| I. THE LAW
(Torah) |
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GENESIS The Beginning. All
produced by the Word of God (Gen 1:3). Israel as a "family" (Gen 15:1). |
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EXODUS History. Israel emerging
from Families and Tribes to a Nation. Called "Hebrews" according to their
"tongue." |
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LEVITICUS Worship. Jehovah in the midst.
He, Israel's God; and they, His People. |
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NUMBERS History. Israel, now a
"Nation," numbered, and blessed, as such (23,24). |
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DEUTERONOMY The end. All
depending on the Word of Jehovah. Israel regarded as in the "Land." |
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| II. - THE
PROPHETS (Nebi'im) |
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JOSHUA "The Lord of all
the earth" giving possession of the Land. Government under Priests. |
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JUDGES Israel forsaking and
returning to God; losing and regaining their position in the Land. "No king."
Bethlehem. Failure under Priests. |
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SAMUEL Man's king
"rejected"; God's king (David) "established." |
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KINGS Decline and Fall under the kings. |
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ISAIAH Final blessing under God's King. |
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JEREMIAH Human kings
"rejected." David's "righteous Branch" "raised up." |
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EZEKIEL God forsaking Israel,
and returning in glory, to say for ever of His Land and city "Jehovah-Shammah." |
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MINOR PROPHETS "The Lord
of all the earth" giving restored possession of the Land, and foretelling final and
unending possession. |
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| III. - THE
PSALMS (Kethubim, Writings) |
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PSALMS Tehillim
"Praises." God's purposes and counsels as to His doings in the future. |
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PROVERBS, i.e. Rules: Words
which govern or rule man's life. God's moral government set forth. |
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JOB "The end of the
Lord" shown in Satan's defeat, and the saint's deliverance from tribulation. |
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CANTICLES Virtue rewarded. Read
by the jews at the Passover: the Feast which commemorates the deliverance from Pharaoh,
the Jews oppressor. |
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RUTH The stranger gathered in
to hear of, and share in, God's goodness in Redemption. Read at Pentecost, which
commemorates God's goodness in the Land. |
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LAMENTATIONS "Alas!" The record
of Israel's woes. Read at the Fast of the ninth of Abib. |
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ECCLESIASTES "The
Preacher." The People collected to hear of man's vanity. Read at the Feast of
Tabernacles, which commemorates God's goodness in the wilderness. |
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ESTHER Virtue rewarded. Read at
the Feast of Purim, which commemorates the deliverance from Haman, "the Jews'
enemy." |
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DANIEL "God's
judgment." Here are shown the final defeat of Antichrist, and the deliverance out of
"the Great Tribulation." |
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EZRA-NEHEMIAH Men who governed
and ruled God's People in their resettlement in the Land. |
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CHRONICLES Dibrae hayyamim.
"Words of the Days"; or, God's purposes and counsels as to Israel's doings in
the past, and until the time of the end. |
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