Hagar? Ishmael?

Notes on the Questions

These questions must needs be few in number. If the time permits, let the teacher add others. They are designed to be mere surface questions, to secure acquaintanceship with a few of the great facts. In assigning the questions on each book of the Bible let the teacher go over them with the class, seeking their knowledge (or imparting it) as to the chapters in which the answers may be found. If the class has the time and desires a more thorough acquaintance with each book, let each member prepare two "large" questions on each chapter, or upon as many chapters as they desire. The following questions on Chapter 1 will serve as examples: (1) Name the seven purposes of the lights. (2) State the number of times the word God occurs.

JOB

Section I. Introduction

From personal knowledge and reading, from perusal of articles in Bible helps and dictionaries, write out in your own language a two-hundred-word description of the book as a whole, its purpose, its nature, etc.

Section II. Narratives

(To be memorized and told, with care in regard to all details.)

1. Description of Job and His Household. Chapter 1.
2. First Interview between Jehovah and Satan. 1.
3. First Test and Result. 1.
4. Second Interview between Jehovah and Satan. 2.
5. Second Test and Result. 2.
6. The Three Friends. 2.

Section III. Geography

Locate by chapter and verse, naming the thought, or fact, or person connected therewith, the following geographical terms: Uz, Sabeans, Chaldeans, Temanite, Shuhite, Naamathite, Buzite, Tema, Sheba, Ophir, Rahab, Ethiopia. (Locate chapter and verse by reference to concordance.) (Make record in blank book on same page as map.)

Draw full-page map, locating each place as far as known.

Section IV. Nature of Job's Disease

Write out the descriptions as narrated in the following verses: 7:5; 13:28; 19:20; 30:17, 18, 30. Describe in your own words the characteristics of the disease as noted in these verses. Give name of disease, as agreed upon by interpreters.

Section V. Speakers and Speeches

In order to secure a skeleton idea of the book write out the names of the speakers in consecutive order and the chapters containing the speeches. Space in each line could be reserved to fill in at a later study the general thought of each speech. At the close make any observations regarding the number and order of speeches. The following is a sample of the first four speeches:

Historical Introduction. Chapters I and 2

1. Job. Chapter 3.
2. Eliphaz. Chapters 4 and 5.
3. Job. Chapters 6 and 7.
4. Bildad. Chapter 8.

Section VI. The Argument

Analyze the argument of Chapters 3 and 4. The following is a sample:

Job's First Speech. Chapter 3

1. A curse upon the day of his birth. Verses 1-10.
2. He questions why he should not have died at birth. Verses 11-19.

Section VII. The Conclusion

Give narrative, with details, as recorded in Chapter 42:7-17.

Section VIII. Questions

1. Name three general lessons taught in the book about suffering.
2. What two things did Job do at the close of the speeches?
3. How did Job's condition after the test compare with that previous to the test?
4. Name eight facts regarding Satan gleaned from Chapters 1 and 2.
5. Locate and commit Job's two sublime statements of faith. (See Chapters 13 and 19.)
6. Name five kinds of people that Job helped. 29:12-16.
7. Name six classes of people who spurned him in his trouble. 19:13-19.
8. What two general statements about man does Job make? 14:1.
9. Select any six phrases that serve to indicate the life and customs of Job's time.
10. What writers of the Bible refer to Job and what is their estimate?
11. Read Chapter 38 and write out your impressions of it in concise statements, using fifty words.
12. Give three general reasons why the narrative of Job is to be received as an historical fact.

II

THE KINGDOM FORMING

EXODUS

1. Pictorial Device.

   Originate one, or omit.

2. 1706 B.C. to 1490 B.C., making 216 years.
3. 1. 1 to 18. Israel Delivered.
   2. 19 to 34. Israel Taught at Mount Sinai.
   3. 35 to 40. Israel Prepared for Worship.
4. Chapter 20.2.
5. God Delivering a Nation.
6. • 12:13: "And when I see the blood I will pass over you."
   • 15:11.
7. • 1. Bondage.
   • 2.
   • 3. Burning Bush.
   • 7-11.
   • 12.
   • 14. Red Sea.
   • 15.
   • 16. Manna.
   • 20.
   • 25 and 35. The Tabernacle.
   • 32.
8. Select five.
9. 1. God gives deliverance to the oppressed.
   2. God assumes authority over the actions of men.
   3. God desires to dwell in the midst of His people.
10. 1. Symbol:
       
       1. Passover Lamb. 1 Cor. 5:7. Note three or four likenesses between the lamb and Christ.
       2. Manna. John 6:35.
       3. Rock. I Cor. 10:4.
       4. Tabernacle. Hebrews 9:11. John 1:14, marginal reading.
    2. Type. None.
    3. Analogy. None.
    4. Prophecy. None.

    Notes and Suggestions

    Under No. 5 fail not to compare length of time covered by different books. Under No. 7 ask pupils to show the appropriateness. Under No. 9 teacher may require committal of location or not, as is deemed advisable. Under No. 12 show the truth of these universal lessons through the march of history. Under No. 13 copy the references, be able to explain their meaning, and to show