Study Tools
Reference companions for your reading — see where it happened, how the books fit together, who reigned when, and how the families of scripture connect.
Choose a scene to see where it happened. Illustrative maps — not drawn to scale.
Sixty-six books, two testaments, one story. Each group reads differently — knowing which shelf you’re on helps you read well.
After Solomon the kingdom split (931 BC). Judah’s throne stayed with David’s line; Israel’s changed hands by the sword. The prophets spoke into both.
Fell to Babylon, 586 BC — temple burned, people exiled 2 Kings 25
Fell to Assyria, 722 BC — the ten tribes scattered 2 Kings 17
While kings rose and fell, God kept speaking. Each prophet below ministered during the era shown.
The story of scripture is a family story. From one man called out of Ur came a nation — and in time, the Messiah.
Jacob — renamed Israel — fathered twelve sons by four women. Their families became the twelve tribes.
Levi’s sons became the priests and received no land. Joseph’s portion passed to his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh — keeping the count of tribal territories at twelve. Genesis 29–30, 35 · Genesis 48
A covenant is a binding promise God makes and keeps. Five great covenants carry the story from the flood to the cross.
Each covenant builds on the last — preservation, then a people, then a law, then a king, and at last a Savior. The New Covenant is where every earlier promise lands: “For all the promises of God find their Yes in him.” 2 Corinthians 1:20
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What the Bible’s units actually come to in today’s terms. Values are approximate — they varied by era and region.
The heart of the Law, given to Moses at Mount Sinai. Exodus 20:1–17 · Deuteronomy 5:6–21
Jesus gathered all ten into two: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart” (commandments 1–4) and “Love your neighbor as yourself” (5–10). Matthew 22:37–40