Verse/Category
Set me as a seal upon your heart,
As a seal upon your arm;
For love is as strong as death,
Jealousy as cruel as the grave;
Its flames are flames of fire,
A most vehement flame.
Poetry/History, Songs, 8
Cain and Abel's brother.
Who is Seth, Genesis
The number of days and nights Jonah was in the belly of the fish.
What are three days and three nights.
Number of books in the Old Testament
39
Jonah
Jonah doesn’t show mercy to Ninevah, God’s shows mercy to Jonah and Nineveh. God teaches Jonah about mercy.
Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy the work of your hands?
Poetry/Wisdom, Ecc. 5
The names of Noah's three sons
Shem, Ham, Japheth, Genesis
The item which nameless near relation to Naomi gave to Boaz?
Summarize Psalms
Organized new torah (teaching) praise and lament. Written prayers.
Themes: Law and messianic kingdom. 5 books. Full range of human emotion.
Ezra/Nehemiah
Israel returns and rebuilds. Zerubbabel builds alter and temple, Ezra works on culture, Nehimiah works on the wall. Married and divorced pagan wives. HS: Also, teaching of the law, and slander.
There were white and blue linen curtains fastened with cords of fine linen and purple on silver rods and marble pillars; and the couches were of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of alabaster, turquoise, and white and black marble. And they served drinks in golden vessels, each vessel being different from the other, with royal wine in abundance, according to the generosity of the king. In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king had ordered all the officers of his household, that they should do according to each man’s pleasure.
History, Esther, 1
Ishmael's mother
Who is Hagar, Genesis
What is an Ax head? 2 Kings 6
Summarize Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Solomon in 1 minute
God is the final judge and knows all. Life without God doesn’t matter. Bad things can happen even if you didn’t do wrong. Fear God and keep his commandments. How to live will.
Satan/God
Takes Jobs stuff and health
Friends accuse Job
God shows Job amazing things
Job is blessed.
(Cringe) Love song/poem with parallels to the love of Christ for the church.
Proverbs
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
Wisdom is knowledge and skill in living life well
Proverbs begins with instruction from a father to his son
Then lots of wise sayings
Proverbs ends with instruction from a mother to her son
This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and carrying:
Law, Numbers, 4
First wicked king of the Northern Kingdom of Israel
Jeroboam
How did God help Israel defeat Jabin king of Hazor, Jobab king of Madon, the king of Shimron, the king of Achshaph, the kings who were from the north, in the mountains, in the plain south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west, the Canaanites in the east and in the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the mountains, and the Hivite below Hermon in the land of Mizpah?
He made the Sun stand still, and killed them with hail stones. Josh 11
Which Psalm starts this way:
"The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still waters.
He restores my soul;
He leads me in the paths of righteousness
For His name’s sake."
Psalm 23
1&2 Chronicles
Family tree: (kings Jesse and priests Aaron)
Positive stories of David and his line (no northern kings).
Ends with the command to return from exile.
Can flavorless food be eaten without salt?
Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Poetry/Wisdom, Job, 6
He climbed up by way of the water shaft and defeats the Jebusites, and captured Jerusalem
Joab, 2 Sam, 5
Three things Achan stole.
What are a Babylonian garment, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels
Josh 7
A left handed man who killed an obese king. The fat swallowed up the dagger.
Who is Ehud? Judges, 3
1&2 Kings
Solomon builds the temple: kingdom gets divided: Rehoboam takes Judah and Benjamin, Jeroboam takes the rest and rules the north and turns to idols immediately. Assyria takes them away. Judah follows idols later, and eventually gets taken over by Babylon.
Additional HS details: Solomon married lots of foreign wives. Key figures: Elijah, Elisha, Hezekiah, Menasseh, and Josiah.