The Deuteronomy Page: 1 / 334 A visual Journey into the Bible The Deuteronomy René Jean-Paul Dewil Copyright: René Dewil Date: October 2001 The Deuteronomy Page: 2 / 334 Copyright Clause Copyright © René Jean-Paul Dewil 2001 René Jean-Paul Dewil is identified as the sole author of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be altered without the written permission of the author. The ebook may be copied in electronic or other forms for personal use only. It may not be printed, introduced in any retrieval system, electronic or otherwise, photocopied or otherwise recorded without the prior written permission of the author. The only system where the ebook may be retrieved from is the Internet website www.theartofpainting.be, which holds the only and original text acknowledged by the author. This publication remains under copyright. Copyright: René Dewil Date: October 2001 The Deuteronomy Page: 3 / 334 Table of Contents The Deuteronomic History ............................................................................................ 1 Table of Contents .................................................................................................... 3 Part I. The Book of Joshua ........................................................................................ 6 Joshua’s Conquest of the Promised Land ............................................................... 6 Joshua’s Battles ....................................................................................................... 9 Part II. The Book of Judges ..................................................................................... 14 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 14 The Judges Othiel, Ehud, Shamgar and Deborah .................................................. 14 Jael and Sisera ....................................................................................................... 15 The Judge Gideon .................................................................................................. 19 Gideon reviews his Army .................................................................................. 19 The Judges Abimelech, Tola, Jair and Jephtah ..................................................... 22 Jephtah’s Daughter ............................................................................................. 23 The Judges Ibzan, Elon, Abdon; Manoah, father of Samson ................................ 29 The Annunciation to Manoah’s Wife ................................................................ 29 The Sacrifice of Manoah .................................................................................... 32 Samson .................................................................................................................. 34 Samson and Delilah ........................................................................................... 36 The Blinding of Samson .................................................................................... 40 The Revenge of Samson .................................................................................... 42 The Virgins of Shiloh ............................................................................................ 45 Part III. The Book of Ruth ....................................................................................... 46 Boaz, Ruth and Naomi ....................................................................................... 47 Part IV. The Book of Samuel .................................................................................. 50 The first Book of Samuel ...................................................................................... 50 Saul ........................................................................................................................ 56 The Young David ............................................................................................... 59 Saul and David ...................................................................................................... 61 David and Goliath .............................................................................................. 63 The Triumph of David ....................................................................................... 70 Saul’s attempt on David’s Life .............................................................................. 74 Jonathan pleads for David ..................................................................................... 77 David hiding from Saul ......................................................................................... 80 Abigail ................................................................................................................ 81 Saul in David’s Hands ........................................................................................... 84 Saul and the Witch of En-Dor ............................................................................... 84 Samuel’s Ghost and Saul ................................................................................... 88 Saul’s Death .......................................................................................................... 90 The Suicide of Saul ............................................................................................ 91 Copyright: René Dewil Date: October 2001 The Deuteronomy Page: 4 / 334 The second Book of Samuel .................................................................................. 93 The Anointment of David .................................................................................. 94 King David ............................................................................................................ 96 David’s Sin ............................................................................................................ 97 Bathsheba in her Bath ........................................................................................ 99 David giving the Letter to Uriah ...................................................................... 103 David and Bathsheba ....................................................................................... 106 Amnon, Tamar and Absalom .............................................................................. 110 Amnon and Tamar ........................................................................................... 111 Absalom’s Rebellion ........................................................................................... 113 Part V. The Book of Kings .................................................................................... 115 The Death of King David .................................................................................... 115 King David ....................................................................................................... 115 David and Solomon .......................................................................................... 119 King Solomon ..................................................................................................... 121 King Solomon .................................................................................................. 121 Solomon’s wisdom .............................................................................................. 123 Solomon’s Judgement ...................................................................................... 123 The Temple of Jerusalem .................................................................................... 127 The Dream of Solomon .................................................................................... 128 Solomon and the Queen of Sheba ....................................................................... 130 The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon .................................................. 130 Solomon adores foreign Gods ............................................................................. 134 Solomon sacrifying to Idols ............................................................................. 134 Rehoboam, Jeroboam and the subsequent Kings of Israel and Judah ................. 137 The Wife of Jeroboam ......................................................................................... 139 The Prophet Elijah ............................................................................................... 142 Elijah and the Angel ......................................................................................... 143 Elijah in the Desert ........................................................................................... 146 Elijah and the Widow of Zarephath ................................................................. 149 Ahab .................................................................................................................... 152 Part VI. The Second Book of Kings ....................................................................... 153 Elisha ................................................................................................................... 154 Elisha and the Multiplication of the Bread .......................................................... 157 The Kings of Israel and Judah after the times of the Prophets Elijah and Elisha 162 The Assyrian Invasion of Israel and the Assyrian Exile ..................................... 163 The Kings of Judah until the Babylonian Exile .................................................