Lectionary Study Guide Flashcards
Joshua 3
Where were the priests with the ark of the covenant while the people crossed the Jordan?
Priests holding ark, standing in the middle of the Jordan, on dry ground.
Joshua 5
When does the manna stop?
When the people eat the produce from the land of Canaan. The day after Passover.
Joshua 24
How does Joshua respond to the people saying they will serve God?
He warns that God is jealous, so they only should serve God if they are sure they won’t serve other Gods as well.
They agree, and Joshua made a covenant with the people.
Judges 4
What judge served after Ehud?
Deborah, prophetess and wife of Lappidoth
Ruth 1
Know the nationalities of Naomi and Ruth, as well as how they’re related.
Naomi: Euphratite (Hebrew)
Ruth: Moabite
Naomi is Ruth’s mother-in-law
Ruth 3-4
What does Ruth do to win Boaz’s affection?
- Go to the threshing floor while he is asleep, uncover his feet, lie down next to him
- He respected her immensely because of her devotion to Naomi and her work ethic
1 Samuel 1
Hannah, Eli, Samuel, goings on at tabernacle.
- Hannah Barren, goes to temple at Shiloh, praying and crying, vows, if she has son, she will devote him to God
- Eli thought she was drunk
- Hannah conceives a son, named Samuel
1 Samuel 2
Summary of what Hannah says about God
- There is none like God,
- No rock like God,
- God of knowledge,
- Lord kills and brings to life,
- Lord makes poor and makes rich,
- Lord raises up the poor and needy, giving them places on honor,
- God will guard the faithful, his adversaries will be shattered
1 Samuel 2
What Samuel did as boy
Ministering before the Lord, continued to grow in stature and in favor with the Lord and with the people
1 Samuel 3
Plot, How Samuel is identified in v. 20
- Heard “Samuel, Samuel,” assumed it was Eli, but Eli said it wasn’t him. Happened 3 times, Eli tells him it was God,
- fourth time: “Samuel, Samuel,” “your servant is listening,”
- God is going to punish Eli’s house, sons blaspheming God,
- Eli, asked about vision, Samuel tells him, Eli says “It is the Lord, let him do what seems good to him,”
- V20: all of Israel knew Samuel to be a trustworthy prophet of the Lord
1 Samuel 8
What does Samuel say the king will do to the people?
- He will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen.
- He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.
- He will take the best of your fields and vineyards.
- He will take one-tenth of your grain and of your vineyards.
- He will take your male and female slaves, and the best of your cattle and donkeys.
- He will take one-tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.
1 Samuel 15-16
What happens with Samuel, Jesse, David. Content of 16:7.
- God calls Samuel to anoint a new king, sends him to Jesse, to anoint one of his sons.
- He sees the 7 oldest, and none are right, not until the youngest, David, who God tells Samuel to anoint as King.
-16:7 - But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the LORD does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”
1 Samuel 17
Storyline
- Goliath, representing the Philistines, called out to battle someone.
- David volunteers, Saul doubts, David ensures that God has allowed him to defeat bears and stuff, so Saul lets him go to battle.
- At first, Saul gives him his armor, but it is too much for David.
- David goes out with his sling and shoots Goliath in the head, killing him, and winning.
1 Samuel 17-18
Goings-on with David, Saul, Jonathan
- David slays Goliath, Saul impressed, brings him home,
- Jonathan loves David, makes a covenant with him, gives him his clothes,
- Saul made David an army leader, he was successful,
- One day, Saul tried to kill David with a spear, but David survived,
- Saul made David the commander of 1000 men, David was successful and had God with him.
2 Samuel 1
What is David’s response to Saul’s death?
David is really sad and laments.
2 Samuel 5
What happens with this covenant?
They anoint David King over Israel
2 Samuel 6
What does David do before the ark? How does his wife respond?
Danced and celebrated before the ark. Michal daughter of Saul, his wife, despised David in her heart
2 Samuel 7
What promise does God make at the end of this text?
Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me; your throne shall be established forever.
2 Samuel 11
Storyline
- King David is not fighting in the war,
- Sees Uriah’s wife bathing on her roof.
- He sleeps with her and she gets pregnant. - David calls Uriah back from the war, hoping he will sleep with his wife.
- He refuses, as he wants to be noble.
- David then sends him to the front lines, and instructs others to let him get killed.
2 Samuel 11-12
Nathan’s parable.
- Two men, one rich and one poor.
- Rich man had lots of animals,
- Poor man one little ewe, who was like a child to him.
- Traveler came to rich man, instead of killing his own animal to feed him, kills the poor man’s ewe
2 Samuel 18
What happens to Absalom. David’s response.
- Absalom tries to lead a revolt against his dad, King David, but his people are defeated.
- Although David warned not to hurt Absalom, his head got stuck in a tree, and his mule kept riding.
- 10 of Joab’s men killed him.
- David’s response: “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”