As many of you have noted, I incorrectly and offhandedly referred to Canaan/Israel as Palestine twice in this video. It was a simple, honest mistake. The correct choice would have been Canaan. I appreciate the kind-hearted feedback from some. For the rest of you, chill out and stop accusing people on the internet of supporting terrorists.

I didn’t think you could summarize the Old Testament in 8 minutes. You did a good job outlining it in a fun way.

I thought this was a fantastic video. It's so hard to condense the OT down to 8 minutes, but you managed to do it - and it was a clear and concise explanation. Thank you so much for your hard work. I learned a great deal.

I cant wait 2 give Jesus a big hug oneday ....😍

That was absolutely fabulous. I can't emphasize enough how meaningful it is for an older person to have so clear a chronology after first hearing these stories as a small child. THANK YOU

For 8 minutes, that was pretty dang good. Sure it wasn’t 100% accurate and he left stuff out. But come on. It was 8 minutes to go over a gazillion pages.

And it rained for 40 days and 40 nights and Noah said to his wife “this is the last time we holiday in Scotland!” 😄

Thank you for distilling a long and complicated history into an understandable scaffold upon which detailed knowledge can be attached. It was a worthwhile effort and is appreciated.

A Muslim over here doing research on Old Testament, summary was very helpful. I must say OT & NT helps me a lot to strengthen my faith!!

I was working on a Timeline to teach in Malawi next week and I thought; maybe I can find a video on KZfaq that will explain well the Overview with pictures.... So I found your video... Thanks a lot. I'm missionary in South Africa and we teach leaders in the poor communities across the board, it will help a lot now in Malawi. Thanks...

I learned more from this 8 minute video than my 4 years at Catholic middle school. No joke. Great video. (About religion, that is).

For 8 minutes, this is really good and helpful for understanding!

I recently was called to read the Bible. I picked up an English standard version and am almost done reading the first testament I was surprised on how much I remembered since it’d been years since I’ve picked up a bible It’s really nice re reading as an adult (22y/o)

The area you refer to as Palestine wasn't called that until after the timeline you are talking about. It was called Canaan before it was Israel and Judah.

I'm an atheist, and I found this video to be informative, well presented and well animated. :)

Thankyou for this quick overview of the OT !!! The visuals help lock the OT history in my memory.

I thought this was really well done - thanks so much for the time and effort this took - especially the video production - props to animation department - great job syncing everything

This is a FANTASTIC overview!!!!! Well done, thank you for posting it.

I actually appreciate how this was more of a secular history lesson, giving broad strokes and historical context. It's hard to jump into these topics without getting drowned is quotes from the scripture, moral lessons, and theological discussions made about the book rather than its actual contents.

Really really great stuff...you guys realized the pain and confusion of the readers and came up with this explanation...hats off

This is Karen using Erwin’s phone. I like your summary because it’s short enough for a person to see all of the historical progression. I also like the way you connect the prophets to the relevant era and/or kingdom. Thanks to people like you and the Bible Project I am no longer afraid to pick up my Bible and open to any page and just enjoy the stories and soak up the history. Thank you for your well-constructed presentation!

When a person is truly converted they have an insatiable hunger for the scriptures.

So many books in this series. The author was really cranking these out.

I am doing a study on Hebrews from a messianic Jewish viewpoint. This video has helped immensely as it is difficult to understand the OT references in Hebrews w/o understanding the timeline and events. Thank you.

Could you do a similar compilation on the New Testament.... Please. 😀

I think you did a good job. It's silly for some people to be upset with you for not "unpacking" all the Old Testament understanding. I understand what you did was a simple introductory and if you chose to want to unpack the Old Test. then you would have simply done so in a longer video. Haters gonna hate.

Thanks MC for giving an overview of the Old Testament of the Holy Bible. It's very clear and easily understandable. Please make more great videos like this one and upload onto the yutube. God will bless you, thanks.

This was a fantastic narrative of the chronology of the Old Testament. Thank you!

Your explanation on Old Testament was brilliant.. I need for New Testament too

I thank you for the video and the timeline. I've printed copies for my family as well. I appreciate your work, and bless you and yours.

Can't get enough of this. This is remarkable.

I am teaching through the book of Isaiah at our church and needed some historical context. Your video really helped me a lot. I really like how simple and clear your presentation was. God bless you for what you do.

Correction: The area was NOT named Palestine until well after the time that this narrative calls it Palestine. It was first named Filistina by the Romans after the long gone Philistines, to hopefully erase the memory of the conquered Jews. After more that a few centuries, the name had warped into Palestine. In the 1960'sAD the arabs who lived in this region voted(!) to call themselves "Palestinians".

Nice job guys! Easy to understand, clear and very well animated! Suggest use a lapela mic.. Love from Brazil!

Thank you so very much, that was wonderful, as a good start, or as background, depending on how one is able to enjoy your efforts here. Thank you, again!

5000 years in 10minutes is contemptuous but noble. May you be wrapped in the lord’s brilliant and eternal light of never ending love.

Thank you for presenting this in a clear way.

This was awesome! I wish it was just a little more detailed. I would pay money for a 1 hour more in depth version of this. I'm very visual. So this was super helpful! Thanks for making this!

Thank you. That put a lot of things into perspective.

What an excellent summary. Have you done any more?

Good job in 8 minutes.

Thank you, that was a great overview of the OT.

Good stuff

God bless you for this quick overview!

Pretty nice and concise. I liked the visuals to go with it. Only issue was the vocals. Sounded a bit like speaking in a hall. Thank you for also including to the birth.

Wow, Thankyou, 👏👍, I have started reading my Bible this is going to help. God bless.

Totally amazing that you could do this in 8 minutes and include so many of the essentials. I have only one major correction. The Assyrians did not deport all of the people of the Northern Kingdom (Israel), nor did the Babylonians deport all the people of the Southern Kingdom (Judah). They deported the elite, who were the custodians of the tradition. Those who stayed behind from the Northern Kingdom, capital Samaria, became the Samaritans, who had mixed both physically and religiously with others who came into the area. These became the despised Samaritans of the New Testament era. That is the only point on which you risk generating confusion.

This was incredible. I definitely didn’t think I would learn anything, having been through the Tanakh so many times, but I was wrong. I’ll definitely revisit this video. Thanks!

The Israelites’ journey should’ve only taken 11 days; but they decided to complain and murmur the entire time ... making it last 40 years. #LessonLearned

This is great! could you do a new testament video or a book to book video?

Beautifully designed narrative and the flow chart was great.

Thank you for uploading the video.It's very helpful to know an overview in just 8 minutes.God bless

More correctly it's called the Tanahk and it's broken down into 3 parts Torah - 5 books of Moses Neviim- the prophets Ketuvim- the writings Torah translates to mean instructions. Shalom/Peace

Very informative. Thanks you sir for the video. I learn very important history about OT.

Thanks, a real eye opener and down to earth, plain talk version of the Old Testament🙏🏾

Thanks you so much for this overview of old testament. It's so informative. May God bless you

Thanks, that is truly helpful. your a blessing to many people! Keep doing what God wants you to.

Please don’t take my comments as “criticism”. I’ve been studying the Bible for over a half century and if I were to attempt to do an overview of the Hebrew Bible in 8 minutes, I’d need to spend at least a couple of weeks reviewing what I’ve already learned. Even then, I probably couldn’t do a better job. One of the promises to Abraham was that he would be the father of many nations. (Genesis 17:5) Given that the land between the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba has been called the “Sinai peninsula” for many hundreds of years and that there is a mountain there that has been called “Sinai” for a similarly long time, many people have failed to consider the biblical evidence (Galatians 4:25) that the location of the giving of the law was in Arabia (i.e. between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf). Many people don’t know that there is a mountain there that, as of a few decades ago, was referred to by local Bedouins as “Moses’ Mountain”. (Not critical to understanding the message of the Bible but if the Israelites were camped in Arabia at the time of the giving of the law, it lends credence to the biblical narrative that the Red Sea drowned the Egyptian army. I’ll try to find some related evidence if anyone is interested.) Ruth wasn’t Jewish. At least she wasn't a descendent of Judah. But, given that Israelites were not allowed to marry non-Israelites, Ruth, who was born a Moabites, became an Israelite by the decision she stated in Ruth 1: 176 & 17, “Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, I will die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.” Nickodemus seems to have been acquainted with the doctrine that people who weren’t born from Hebrew lineage had to be born again, as was Ruth, in order to be Israelites. What he hadbn’t considered before his famous night visit with Jesus was that even people who were born of Hebrew lineage needed to be born again in order to be part of true Israel.* One of the things that I failed to understand until after studying the Bible for at least a couple of decades is the “division of the kingdom” after the reign of Solomon. An understanding of the subject as presented in this video could help a lot of people avoid some of the misconceptions that exist today about the use of the words, “Israel” and “Judah”. Many people fail to realize that, “Israel” is the new name the given to Abraham’s grandson, Jacob (Genesis 32) and that the word, “Jew”, is derived from the name of Abraham’s great-grandson, Judah. Thus, for example, Moses was an “Israelite” in the sense of being descended from Israel (Jacob) but was of the tribe of Levi and thus not a “Jew” in the sense of being physically descended from Judah. (I’m not sure that the Babylonian kingdom deported ALL of the Jews from the southern kingdom of Judah to Babylon but maybe that detail isn’t very important.) Ever since about the middle of the twentieth century, most Christians (in the U.S. at least), if they have “studied” Bible prophecy at all have only studied what futurist commentators have written about it. Futurism and the “gap” theory to explain the prophecy of Daniel 8 & 9 was virtually unknown among protestants in the United States before the twentieth century, however. The date, 538 BC mentioned in this video (“from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem”) was important to Bible students before the twentieth century because most of them (in the U.S. at least) used the older historicist method of Bible interpretation as the starting point for the 70 weeks prophecy. It is also worth noting that at least some of the “restoration” prophecies can be understood as having been fulfilled in the days of Zerubbabel Ezra and Nehemiah. One final note about this excellent overview of the Hebrew Bible: For old codgers like myself, I wouldn't have been able to follow this rapid-fire presentation if I wasn't already acquainted with biblical history. *And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: Matthew 8:11 & 12 My kingdom is not of this world. John 18:36 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. Romans 4:13 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. Galatians 3:9 And if ye be Christ’s then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. Galatians 3:29

I appreciate this very much--you did a good job. I have an odd question: Where is the background music from?

This was so helpful!

What an interesting presentation; God bless you.

This was well put together and very helpful. I have never understood the divided kingdom before. Your visuals made it very easy to follow. I didn't know some prophets were from the north and some from the south. When is the N.T. coming? Great job and thanks for putting the time into doing this. You are ministering to many people thru this video. (Sharon)

Very enlightening, will listen again to have it sink in. Thank you.

Your background music though 😂

Fantastic video! Thank you

thank u so much for this video it helps me alot i m muslim and trying to understand the history and oldtestament

Thank you for this video and all the work you did to put it together

Just what we need. Thank you for such a concise video!

You guys are awesome! Great videos! Thank you and God Bless!

That was Phenomenally presented.😀👍

Thank you very much for making this video. Gives me a new way to study the Word of God.

Dude your channel is so good. PLEASE get a microphone to up your production value

I exceeded my expectations with this video. I wished it look serious, that Covenant is not always sinonimous of "τεsταmεητ."

Dude made one video and disappeared.

Hands down the best short chronology video i've ever witnessed.. You should be a teacher

An EXCELLENT overview! Thanks so much.

Wow so blessed by this, thank you!

Good presentation.God bless you son.

This is quite a research I was doing in recent days! Thanks for the added info!!!

Beautiful.. thank you for breaking it down. Great job💯

_Wow! Wish I could memorise all that._ TᕼᗩᑎK YOᑌ‼️

Excellent video my friend! Too many young/new Christians, and even older Christians, fall victim to neglecting the Old Testament, it’s a travesty of our faith, it makes it even more difficult for them to understand God.

It would be cool to see more of these

Good job! Love the graphics!

Thank you for this overview, I’ve been lost sometimes reading the bible, this video made bible study a lot easier for me, God bless you sir.

Very good presentation for that interesting history. I look forward to the new testament, just out of curiosity as I am interested in the old old history of the earth. I am Muslim btw.

It's unfortunate they only had one post. Very informative.

Excellent lesson, and loved the graphics you included as well! "wHy YoU nO fOlLoW GoD?" cracked me up as it's basically the tagline for the entire Bible lol

If you turn the closed captions on, everytime he says “Old Testament” the captions reads “OT”

this is awsome. can you do the New Testament as well

Quick but informative, good job showing the chronology.

Wonderful easy to understand summary thankyou for all your time and effort to make this video.

Very well done! Goes great with my current reading through my chronological study Bible.

Thanks for the overview. I’m still trying to decide if using the Simpson’s and Simon Cowell to depict biblical events is blasphemous. 😋

This was awesome.why isn’t there more videos??

This would be a great template for study and learning scriptural teachings as a basic curriculum of study. A stepping stone, if you will.

We love Him because He loved us first.

Did I hear you say " to survive the great famine in PALESTINE" ? There is no Palestine in the bible.

Wow!!!!!!!!! Learned a lot from this. Thanks for making this awesome summary. A great help for me in understanding the deepness of the Bible

Thank you for uploading the video it's very useful . God bless 😊