Bible Stories

Story of Gideon: Gideon Asked God for Signs 3 Times

Midian Oppresses Israel (Judges 6:1-10) And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. And the hand of Midian prevaile...

Solomon Turns From the Lord and Israel Divides

Solomon's Foreign Wives (1 Kings 11:1-8) Sweet Publishing / FreeBibleimages.org CC BY-SA 3.0 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of...

The Queen of Sheba Visits Solomon

The Queen of Sheba (1 Kings 10:1-13) And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions. And she came to Jerusalem wi...

1 Kings 8:1-11 The Ark Enters the Temple

Solomon Builds the Temple

Preparations for the Temple (1 Kings 5:1-12) And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lov...

Solomon Judges Wisely

Solomon Judges Wisely (1 Kings 3:16-28) Then came there two women, that were harlots, to the king, and stood before him. And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I...

1 Kings 3:1-5 the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night

Solomon’s Prayer for Wisdom

Solomon's Rule Consolidated (1 Kings 3:1-5) And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of bui...

Solomon Anointed King

David Renews his Oath to Bathsheba (1 Kings 1:28-31) Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king. And the king swore, and s...

1 Kings 1:5-10 Adonijah Usurps the Kingdom

David Renews His Oath to Bathsheba

Abishag Cares for David (1 Kings 1:1-4) Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat. Why his servants said to him, Let there be sought for my ...

Absalom’s Death

Absalom Killed (2 Samuel 18:1-18) And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds over them. And David sent forth a third part of the people...

Hushai’s Warning Saves David

Hushai Counters Ahithophel's Advice (2 Samuel 17:1-14) Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: And I will ...

Samson’s Vengeance and Death

Samson Escapes Gaza (Judges 16:1-3) Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in to her. And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come here. And they compassed him in, and la...

Samson Defeats the Philistines

Samson's Marriage (Judges 14:-7) And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have...

The Birth of Samson

The Birth of Samson (Judges 13:1-25) And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. And there was ...

Joshua’s Death

Joshua's Charge to Leaders (Joshua 23:1-16) And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age...

The Sun Stands Still

The Sun Stands Still (Joshua 10:12-15) Then spoke Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stan...

Joshua Defeats Five Kings

Five Kings War against Gibeon (Joshua 10:1-11) Now it came to pass, when Adonizedec king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and h...

The People From Gibeon Deceive Joshua

The Deceit of the Gibeonites (Joshua 9:1-27) And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over aga...

The Conquest of Ai

The Conquest of Ai (Joshua 8:1-29) And the LORD said to Joshua, Fear not, neither be you dismayed: take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into your hand the k...