• Fighting your “Goliaths”
• Exploring Joshua
  • Commentary on Joshua 1-24
• Exploring the book of Judges
  • Judges: the misery of sin
  • Gideon and his son
  • Jephthah and Samson
  • Weapons and warfare in ancient Israel
  • The Danites and civil war
• Exploring the book of Ruth
  • Ruth: romance and redemption
• Exploring 1 & 2 Samuel
  • The prophet Samuel and Saul
  • Lessons from the Life of King David
  • King David – additional illustrations
  • Reading between the lines: David and Uriah
  • Bathsheba: queen and mother
• Bible concepts – review of the historical books
• Bible facts – multiple-choice quiz
• Bible trivia – details from Israel’s history
• God’s Relationship with His People in The Books of History

Most of the above articles were written by Jim Herst and Tim Finlay in the mid 1990s, posted on our website in 2002, and edited again in 2012. Copyright Grace Communion International. All rights reserved.