The Strand Study Bible

THE OLD TESTAMENT AND WORLD HISTORY

- Early Druid accounts from England record for us a legend that the world had been re-peopled from a righteous man who had been saved in a strong ship from a Flood that was sent to destroy man for his wickedness. - Early Greenland accounts record for us a legend of the earth once tilting over in which all men drowned, except one man and a woman, who re-peopled the earth. - Early Polinesian accounts record for us a legend of a Flood from which eight people escape. - Early Mexican accounts record for us a legend of a man and his wife and children who were saved in a ship from a Flood, which overwhelmed the earth. - Early Peruvian accounts record for us a legend of a man and a woman who were saved in a box that floated on floodwaters. - Early American Indian accounts record for us legends of between 1,3, and/or 8 people were saved in a boat above the waters on a high mountain. These primitive records, carved on stone and clay tablets, at the very dawn of history, in the original home of man, preserved under the dust of the ages, and now at last brought to light by the spade of archaeologists, are evidence that the main features of the Biblical story of Creation and the Flood became deeply fixed in the thought of ancient man. NOTE – The Book, which men call the Bible, is historically credible, scientifically accurate, and has been derived by inspiration from the Spirit of God. According to both secular history and the Scriptures ( Rev 17:9-11 ), there were six different kingdoms (world powers) that once ruled much of the known world during their time. The following is a list of those World Empires: 5. Greece (ruled much of the world from 331-146 BC) 6. Rome (ruled much of the world from 146 BC – AD 476) * Under the Egyptian Empire (c. 1600-1200 BC) came the following Old Testament books [in chronological order]: Genesis (c. 4000-1632 BC) Job (c. 1625 BC) Exodus (1632-1486 BC) Leviticus (1486 BC) Joshua (1447-1395 BC) Judges (c. 1425-1100 BC) Ruth (c. 1275-1265 BC) * Between Egypt’s failing empire and Assyria’s rise to power came the following Old Testament books [in chronological order] Many of the Psalms (c. 1485-536 BC) I and II Chronicles (1043-536 BC) Proverbs (c. 1008-985 BC) The Song of Solomon (c. 1005 BC) Ecclesiastes (c. 970 BC) * Under the Assyrian Empire (745-612 BC) came the following Old Testament books [in chronological order]: II Kings (895-560 BC) Joel (c. 865 BC) Jonah (c. 780 BC) Amos (c. 765 BC) Hosea (c. 765-723 BC) Isaiah (748-700 BC) Micah (c. 747-704 BC) * Under the Babylonian Empire (612-539 BC) came the following Old Testament books [in chronological order]: Nahum (c. 628 BC) Numbers (1486-1448 BC) Deuteronomy (1448 BC) I Samuel (1135-1050 BC) II Samuel (1050-1010 BC) I Kings (1010-886 BC) 1. Egypt (ruled much of the world from c. 1600-1200 BC) 2. Assyria (ruled much of the world from c. 745-612 BC) 3. Babylon (ruled much of the world from 612-539 BC) 4. Medo-Persia (ruled much of the world from 539-331 BC)

Zephaniah (c. 628 BC) Jeremiah (627-561 BC)

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