Last week, Hosea criticized Israel (the 10 northern tribes) because they had abandoned Yahweh, the true God.  He smacked them with God’s Law and said they were no longer the […]

Last week, we learned how God rescued the Israelites time after time.  He brought them through the waters of the “Reed Sea” (which may be the today’s Red Sea), turned […]

Hosea is the first book of the 12 Minor Prophets in the Old Testament, often called “The Twelve.”  The Old Testament Apocrypha book of Sirach says this about the Minor […]

Last week, we finished with the Israelites hemmed in by the sea on one side, with Pharaoh and his army on the other.  Moses then told the Israelites not to […]

In the last lesson, we learned how Jonathan was killed and how Simon then became ruler of Judea.  We also read a section praising Simon, for Simon had achieved true […]

The Lord, Yahweh, gave Moses instructions about Passover within the context of the tenth plague.  In that plague, the firstborn male would die, if the doorpost of the house was […]

Moses has continued to confront Pharaoh, yet Pharaoh has refused to let Israel go, even after nine plagues.  Although Pharaoh had agreed to let the Hebrews go to worship Yahweh […]

Last week, we learned that Trypho, a general trying to seize the Seleucid throne, had slaughtered 1,000 of Jonathan’s men and Jonathan also.  However, 1 Maccabees left the specifics of […]