The Plan
- Make bricks
- Use tar as mortar
- Build a city
- Build a tower that reaches to the heavens
- The Purpose
- To make a name for our self
- So they would not be scattered
- Disobedience to the command that God gave to fill the earth (Genesis 9:1)
- God sees what men are doing
- Sees them speaking one language
- No sin will be impossible for them
- God acts to save creation
- Confuses languages
- Stopped building the city
- Scatters people all over the earth
- Called Babel – where the Lord confused the languages of the whole world
- Patriarchal History
- The Life of Abraham (Genesis 11:10 - 25:18)
- From Shem to Abram
- Shem (lived to be 500)
- Arphaxad (Shem was 100 years [2 years after flood] old when born) (Lived to be 403)
- Shelah (Arphaxad was 35 years old when born) (Lived to be 403)
- Eber (Shelah was 30 years old when born) (Lived to be 430)
- Peleg (Eber was 34 years old when born) (Lived to be 209)
- Reu (Peleg was 30 years old when born) (Lived to be 207)
- Serug (Reu was 32 years old when born) (Lived to be 200)
- Nahor (Serug was 30 years old when born) (Lived to be 119)
- Terah (Nahor was 29 years old when born) (Lived to be 205)
- Abram (wife was Sarai – barren and had no children)
- Nahor (wife was Mialcah, daughter of Haran)
- Haran – died in Ur of the Chaldeans
- Lot
- Milcah (Nahor’s wife)
- Iscah
- Call of Abram
- Terah took Abram, Lot, and Sarai set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to Canaan
- They ended up in Haran and settled there
- Terah (Abram’s father) died in Haran
- God gives Abram direction
- % Leave your country, your people, and your father’s household
- % Go to the land God shows him
- God promised Abram good things
- Make you into a great nation
- I will bless you
- Make your name great
- Bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you
- Abram left for Canaan
- Who/what went with him
- Sarai
- Lot
- Possessions they had accumulated
- People they had required in Haran
- Abram was 75 years old
- Traveled through site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem
- Canaanites were in the land
- God appears to Abram
- I will give your offspring this land
- Abraham built an alter to the Lord
- Abram went to the hills east of Bethel (Bethel on the west; Ali to the east)
- Pitched a tent
- Abraham built an alter to the Lord
- Called on the name of the Lord
- Set out to Negev
- Abram in Egypt
- Left because of the severe famine
- Abram’s deception
- He Sarai is so beautiful he fears the Egyptians will want her and kill him
- He tell his wife to say she is his sister
- Egyptians saw that she was beautiful
- Officials praised to Pharaoh
- Took her to the palace
- They treated Abram well because of her sake and acquired:
- Sheep
- Cattle
- Male donkeys
- Female donkeys
- Menservants
- Maidservants
- Camels
- God inflicted disease on Pharaoh and his household because of Sarai
- Pharaoh summoned Abram
- Pharaoh asked
- “What have you done?”
- “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?”
- “Why did you tell me she was your sister?”
- Pharaoh gave back Sarai
- Abram was ordered to leave along with his wife and everything he had
- Abram and Lot separate
- Abram went up from Egypt to Negev with:
- Wife
- Lot
- Everything he had
- Livestock
- Silver
- Gold
- Went from place to place from Negev to Bethel
- And then settled to a place where he was before (see picture II-A-3-d)
- Abram Rescues Lot
- God’s Covenant with Abram
- Hagar and Ishmael
- Covenant of Circumcision
- Three Visitors
- Abraham pleads for Sodom
- Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
- Lot and His Daughters
- Abraham and Abimelech
- Birth of Isaac
- Treaty at Beersheba
- Abraham Tested
- Nahor’s Sons
- Death of Sarah
- Isaac and Rebekah
- Death of Abraham
- The Life of Isaac (Genesis 25:19 - 26:35)
- The Family of Isaac
- The Failure of Isaac
- The Failure of Esau
- The Life Jacob (Genesis 27:1 - 36:35)
- Jacob Gains Esau’s Blessing
- Jacob Life at Haran
- Jacob Return
- Jacob’s Residence in Canaan
- The History of Esau
- The Life of Joseph (Genesis 37:1 - 50:26)
- The Corruption of Joseph’s FamilyJoseph’s Dream
- Joseph Sold by His Brothers
- The Exaltation of Joseph
- The Salvation of Jacob’s Family
- Jacob goes to Egypt