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I.—THE
LAW
(Torah).
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GENESIS.
The beginning.
All produced by
the Word of God
(Genesis
1:3).
Israel as a
"family"
(Genesis
15:1).
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B
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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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C
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LEVITICUS.
Worship.
Jehovah in the midst.
He,
Israel's God;
and they,
His People.
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B
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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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C
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SAMUEL.
Man's king
"rejected";
God's king
(David)
"established."
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D
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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,
that is to say,
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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D
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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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