Chapter
& Verse
  
Mary
Hamrick, Lynn Lillard & Judy Parker
not
pictured, Marijo Basinger
(Bible
Study Writers)
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The Chapter and Verse Bible
study was started in October 2001. This is an ongoing project.
The
Basics - Getting Started (written by Mary Hamrick)
Have
you sat down to read the Bible and just didn’t know where to begin?
If you’re like most of us, you’ve got at least five things going on at
one time and it is hard to get into a book that doesn’t seem to have a
story-line, main characters, or a reasonable flow. Once you find a Bible
that you can understand, once you are able to find your way around the
Bible, you will be amazed at the history, the characters, the beauty and
awe of reading from this book. (Click
here for more.)
Genesis
(written
by Mary Hamrick)
Genesis
is a book written by a man named Moses between 1450-1410 B.C. He
wrote this book in order to record God's creation of the world and His
desire to have a people set apart to worship Him. The story of how
God created our world is so touching and so tender. Think of the
creativity of God to imagine the stars, the sea, land and trees and then
create them. (Click here for more.)
Exodus
(written
by Mary Hamrick)
Exodus is the second book
of the Bible found in the Old Testament. This book was written by
Moses. In the book of Exodus, God delivered his people from slavery
in Egypt. God’s chosen people were the Israelites – this means they
were “chosen” to deliver a Savior (Jesus) to the world. We are all
chosen of God to receive Jesus as our Savior. (Savior – a deliverer;
a preserver – He delivers us from sin.) (Click
here for more.)
Leviticus (written
by Mary Hamrick)
The third book of the Bible
was written by Moses around 1445-1444 B.C. The key verse is Leviticus
19:2 which says, “Be holy because I, the Lord your
God, am holy.” The entire book is dedicated to teaching the
Hebrews how to worship the Lord. During this time period, the Israelites
were living in the desert at the bottom of Mount Sinai, and were learning
how to live together as one nation. They had chosen to follow God;
next they had to learn how to worship and serve Him. (Click
here for more.)
Numbers (written
by Mary Hamrick)
In the book of Numbers, we
read about the preparation of the Israelites to enter the Promised Land,
Canaan. Canaan is what is known today as Israel. Moses wrote
the book of Numbers for the time period covering around 1444-1406 B.C.
Canaan was the land that God gave to Abraham in Genesis 17:8, “The
whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting
possession to you and your descendants after you, and I will be their God.”
(Click
here for more.)
Deuteronomy (written
by Mary Hamrick)
In the
book of Deuteronomy, Moses reminded the Israelites of what God had done
for them. He wrote down the things that had happened, and he painted
pictures for their minds-eye of how God had delivered them and provided
for them over the 40 years since they had left Egypt. Moses reminded
the Israelites of God’s presence and guidance among them, and stressed
the importance of walking in obedience with God.
(Click
here for more.)
Joshua (written
by Mary Hamrick)
Joshua wrote this book about
his experiences in leading the Israelites into their inheritance, “the
Promised Land”. He was the chosen leader of Israel after the death
of Moses. Joshua was a brilliant military leader and a strong spiritual
influence. But the key to his success was his submission to God.
(Click
here for more.)
Judges Lynn
Lillard is in the process of writing the study for Judges. There
are 21 chapters in Judges.
Judges tells of a period in
which the people fell away from their forefather’s generation in which
they worshiped and served God. Sounds much like our generation, doesn’t
it? In Judges 1:1 after Joshua died, the Israelites whined and complained,
“Lord, who will be the first to fight for us, because there is a gang that
wants to invade ‘our stuff’”. Is this not much like us, when we disobey
God and get caught up in sin? (Click
here for more.)
Ruth (written
by Marijo Basinger)
What is the setting for the
book of Ruth? This was a sad period in Israel’s history when there
was no King in Israel and everyman “did what was right in his own eyes.”
For 300-400 years Israel was caught in a horrible repeating cycle. The
cycle started with idolatry(worshipping other gods) & sin (living and
doing what they wanted, instead of living God’s way). God sent them
into bondage to an enemy because of their sin. Israel cried out to God
for deliverance under the oppression of the enemy. God heard their
cries & raised up judges to deliver them. The people lived in obedience
to God while the judge ruled. Once the judge died, they reverted to a life
of idolatry & sin. This is the backdrop for the story of Ruth.
(Click here for more.)
I Samuel (in
progress)
The book of Samuel begins
in the days when the judges ruled, and describes Israel's transition from
being led by God to being led by their first king, Saul. (Click
here for more.)
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