New Memory Verses
This is Micah 6:8.
What is He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
This how to apply Exodus 19:5-6a: Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine,you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’
What is we are priests who intercede between God and the people?
The one poetic book written during the time of the Patriarchs.
What is Job?
The relationship between God and his people is compared to many things in the OT but most often to this.
What is marriage?
This is the year Jerusalem fell and the country it fell to.
What is 586 to Babylon?
The context for this verse is the new covenant.
What is Ezekiel 36:26-27?
This memory verse is the center of a chiasm.
What is Lamentations 3:22-23?
This is one of the books that contains the story of the Conquest and Settlement of Canaan.
What is Joshua, Judges, Ruth 1 Samuel 1-12?
These are the four main divisions of literature found in the Old Testament.
What are the Torah/Law/Pentateuch, history, poetry/wisdom and prophecy?
What is apocalyptic?
This Jeremiah 9:23-24.
“Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches, 24 but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,”
This is the context of Genesis 12:2-3: “I will make you into a great nation,and I will bless you; I will make your name great,and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you,and whoever curses you I will curse;and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
What is the Call of Abraham?
Most of the poetry and wisdom books, like Proverbs, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs were possibly written during this period.
What is United Monarchy?
Both of these books named after a female main character emphasize God's sovereignty and hiddenness.
What are Ruth and Esther?
This is the year Samaria fell and the empire it fell to.
What are 722 and Assyria?
This verse comes just after a lament for Jerusalem.
What is Jeremiah 9:23-24?
This is the context for 1 Samuel 16:7: But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.
What is Samuel anointed David?
Amos, Isaiah, and Hosea ministered during this period.
What is Divided Monarchy?
This is the role of a prophet and the two main things that prophets do in that role.
What is speak for someone (usually God) & foretell and forthtell?
To represent the fate of the citizens of Jerusalem during the siege, Ezekiel was to divide his hair into this many piles and do these things with each pile.
What is 1/3 burned, 1/3 chopped with sword, 1/3 blown away, with a few hairs kept back?
What is Micah 6:8?
This verse has as its application that we can trust God to do what He says he will do and be unchanging.
What is Numbers 23:19?
These are one historic book and one prophetic book written during the Persian period.
What are (historic - Ezra & Nehemiah) and (prophetic - Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi)?
These are the five covenants we've encountered this year in Old Testament.
What are the Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic/Sinaitic, Davidic and New Covenants?
Jeremiah predicted that Judah would be in exile in Babylon for this many years before they would be allowed to return.
What is 70?