Joshua 3 through I Samuel 25

Priests carry the Ark of Covenant

When they touch the water/River dry like cement

People crossed/Joshua led army to the wall

Priests circled Jericho/On seventh day it fall

Joshua took over city/Rehab left alive
People of Midian were a new opposing side
Angel sent to Gideon to destroy altar

Of a fake god/Praise God it began to bother

The Midian's upset/Gideon gathered army of 300
Snuck up on Midians/Blew horns/Scared every head
It was dark/Midians fighting themselves
Gideon won the battle without fighting/Did well
Jephthah banned from home/Returned as a general

Led army defeated Ammonites/Stood tall

Offered a sacrifice of the first thing he see

He saw his daughter/Killing her was key
Then came Samson/Weakness was his hair

Killed a lion/Found honey there

Betrayed by his wife/Killed thirty people

His next wife Delilah/Proved to be unequal

She made a deal/Cut his hair/Taken prisoner

Ask God for strength/Destroyed Temple/No fear

Old lady Naomi and Ruth went to Bethlehem

Met Boaz/Ruth laid next to him

They had a baby to make Naomi happy

Elkanah had two wives/Hannah no baby

Penninah had two/Teased Hannah every year

Hannah prayed/Eli a priest said patience dear

Wish granted/Gave birth to Samuel
Hannah gave him to Eli to raise him well
God spoke to Samuel to say Eli's kids dishonest
Eli then pardoned them as priests and honored it

Israelites defeated/Philistines took Ark of Covenant

Eli the priest was told this and fell to his death
Philistines took Ark/Sat next to their God
Statue mysteriously destroyed/Life became hard
Rats ran about/Boils broke out
With untrained cows/Ark sent on a route

Ark of Covenant returned to its people

Samuel needed to appoint King/Asked God what to do
He then annointed Saul of Benjamin/Saul asked why
Time passed/Ammonites threatened to take right eye
Of every citizen of Jabesh/Saul defeated them
Philistines were to invade/Samuel said wait for him

At the end of seven days/Saul grew impatient

Lit a fire/A offering/Samuel upset

Since Saul did not wait for his signal

Samuel declared that another family will rule Israel
God now chooses Dave/Son of Jesse to be King
David dared to fight Goliath with a sling
Goliath a giant in bronze armor/Israelites scared
David with five pebbles/Slung one to his forehead
Killed Goliath/Decided outcome of war

Saul made him family/Offered his daughter

Saul later became jealous/Tried to kill David
Michal his wife/Gave a rope for escape/That he did
Johnathan/Saul's son/Visit David snuck up on him
In a cave/Cut Johnathan's coat to make guilt set ill
To show he could have easily killed Johnathan

In return Saul no longer jealous/David the better man

David asked wealthy Nabal for food/He denied

Wife Abigail gave them food/Nabal died