{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_16461/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_16461","id":"gutenberg_16461","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16461","summary":null,"tags":["Bible -- Study and teaching","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Teaching & Education","Christianity"],"text":"Produced by Karina Aleksandrova and the Online Distributed\nProofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE BIBLE\n\n[SECOND EDITION]\n\nBY\n\nFRANK NELSON PALMER\n\nInstructor of English Bible, Winona Schools, 1903-1911\n\nWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY\n\nREV. J. WILBUR CHAPMAN, D.D.\n\n(To First Edition)\n\nCINCINNATI\nMONFORT & COMPANY\n1914\n\nCopyright, 1914, by FRANK N. PALMER\n\n\n\n\nTABLE OF CONTENTS\n\n                                               PAGE\nINTRODUCTION                                      7\n\nPREFACE TO THE SERIES                             8\n\nPREFACE TO THE BOOK                              10\n\nCHART OF THE SIXTY-SIX BOOKS OF THE BIBLE        13\n\nTHE KINGDOM FORESHADOWED                         17\n\nTHE KINGDOM FORMING                              29\n\nTHE KINGDOM CONQUERING                           39\n\nTHE KINGDOM UNDIVIDED AND THE KINGDOM DIVIDED--\n   The Historical Books                          47\n   The Poetical Books                            55\n   The Prophetical Books                         65\n\nTHE KINGDOM IN CAPTIVITY                         73\n\nTHE KINGDOM RESTORED                             79\n\nTHE KINGDOM'S TRUE KING                          89\n\nTHE KINGDOM CONQUERING THE WORLD                 97\n   The Acts                                      98\n   The Pauline Epistles                         103\n   The General Epistles                         111\n\nTHE KINGDOM TRIUMPHANT                          117\n\n\n\n\nINTRODUCTION\n\nTO FIRST EDITION\n\n\nThe Bible is a Lamp to our feet and a light to our pathway. To know it\nthoroughly is to be kept from stumbling, and to walk in the light is\nfellowship with Him who is the heart of the Book.\n\nThe Bible is a Rock; to be familiar with its pages is to be established\nin character, in hope and in faith, and while we may sometimes tremble,\nthe rock is immovable. The Bible is the true water of life. Mr. Moody\nused to say that it comes down from on high and rises again in mighty\npower to the throne on the principle that water seeks its own level. To\nknow the Bible is, therefore, to live a heavenly life and to be filled\nwith all the fullness of the spirit of Christ.\n\nThe author of this text book knows his Bible thoroughly and he has the\nGod-given ability of making it plain to others. What is here presented\nhe has worked out in the class room and in his own rich Christian\nexperience. I count it a privilege to write this line of introduction.\nThe members of the Young People's Societies in the churches, Christian\nAssociations, Bible study classes and Christian workers generally will\nfind it most helpful. A busy business man by means of it could think his\nway through much of God's Word. It is a timely presentation of a great\nsubject. I am sure that God will bless it richly to all who attempt to\nstudy it.\n\nJ. WILBUR CHAPMAN.\n\n\n\n\nPREFACE TO THE SERIES\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSEARCH Series of Bible Study Text Books\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_\"Be Ye Explorers of the Writings.\"_--JOHN 5:39\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTeachers of the Scriptures are issuing many valuable aids to Bible\nstudy. This series of text books is based upon the \"Search\" idea. We\nbelieve this idea is fundamental. It is commended to the student public\nfor the following reasons:\n\n_It is the Divine Method._\n\n\"_Seek_ ye out of the book of Jehovah\" is the God-given command in\nIsaiah 34:16 \"Search ye the Scriptures\" is the command of the God-man in\nJohn 5:39. The God who wrote the Book and the God who knows man will\nprescribe the best method by which man shall become acquainted with the\nBook.\n\n_It is the Pedagogic Method._\n\n\"What seest thou?\" One basic pedagogic principle is to train the pupil's\nphysical and mental eyes to see things for himself. The first and\nlargest gate to knowledge is the _eye_ gate.\n\n_It is the Scientific Method._\n\nThe scientist searches for facts. He hunts for facts in the stars, in\nthe rocks, in the plants, in the animals. From these facts he deduces\nprinciples. \"What saith the Scriptures?\"\n\n_It is the Interesting Method._\n\nThe search of the hunter, the explorer, the experimenter, the excavator,\nthe student, is a joyous labor. Every sense is alert There is no\ndrudgery, no fatigue. The \"eureka\" stirs a song of gladness. There is\nmuch joy in bearing this testimony: \"I have found Micah 6:8, or Isaiah\n12, or Jeremiah 45:5, or Philippians 4:19,\" etc.\n\nNow this is a Workable Method. The teacher can apply it. Give every\npupil a certain definite Search task. The teacher can adapt it to every\nage, and to every degree of Biblical knowledge. This series of text\nbooks will suggest plans of applying this basic method of Bible study in\nbecoming acquainted with the rich contents of the verses, the chapters,\nthe books of this most practical Word of God.\n\n\n\n\nPREFACE TO THE BOOK\n\n\n1. THE PURPOSE\n\nThis book is designed to be used in Bible Study Classes in churches, in\ncommunities, in academies, in colleges. The author has endeavored to\nfurnish a text book of outlines and questions that shall unfold the\ngeneral contents of the Word of God. Its primary aim is to impart a\nswift and comprehensive acquaintanceship with the material of the books\nof the Bible.\n\n2. THE CHARACTER OF THE WORK\n\nIt is not an exhaustive study. From its aim it could not be such. Some\nof the sixty-six books are passed over in brief space, and some (chiefly\nin the prophecies and epistles) are omitted altogether. It is a surface\nstudy. The title so suggests. It does not enter into the deeper things.\nIt simply aims to lay bare the surface facts. It is expressly designed\nto serve as a foundation for later detailed searching of the Word. It is\nflexible. The teacher can add or subtract as time or local conditions\ndemand, and is earnestly exhorted so to do. One book may be omitted and\nanother added at the teacher's discretion. A part of the questions may\nbe omitted, or additional ones inserted. The outlines may be enlarged or\ndiminished or changed to suit the needs of the class according to the\nteacher's personal judgment.\n\n3. REQUISITES FOR STUDY\n\nLet each scholar be provided with a cheap tablet, a well-bound blank\nbook of two hundred pages, a small Bible Dictionary of recognized\nmerit, and a copy of the American Revised Version of the Bible.\n(Standard Edition of Nelson & Sons, 1901, bourgeois 8vo, is good.) The\nteacher should provide for reference, to which the pupils should have\nconstant access, a copy of the Rand-McNally Bible Atlas, by J.L.\nHurlbut, D.D., a copy of Young's Complete Analytical Concordance, and a\ncopy of a large and complete Bible Dictionary.\n\n4. SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS\n\nTo secure the best results the following plan, tested by experience, is\nsuggested: Let the assigned lesson be wrought out and recorded by the\npupil in the cheap tablet. At the next recitation let this recorded\nlesson be read and corrected. At the following recitation this lesson\nfirst assigned and corrected is to be recited from memory. So at each\nrecitation the following will be the general order: (1) The assigning of\nthe advance lesson. (2) The reading and correction of the lesson\nassigned at the previous recitation. (3) The reciting from memory of the\nlesson corrected at the previous recitation.\n\nThe work as soon as corrected is to be recorded by the scholar in the\nblank book according to a simple set of rules. The following rules have\nbeen used with good results:\n\nDIRECTIONS FOR BIBLE BOOKS\n\n1. Record each lesson the evening after its correction. (Commit the\nwork, as you record, for recital.)\n\n2. Begin each large division at the top of the page.\n\n3. Capitalize and underline all headings.\n\n4. Leave a vacant line between small divisions.\n\n5. Where questions are used, record both questions and answers.\n\n6. The books will be graded substantially as follows:\n\nCorrectness of record, 35. (Includes spelling and grammar.)\n\nFullness of record, 35.\n\nNeatness and care, 10.\n\nMechanical accuracy, 10.\n\nOriginality, 10.\n\nIt would be well to place a printed copy of these rules in the hands of\neach student, to be pasted in the front of the blank book. These blank\nbooks should be examined and graded every four or six weeks and should\nconstitute at least a third of the student's grade. The recording of the\nwork in the blank books may be omitted in the community or church\nclasses, at the option of the teacher. But the record of the work by\npencil in a cheap tablet _should be insisted upon as absolutely\nnecessary for the best results_. In the academy and college classes the\npainstaking record in ink has been found by experience to be a most\nvaluable portion of the study.\n\nLet the teacher review constantly. Drill the students, singly and\ncollectively, in the recitation material. Emphasize the avoidance of\nmechanical study. Secure as much consecutive reading of the Word as\npossible. Feed upon rich truths. Make practical and personal\napplications of the Word. \"All Scripture is profitable.\"\n\n\n\n\nCHART OF THE SIXTY-SIX BOOKS OF THE BIBLE\n\n\n\nINTRODUCTORY LESSON. CHART OF THE SIXTY-SIX BOOKS\n\n+--------------+------------+-------------+-----------+---------------+--------------+\n|              |     I      |     II      |    III    |      IV       |      V       |\n|NAMES OF      |THE KINGDOM | THE KINGDOM |THE KINGDOM| THE KINGDOM   | THE KINGDOM  |\n|DIVISIONS     |FORESHADOWED|  FORMING    |CONQUERING |  UNDIVIDED    |  DIVIDED     |\n+--------------+------------+-------------+-----------+---------------+--------------+\n|Beginning and | 4004-1689  | 1571-1451   | 1451-1095 | 1095-975      | 975-606 B.C. |\n|Ending Dates  |    B.C.    |    B.C.     |    B.C.   |    B.C.       |              |\n+--------------+------------+-------------+-----------+---------------+--------------+\n|Names of Books|Genesis     |Exodus       |Joshua     |I and II Samuel|I and II Kings|\n|              |   ----     |Numbers      |Judges     |I Chronicles   |II Chronicles |\n|              |Job         |   ----      |   ----    |    ----       +--------------+\n|              |            |Leviticus    |Ruth       |Psalms         |    ISRAEL    |\n|              |            |Deuteronomy  |           |Song of Solomon|   975-721    |\n|              |            |             |           |Proverbs       +--------------+\n|              |            | (Read Psalms|           |Ecclesiastes   |Jonah         |\n|              |            | 8, 90,      |           |               |Amos          |\n|              |            | 105-107)    |           |               |Hosea         |\n|              |            |             |           |               +--------------+\n|              |            |             |           |               |    JUDAH     |\n|              |            |             |           |               |   975-606    |\n|              |            |             |           |               +--------------+\n|              |            |             |           |               |Joel          |\n|              |            |             |           |               |Isaiah        |\n|              |            |             |           |               |Micah         |\n|              |            |             |           |               |Nahum         |\n|              |            |             |           |               |Zephaniah     |\n|              |            |             |           |               |Habakkuk      |\n|              |            |             |           |               |              |\n|              |            |             |           |               |              |\n+--------------+------------+-------------+-----------+---------------+--------------+\n|NUMBER OF     |            |             |           |               |              |\n|BOOKS         |      2     |      4      |     8     |      7        |      12      |\n+--------------+------------+-------------+-----------+---------------+--------------+\n\n+--------------+------------+-----------+-------------+----------------+-----------+\n|              |     VI     |    VII    |     VIII    |       IX       |     X     |\n| NAMES OF     |THE KINGDOM |THE KINGDOM|THE KINGDOM'S|  THE KINGDOM   |THE KINGDOM|\n| DIVISIONS    |IN CAPTIVITY|  RESTORED | TRUE KING   |  CONQUERING    | TRIUMPHANT|\n|              |            |           |             |   THE WORLD    |           |\n+--------------+------------+-----------+-------------+----------------+-----------+\n|Beginning and | 606-536    | 536-420   | 4 B.C.-29   |    29 A.D.     |           |\n|Ending Dates  |   B.C.     |   B.C.    |    A.D.     |                |           |\n+--------------+------------+-----------+-------------+----------------+-----------+\n|Names of Books|Daniel      |Ezra       |Matthew      |Acts            |Revelation |\n|              |Esther      |Nehemiah   |Mark         |    ----        |           |\n|              |   ----     |   ----    |Luke         |I Thessalonians |           |\n|              |Jeremiah    |Haggai     |John         |II Thessalonians|           |\n|              |Lamentations|Zechariah  |             |Galatians       |           |\n|              |Obadiah     |Malachi    |             |I Corinthians   |           |\n|              |Ezekiel     |           |             |Romans          |           |\n|              |            |           |             |II Corinthians  |           |\n|              | (Read Ps.  |           |             |Philemon        |           |\n|              |  137)      |           |             |Ephesians       |           |\n|              |            |           |             |Philippians     |           |\n|              |            |           |             |Colossians      |           |\n|              |            |           |             |Hebrews         |           |\n|              |            |           |             |I Timothy       |           |\n|              |            |           |             |Titus           |           |\n|              |            |           |             |II Timothy      |           |\n|              |            |           |             |James           |           |\n|              |            |           |             |I Peter         |           |\n|              |            |           |             |II Peter        |           |\n|              |            |           |             |Jude            |           |\n|              |            |           |             |I John          |           |\n|              |            |           |             |II John         |           |\n|              |            |           |             |III John        |           |\n+--------------+------------+-----------+-------------+----------------+-----------+\n|NUMBER OF     |            |           |             |                |           |\n|BOOKS         |          6 |          5|           4 |         22     |          1|\n+--------------+------------+-----------+-------------+----------------+-----------+\n\n\nNOTES ON THE CHART\n\n1. The sixty-six books are divided into ten groups, according to their\nrelation to the Kingdom. In this connection the word Kingdom is not used\nin any restricted or technical sense. It is used to designate the\nKingdom of God instituted to redeem the race from sin, under whatever\nform manifested.\n\n2. Several of the books are not located in their exact places. Esther is\nlocated in Division Six because it is Captivity narrative. The Kings and\nChronicles technically overlap two divisions. Lamentations and Jeremiah\nchronologically belong to the preceding division, but are placed among\nthe books of the Captivity because their wails betoken that event.\n\n3. The books in each division are arranged in chronological order. In\nDivision Nine the fourteen epistles of Paul are placed first, in the\norder of their composition, then the seven general epistles in the order\nof their writing.\n\n4. Where the books of a division are separated into two groups by a\ndash, those above the dash are historical, those beneath the dash are\nbiographical, or poetical, or legal, or prophetical, or epistolary.\n\n5. The teacher may exercise his own judgment in requiring the committal\nof this chart at the start, or part by part as the study proceeds.\n\n\n\n\nI\n\nTHE KINGDOM FORESHADOWED\n\nGenesis      Page\n\nJob          Page\n\n\nNOTES\n\n1. Use full page in blank book, copying as above.\n\n2. Place number of page on which above studies begin in blank book. This\nserves as index.\n\n\nOUTLINE FOR STUDY OF HISTORICAL BOOKS\n\n1. Pictorial Device.\n\n2. Kind of Literature.\n\n3. Meaning of Name.\n\n4. Author.\n\n5. Beginning and Ending Dates.\n\n6. Outline of Contents.\n\n7. Key Verse.\n\n8. Leading Thought.\n\n9. Leading Phrases and Verses.\n\n10. Leading Chapters with Names.\n\n11. Leading Characters.\n\n12. Leading Lessons.\n\n13. What of Christ:\n\n(a) Symbol.\n\n(b) Type.\n\n(c) Analogy.\n\n(d) Prophecy.\n\n14. Questions.\n\n15. Items of Special Interest.\n\n16. Individual Finds.\n\n\nNOTES ON HISTORICAL OUTLINE AND ITS USE\n\nMost of the books in the first four divisions will be studied with this\noutline as a basis. In the pursuance of these lessons the numbers left\nvacant in the outline are to be wrought out by the pupils. In recording\nthe work in the blank book the first page is to be given to the\npictorial device. One of these will be printed in its appropriate place.\nLet students prepare the others. Urge the pupils to use originality of\nthought and pen in producing them. The aim of the device is to impress\nby a simple picture the contents of the book as a whole. Under No. 2 the\nkind of literature may be described, as history, law, discourse,\nbiography, etc. Secure answers to Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 in Bible Dictionary.\nAs a rule, Nos. 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 will be given. Under No. 10 part of the\nchapters will be named, and part are to be read and named by the pupils.\nAfter the pupils present the names of these chapters in class, one must\nbe agreed upon, so that the names will be uniform. When the names of\nchapters are given in the outline, require the pupils to glance over the\nchapters and verify them. Under No. 13 the foreshadowed facts of Christ\nare given, so as to manifest Him as the living center of the Book. Only\nthe leading ones are selected. The teacher or pupil may add others. For\nconvenience sake they are classified as follows: (a) Symbol; (b) Type;\n(c) Analogy; (d) Prophecy. Though the words symbol and type are not\ntechnically distinct, we have agreed to use the word _symbol_ to\ndesignate an _object_ or _animal_ that prefigures Christ, as \"star\" or\n\"lamb,\" and the word _type_ to designate a _person_ that prefigures\nChrist, as Melchizedek or Moses. We have also agreed to limit the\nsymbols and types to those directly or indirectly mentioned in the New\nTestament. By analogy we mean a person who, though widely differing from\nChrist in many particulars, bears some one resemblance to Him in quality\nor deed. These analogies are not mentioned in the New Testament. The\nword _prophecy_ in the outline is confined, then, to _facts_ foretold\nregarding Christ. Under No. 15 let the teacher call for five or ten\n(suit the number to conditions) items of peculiar interest, touching the\nliterary form, events, facts, teachings, etc. This topic is in accord\nwith the first article of the Creed recorded on the opening page of the\nbook. Under No. 16 let the teacher assign at least one chapter rich in\ncontents for individual search upon the part of the pupils. Let the\npupils record and number their individual finds. This in accord with the\nfifth article of the Creed. The purpose is to cultivate the \"seeing eye\"\nand to develop originality in Bible research.\n\n\n\nGENESIS\n\nI. _Pictorial Device._\n\n                      _____\n                  ,-'| GOD |'-.\n               ,-'  , ----- .  '-.\n            ,-'   ,'   / \\   '.   '-.\n         ,-'    ,'    /   \\    '.    '-.\n      ,-'     ,'     /     \\     '.     '-.\n   ,-'      ,'      /       \\      '.      '-.\n,-'       ,'       /         \\       '.       '-.\n+--+-----+--+-----+--+-----+--+-----+--+-----+--+\n|2 |     |6 |     |12|     |21|     |25|     |37|\n+--+-----+--+-----+--+-----+--+-----+--+-----+--+\n|A |     |N |     |A |     |I |     |J |     |J |\n|D |     |O |     |B |     |S |     |A |     |O |\n|A |     |A |     |R |     |A |     |C |     |S |\n|M |     |H |     |A |     |A |     |O |     |E |\n|  |     |  |     |H |     |C |     |B |     |P |\n|  |     |  |     |A |     |  |     |  |     |H |\n|  |     |  |     |M |     |  |     |  |     |  |\n+--+-----+--+-----+--+-----+--+-----+--+-----+--+\n|                   BEGINNINGS                  |\n+-----------------------------------------------+\n|                      GOD                      |\n+-----------------------------------------------+\n\n\nNOTE.--In order to make the work and the method of recording it as clear\nas possible, the outline study of Genesis is printed in full, except the\nanswers to the questions.\n\nII. _Kind of Literature:_ History.\n\nIII. _Meaning of Name:_ Beginning.\n\nIV. _Author:_ Moses.\n\nV. _Beginning and Ending Dates:_ 4004 B.C. to 1689 B.C., making 2315\nyears.\n\nVI. _Outline of Contents:_\n\n1. 1 to 11. God's Dealings with the Human Race.\n\n2. 12 to 50. God's Dealings with the Chosen Race.\n\nVII. _Key Verse:_ 1:1 in part: \"In the beginning God--\"\n\nVIII. _Leading Thought:_ God before all and in all and over all.\n\nIX. _Leading Phrases and Verses:_\n\n4:9--\"Am I my brother's keeper?\"\n\n15:1--\"Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great\nreward.\"\n\n18:4--\"Is anything too hard for Jehovah?\"\n\nX. _Leading Chapters with Names:_\n\n1. The Six Days of Creation.\n\n3. The Temptation, the Fall and the Promise.\n\n4. Cain and Abel.\n\n6 to 8. The Flood.\n\n11. Babel.\n\n12. Abraham.\n\n22. The Sacrifice of Isaac.\n\n23. The Wrestling of Jacob.\n\n37. Joseph.\n\n49. The Blessings of Jacob.\n\nXI. _Leading Characters._ See Device.\n\nXII. _Leading Lessons:_\n\n1. God's Intimate Acquaintanceship with Man.\n\n2. The Wide Influence of One Person. (Let teacher and scholar illustrate\nthese.)\n\nXIII. _What of Christ:_\n\n(a) Symbol: (The blood of Abel. Heb. 12:24.)\n\n(b) Type: Adam. Rom. 5:14.\n\nMelchizedek. Heb. 6:20.\n\n(c) Analogy: Noah. Joseph.\n\n(d) Prophecy: 3:15: \"I will put enmity between thee and the woman and\nbetween thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shall\nbruise his heel.\"\n\n12:3: \"In thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.\" See\nMatt. 1:1.\n\n49:10: \"The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff\nfrom between his feet, until Shiloh come: and unto him shall the\nobedience of the peoples be.\"\n\nXIV. _Questions:_\n\n1. Name the first two great institutions established by Jehovah.\n\n2. Name the beginnings recorded in Chapters 3 and 4.\n\n3. Name five facts mentioned about the Garden of Eden.\n\n4. Name God's first recorded words, Satan's, Adam's.\n\n5. Name the curses pronounced upon the serpent, upon the woman, upon the\nground for man's sake.\n\n6. Name the first blacksmith, the first musician, the first piece of\npoetry, the first city, the first and second tithers.\n\n7. Give ages of Adam, Methuselah, Noah, Abraham, Joseph.\n\n8. Name the cause of the flood and the number of people saved.\n\n9. Name the three sons of Noah and the prophecies regarding the\ndescendants of each.\n\n10. Why did the people build the Tower of Babel?\n\n11. Name the seven promises made to Abraham in Chapter 15.\n\n12. By what quality was Abraham saved? 15:6. See Gal. 3:8.\n\n13. Who was Melchizedek? Hagar? Ishmael?\n\n14. Name the wife and sons of Isaac.\n\n15. In what two ways did Jacob mistreat Esau?\n\n16. How long did Jacob serve for his wives and cattle?\n\n17. Fill out the following diagram of Jacob's wives, concubines and\nchildren. See 35:23.\n\n+---------+---------+---------+---------+\n|         |         |         |         |\n+---------+---------+---------+---------+\n|         |         |         |         |\n|         |         |         |         |\n|         |         |         |         |\n|         |         |         |         |\n+---------+---------+---------+---------+\n\n\n18. Give origin, meaning and location of Mizpah.\n\n19. Give the two chief reasons for the elevation of Joseph.\n\n20. Name the dreams interpreted by Joseph.\n\n21. Locate and give the substance of Judah's plea.\n\n22. How many of the house of Jacob went down into Egypt?\n\nNOTES ON THE QUESTIONS\n\nThese questions must needs be few in number. If the time permits, let\nthe teacher add others. They are designed to be mere surface questions,\nto secure acquaintanceship with a few of the great facts. In assigning\nthe questions on each book of the Bible let the teacher go over them\nwith the class, seeking their knowledge (or imparting it) as to the\nchapters in which the answers may be found. If the class has the time\nand desires a more thorough acquaintance with each book, let each member\nprepare two \"large\" questions on each chapter, or upon as many chapters\nas they desire. The following questions on Chapter 1 will serve as\nexamples: (1) Name the seven purposes of the lights. (2) State the\nnumber of times the word God occurs.\n\nXV. _Items of Special Interest:_\n\n1. The symmetry of the paragraphs in the record of the six creative days\nin Chapter 1.\n\n2. God's notice of the human countenance. 4:6.\n\n3. The first piece of recorded poetry is degenerating, bloody. 4:23, 24.\n\n4. The word for \"rooms,\" 6:14, in the margin is \"nests\"--a primitive\ndescription.\n\n5. The richness of the historical prophecy in 9:27.\n\nXVI. _Individual Finds:_\n\nChapters 10, or 23, or 37, or all. Or each of these three chapters could\nbe assigned to a third of the class.\n\n\n\nJOB\n\n\nSECTION I. INTRODUCTION\n\nFrom personal knowledge and reading, from perusal of articles in Bible\nhelps and dictionaries, write out in your own language a\ntwo-hundred-word description of the book as a whole, its purpose, its\nnature, etc.\n\nSECTION II. NARRATIVES\n\n(To be memorized and told, with care in regard to all details.)\n\n1. Description of Job and His Household. Chapter 1.\n\n2. First Interview between Jehovah and Satan. 1.\n\n3. First Test and Result. 1.\n\n4. Second Interview between Jehovah and Satan. 2.\n\n5. Second Test and Result. 2.\n\n6. The Three Friends. 2.\n\nSECTION III. GEOGRAPHY\n\nLocate by chapter and verse, naming the thought, or fact, or person\nconnected therewith, the following geographical terms: Uz, Sabeans,\nChaldeans, Temanite, Shuhite, Naamathite, Buzite, Tema, Sheba, Ophir,\nRahab, Ethiopia. (Locate chapter and verse by reference to concordance.)\n(Make record in blank book on same page as map.)\n\nDraw full-page map, locating each place as far as known.\n\nSECTION IV. NATURE OF JOB'S DISEASE\n\nWrite out the descriptions as narrated in the following verses: 7:5;\n13:28; 19:20; 30:17, 18, 30. Describe in your own words the\ncharacteristics of the disease as noted in these verses. Give name of\ndisease, as agreed upon by interpreters.\n\nSECTION V. SPEAKERS AND SPEECHES\n\nIn order to secure a skeleton idea of the book write out the names of\nthe speakers in consecutive order and the chapters containing the\nspeeches. Space in each line could be reserved to fill in at a later\nstudy the general thought of each speech. At the close make any\nobservations regarding the number and order of speeches. The following\nis a sample of the first four speeches:\n\n_Historical Introduction. Chapters I and 2_\n\n1. Job. Chapter 3.\n\n2. Eliphaz. Chapters 4 and 5.\n\n3. Job. Chapters 6 and 7.\n\n4. Bildad. Chapter 8.\n\nSECTION VI. THE ARGUMENT\n\nAnalyze the argument of Chapters 3 and 4. The following is a sample:\n\n_Job's First Speech. Chapter 3_\n\n1. A curse upon the day of his birth. Verses 1-10.\n\n2. He questions why he should not have died at birth. Verses 11-19.\n\nSECTION VII. THE CONCLUSION\n\nGive narrative, with details, as recorded in Chapter 42:7-17.\n\nSECTION VIII. QUESTIONS\n\n1. Name three general lessons taught in the book about suffering.\n\n2. What two things did Job do at the close of the speeches?\n\n3. How did Job's condition after the test compare with that previous to\nthe test?\n\n4. Name eight facts regarding Satan gleaned from Chapters 1 and 2.\n\n5. Locate and commit Job's two sublime statements of faith. (See\nChapters 13 and 19.)\n\n6. Name five kinds of people that Job helped. 29:12-16.\n\n7. Name six classes of people who spurned him in his trouble. 19:13-19.\n\n8. What two general statements about man does Job make? 14:1.\n\n9. Select any six phrases that serve to indicate the life and customs of\nJob's time.\n\n10. What writers of the Bible refer to Job and what is their estimate?\n\n11. Read Chapter 38 and write out your impressions of it in concise\nstatements, using fifty words.\n\n12. Give three general reasons why the narrative of Job is to be\nreceived as an historical fact.\n\n\n\n\nII\n\nTHE KINGDOM FORMING\n\nExodus         Page\n\nLeviticus      Page\n\nDeuteronomy    Page\n\n\n\nEXODUS\n\nI. _Pictorial Device._\n\nOriginate one, or omit.\n\nII.\n\nIII.\n\nIV.\n\nV. 1706 B.C. to 1490 B.C., making 216 years.\n\nVI. 1. 1 to 18. Israel Delivered.\n\n2. 19 to 34. Israel Taught at Mount Sinai.\n\n3. 35 to 40. Israel Prepared for Worship.\n\nVII. Chapter 20.2.\n\nVIII. God Delivering a Nation.\n\nIX. 12:13: \"And when I see the blood I will pass over you.\"\n\n15:11.\n\nX. 1. Bondage.\n\n2.\n\n3. Burning Bush.\n\n7-11.\n\n12.\n\n14. Red Sea.\n\n15.\n\n16. Manna.\n\n20.\n\n25 and 35. The Tabernacle.\n\n32.\n\nXI. Select five.\n\nXII. 1. God gives deliverance to the oppressed.\n\n2. God assumes authority over the actions of men.\n\n3. God desires to dwell in the midst of His people.\n\nXIII. (a) Symbol: 1. Passover Lamb. 1 Cor. 5:7. Note three or four\nlikenesses between the lamb and Christ.\n\n2. Manna. John 6:35.\n\n3. Rock. I Cor. 10:4.\n\n4. Tabernacle. Hebrews 9:11. John 1:14, marginal reading.\n\n(b) Type. None.\n\n(c) Analogy. None.\n\n(d) Prophecy. None.\n\nNOTES AND SUGGESTIONS\n\nUnder No. 5 fail not to compare length of time covered by different\nbooks. Under No. 7 ask pupils to show the appropriateness. Under No. 9\nteacher may require committal of location or not, as is deemed\nadvisable. Under No. 12 show the truth of these universal lessons\nthrough the march of history. Under No. 13 copy the references, be able\nto explain their meaning, and to show the likeness between the symbol,\nthe type, and Christ. In copying this outline work the pupil may or may\nnot omit the names of the fourteen topics, according to the teacher's\njudgment. For the inspection of friends it would be preferable to have\nthe words of these topics repeated with each outline, as in Genesis. As\nan aid to concert recitation let the teacher place the topics of the\noutline upon the blackboard and repeat names and answers together.\n\nXIV. _Questions._\n\n1. In what ways had Moses acted as a deliverer in Chapter 2?\n\n2. How is Moses described in Acts 7 and Hebrews 11?\n\n3. Name the three excuses Moses gave in hesitating to become the\ndeliverer, and God's reply to each.\n\n4. Fill out the diagram on page 33 regarding the ten plagues.\n\n5. Name four expressed purposes of the plagues. 7:5; 9:14; 9:29; 10:2.\n\n6. State Pharaoh's last three words to Moses.\n\n7. Describe in full the host that went out of Egypt. Note 12:37 and\n13:18.\n\n8. Name the things the people of Israel took with them, out of Egypt.\n\n9. Describe manna in full and name three purposes for its giving.\n\n10. Describe in full the tables of stone on which the commandments were\nwritten.\n\n11. Name God's expressed purpose for having the Tabernacle built. See\n25:8.\n\n12. Name the various articles that the people were to offer for the\nconstruction of the Tabernacle.\n\n13. Name the men set apart for the oversight of its construction and\ntheir qualifications.\n\n14. Why are the details of construction recorded twice?\n\n15. Record three leading lessons from the sin of worshiping the Golden\nCalf.\n\n16. After this heinous sin, who came over to the Lord's side in response\nto Moses' call, and what was the reward?\n\n17. Draw full-page map and locate and number the stations of the Exodus\njourney from Rameses to Sinai.\n\nXV. _Items of Special Interest._\n\nSelect ten.\n\nXVI. _Individual Finds._\n\nChapters 2, 7, 20, 23, 35.\n\n+-----------------+---------+---------------------+------------------+\n|                 |         |                     | PHARAOH'S ACTION |\n|      NAME       | CHAPTER |       EXTENT        |    FOLLOWING     |\n+-----------------+---------+---------------------+------------------+\n|  1 Water turned |    7    | The waters of Egypt | Pharaoh's heart  |\n|    into blood   |         |                     |   was hardened   |\n|                 |         |                     |                  |\n|  2              |         |                     |                  |\n|                 |         |                     |                  |\n|  4              |         |                     |                  |\n|                 |         |                     |                  |\n|  5              |         |                     |                  |\n|                 |         |                     |                  |\n|  7              |         |                     |                  |\n|                 |         |                     |                  |\n|  8              |         |                     |                  |\n|                 |         |                     |                  |\n| 10              |         |                     |                  |\n|                 |         |                     |                  |\n+-----------------+---------+---------------------+------------------+\n\n\n\nLEVITICUS\n\n\nI. _Pictorial Device._\n\nA full-page outline plan of the Tabernacle and Tabernacle court. Locate\nthe articles of the court and Tabernacle. Record the dimensions in\ncubits in the appropriate places. The description of the Tabernacle is\nin Exodus 25 to 30, but its services form the contents of this book.\n\nII.\n\nIII.\n\nIV.\n\nV. _Date:_ One month of 1490.\n\nVI. _Contents:_ Offerings, Feasts, and Ceremonial Laws.\n\nVII. 20:26: \"Ye shall be holy unto me, for I, Jehovah, am holy.\"\n\nVIII. God Requires Holiness. (The word holy occurs eighty-seven times in\nthe book.)\n\nIX. 17:11: \"For the life of the flesh is in the blood.\"\n\n19:18: \"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.\"\n\n23:10: \"Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants\nthereof.\"\n\n(Where in American history are these words recorded?)\n\nX. 8 and 9. Consecration of Priests.\n\n10. Punishment of Nadab and Abihu.\n\n11. Clean and Unclean Animals.\n\n12. Purification and Circumcision.\n\n13 and 14. Laws regarding Leprosy.\n\n16.\n\n23. The Three Annual Feasts.\n\n25.\n\nXI. _Select four._\n\nXII. 1. Absolute Necessity of Atonement for Sin.\n\n2. God's Great Desire for Cleanness of Body and Soul.\n\nXIII. (a) Symbol. The offering. Heb. 9:14.\n\n(b) Type. Aaron, the High Priest. Heb. 9:11.\n\n(c) Analogy. None.\n\n(d) Prophecy. None.\n\nXIV. _Questions:_\n\n1. Glancing over the pages of the book, select what seem to you the six\nmost frequently-used words that emphasize the thought of the book.\nConsult concordance, finding number of times that each word occurs.\n\n2. Describe the offering in 1:1 to 1:4.\n\n3. Name the five kinds of offerings mentioned in the first five\nchapters.\n\n4. Give names of the three annual feasts.\n\n5. Questions on Chapter 16:\n\n(a) What two things must Aaron do before entering the Holy Place?\n\n(b) For whom and what did he make atonement?\n\n(c) What did he do with the blood?\n\n(d) What three things did he do with the scapegoat?\n\n(e) What two commands rested upon the people for that day?\n\n6. Describe the Year of Jubilee.\n\n7. Name any six interesting laws recorded in Chapter 19.\n\n8. What book of the New Testament should be studied in connection with\nthis book and why?\n\nXV. _Items of Special Interest._\n\nSelect five.\n\nXVI. _Individual Finds._\n\nChapters 1, 11, 23.\n\n\n\nDEUTERONOMY\n\n\nI. _Pictorial Device:_ Map.\n\nDraw outline map of Palestine. This includes the Mediterranean shore\nline, Jordan River, the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea. Locate Jericho\nand Mount Nebo. Draw in miniature, opposite Jericho, the Tabernacle and\ntwelve small squares representing the camps of the twelve tribes, three\non each side. (See Numbers 2.) Place on map as key thoughts the words\n\"Remember\" and \"Seven Speeches.\" Make any original addition suggested in\nthe study.\n\nII. Public Discourse.\n\nIII.\n\nIV.\n\nV. Ten days of the eleventh month of the fortieth year of the wandering.\n\nVI. The Last Seven Speeches of Moses:\n\n1. A Review of the Wanderings. Chapters 1 to 4.\n\n2. Repetition of the Law. 5 to 20.\n\n3. Blessing and Cursing. 27 and 28.\n\n4. Covenant. 29 and 30.\n\n5. Exhortation. 31.\n\n6. Song. 32.\n\n7. Blessing. 33.\n\nNOTE.--Verify these, as well as names of all leading chapters, by\nglancing over them and noting the correctness of the naming. This\nprevents mechanical committal, and fastens the location more firmly.\n\nVII. 5:33.\n\nVIII. The keeping of the law means life and prosperity.\n\nXI. 8:18: \"It is He that giveth thee power to get wealth.\"\n\n32:47: \"It is no vain thing for you: because it is your life.\"\n\n33:25: \"As thy days, so shall thy strength be.\"\n\nX. 5.\n\n34.\n\nXI. One.\n\nXII. 1. God's Guidance in Human History.\n\n2. God's Anxiety for Obedience.\n\nXIII. (a) Symbol. None.\n\n(b) Type. Moses, prophet, 18:15. Name five regards in which Christ was\nlike Moses.\n\n(c) Analogy. None.\n\n(d) Prophecy. None.\n\nXIV. _Questions:_\n\n1. Name ten things commanded to be done with the law. 6:6; 6:7; 6:7;\n6:8; 6:9; 17:18, 19; 27:2, 3; 27:4-8; 31:9-13; 31:26.\n\nNOTE.--Describe the Jewish phylacteries.\n\n2. Select from Chapter 28 five striking prophecies regarding the Jews.\n\n3. Note from Christ's temptation, Matt. 4, how many times Christ quoted\nScripture and from what books.\n\n4. Be prepared to answer questions on Chapters 9 and 10\n\n5. Prepare five questions on Chapter 34.\n\nXV. _Items of Special Interest._\n\nSelect five.\n\nXVI. _Individual Finds._\n\nChapters 5, 27, 32.\n\n\n\n\nIII\n\nTHE KINGDOM CONQUERING\n\n\nJoshua    Page\n\nJudges    Page\n\nRuth      Page\n\n\n\nJOSHUA\n\n\nI. _Pictorial Device:_ Map.\n\nDraw map of Palestine, locating the tribes. See Map 3 in Bible. Make an\nopening in the Jordan River, where the crossing occurred. Locate Jericho\nand Ai, scenes of first victory and first defeat. Locate Mounts Ebal and\nGerizim. Place over the map an appropriate phrase from Chapter 1. Draw\ntwo dotted lines in a general easterly and westerly direction through\nthe country to indicate the Northern, Central and Southern campaigns.\n\nII.\n\nIII.\n\nIV.\n\nV. 1451 B.C. to 1427 B.C., making twenty-four years.\n\nVI. 1. Preparations to enter Canaan. 1 to 5.\n\n2. The Three Campaigns of Conquest. 6 to 12.\n\n3. The Division of the Land. 13 to 22.\n\n4. Joshua's Farewell Speeches. 23, 24.\n\n\nVII. 1:6 in part: \"Thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land.\"\n\nVIII. Our Possessions Equal Our Conquests. (See Hurlbut's Bible Atlas,\npage 53.)\n\nIX. 1:8.\n\n24:15 in part: \"Choose you this day whom ye will serve.\"\n\nX. 1. The Two Commissions.\n\n2.\n\n3 and 4. Israel at Jordan.\n\n6.\n\n7 and 8.\n\n12. The Thirty-one Kings Smitten.\n\nXI. Joshua, Rahab, Caleb, Achan, Eleazar.\n\nXII. 1. The Wide Influence of One Sin.\n\n2. The Lord Fights the Believer's Battles.\n\nNOTE.--Let the teacher question as to the basis of these leading\nlessons, also explain the thought, and render the same practical in\nevery-day life.\n\nXIII. (a) Symbol. None.\n\n(b) Type. Joshua. See derivation of word Jesus, also Matt. 1:21.\n\nNote two likenesses between Jesus and Joshua.\n\n(c) Analogy. None.\n\n(d) Prophecy. None.\n\nXIV. _Questions:_\n\n1. In Joshua's commission, name the three promises of God. 1:1 to 1:5.\n\n2. In what verses of the Bible does the word \"success\" occur? See\nconcordance.\n\n3. Name the three conditions of \"_good_\" success in 1:8. State\ndifference between \"good\" success and \"great\" success.\n\n4. Name the two occurrences in 8:32 to 8:35 and state the reason\ntherefor.\n\n5. How, and by whom, and where was the land divided among the tribes?\nSee 14:1 and 2 and 19:51.\n\n6. What was the lot of Levi? 13:33. (Psa. 16:5.)\n\n7. What four things would the heathen nations become if not driven out?\n23:13.\n\n8. What strong statement does Joshua make in 23:14?\n\nNOTE.--If the time permits, let the teacher add several questions,\nespecially about the battles.\n\nXV. _Items of Special Interest._\n\nSelect ten.\n\nXVI. _Individual Finds._\n\nChapters 2, 10, 22.\n\n\n\nJUDGES\n\n\n_Pictorial Device._\n\nOriginate one, or omit.\n\nII.\n\nIII.\n\nIV.\n\nV. 1427 B.C. to 1095 B.C., making 332 years.\n\nVI. The Rule of Thirteen Judges, containing Six Bondages of Israel, and\nTheir Six Deliverances.\n\nVII. 2:16.\n\nVIII. An unconquered enemy brings bondage.\n\nIX. 7:20: \"The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon.\"\n\nX. 5.\n\n6 to 8.\n\n11.\n\n13 to 16.\n\nGive to each of these (save Chapter 5) the name of the person described\ntherein.\n\nXI. Othniel, Ehud, Deborah, Gideon, Jephthah, Samson: the Six\nDeliverers.\n\nXII. 1. Environment counts.\n\n2. The Lord delivers when His people cry unto Him.\n\nXIII. No Symbol. No Type. No Prophecy. The work of each judge is\nanalogous to the work of Christ.\n\nXIV. _Questions:_\n\n1. Name the three signs by which Gideon was assured of his call.\n\n2. What was Jephthah's vow?\n\n3. Locate the word \"_Shibboleth_\", and narrate the historical event\nconnected therewith.\n\n4. What was Samson to be and for how long? 13:7. Read the Numbers\nchapter connected therewith.\n\n5. Name and locate Samson's riddle.\n\n6. State two reasons that account for the moral degradation of the\ntimes. 1:27 to 1:30; 21:35.\n\n7. Name three things in Chapter 17 that indicate how low the state of\nreligion had fallen.\n\n8. How many times in the book does the following phrase occur and what\nis the significance of the statement, \"In those days there was no king\nin Israel\"\n\n9. Name the judges mentioned in the catalogue of the faithful in Hebrews\n11.\n\n10. Name a piece of literature based on any one of the characters, and\nthe author thereof.\n\nQUOTATION.--\"This period has been called the Heroic age of Hebrew\nhistory. It abounds in wild adventure and desperate feats of individual\nvalor. Personal activity, daring and craft were the qualifications which\nraised the judges to their title and eminence. They appear as gallant\ninsurgents, or guerrilla leaders, rather than as grave administrators of\njustice or the regular authorities of a great kingdom.\" Copy in blank\nbook.\n\nXV. _Items of Special Interest._\n\nSelect ten.\n\nXVI. _Individual Finds._\n\nChapters 5, 11, 16, 21.\n\n\n\nRUTH\n\n\nI. Read the book through thoroughly, thoughtfully, and record the length\nof time required.\n\nII. Name the eight leading characters.\n\nIII. Name seven interesting facts gleaned from the book.\n\nIV. Prepare three questions upon the material of each chapter.\n\nV. Give a phrase name to each of the four chapters.\n\nVI. Record what you regard as the best verse.\n\nVII. _Questions:_\n\n1. Why, according to your opinion, is this story of Ruth recorded in the\nBible?\n\n2. What two large modern problems would be solved by living as indicated\nin this book?\n\n3. Write a paragraph of one hundred words about gleaning, based upon\nthis book and other portions of Scripture.\n\n4. In what part of what gospel is the name of Ruth mentioned?\n\n\n\n\nIV and V\n\nTHE KINGDOM UNDIVIDED AND THE KINGDOM DIVIDED\n\nTHE HISTORICAL BOOKS:\n\nI and II Samuel.\n\nI and II Kings.\n\nI and II Chronicles.\n\nNOTE.--As these three pairs of books are so closely related in their\nhistorical contents, it is deemed best to study them together, though\nthey overlap the two divisions of IV and V.\n\n\n\nI. CHARTS\n\n_Chart A. General Contents_\n\n          +--------------------------+\n          |    I AND II SAMUEL       |\n          +-------------+-----+------+\n          |Samuel       |Saul |David |\n          +-------------+-----+------+----------------------------------+\n          |             |     |      |         I AND II KINGS           |\n          |             |     |      +---------+-----------+------------+\n          |             |     |      |Solomon |20 Kings of |20 Kings of |\n          |             |     |      |        |Judah       |Israel      |\n          |             |     |      +--------+------------+------------+\n          |             |     |      |        |            |\n+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+\n|                  I AND II CHRONICLES                                  |\n+---------+-------------+-----+------+--------+------------+------------+\n|Genealogy|Courses of   |Saul |David |Solomon |20 Kings of |            |\n|from     |Participants |     |      |        |Judah       |            |\n|Adam     |in Temple    |     |      |        |            |            |\n|         |Service      |     |      |        |            |            |\n+---------+-------------+-----+------+--------+------------+------------+\n\n\nNOTE.--Biblical scholars differ as to the number of kings in the divided\nkingdoms. Twenty is assigned to each, based upon authority of Philip\nSchaff.\n\nNOTE.--Verify contents of above chart.\n\nCHART B.\n\nDIFFERENCES BETWEEN KINGS AND CHRONICLES\n\n+------------------------------------+-------------------------------+\n| KINGS                              |CHRONICLES                     |\n+------------------------------------+-------------------------------+\n| 1. Record of both Israel and Judah | 1. Record of Judah only       |\n| 2. Tends toward the secular        | 2. Tends toward the religious |\n| 3. Emphasizes the Acts of the King | 3. Emphasizes the Worship of  |\n|                                    |    the Sanctuary              |\n+------------------------------------+-------------------------------+\n\nCHART C. SUMMARY OF THE KINGDOMS\n\nUNDIVIDED KINGDOM | TRIBES | DIVIDED KINGDOM\n+-------+----+----+--------+----------------+\n|40 YRS | 40 | 40 |  1     |JUDAH. 20 KINGS |\n|  S    | D  |  S |  2     |                |\n|  A    | A  |  O +--------+----------------+\n|  U    | V  |  L |  3     |                |\n|  L    | I  |  O |  4     |                |\n|       | D  |  M |  5     |                |\n|       |    |  O |  6     |                |\n|       |    |  N |  7     |ISRAEL. 20 KINGS|\n+-------+----+----|  8     |                |\n                  |  9     |                |\n                  | 10     |                |\n                  | 11     |                |\n                  | 12     |                |\n                  +--------+----------------+\n\nCHART D. CHRONOLOGY OF THE KINGDOMS\n\n+----------------------------------------+\n|UNDIVIDED KINGDOM: 1095 B.C. to 975 B.C.|\n+----------------------------------------+\n|KINGDOM ISRAEL:    975 B.C. to 721 B.C. |\n+----------------------------------------+\n|KINGDOM OF JUDAH:  975 B.C. to 606 B.C. |\n+----------------------------------------+\n\nCHART E. KINGS OF DIVIDED KINGDOMS\n\nNOTE.--Let the teacher assign as many kings as is deemed best, to be\nwrought out on the chart from the books of I and II Kings. Work out the\nkings of Israel on a like chart.\n\n_Kings of Judah._\n\n+-----------+---------+--------------+---------+----------------+--------+\n|  NAME     |CHARACTER|  RELATION TO | PROPHET |   PHRASE       |KIND    |\n|           |         |  PREDECESSOR |         |                |OF DEATH|\n+-----------+---------+--------------+---------+----------------+--------+\n|1. Rehoboam|Evil     |              |Shemaiah |And Judah did   |Natural |\n|           |         |              |         |that  which was |        |\n|           |         |              |         |evil in the     |        |\n|           |         |              |         |sight of Jehovah|        |\n|           |         |              |         |                |        |\n|2. Abijam  |Evil     |Son           |None     |His heart was   |Natural |\n|           |         |              |mentioned|not perfect with|        |\n|           |         |              |         |Jehovah his God |        |\n|           |         |              |         |                |        |\n|           |         |(If a usurper,|         |                |        |\n|           |         |make such a   |         |                |        |\n|           |         |record)       |         |                |        |\n|           |         |              |         |                |        |\n|           |         |              |         |                |        |\n|           |         |              |         |                |        |\n|           |         |              |         |                |        |\n|           |         |              |         |                |        |\n|           |         |              |         |                |        |\n|           |         |              |         |                |        |\n|           |         |              |         |                |        |\n|           |         |              |         |                |        |\n|           |         |              |         |                |        |\n|           |         |              |         |                |        |\n|           |         |              |         |                |        |\n|           |         |              |         |                |        |\n|           |         |              |         |                |        |\n|           |         |              |         |                |        |\n+-----------+---------+--------------+---------+----------------+--------+\n\nII. _Historical Setting:_\n\nNarratives to be recited in class and to be recorded briefly.\n\n1. The Beginning of the Undivided Kingdom. I Samuel 8.\n\n2. The Selection of First King of Undivided Kingdom. I Samuel 10:17-24.\n\n3. The Glory of Solomon's Kingdom. I Kings 4:20-34 and 10:14-29.\n\n4. The Division of the Kingdom. I Kings 11:26-43 and 12:1-15.\n\n5. The Beginning of Israel. I Kings 12:16-33.\n\n6. The Beginning of Judah. I Kings 14:21-31.\n\n7. The Captivity of Israel. II Kings 17.\n\n8. The Captivity of Judah. II Kings 24 and 25.\n\n9. Map of Divided Kingdoms.\n\nDraw map, showing the two kingdoms and their capitals, also the regions\nof Assyria and Babylon. Let the map include the Tigris, Euphrates and\nChebar Rivers. See Map 4, also Bible Atlas. Draw dotted lines from the\ncapitals of the two kingdoms to the countries into which they were taken\ncaptives.\n\nIII. _Interesting Stories with Practical Lessons._\n\nNOTE.--To be recited, but not recorded save the titles and references.\n\n1. Jonathan and Friendship. I Samuel 18:1-4 and 19:1-7.\n\n2. Mephibosheth and Mercy. II Samuel 9.\n\n3. Absalom and Pride. II Samuel 15:1-6.\n\n4. Solomon and Choice. I Kings 3:1-15.\n\nIV. _Leading Chapters:_\n\n1. Childhood of Samuel. I Samuel 1, 2 and 3.\n\n2. Anointing of David. I Samuel 16.\n\n3. David and Goliath. I Samuel 17.\n\n4. Nathan's Parable of the Ewe Lamb. II Samuel 12.\n\n5. Visit of the Queen of Sheba. I Kings 10.\n\n6. Elijah and the Prophets of Baal. I Kings 18.\n\n7. Elijah's Ascent into Heaven. II Kings 2.\n\n8. Naaman the Leper. II Kings 5.\n\n9. The Destruction of Jerusalem. II Kings 25.\n\n10. Solomon's Prayer at Dedication of the Temple. II Chronicles 6.\n\nV. _Leading Lessons:_\n\nNOTE.--Name in a sentence, opposite the names given, a fact illustrating\nthe lesson.\n\n1. The Value of Right Beginning.\n\n(a) Samuel.\n\n(b) Kingdom of Israel.\n\n2. The Wide Influence of One Person.\n\n(a) David.\n\n(b) Jeroboam.\n\n3. Righteousness Pays.\n\n(a) David.\n\n(b) Hezekiah.\n\n4. Sin Destroys.\n\n(a) Ahab.\n\n(b) Kingdom of Israel.\n\nVI. _Questions:_\n\n1. Name some of the powers of the king. I Samuel 11:7; I Samuel\n22:18,19; II Samuel 15:2; I Kings 5:13,15; I Kings 8; II Kings 23:35.\n\n2. What kings did Samuel anoint?\n\n3. How long was David hunted by Saul and at what age?\n\n4. Where and how did David spare Saul?\n\n5. What two sins did David commit? II Samuel 11.\n\n6. After these sins what parable was spoken to him, and by whom?\n\n7. What two psalms did David write after these sins?\n\n8. Why was he called a man after God's own heart? I Samuel 13:14.\n\n9. How many wives and concubines did Solomon have and what was the\neffect?\n\n10. Name the worst king in Judah and the worst king in Israel.\n\n11. Name five bad things Manasseh did. II Kings 21.\n\n12. Name five good things Josiah did. II Kings 22 and 23.\n\n13. Name the first and last king of Israel, also of Judah.\n\nVII. _What of Christ?_\n\n(a) Symbol. The temple. John 2:19.\n\n(b) Types. David. Matt. 9:27. Name two likenesses. Solomon. Matt. 12:42.\nName two likenesses.\n\n(c) Prophecy. II Samuel 7:12,13.\n\n\n\n\nIV\n\nTHE KINGDOM UNDIVIDED\n\nTHE POETICAL BOOKS:\n\nPsalms              Page\n\nSong of Solomon     Page\n\nProverbs            Page\n\n\n\nTHE PSALMS\n\nI. _The Collection and Divisions:_\n\nIn all probability the book of one hundred and fifty psalms, as it now\nstands, was compiled by Ezra about 450 B.C.\n\nThey are divided into five books, each closing with a benediction,\nevidently added to mark the end of the book. Note the number of psalms\nin Books 1 and 2.\n\nII. _The Purposes:_\n\n1. They were originally used as songs in the Jewish Temple Worship.\n\n2. For centuries after Christ they formed the only Christian Hymnal.\n\n3. They have comforted and supported the troubled hearts of all\nbelievers in all ages.\n\nIII. _General Characteristics:_\n\n1. They are _personal_.--Number the first personal pronouns in Psalm 23.\nNote the frequent occurrence in others.\n\n2. They are the expression of _heart_ experiences.--Note the frequent\nuse of the words heart and soul. These Hebrew poems are largely the\ndiaries of the inner life.\n\n3. They express the _intimate relation_ between God and man.--Note in\nPsalms 23, 103, 139 how many the phrases which contain pronouns and\nwords referring to both God and man.\n\nIV. _Specific Characteristics:_\n\nNOTE.--Select a sentence from any psalm, illustrating each\ncharacteristic, and record the same in its appropriate place, giving the\nchapter and verse.\n\n1. Teaching.\n\n2. Testimony.\n\n3. Prayer.\n\n4. Confession.\n\n5. Praise.\n\n6. Exhortation.\n\n7. History.\n\nV. _Leading Authors:_\n\nHeman, author of the 88th; Ethan, 89; Moses, 90; Solomon, 72 and 127.\nThe sons of Korah (who were they?) wrote eleven. Examples 42 to 49.\nAsaph (who was he?) wrote twelve. Examples 73 to 83. David wrote\nseventy-three.\n\nVI. _Names of Leading Psalms_\n\nNOTE.--Select a phrase from the psalm, or state the reason, upon which\nthe name is based.\n\n1. The Two Ways.\n\n3. A Morning Hymn.\n\n4. An Evening Hymn.\n\n8. The Glory of the Creator in the Creature.\n\n15. A Citizen of Zion.\n\n16. The Blessings of the Believer.\n\n22. A Psalm of the Cross.\n\n23.\n\n27. The Tonic Psalm.\n\n32.\n\n42. From Depths to Heights.\n\n45. A Marriage Song.\n\n46. A Battle Hymn.\n\n51. A Sinner's Open Confession.\n\n65. The Farmer's Psalm.\n\n84.\n\n90. The Funeral Hymn.\n\n91. The Safety Psalm.\n\n100. The Doxology.\n\n103. God in Grace.\n\n104. God in Nature.\n\n105. God in History.\n\n119. The Glory of the Word.\n\nName three peculiarities of this psalm.\n\n121. The Traveler's Psalm.\n\n137. The Patriot's Hymn.\n\n139. The Psalm of Marvels.\n\n146 to 150. The Hallelujah Psalms.\n\nThe word Hallelujah is the Hebrew for \"Praise ye the Lord.\"\n\nVII. _The Messianic Psalms:_\n\nStudy meaning and description in Bible Dictionary. Why would David be\nfitted to write such psalms? Note three features of these psalms: 1.\nKingship. 2. Unlimited rule. 3. Unending dominion. Note also the basis\nfor the following names:\n\n2. The Victorious King.\n\n45. The Glorious King.\n\n72. The Helping King.\n\n110. The Conquering King.\n\nVIII. _A Question Study on Psalm 8:_\n\n1. Explain phrase: \"In all the earth.\"\n\n2. From what word might it be inferred that the author was a king?\n\n3. What three phrases indicate the shepherd life of the author?\n\n4. What historical event may be referred to in verse 2?\n\n5. How many heavens are mentioned?\n\n6. What two expressions indicate the exalted position of man?\n\nIX. _An Analytic Study of Psalm 139:_\n\n1. Name carefully the marvels in the following passages:\n\n(a) Verses 1 to 6.\n\n(b) Verses 7 to 10.\n\n(c) Verses 14 to 16.\n\n(d) Verses 17 and 18.\n\n2. The Pronouns of the First Person.\n\n(a) Underline and count.\n\n(b) In what verses not found?\n\n3. The Pronouns of the Second Person. (Or word referring to God.)\n\n(a) Underline and count.\n\n(b) In what verses not found?\n\n4. Select an example of as many of the seven specific characteristics as\nare found in this psalm.\n\n5. Meaning of the following words or phrases: Verse 8, \"Sheol.\" Verse 9,\n\"wings of the morning.\" Verse 16, \"thy book.\"\n\n\n\nTHE SONG OF SOLOMON\n\nI. _Author._\n\nII. _Names:_\n\n(1) Song of Solomon.\n\n(2) Song of Songs.\n\n(3) Canticles.\n\nGive the meaning of each.\n\nIII. _General Description:_\n\nIt is probably an allegorical drama. It pictures the love of Solomon to\na princess, typifying, as many believe, the love of Christ to the\nChurch. Read Ephesians 5 and be prepared to answer questions thereon.\nRichard Moulton describes it as containing seven idyllic poems.\n\nIV. _Words of Explanation:_\n\n1. Its Oriental tinge must be remembered. In the Occident uncovered\nbreasts would be an impropriety, but not in the Orient.\n\n2. The revised version removes some questionable utterances. Compare in\nthe two versions 1:13 and 5:14.\n\n3. Were we less sensual we could better appreciate its beauty. The\nbeautiful in art is greatly lost by the impurity of our fleshly nature.\nSo the beautiful in this poem.\n\n4. It is a poem, hence the author uses the poetic license.\n\n5. The poem needs a division into its parts, and a naming of parts,\nplaces and speakers, for a clearer understanding. Students of the poem\nhave made this division. The following is a sample:\n\n1. Antechamber of Palace.--Bride and Ladies.--Welcome to Home.--1:2 to\n1:8.\n\n2. Audience Room of Palace.--Bride: Groom: Attendants.--First\nInterview.--1:9 to 2:6.\n\n3. Palace Window.--Bride: Groom.--Serenade and Invitation.--2:7 to 2:17.\n\n4. Private Chamber.--Bride.--Search: A dream.--3:1-4.\n\nV. _Phrases Worthy of Remembrance:_\n\n1. Three descriptions applied to Christ. 2:1. Find two others in Chapter\n5.\n\n2. Our Lord's banner. 2:4.\n\n3. The double possession. 2:10.\n\nNOTE.--Write these phrases in full, with locations.\n\n\nPROVERBS\n\nI. _Author_.\n\nII. _Derivation and Meaning of Word._\n\nIII. _Literary Form and Arrangement:_\n\n1. They are arranged in masses rather than logical groups. They are\npoetical in form.\n\n2. They are chiefly couplets of two kinds:\n\n(a) Contrasted thoughts, joined usually by the connective \"but.\"\nExample, 28:1.\n\n(b) Parallel thoughts, joined usually by the connective \"and.\" Example,\n27:26.\n\nNOTE.--Select and record one proverb of each of the above kinds.\n\nIV. _Leading Kinds:_\n\nThe proverbs may be largely classified under one of the following\ntopics: (1) Tongue. (2) Chastity. (3) Society (4) Business. (5) Wisdom.\n(6) Home. (7) Character. (8) Law.\n\nV. Select and record one proverb under each of the above topics, giving\nlocation.\n\nVI. _Outline of Contents:_\n\n1. 1 to 24. The Proverbs of Solomon.\n\n2. 25 to 29. The Proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah copied\nout.\n\n3. 30. The Proverbs of Agur.\n\n4. 31. The Proverbs of King Lemuel.\n\nVII. _Number of Solomon's Proverbs:_\n\n1. How many proverbs did King Solomon write? See I Kings 4.\n\n2. Find the number of his proverbs in the book. Add the number in each\nchapter, omitting introduction and titles.\n\nVIII. _Leading Contents:_\n\n1 to 6. Introduction.\n\n7. The Way of the Strange Woman.\n\n8. The Call and the Testimony of Wisdom.\n\n23:29 to 35. The Effects of Strong Drink.\n\n30:7 to 9. The Prayer of Agur.\n\n31:10 to 31. The Description of a Model Woman, Wife, Mother.\n\nIX. _The Two Underlying Principles of the Book:_\n\n1. \"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.\" 1:7.\n\n2. \"A wise man will hear and increase learning.\" 1:5. Both are A.V. Let\nteacher and pupil amplify.\n\nX. _Four Chief Reasons for the Profitableness of the Proverbs:_\n\n1. They are brief, concise, epigrammatic.\n\n2. They were born of observation and experience.\n\n3. They were penned by the wisest man.\n\n4. They were written by inspiration of God.\n\nXI. _Miscellaneous Questions:_\n\n1. Who were Agur, Lemuel, the men of Hezekiah?\n\n2. Locate the proverbs that forbid one from becoming surety for another.\n\n3. What modern evil may be spoken against in 11:26?\n\n4. Give meaning of word wisdom, and why would this topic occupy large\nspace in the book?\n\n5. Select from Chapter 16 one proverb on divine guidance, one on the\nworth of self-control, and one on business honesty.\n\n6. Select the three most helpful proverbs on friendship.\n\n7. Name eight animals used in illustration, giving references, and give\nreasons for the author taking so many illustrations from the animal\nkingdom.\n\n8. Where might the author have received the thought of 24:19 and 24:20?\n\n9. Name the lesson for business men in 27:23.\n\n10. In Chapter 11 mark with the letter \"B\" the verses whose truth may\naffect one's business success.\n\n\n\n\nV\n\nTHE KINGDOM DIVIDED\n\nTHE PROPHETICAL BOOKS:\n\nJonah     Page\n\nAmos      Page\n\nIsaiah    Page\n\n\nOUTLINE FOR STUDY OF PROPHETICAL BOOKS\n\n1. Class.\n\n2. Commission of Prophet.\n\n3. Biographical Description of Prophet.\n\n4. Title of Prophet.\n\n5. Historical Place.\n\n(a) Name of Kingdom.\n\n(b) Names of Kings.\n\n6. Outline of Contents.\n\n7. Prophecies of Earthly Kings or Kingdoms.\n\n8. Prophecies of Christ.\n\n9. Prophecies of Christ's Kingdom.\n\n10. Leading Phrases.\n\n11. Leading Chapters.\n\n12. Leading Teachings.\n\n13. Questions.\n\n14. Items of Special Interest.\n\n15. Individual Finds.\n\nEXPLANATION.--Under No. 1 name whether major or minor. Under No. 2\nsecure the points of the commission in references given. No. 3 is to be\ngathered from the contents of the prophecy itself. Under No. 4 work out\nfrom the prophet's life, character or message an appropriate title by\nwhich he may be remembered. Under letter (a) of No. 5 state whether the\nmessage is to Israel or Judah. Under letter (b) name the kings during\nwhose reigns the message was delivered. Topics 14 and 15 are the same as\nin the Historical Outline.\n\nNOTES.--The first prophecy to be taken up, that of Jonah, will be\nstudied by a series of questions. In the succeeding prophecies the\noutline will be followed, though not so rigidly as in the case of the\nHistorical Outline.\n\n\n\nJONAH\n\nNOTE.--The study of this book is by questions.\n\n1. Draw full-page map, locating Joppa, Nineveh, Tarshish and his native\nplace, Gath-hepher. See II Kings 14:25.\n\n2. Name the three commands given to Jonah.\n\n3. What two things did the sailors do when the storm was severe?\n\n4. The waking of Jonah recalls what incident in the New Testament?\n\n5. According to the sailors, what caused the tempest?\n\n6. What plan was used to find the offender?\n\n7. What words of Psalm 139 are recalled by Jonah's attempt to flee from\nGod?\n\n8. What four things do we know about the boat?\n\n9. Who suggested the plan for calming the sea?\n\n10. Name three results of the calm upon the sailors.\n\n11. Give a name to the second chapter.\n\n12. In what direction did he pray and why?\n\n13. What phrase in Psalm 42 did he use in his prayer?\n\n14. Mention three things named in the book regarding the size of\nNineveh.\n\n15. Name Jonah's message.\n\n16. What four things did the king decree?\n\n17. What quality did Jonah manifest at the repentance of Nineveh?\n\n18. Name the petition of Jonah's prayer in Chapter 4.\n\n19. How did the Lord answer this petition?\n\n20. Explain the object lesson of the gourd.\n\n21. What six things did Jehovah do, as narrated in the book?\n\n22. In what two ways was Jonah a type of Christ? See Matt. 12:38-41.\n\n23. Why _must_ we accept the story as true?\n\n24. State four leading lessons of the book.\n\n\n\nAMOS\n\nI. _Class._\n\nII. _Commission:_ 3:1-9; 7:15. Analyze, narrate, record.\n\nIII. _Biographical Description:_ 1:1; 7:14; 7:10-17.\n\nIV. _Title._\n\nV. _Historical Place:_ See Bible Dictionary. Also 1:1, 2.\n\nVI. Omit.\n\nVII. _Prophecies of Earthly Kingdoms:_ Chapters 1 and 2.\n\n1. Draw full-page map, numbering in order and locating the eight cities\nand countries against which prophecies are uttered.\n\n2. Name the prophecy common to all.\n\n3. Prophecies against Israel.\n\n(a) Name three sins. 2:6-8.\n\n(b) Name the class of people to whom the prophetic word is especially\ndirected. 3:11 and 15 and 5:11.\n\n(c) Name three reasons why this people should obey God's law. 2:10;\n2:11; 4:6-11.\n\n(d) Name the punishment prophesied. 5:27.\n\nVIII. _None._\n\nIX. _Prophecies of Christ's Kingdom._ 9:11-15. Name four leading\npredictions therein. The teacher should mention the three possible\ninterpretations of this prophecy.\n\nX. _Striking Phrases:_\n\nFind one in each of the third, fourth and sixth chapters.\n\nXI and XII. _Omit._\n\nXIII. _Questions:_\n\n1. Name five things mentioned in Chapter 4 that God said He had done and\nyet they had not returned.\n\n2. What is meant by the expression \"cleanness of teeth\" in 4:6?\n\n3. What three parts of their worship did the Lord say He despised in\n5:21-23? Why did He despise them?\n\n4. What is meant by the expression \"flood of Egypt\" in 8:8?\n\n5. What kind of famine is prophesied to come upon them in 8:11 and 12?\n\n6. How many times does Amos refer to David?\n\n7. By what four names does Amos describe the Northern Kingdom?\n\nXIV. _Items of Special Interest:_\n\nSelect five.\n\nXV. _Individual Finds:_\n\nChapters 1, 2, 6.\n\n\n\nISAIAH\n\n\nI. _Class._\n\nII. _Commission:_ Chapter 6. Analyze carefully.\n\nIII. _Biography:_ 1:1; 8:1 and 3; 7:3; 20:2-4; II Chron. 26:22 and\n32:32.\n\nIV. _Title._\n\nV. _Historical Place:_ 1:1. Add the lengths of the reigns.\n\nVI. _Outline:_\n\n1. Dark Prophecies regarding Earthly Kingdoms. 1 to 35.\n\n2. History of an Earthly Kingdom. 36 to 39.\n\n3. Bright Prophecies regarding Christ's Kingdom. 40 to 66.\n\nVII. _Prophecies of Earthly Kingdoms:_ Babylon, Moab, Damascus, Egypt,\nTyre.\n\nName the vivid descriptions, the predictions, fulfillment.\n\nVIII. _Prophecies of Christ:_ Name the predictions found in the\nfollowing references. If time permits, classify them under these heads:\n(a) Genealogy. (b) Name. (c) Event. (d) Characteristic. (e) Work.\n\n7:14; 9:2, 6, 7; 11:1-5 and 10; 28:16; 32:1; 40:11; 42:1-4; 49:2; 50:4,\n5, 6; 52:14, 15. Three facts in the closing days of Christ's life in\nChapter 53.\n\nIX. _Prophecies of Christ's Kingdom:_\n\nNote three leading characteristics predicted:\n\n1. Chapter 35.\n\n2. Chapter 60:1-14.\n\n3. Chapter 60:15-22.\n\nX. _\"Exceeding Great and Precious Promises\":_\n\n1. Complete Cleansing. 1:18.\n\n2. Perfect Peace. 26:2.\n\n3. Refuge. 32:2.\n\n4. Abiding Strength. 40:29-31.\n\n5. Fruitage of the Word. 55:10, 11.\n\nXI. _Leading Chapters:_\n\n23. Destruction of Tyre.\n\n35. Transformation.\n\n40. The Greatness of God and the Littleness of Man.\n\n53. The Cross and Atonement.\n\n55. The Gracious Invitation.\n\n60. The Coming of the Nations to Christ.\n\nXII. _Leading Teachings:_\n\n1. The Incarnation of Christ. 7:14 and 9:6.\n\n2. The Atonement by blood. 53:6, 5.\n\n(Called by Luther \"the little gospel.\" Note the four parts, by reading\nverse 6 first, then verse 5.)\n\n3. The Transforming Power of Christianity. Chapter 35.\n\nXIII. _Items of Special Interest:_\n\nSelect fifteen.\n\nXIV. _Individual Finds:_\n\nChapters 1, 5, 12, 35, 36, 61.\n\n\n\n\nVI\n\nTHE KINGDOM IN CAPTIVITY\n\nJeremiah        Page\n\nLamentations    Page\n\nDaniel          Page\n\n\n\nJEREMIAH\n\nI. _Class._\n\nII. _Commission:_ 1:4-10 and 18; 17:19 and 20. Time; manner; to whom;\nwhat to do; quality required; pledges given.\n\nIII. _Biographical Description:_ 1:1; 16:2; 20:2; 32:2 and 3; 37:11-16;\n43:6 and 7.\n\nIV. _Title._ See 9:1.\n\nV. _Historical Place:_ State length of prophetical office.\n\nVI. _Omit._\n\nVII. _Prophecies of Earthly Kingdoms:_ Chapters 46 to 51. Name seven.\n\nVIII. _Prophecies Regarding Christ:_ 23:5 and 6 Name three contained\ntherein. Why so few prophecies of Christ?\n\nIX. _Omit._\n\nX. _Leading Phrases:_\n\n13:23. The question.\n\n45:5: \"Seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not.\"\n\nXI. _Leading Chapters:_\n\n29. Letter to the Captives.\n\n35. The Rechabites and Strong Drink.\n\nXII. _Omit._\n\nXIII. _Questions:_\n\n1. Name and explain the two object lessons in 18:1-6 and in 24.\n\n2. Name five things the prophet in his letter commanded the captives in\nBabylon to do.\n\n3. Name the strangely-worded statement regarding Jehovah in 25:4.\n\n4. Give the prophecy of the return in 29:10.\n\nXIV. _Items of Special Interest:_\n\nSelect fifteen.\n\nXV. _Individual Finds:_\n\nChapters 1, 13, 22, 36, 38.\n\n\n\nLAMENTATIONS\n\n\nI. _Author._\n\nII. _Name._ \"A Funeral Dirge.\"\n\nIII. _Literary Form._ See Dictionary.\n\nIV. _General Contents._ See Dictionary.\n\nV. _Outline of Contents:_\n\n1. The Wail of a Widow. Chapter 1.\n\n2. The Picture of Jerusalem's Calamity. Chapters 2 to 4.\n\n3. A Prayer. Chapter 5.\n\nVI. _Questions:_\n\n1. Give two figures of speech in Chapter 1 that describe Jerusalem's\ndistress.\n\n2. Select six consecutive words in 1:9 that declare the greatness of her\nfall.\n\n3. Select six expressions in Chapters 1 and 2 that indicate the decline\nin religion.\n\n4. Select six expressions in Chapters 4 and 5 that indicate the severity\nof the famine.\n\n5. Select six expressions in Chapter 5 that indicate the terrors of the\nsiege and the severity of the ruin.\n\n6. Name the two requests in the Prayer chapter.\n\n7. Explain the truth contained in 3:27.\n\n\n\nDANIEL\n\n\nI. _Outline:_\n\n1. 1 to 6. History.\n\n2. 7 to 12. Prophecy.\n\nII. Name three things known of Daniel when brought a captive. 1:3 and 4.\n\nIII. _Leading Narratives._\n\nRecite, but record only titles and references.\n\n1. Chapter 1. Daniel and Drink.\n\n2. Chapter 2. Daniel and the Dream.\n\n3. Chapter 5. Daniel and the Handwriting.\n\n4. Chapter 6. Daniel and the Lion's Den\n\nIV. _Chart of Two Chief Visions of Earthly Kingdoms:_ Chapters 2 and 7.\n\n+----------------------+----------------------+------------------------+\n|    PART OF IMAGE     |   NAME OF BEAST      |     NAME OF COUNTRY    |\n+----------------------+----------------------+------------------------+\n|                      |                      |                        |\n|1                     |                      |                        |\n|                      |                      |                        |\n|2                     |                      |                        |\n|                      |                      |                        |\n|3                     |                      |                        |\n|                      |                      |                        |\n|4                     |                      |                        |\n|                      |                      |                        |\n+----------------------+----------------------+------------------------+\n\nV. Draw full-page map, outlining with dotted lines the four countries of\nabove chart at time of their worldwide dominion. Locate the capitals,\nrecord the conqueror in each under the capital, together with date.\n\nVI. _Difficult Prophecy of the Messiah:_ 9:24-27.\n\nVII. _Daniel's Prayer:_ 9:1-19.\n\n1. With what acts is his prayer accompanied?\n\n2. With what Old Testament books is he evidently acquainted?\n\n3. What is the burden of his prayer?\n\n4. Name the three leading requests.\n\n5. Name the basis of his plea.\n\nVIII. _Three Leading Lessons:_\n\n1. Purpose is stronger than environment.\n\n2. Prayer avails.\n\n3. Sterling piety brings elevation.\n\nIllustrate each of these by events in Daniel's life.\n\n\n\n\nVII\n\nTHE KINGDOM RESTORED\n\nEzra      Page\n\nNehemiah      Page\n\nHaggai      Page\n\nZechariah     Page\n\n\n\nEZRA\n\n\nThe study of this book is by chapters. Commit the names of the chapters.\n\nChapter I. _The First Return Under Zerubbabel:_\n\n1. Who issued the decree?\n\n2. Name three commands in the decree.\n\n3. Give the date.\n\n4. Name number of gold and silver vessels returned.\n\nChapter II. _The Register of Returning Captives:_\n\n1. Give the number.\n\nChapter III. _The Renewal of Worship:_\n\n1. Name four things accomplished in the restoration of worship.\n\nChapter IV. _The Hindrance of Adversaries:_\n\n1. State their request.\n\n2. State reply of Zerubbabel.\n\nChapter V. _The Help of the Prophets:_\n\nPrepare two questions.\n\nChapter VI. _The Dedication of the Temple:_\n\n1. What kings aided?\n\n2. What prophets helped?\n\n3. What feast was observed?\n\nChapter VII. _The Second Return Under Ezra:_\n\n1. Give the date.\n\n2. State the number of returning captives.\n\n3. State the distance of the journey.\n\n4. Name length of time consumed in the journey.\n\n5. Name three things Ezra had prepared his heart to do.\n\n6. Name the double office of Ezra.\n\nChapter VIII. _At the River Ahava:_\n\nPrepare two questions.\n\nChapter IX. Prepare a name and two questions.\n\nChapter X. Prepare a name and two questions.\n\n\n\nNEHEMIAH\n\n_Pictorial Device:_ A Broken Wall.\n\nDraw three layers of stone forming lower part of wall. On this draw four\nportions of the wall intact, with three breaks between. In these three\nbreaks place the words: \"Temporal, 3 to 6;\" \"Civil, 5;\" \"Religious, 8 to\n13.\" On the unbroken portion of the wall place the figure \"52\" and the\nphrase: \"A Great Work.\" Over the device place the word God. Add any\noriginal touches suggested by the book.\n\nI. Give a brief narrative of Nehemiah's return as recorded in Chapters 1\nand 2.\n\nII. _General Contents:_\n\n1. Rebuilding the temporal wall.\n\n2. Rebuilding the civil wall.\n\n3. Rebuilding the religious wall.\n\nIII. _Leading Chapters:_\n\n3. A list of the wall builders.\n\n12. The dedication of the wall.\n\n13. How a Mayor enforced the Sabbath law.\n\nIV. _Striking Phrases:_\n\n4:6: \"The people had a mind to work.\"\n\n8:10: \"The joy of the Lord is your strength.\"\n\nV. _Questions:_\n\n1. Name Nehemiah's position and its duties.\n\n2. Locate Shushan.\n\n3. Measure the distance from Shushan to Jerusalem.\n\n4. Name eight classes of people who aided in rebuilding the wall.\n\n5. Name any three gates mentioned and note their location on Bible map\nof the city of Jerusalem. Map No. 10.\n\n6. Describe in brief the kinds of gatherings that occurred at the city\ngates. Give examples from Bible history. Read articles in Bible\nDictionary on \"Gates\" and \"Walls.\" Record references.\n\n7. Name three hindrances to the rebuilding of the wall. Chapter 4.\n\n8. Name four wise plans of Nehemiah as general.\n\n9. Mention the ways in Chapters 5 and 6 in which Nehemiah proved his\nintense patriotism.\n\n10. In what length of time was the wall completed?\n\n11. Name four things covenanted by the people. Chapter 10.\n\n12. Name three leading features in the dedication of the wall.\n\n13. Record and locate the ejaculatory prayers of the book. Name a lesson\ntherefrom.\n\n14. Name five leading qualities of Nehemiah, giving an example from his\nlife to illustrate each.\n\n15. Name four striking lessons for Christian activity gleaned from the\nbook.\n\n\n\nHAGGAI\n\n\nA STUDY OF THE FOUR BRIEF PROPHECIES OF THE BOOK\n\n_Prophecy Number One: Chapter 1:1-15._\n\n1. To whom spoken.\n\n2. Name the reason assigned by the people for not rebuilding.\n\n3. Name four reasons given by the prophet why the people should rebuild.\n\n4. State the result of the prophet's appeal.\n\n_Prophecy Number Two: Chapter 2:1-9._\n\n1. To whom spoken.\n\n2. State the evident feeling of those who had seen the former house. See\nverse 3, also Ezra 3:12.\n\n3. Name the three promises of Jehovah calculated to remove this sting of\ndisappointment.\n\n_Prophecy Number Three: Chapter 2:10-19._\n\n1. State moral condition of the people.\n\n2. Name the three causes of material loss.\n\n3. State the promise.\n\n_Prophecy Number Four: Chapter 2:20-23._\n\n1. To whom spoken.\n\n2. Name the two prophecies in your own words.\n\n_Questions:_\n\n1. What word indicates the small number who had returned?\n\n2. Commit words, with location, of a striking verse, 2:8.\n\n3. In how many days did they begin to work after the first appeal was\nmade?\n\n4. What length of time do the four prophecies cover?\n\n5. What statement is accepted by many as a prophecy of Christ? Use the\nmarginal reading.\n\n6. By what two terms is Haggai called?\n\n7. What word does Haggai use, and how many times, to set the people to\nthinking?\n\n8. By what expression is God most frequently described?\n\n9. Why, possibly, was no prophet sent to Nehemiah?\n\n10. Give an appropriate title to Haggai.\n\n\n\nZECHARIAH\n\n\nI. _The Visions of Chapters 1 to 6:_\n\nRecord and commit, with chapter location.\n\nII. _The Striking Phrases and Verses:_\n\nCommit and locate the following:\n\n\"Apple of the eye.\"\n\nGive meaning. State what other books of the Bible contain the phrase.\n\n\"Prisoners of Hope.\"\n\n\"Who hath despised the day of small things?\"\n\n\"Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts.\"\n\n\"Wounded in the house of my friends.\"\n\n(Use concordance in finding location.)\n\nIII. _The Prophecies of Christ:_\n\nGive the four names by which the Christ is described. See 3:8, 9:9,\n13:7.\n\nName four events in Christ's life prophesied in the following verses:\n9:9, 11:12, 13:1, 13:7.\n\nIV. _General Questions._\n\n1. Compare the beginning of Zechariah's prophecy with that of Haggai in\npoint of time.\n\n2. Which of the major prophets and which of the minor prophets does\nZechariah resemble most?\n\n3. By what name is Satan described in Chapter 3, and what other Bible\nwriters use the same description?\n\n4. Name three general encouragements given by the prophet to Zerubbabel\nin Chapter 4 to rebuild the temple.\n\n5. Record the cities prophesied against in Chapter 9.\n\nV. _Questions on Chapter 14:_\n\n1. Of what is this a prophetic picture? Verse 9.\n\n2. Name the facts about the capture of Jerusalem. Verses 2 and 3.\n\n3. Name the three strange happenings in nature. Verses 4 to 8.\n\n4. Name final result. Verse 11.\n\n5. Name the two plagues to be visited.\n\n6. What one of the feasts is to be kept and why?\n\n7. Give words and meaning of the placard in verse 20.\n\n\n\n\nVIII\n\nTHE KINGDOM'S TRUE KING\n\nMatthew      Page\n\nMark         Page\n\nLuke         Page\n\nJohn         Page\n\n\n\nTHE FOUR GOSPELS\n\n\nI. BRIEF INTRODUCTION\n\n1. Name five portions of Scripture that are repeated.\n\n2. Four reasons why the Lord's life is recorded four times:\n\n(1) To emphasize its importance.\n\n(2) To multiply the testimony to His life in the flesh.\n\n(3) To present the different aspects of His character.\n\n(4) To reach different classes of people.\n\nNOTE.--The Gospels were originally sermons, and the authors preachers.\nThey are not designed as biographies. One has described them as \"memoirs\nof a life, to teach a religion.\" Hence one need not expect chronological\norder. Their purpose is not to record the life of Christ, but to win a\nlost world to the Savior.\n\nII. AUTHOR CHART.\n\n+---------------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+\n|               |   MATTHEW   |    MARK     |    LUKE    |    JOHN     |\n+---------------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+\n|               |             |             |            |             |\n|1. Business    |             |             |            |             |\n|               |             |             |            |             |\n+---------------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+\n|               |             |             |            |             |\n|2. Nationality |             |             |            |             |\n|               |             |             |            |             |\n+---------------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+\n|               |             |             |            |             |\n|3. Apostle     |             |             |            |             |\n|or not         |             |             |            |             |\n|               |             |             |            |             |\n+---------------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+\n|               |             |             |            |             |\n|4. Eye Witness |             |             |            |             |\n|or not         |             |             |            |             |\n+---------------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+\n\nTo aid in filling blanks in this chart and in the following one, read\naccounts of the four authors in Bible Dictionary.\n\nIII. CONTENTS CHART\n\n+-------------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+\n|             |   MATTHEW   |    MARK     |    LUKE    |    JOHN     |\n+-------------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+\n|             |             |             |            |             |\n|1. For Whom  |             |             |            |             |\n|    written  |             |             |            |             |\n|             |             |             |            |             |\n+-------------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+\n|             |             |             |            |             |\n|2. Purpose   |             |             |            |             |\n|   touching  |             |             |            |             |\n|   Christ    |             |             |            |             |\n|             |             |             |            |             |\n+-------------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+\n|             |             |             |            |             |\n|3. Keyword   |Kingdom      |Straightway  |Compassion  |Believe      |\n|             |             |             |            |             |\n+-------------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+\n|             |             |             |            |             |\n|4. Quality   |             |             |            |             |\n|   from      |Business     |             |            |             |\n|   Standpoint|Accuracy     |Vividness    |Completeness|Warmth       |\n|   of        |             |             |            |             |\n|   Author    |             |             |            |             |\n+-------------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+\n\nIV. _Questions on Matthew:_\n\n1. Name three expressions in Chapter 1 that manifest the author's\noccupation.\n\n2. Name one expression in each of the first three chapters that manifest\nthe kingship of Christ.\n\n3. Why does Matthew record the fulfillment of prophecy?\n\n4. Name the prophecies recorded as fulfilled in the first four chapters,\nand the author of each prophecy.\n\n5. Number and locate the word kingdom as recorded in the Sermon on the\nMount.\n\nV. _Questions on Mark:_\n\n1. Underline and number in Chapter 1 the words straightway, astonished,\namazed.\n\n2. Select three other words in Chapter 1 that manifest vividness.\n\n3. With what event in Christ's life does Mark begin? and state reason.\n\n4. Name and number the miracles in the first five chapters.\n\n5. Name and number the parables in the first five chapters.\n\n6. Why would you expect such a result in answers to questions 4 and 5?\n\nVI. _Questions on Luke:_\n\n1. Name three words in the introduction that indicate the three\ncharacteristics of the book.\n\n2. What do you note by comparing 1:5, 2:1 and 2, and 3:1 and 2?\n\n3. Name six expressions in Chapters 1 and 2 that indicate Luke's\noccupation.\n\n4. Record three expressions, and by whom spoken, in first three\nchapters, that manifest that God's salvation is for all people.\n\n5. Name contents peculiar to Luke in Chapters 10, 14, 15, 19 and 23 that\nmanifest God's salvation as world wide and for the lowest.\n\nVII. _Questions on John:_\n\n1. Name the phrase in Chapter 1 that describes the Lord's birth.\n\n2. Name the \"I am's\" of Christ in Chapters 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15,\nand give reason why possibly John alone of the four records them.\n\n3. State the purpose of this gospel. See 20:30, 31.\n\n4. Underline the words \"sign,\" \"believe,\" \"life\" (live), in Chapters 1\nto 6.\n\n5. Note the \"signs\" mentioned in first four chapters and the results.\n\n6. Name the four witnesses to Christ's divinity mentioned by Him in the\nclosing paragraph of Chapter 5.\n\nVIII. _Leading Chapters:_\n\n_Matthew._\n\n1. Genealogy and Birth of the King.\n\n2.\n\n4.\n\n5 to 7. The Sermon on the Mount; or, The Principles of the Kingdom.\n\n13. The Eight Parables of the Kingdom.\n\n17.\n\n25. The Judgment of the King.\n\n_Mark._\n\n1. A Busy Sabbath in Our Lord's Life.\n\n_Luke._\n\n2. The Birth and Boyhood of Jesus.\n\n3. The Genealogy of Jesus.\n\n4.\n\n10.\n\n14. The Three Parables of Hospitality.\n\n15. The Three Parables of Lost and Found.\n\n_John._\n\n3. The New Birth.\n\n10.\n\n11.\n\n14. Comfort.\n\n15.\n\n16. The Holy Spirit.\n\n17. Christ's Intercessory Prayer.\n\n\n\n\nIX\n\nTHE KINGDOM CONQUERING THE WORLD\n\nActs                             Page\n\nPaul's Epistles                  Page\n\nOutline for Study of Epistles    Page\n\nI Thessalonians                  Page\n\nI Corinthians                    Page\n\nRomans                           Page\n\nPhilippians                      Page\n\nII Timothy                       Page\n\nThe General Epistles             Page\n\nQuestions on the Book of James   Page\n\nStudies in I and II Peter        Page\n\nI John                           Page\n\n\n\nTHE ACTS\n\n\nI. _Author:_\n\n1. Name.\n\n2. Number of books written by him.\n\n3. Three reasons for his fitness to write this book:\n\n(a) A Gentile.\n\n(b) Devoted to Christ as the World's Savior.\n\n(c) A companion of Paul during a portion of his missionary journeys.\n\nII. _The Inscription:_ 1:1.\n\n1. To whom?\n\n2. Reference to what book?\n\nIII. _Chronology:_\n\n1. Name beginning and ending dates.\n\n2. Length of time of contents.\n\n3. Contents during the reigns of what four Roman emperors.\n\nIV. _Analysis of the Key Verse:_ 1:8.\n\n1. Name the Divine Agent.\n\n2. Name the Human Instrument.\n\n3. Name the Equipment.\n\n4. Name the Method.\n\n5. Name the Threefold Division of the Field:\n\n(a) City.\n\n(b) Home Land.\n\n(c) Foreign Lands.\n\nNOTE.--This verse outlines the progress of the kingdom in this book\nduring one generation. It also outlines the plan of God touching the\nwork of each disciple, each individual church, and the church universal.\nHere is the pattern. With hunger to know and willingness to do should\nevery disciple study this pattern book. Am I measuring up to the plan of\nGod? Is this church measuring up to the plan of God?\n\nV. _Outline of Contents:_\n\n1. The Kingdom's Witness in the City. Chapters 1 to 7.\n\n2. The Kingdom's Witness in the Home Land. Chapters 8 to 12.\n\n3. The Kingdom's Witness in the Uttermost Parts of the Earth. Chapters\n13 to 28.\n\nVI. _Pattern Chapters for Church Work:_\n\n1. A Model Prayer Meeting.\n\n2. A Model Sermon and Revival.\n\n6. A Model for Church Officers.\n\n8. A Model for Personal Work.\n\n9. A Model Conversion.\n\n10. A Model Minister.\n\nVII. _Chapter Questions:_\n\nThe ten following questions are to be answered in the first ten\nchapters, one in each consecutive chapter as numbered. If desired, ask\npupil to be ready to answer any question propounded by the teacher on\nthese chapters.\n\n1. Name the apostle selected in the place of Judas, the method of\nselection, and why disciples never afterward used this method.\n\n2. Name the _immediate_ results of the outpouring of the Spirit.\n\n3. With what three things touching Christ did Peter charge the Jews?\n\n4. What three things did the magistrates note about Peter and John?\n\n5. Name the offenders, the offense, the penalty and the reason for such\nsevere punishment.\n\n6. Name the two classes of church officers, the number of each, and the\nwork of each.\n\n7. Name the first martyr and state how the circumstances surrounding his\ndeath resembled those surrounding the death of Christ.\n\n8. Name the new city entered, the two chief converts mentioned, and the\nthree leading workers.\n\n9. In Saul's conversion name three factors and three proofs, also three\ntrials following.\n\n10. Name the change wrought in Peter through the vision.\n\nVIII. _Outline Map of Paul's Life:_\n\nDraw full-page map, locating thereon the following: (1) Place of Birth.\n(2) Place of Student Life. (3) Place of Conversion. (4) Place of\nWilderness Sojourn. (5) Place of Pastoral Work. (6) Place of\nImprisonment and Death.\n\nIX. CHART OF PAUL'S FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY\n\n1. Location in Bible: Acts 13 and 14. 2. Name the workers. 3. Name the\npreparation.\n\n+-------------+-----------+----------+----------+-----------+----------+\n|    PLACE    |   TIME    |  PLACE   | KIND OF  | INCIDENTS |  RESULTS |\n| (Only towns |   SPENT   | OF WORK  |  WORK    |   (Any    |   (Of    |\n| and cities  |(Give only |(Building)|(Preaching|happening) | whatever |\n| are given)  |    as     |          | teaching)|           | nature)  |\n|             | recorded) |          |          |           |          |\n+-------------+-----------+----------+----------+-----------+----------+\n|             |           |          |          |           |          |\n|1. Seleucia  |           |          |          |           |          |\n|2. Salamis   |           |          |          |           |          |\n|3. Paphos    |           |          |          |           |          |\n|             |           |          |          |           |          |\n|             |           |          |          |           |          |\n|             |           |          |          |           |          |\n|4. Perga     |           |          |          |           |          |\n|5. Antioch   |           |          |          |           |          |\n|   in P.     |           |          |          |           |          |\n|             |           |          |          |           |          |\n|             |           |          |          |           |          |\n|             |           |          |          |           |          |\n|6.           |           |          |          |           |          |\n|             |           |          |          |           |          |\n|             |           |          |          |           |          |\n|             |           |          |          |           |          |\n|7.           |           |          |          |           |          |\n|8.           |           |          |          |           |          |\n|9. Lystra    |           |          |          |           |          |\n|10. Iconium  |           |          |          |           |          |\n|11. Antioch  |           |          |          |           |          |\n|    in P.    |           |          |          |           |          |\n|12. Perga    |           |          |          |           |          |\n|13. Attalia  |           |          |          |           |          |\n|14. Antioch  |           |          |          |           |          |\n|             |           |          |          |           |          |\n|             |           |          |          |           |          |\n|             |           |          |          |           |          |\n+-------------+-----------+----------+----------+-----------+----------+\n\nX. _Full-page Map of Paul's First Missionary Journey:_\n\nDraw map of Mediterranean Sea and surrounding countries. Locate the\nprovinces of Asia Minor, the fourteen places on the chart, and trace the\nroute.\n\n\n\nTHE PAULINE EPISTLES\n\n\nI. _To Whom Addressed:_\n\nRecord the words of address as found in the opening of each epistle. The\nfollowing is given as an example:\n\nRomans: \"To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints.\"\n1:7.\n\nII. _Location of Churches Addressed:_\n\nDraw full-page map of Mediterranean Sea and surrounding countries,\nlocating the churches, seven in number.\n\nIII. _Names in the Superscriptions:_\n\nRecord the names addressing the epistles as given at the beginning of\neach, together with descriptions attached. Describe the persons whose\nnames are made companion with Paul's. Note whether they are regarded as\nwriters, and why Paul adds their names. Note I Cor. 16:21, Phil. 1:21,\nand II Thes. 3:17. The following two are given as examples:\n\nRomans: Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ.\n\nI Corinthians: Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, * * * and\nSosthenes, our brother.\n\nSosthenes was ruler of a Jewish synagogue (Acts 18:17). He was probably\nconverted later. He is not regarded as aiding in the authorship. It was\nprobably sent in his name to add weight.\n\nIV. _General Contents:_\n\nSecure these by reference to Bible Dictionary. The following is given as\nan example:\n\nRomans and Galatians: The doctrines of sin and grace.\n\n\nOUTLINE FOR STUDY OF INDIVIDUAL EPISTLE\n\nI. _Author._\n\nII. _Place and Date of Writing._\n\nIII. _Description of Addressed Ones._ (The people, the city, the\nchurch.)\n\nIV. _Number of Chapters._\n\nV. _Key Word or Verse._\n\nVI. _Outline of Contents._\n\nVII. _General Purpose._ (Or brief description of letter as a whole.)\n\nVIII. _Three Leading Phrases._\n\nIX. _Three Leading Verses._\n\nX. _Leading Chapters._\n\nXI. _Leading Thought About Christ._\n\nXII. _Questions._\n\n\nI THESSALONIANS\n\nI.\n\nII.\n\nIII. _Brief Description of Founding._ See Acts 17. Also a brief word\nabout the city.\n\nIV.\n\nV. _Wait._ _Comfort._\n\nVI. _Omit._\n\nVII. _To command, to exhort, and to describe the second coming of Christ\nas a means of comfort, and as a stimulus to right living._\n\nVIII. \"_Pray_ * * *\"\n\n\"_Quench not_ * * *\"\n\n\"_Hold fast_ * * *\"\n\n(Complete the phrases and locate.)\n\nIX. _Omit._\n\nX. 1. A Model Church.\n\n4 and 5. The Second Coming of Christ.\n\nXI. _Christ is Coming Again._\n\nXII. _Questions:_\n\n1. Name three chief things commendable in these Thessalonian Christians.\nChapter 1.\n\n2. By what two illustrations does Paul describe his relations to them?\nChapter 2.\n\n3. By what two expressions does Paul describe the large place they\noccupied in his heart? Chapter 2.\n\n4. Why did not Paul visit them, according to his desire? Chapter 2.\n\n5. What did Paul say would be life to him? Chapter 3.\n\n6. For what two purposes did he send Timothy? Chapter 3.\n\n7. What do you regard as the most striking exhortation of Chapter 4?\n\n8. Is 5:16 possible? (See Phil. 4:4.)\n\n9. What expression in Chapter 5 is taken from the words of our Lord?\n\n10. Locate and write out one reference in each chapter to our Lord's\nsecond coming.\n\n\nI CORINTHIANS\n\nI.\n\nII.\n\nIII. _Description of Corinth and of Church at Corinth._\n\nIV.\n\nV. _Wisdom._\n\nVI. _Omit._\n\nVII. _Threefold purpose: (1) To restore unity; (2) To teach doctrines;\n(3) To remove evils._\n\nVIII. \"_Ye are bought_ * * *\"\n\n\"_O death, where_ * * *\"\n\n\"_Quit you_ * * *\"\n\n(Complete the phrases and locate.)\n\nIX. _Record these and commit them:_\n\n3:16; 13:1; 15:58.\n\nX. _Assign names to the following chapters:_\n\n11; 13; 15.\n\nXI. _Christ our Wisdom._\n\nXII. _The questions are chapter questions:_\n\nChapter 1. Upon what four persons was the church divided?\n\nGive total number of times the words \"wise\" and \"wisdom\" are found in\nthe first three chapters. Underline these two words in these chapters.\n\nChapter 4. Whom does Paul command the church to imitate, and is he\njustified in so doing?\n\nChapter 6. What is the body called?\n\nChapter 7. What strong position does Paul take about the eating of meat?\nState the principle in other words.\n\nChapter 9. How does Paul act in order to win people to Christ? What two\nGrecian games does he use as illustrations?\n\nChapter 11. Why does Paul record the teaching regarding the Lord's\nSupper?\n\nChapter 12. What comforting truth to the Christian worker in verses 12\nto 25?\n\n\nROMANS\n\nI.\n\nII.\n\nIII. _Brief Description of Roman People._\n\nIV.\n\nV. 1:16 and 17.\n\nVI. _Chapters I to II: Doctrine._\n\n_Chapters 12 to 16: Practice._\n\nVII. _To prove that sinful men are saved not by works, but by faith._\n\nVIII. \"_The wages_ * * *\"\n\n\"_If God is for us_ * * *\"\n\n\"_Overcome evil_ * * *\"\n\n(Finish the phrases and locate them.)\n\nIX. _The three therefores:_ 5:1, 8:1, 12:1.\n\nX. 1. The Fearful Picture of Sin.\n\n7. The Christian's Wrestling Match with Sin.\n\n8. Safety.\n\n10. Missionary.\n\n11. Conversion of the Jews.\n\n12. Practical Religion.\n\n13. Citizen and Ruler.\n\n16. Salutations.\n\nXI. _Christ, our Righteousness._\n\nXII. _Questions:_\n\n1. Locate as to book and chapter Paul's quotations from the Old\nTestament in Chapters 3, 4 and 10.\n\n2. Name three truths in Chapter 8 that are assurances of the believer's\nsafety.\n\n3. Number the commands in Romans 12:9-21.\n\n4. By what phrase is a civil ruler described in Chapter 13?\n\n5. Whither did Paul expect to go? Chapter 15.\n\n\nPHILIPPIANS\n\nI.\n\nII.\n\nIII. _Brief Description of the Founding._ (See Acts 16.)\n\nIV.\n\nV. _Gain and Joy._\n\nVI. _Omit._\n\nVII. _A personal letter of gratitude, testimony and exhortation._\n\nVIII. \"_To die_ * * *\"\n\n\"_Work out_ * * *\"\n\n\"_Rejoice in_ * * *\"\n\n(Complete the phrases and locate.)\n\nIX. _Record and Commit these three verses:_\n\n1:6. A promise.\n\n2:5. An exhortation.\n\n3:14. A personal testimony.\n\nX. 2. _Paul's Double Picture of Christ._\n\n3. _Paul's Marvelous Personal Testimony._\n\nXI. _The Immeasurable Worth of Christ._\n\nXII. _Questions:_\n\n1. Underline the word \"gain\" and state number of times found in the\nbook.\n\n2. Underline the words \"joy\" and \"rejoice\" and state number of times\neach is found in the book.\n\n3. How many times does the personal pronoun \"I\" occur in Chapter 1?\n\n4. In Chapter 2 what two men's names are mentioned and what facts\nregarding them?\n\n5. In Chapter 3 what three things was Paul determined to know?\n\n6. In Chapter 3 what four words or phrases are taken from the race?\n\n7. In Chapter 4 what three things did Paul say he had learned?\n\n\nII TIMOTHY\n\nRead the book three times, slowly, thoughtfully, prayerfully. Enter as\nfar as possible into the surroundings and feelings connected with this\nlast letter of the martyr Paul--this personal letter to this loved son\nin the faith. Then write your impressions and ideas regarding its\ncontents, using three hundred words.\n\n\n\nTHE GENERAL EPISTLES\n\n\nI. _The Authors--A Brief Biography of Each:_\n\nSee Bible Dictionary.\n\nII. _To Whom Addressed._\n\nSee the beginning of each letter. The following is an example:\n\nJames: \"To the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion.\"\n\nIII. _Place and Date of Writing:_\n\nSee Bible Dictionary. The following is an example:\n\nJames. Jerusalem. About 62 A.D.\n\nIV. _General Purpose of Contents:_\n\nSee Bible Dictionary. The following is an example:\n\nJames. A book of practical morals. Also to comfort the scattered and\npersecuted Jewish Christians.\n\n\nQUESTIONS ON JAMES\n\n_Chapter 1_\n\n1. Why can a person be joyful when falling into temptation? Verses 2, 3\nand 4.\n\n2. How does temptation begin?\n\n3. Give meaning of phrase: \"Father of Lights.\"\n\n4. What six words voice the author's strong exhortation regarding the\nWord?\n\n5. Name the two elements of pure religion.\n\n_Chapter 2_\n\n1. What charge is made against the wealthy worshipers?\n\n2. Name the royal law.\n\n3. What two factors are necessary to salvation and which does James\nemphasize?\n\n4. What do demons believe? Give proof.\n\n5. What two illustrations are taken from Old Testament biography?\n\n_Chapter 3_\n\n1. Give a title to the chapter.\n\n2. How large a part does the control of the tongue have in the making of\ncharacter? Explain.\n\n3. To what two things is the tongue compared in verses 3 and 4?\n\n4. What three things does the writer declare the tongue to be?\n\n5. If no man can tame the tongue, what two things must follow on the\npart of every one who desires to get it under control?\n\n_Chapter 4_\n\n1. Name the cause mentioned for unanswered prayer.\n\n2. Give the author's recipe for causing the devil to flee.\n\n3. Give the author's recipe for securing the presence of God.\n\n4. What phrase must a believer use when speaking of a future act, and\nwhy?\n\n5. Give James' definition of sin and state how it differs from John's.\n(See I John 3:4, Authorized Version.)\n\n_Chapter 5_\n\n1. What two illustrations are taken from Old Testament history?\n\n2. What is meant by the phrase, \"the end of the Lord,\" in verse 11?\n\n3. What command resembles one in the Sermon on the Mount?\n\n4. What are the sick exhorted to do?\n\n5. What two results occur when one turns a sinner to Christ?\n\n\nSTUDIES IN I AND II PETER\n\nThe two letters of Peter afford splendid opportunity for noting the\nimpress of the writer's character and experience upon his writings. Let\nthe teacher judge as to the extent of this study. The following are\nsuggested:\n\n1. Name ten chief events in Peter's life, recorded in the Gospels.\n\n2. Name ten chief events in Peter's life, recorded in the Acts.\n\n3. Name six leading qualities of Peter's character.\n\n4. Note now in I Peter 1 and II Peter 1 any words or truths suggested by\nthe writer's character and experience. The following are given as\nexamples:\n\nI PETER 1.\n\nVerse 3: \"Inheritance.\" See Matt. 19:27. \"What shall we have?\"\n\nVerse 5: \"Guarded through faith.\" See Luke 22:31, 32.\n\nVerse 6: \"Manifold trials.\" Name Peter's tests.\n\n\nI JOHN\n\n1. In the introduction, 1:1-4, record under the three following topics\nthe words of the writer:\n\n1. John's Personal Experience with Christ.\n\n2. John's Sharing this Experience.\n\n3. The Purpose of Sharing this Experience.\n\n2. Name the books written by John.\n\n3. Name the purpose of this letter. Chapter 5:13.\n\n4. Select five tests in Chapters 2 and 3 by which we may know that we\nare the Lord's disciples.\n\n5. In the following diagram of steps supply a verb after the pronoun \"I\"\nthat sets forth the thought of each respective book:\n\n                                   I\n                                  -----------------\n                                  |John's\n                                  |Revelation\n                                  |\n                  I               |\n                 -----------------\n                 |John's\n                 |First Letter\n                 |\n I               |\n-----------------\nJohn's\nGospel\n\n6. Are there any signs in this book of the \"Boanerges\" remaining? If so,\nmention them.\n\n7. Name the two definitions of God and state why John would be enabled\nto record them.\n\n8. How many references to Old Testament characters in the letter? How\nmany in James? In I Peter? Why fewer in John?\n\n9. Write out Chapter 4, underlining the word \"love\" and its derivatives,\nnumbering the same.\n\n10. Where in the catalogue of graces is love placed by James, Peter,\nJohn, Paul, Christ? Select and record the verses. (See concordance.)\n\n11. In what ways may these cold hearts of ours be made to beat with\nfervent love toward God and men?\n\n\n\n\nX\n\nTHE KINGDOM TRIUMPHANT\n\nThe Revelation       Page\n\n\n\nTHE REVELATION\n\n\nI. _Author._\n\nII. _Place and Date of Writing._\n\nIII. _Leading Verses:_\n\nThe thought of the verse and the number of the chapter are given. Find\nthe verse and record it.\n\n3. The Christian's Feast.\n\n14. The Blessed Dead.\n\n22. A Description of Christ.\n\n22. The Last Invitation.\n\nIV. _Leading Chapters:_\n\n2 and 3. Letters to the Seven Churches.\n\n20. The Millennium.\n\n21, 22. The New Jerusalem.\n\nV. _Questions:_\n\n1. This book is a revelation of whom, to whom, sent by whom?\n\n2. Who is described in Chapter 1?\n\n3. Draw map of Asia Minor and locate the seven churches, also Isle of\nPatmos.\n\n4. What phrase and what sentence are common to the seven letters?\n\n5. As you turn the pages of the book, by what name do you note that the\nLord is most frequently called?\n\n6. Name the three chief events prophesied in the millennium chapter.\n\n7. Name seven negative descriptions of \"the holy city\" in Chapters 21\nand 22.\n\n8. Name two occupations of the inhabitants of \"the holy city\" mentioned\nin Chapter 22.","title":"A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible: Second Edition","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":15574}