The Ammonites and Moabites descended from Lot and Lot's daughters. The Ammonites were descendants of Lot and Lot's oldest daughter and their son Ammon, and the Moabites were descendants of Lot and Lot's youngest daughter and their son Ben-ammi. The inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead were Israelites, descendants of Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, and Isaac and Rebekah's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel). Abraham, Sarah, Nahor (Nachor) and Lot's father Haran were siblings, and Rebekah and Laban the Syrian (Aramean) were siblings. In Padan Aram, Haran, Jacob was married to Laban's daughters Leah and Rachel. Over 750 years after
Levi was born to Jacob and Leah,
Samuel the
priest, prophet and
judge was born into the
tribe of
Levi to Elkanah and
Hannah. When Samuel was elderly, and his sons Joel (Vashni) and Abiah (Abijah) were not obeying the commands of the Lord God, and
King Nahash and his
Ammonite army were preparing to attack, the Israelite elders demanded that Samuel appoint a
king to lead them, and Samuel anointed
Saul, from the
tribe of Jacob and Rachel's
2nd and last son
Benjamin, to reign, according to the command of the Lord God. Sometime after Saul was anointed and began ruling over the Israelites in the
Promised Land, Nahash and his army camped in strategic positions against the Israelites in
Jabesh-gilead, an Israelite town located on the other side of the
Jordan River. The
divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that at least twice after receiving instructions from Samuel, Saul did
not obey the commands of the Lord God. While Saul reigned, the Lord God sent Samuel to anoint
David, from the
tribe of Jacob and Leah's 4th born son
Judah to reign as
king. When Saul heard about David's skills, strength, appearance, and favor with the Lord God, he commanded that David's father Jesse send David to him, and David began serving as a
musician and an armor-bearer for Saul. Amid the Valley of Elah, David killed
Goliath the gigantic Philistine. David and
Jonathan, Saul's son, made a
covenant. The Israelite women sang of David higher than they sang of Saul, and Saul was
angry. Saul wanted to kill David, and became afraid of David, and sent David on missions to get killed, and commanded others, including Jonathan, to kill David. Saul's daughter
Michal was married to David and helped David
escape from their home. After the Philistines killed Jonathan and his brothers
Malchishua and Abinadab (Ishui?), and Saul's self-inflicted
death on the same battlefield, men from the tribe of Judah anointed
30-year-old David, and David began to reign
only over the tribe of Judah. Saul's son
Ishbosheth (Eshbaal) ruled over the other Israelite tribes. Sometime after Ishbosheth was
murdered, the Israelite elders went to David, and David made a covenant with them. The elders anointed 37-year-old David, and David became the 2nd king to rule over
all of the Israelites in the Promised Land, the land that the Lord God promised to
give to Abraham,
and Isaac, and
to Jacob,
and their descendants. At least 950 years after
Solomon, a son born to David and
Bathsheba, became the 3rd
king to rule over all of the Israelites, and
70-year-old David died,
Jesus the Christ, the
Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of
Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the
tribe of
Judah to Mary and her husband
Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 26:28-37, 27:12-23, 32:1-42, Deuteronomy 3:1-29, 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 13:1-33, 17:1-18, 23:1-24:33, Judges, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1:1-2:12, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-55, 3:1-24, 8:1-40, 9:35-29:30, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26