Lectionary Study Guide Flashcards

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Joshua 3
Where were the priests with the ark of the covenant while the people crossed the Jordan?

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Priests holding ark, standing in the middle of the Jordan, on dry ground.

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Joshua 5
When does the manna stop?

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When the people eat the produce from the land of Canaan. The day after Passover.

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Joshua 24
How does Joshua respond to the people saying they will serve God?

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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.

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Judges 4
What judge served after Ehud?

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Deborah, prophetess and wife of Lappidoth

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Ruth 1
Know the nationalities of Naomi and Ruth, as well as how they’re related.

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Naomi: Euphratite (Hebrew)
Ruth: Moabite
Naomi is Ruth’s mother-in-law

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Ruth 3-4
What does Ruth do to win Boaz’s affection?

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  • 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
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1 Samuel 1
Hannah, Eli, Samuel, goings on at tabernacle.

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  • 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
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1 Samuel 2
Summary of what Hannah says about God

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  • 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
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1 Samuel 2
What Samuel did as boy

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Ministering before the Lord, continued to grow in stature and in favor with the Lord and with the people

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1 Samuel 3
Plot, How Samuel is identified in v. 20

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  • 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
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1 Samuel 8
What does Samuel say the king will do to the people?

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  • 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.
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1 Samuel 15-16
What happens with Samuel, Jesse, David. Content of 16:7.

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  • 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.”
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1 Samuel 17
Storyline

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  • 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.
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1 Samuel 17-18
Goings-on with David, Saul, Jonathan

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  • 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.
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2 Samuel 1
What is David’s response to Saul’s death?

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David is really sad and laments.

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2 Samuel 5
What happens with this covenant?

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They anoint David King over Israel

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2 Samuel 6
What does David do before the ark? How does his wife respond?

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Danced and celebrated before the ark. Michal daughter of Saul, his wife, despised David in her heart

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2 Samuel 7
What promise does God make at the end of this text?

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Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me; your throne shall be established forever.

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2 Samuel 11
Storyline

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  • 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.
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2 Samuel 11-12
Nathan’s parable.

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  • 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
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2 Samuel 18
What happens to Absalom. David’s response.

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  • 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!”
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2 Samuel 23
How does David describe God’s covenant on his deathbed?

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For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure.

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1 Kings 2-3
Solomon’s dream

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  • God asked what he should give Solomon,
  • Solomon asked for wisdom to guide and lead the people.
  • God pleased by response. Pledges to give him that, that he be the wisest king ever, but also riches and honor, and if he is faithful, a long life.
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1 Kings 8
How is the temple dedicated? How does it involve all humanity?

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When a foreigner comes and prays toward this house, then hear in heaven your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and so that they may know that your name has been invoked on this house that I have built.

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1 Kings 17
Storyline

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  • Elijah is called to be fed by widow in sidon,
  • meets her and asks for food, when she says she has little, promises it won’t run out, God will provide,
  • her single jar was enough to feed her family and Elijah miraculously,
  • her son died,
  • Elijah brought him back to life
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1 Kings 18
Storyline

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  • Elijah faces off against the hundreds of prophets of Baal,
  • tells them to construct a fire, but don’t light it, putting a bull on there as an offering, then to call upon Baal to light it,
  • the prophets of Baal do it, and call out for hours, the fire remains unlit,
  • Elijah puts 12 stones on his altar, then pours a bunch of water on his, then calls on God,
  • God lights the fire immediately,
  • everyone sees God’s power
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1 Kings 19
Ahab & Jezebel in relation to Elijah

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King Ahab told Queen Jezebel that Elijah had killed all of the prophets of Baal, so she told Elijah she would kill him by tomorrow, he goes into hiding.

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1 Kings 19
Instructions regarding Elisha and Jehu

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  • You shall anoint Jehu as king over Israel
  • You shall anoint Elisha as prophet in your place.
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1 Kings 19
How Elisha joins Elijah

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  • God calls Elijah to appoint Elisha as prophet in his place,
  • Elisha was plowing with 12 yoke of oxen,
  • Elijah threw his cloak over him,
  • Elisha runs after Elijah, asks to kiss his mother and father before following him,
  • Slaughtered a yoke of oxen and fed the people, farewell dinner,
  • followed Elijah, becoming his servant
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1 Kings 21
Storyline

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  • Ahab wants a vineyard near Samaria, asks Naboth to sell it to him,
  • Naboth refuses, claiming God said not to sell ancestral land,
  • Ahab is bummed, tells Jezebel,
  • She hatches a plan: Writing letter as Ahab, tells people to have feast, set Naboth at head of table, surround him with scoundrels, have them accuse him, and stone him to death,
  • they do just that, Naboth is dead,
  • Ahab possesses vineyard,
  • Elijah finds out and opposes Ahab
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2 Kings 2
What do prophets do at Jordan? What does Elisha ask?

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  • Cross the Jordan on dry land as waters miraculously divide,
  • “Please let me inherit a double share of your spirit.”
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2 Kings 2
How does Elijah end his time on earth?

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a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them, and Elijah ascended in a whirlwind into heaven.

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2 Kings 4
Storyline

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  • A man came to give a food offering to Elisha,
  • Elisha told him to give it to the people,
  • the man said not enough food for so many hungry people,
  • Elisha said there would be enough, with food left over,
  • The people ate, and there was food leftover
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2 Kings 5
Storyline

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  • Naaman, army commander for King Aram, had leprosy,
  • Jewish women told him about Elisha,
  • Wrote to King of Israel, asking to be cured,
  • King tore clothes, how can he heal? - Elisha hears this and sends for Naaman,
  • Naaman at Elisha’s house, Elisha sends messenger, telling him to wash 7 times in Jordan river,
  • At first Naaman mad Elisha sent messenger and told him just to wash, surely he could have washed in any river,
  • But is convinced to give it a try,
  • He washes 7 times in Jordan, and is healed
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Nehemiah 8
V. 8 suggests we have the first recorded sermon. Note the context.

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Ezra teaches all the people in the town square, finally after exile, the rebuilding of the temple and walls
“So they read from the book, from the law of God, with interpretation. They gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.”

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Esther 7&9
This includes the command to observe Purim. What’s the story?

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  • Esther asks the King to relent from killing the Jews, saying Haman had created gallows to kill her uncle Mordecai,
  • The king agrees and kills Haman instead,
  • All of the Jewish people are saved
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Song of Solomon 2
Images of lover & creation

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Lover: Gazelle or young stag,

Creation: Flowers appear, time of singing, voices of turtledoves, fig trues put out figs, vines in blossom, giving out fragrance

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Lamentations 1
In exile, what has become of Zion’s lovers and friends?

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Lovers: no one to comfort her

Friends: dealt treacherously with her, become her enemies

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Lamentations 3
What comes before talk of God’s love and faithfulness?

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  • Affliction under Rod of God’s wrath,
  • Darkness,
  • God turns hand against me,
  • Skin and flesh waste away, bones broken,
  • Bitterness and tribulation,
  • Heavy chains,
  • Cry for help, prayer shut out,
  • Blocked my ways
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Job 1-2
Storyline

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  • Job lived upright and faithful life
  • the satan comes to present himself before God
  • God asks if he has noticed how good Job is
  • the satan says if he is afflicted, he will curse God
  • God tells the satan to do is worst, just spare Job’s life
  • Job covered in sores
  • wife tells him to curse God
  • Job “shall we recieve the good from God, but not the bad”
  • Job did not sin or curse God
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Job 14
Contrast Trees and Humans

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Trees last and regrow
Humans live and die quickly

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Job 14
What does Job want in v 13?

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Job wants God to hide him in the place of the dead until God’s anger subsides, but then to set a time to go and get him again

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Job 19
Know Job’s words in vv. 25-26

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For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God,

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Job 23
Job’s accusation in v. 16

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God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me

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Job 38
What’s the nature of God’s questions to Job?

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Did you make all of creation? Basically, who is Job to question God, who created and knows all

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Job 42
Storyline

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  • Job repents and declares God’s goodness
  • Job prays for his friends
  • God restores Job’s fortune, but even better than before
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Proverbs 1
Consequence of ignoring wisdom (vv 26-27)

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Calamity, panic, distress, and anguish will come upon you, and wisdom will laugh

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Proverbs 8
How is wisdom personified? Time described

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As a “she”, set up before the earth, created at the beginning

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Proverbs 9
How is wisdom personified? Wisdom invites ___?

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As a “she”, invites everyone for a dinner party

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Proverbs 25
Basic message?

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Don’t take positions of honor, it is better to be invited into them, than to be cast away from them

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Proverbs 22
Attitude toward the poor?

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Be generous towards the poor, it is better to be a good person, than to have riches

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Proverbs 31
Summary of woman

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Works hard, looks after the family, cares for the poor, not obsessed with vanity, fears God

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Ecclesiastes 1-2
Basic message?

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All this work and effort is useless toiling

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Ecclesiastes 3
What is God’s gift?

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it is God’s gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil.