Concise Survey of
THE OLD TESTAMENT

And How It Contrasts With the New Testament


Lesson Five
First Three & Greatest Kings
1100 BC

I Samuel
DAY ONE:
8:5������ What three reasons did the people have for asking Samuel to abdicate as judge and appoint a king instead (also v. 20)? ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________
8:7������ Who did God tell Samuel they were not rejecting?� _____� Who were they actually rejecting?� ________
9:1f����� What tribe did Saul belong to?� _____________________� How tall was he?� _______________________
9:16���� God said the new king would free the people of the control of what nation?� _________________________
10:22�� When Samuel summoned the leaders of all the tribes to announce their new king, they could not find him because he had ______________________ himself among the ___ _______________________________.
13:1���� How old was Saul when he began to reign?� ___________� How long did he reign?� ___________________
13:11f� King Saul offered up a burnt offering.� As a result, Samuel told him he would not set up a long dynasty to rule Israel.� Why (see 1 Samuel 10:8)? __________________________ ___________________________
����������� God was still using Samuel as his prophet.� Saul did not do exactly what Samuel told him to.� Do you think God was being too strict on Saul? ___________________
14:43f� King Saul decided to have his own son killed.� Why (see 14:24)?� _________________________________
����������� Who rescued Jonathan? ____________________________
15:11�� God became ________________________________ that he had made Saul king because he had turned ____________ from him and not carried out God's ___________________.� What instructions did he not carry out (see 15:3, 8-9)?� ___________________________________________________________________
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15:15f� Who did Saul blame for keeping the sheep? ____________ What did he say they kept them for? _________________ ________________________________________________Do we, today, change God's commands and then claim it is just to glorify God more? ___________________________
15:22f� Saul said the Lord delights in what more than religious rituals? ___________________________________
����������� _____________________ is like the sin of divination (witchcraft), and ________________________ is like idolatry.
15:35�� Did Saul ever see Samuel again after that? _____________
16:1���� God told Samuel to go to what town to anoint the next king?� _____________________________
16:12f� Who did Samuel anoint in private as the next king?� __________________________________.
DAY TWO:
16:14�� King Saul became ________________________ by an evil spirit from God.� It was from God in the sense that Saul had rejected God and his thoughts of God were tormenting him.
16:21f� Saul's servants sent for David who became Saul's _______ ___________________________________________.� Whenever Saul was tormented, David would ___________ on his ______________________.
17:4f��� A champion of the Philistines said he would fight any single Israelite to decide the battle instead of all soldiers of both armies fighting.� Who was he, and how tall was he?� ________________________________________________
17:35�� Even though King Saul called David a mere boy, how strong was he? _____________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________
17:38f� David decided not to wear Saul's armor, not because it was too big, but because _____________________
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17:49�� How did David kill Goliath? ________________________ ____________________________________ Why (see 17:26b)? ________________________________ __________________________________________
18:5���� How did Saul reward David? ________________________ _______________________________________
18:6f��� What song made Saul jealous of David? _______________ ______________________________________
18:10�� While David was playing his harp to soothe the king, what did Saul do to him? ______________________
����������� PSALM 59:� Look at the note at the top of this psalm.� When did David write it? ______________________� _________________________________________________________
21:8f��� David escaped to the city of Nob where the priest there gave him what? __________________________
21:13�� Then he escaped to the city of Gath where he pretended to be ___________________________ by letting __________ run down his ___________________________ in order to save his life there.� What a low point in David's life.
����������� PSALM 34:� Look at the note at the top of this psalm.� When did David write it?� ____________________
����������� PSALM 56:� Look at the note at the top of this psalm.� When did David write it?� ____________________
22:1f��� Then David escaped to live in a _____________________ and there his _________________________ and __________________________________ joined him.� Also, all the common people who were in __________________ or __________________________________ gathered around him.� He ended up with an army of about ________________
����������� PSALM 142:� Look at the note at the top of this psalm.� When did David write it?� _________________
22:3f��� Then David took his parents to ______________________ to live in safety.� David had ties with Moab.
Ruth
1:1������ During the days when the ___________________________ were still ruling, there was a ______________________ in the land, and a small family left the town of ___________ and moved to the country of _______________
1:3-7��� While there, the ________________ of Naomi and her two newly married sons _________________, so she decided to return __________________________.� Where was that (see v. 19)?� ____________________
1:11���� Ruth, one of her daughters-in-law, told Naomi what we sometimes hear repeated in wedding ceremonies today: "Don't urge me to ______________ you or to __________ back from you.� Where you ________ I will ___________, where you ________________ I will ______________, your _____________________ will be my _____________, and your __________ my __________.� Where you _____ I will ____________ and there I will be buried.� May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death _________________________ you and me."
2:7������ In Bethlehem, Ruth took advantage of the Jewish welfare program which was to _____________ and ____________ behind the harvesters.� This welfare program was set up in the Law of Moses in Leviticus 19:9-10, that says, "...do not reap to the very _______________________ of your field or gather the gleanings (that which is dropped by reapers) of your harvest.� Do not go over your vineyard a _______ _____________________ time or pick up the grapes that have _______________________.� Leave them for the __________ and the ______________."
2:14f��� When Boaz, the owner of the field, spotted her, at noon he shared his lunch with her, then told his men to __________ out some of the ____________________ from the ______ _______________________ on purpose.� (Love at first sight!)
3:3������ Toward the end of harvest, Naomi became a match maker and told Ruth to wash and _____________________ and put on� her ________________ clothes, then pay a visit to Boaz to propose to him.�
3:10���� She had to do the proposing, probably, because Boaz was apparently ____________ than her and didn't think she'd have him.
4:17���� They were married, had a son who they named _________, then a grandson named ___________________, and a great grandson named _____________________.� (I think David must have inherited his poetic flair from his great grandmother!)
DAY THREE:
I Samuel
1055 bc
23:13f� With an army of 600 men, David now stayed in various strongholds in the __________________ of Ziph.� While there, he heard _______________ had come out there to take his __________________.
����������� PSALM 52:� Look at the note at the top of this psalm.� When did David write it?� ____________________
����������� PSALM 63:� Look at the note at the top of this psalm.� When did David write it?� ____________________
����������� PSALM 54:� Look at the note at the top of this psalm.� When did David write it? _____________________ ________________________ __________________________________________
24:1f��� Next Saul went after David with ___________________ men to the __________________ of En Gedi.
24:3f��� Saul went into a _____________ to relieve himself, not knowing David was hiding there.� What did David do to Saul?� ________________________________________________________________.� But then he regretted it because Saul was still the Lord's _______________________________.
����������� PSALM 57:� Look at the note at the top of this psalm.� When did David write it?� __________________
26:7f��� David slipped into the camp, and rather than kill Saul in self-defense, he only took Saul's ___________________ and ________________________________ near his head, then left.� Why (see v. 9)?� Because he was still the Lord's ___________________________.
28:7���� God no longer sent advice to Saul because he knew Saul did what he wanted anyway; so Saul went to a woman who was a ___________________________ (holds seances).�
31:3f��� Saul ended his life by committing ____________________.
31:9���� What did the Philistines do to Saul's body? ____________ ______________________________________
II Samuel
2:4������ Which tribe officially made David their king?� _________
5:3������ During a civil war between David and Saul's family, David reigned over this one tribe in Hebron how long? ________ _______________________� Then all Israel recognized David as their king and he reigned over the united kingdom how long?� _______________________
5:6-7��� For a new capital city, David conquered what people?� _______________________________� Their fortress they had called ______________________, but it was renamed the City of _________________________.
7:16���� God sent word to David through Nathan the prophet saying that his dynasty would endure _______________________.� Because we know it does not exist today, in what sense did God mean (see Revelation 22:16)? ___________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________
11:1f��� David should have been with his army, but he stayed home and got into trouble.� Walking around on his room one night he saw a woman __________________________.� Her name was ____________________________________.
11:5f��� When she found out she was pregnant by David, David sent for her husband, but he refused to ________________ with his wife.� This would have covered up David's sin.
11:14f� When that didn't work, he committed murder by having Uriah put in the ____________________ line where the _________ was fiercest so he would ________________________________.
����������� PSALM 51:� Look at the note at the top of this psalm.� When did David write it?� ________________________
12:15f� Although David married Bathsheba to legitimize their baby, what happened to it?� ______________________________
����������� Do you think God was punishing David or the child (Hint:� See Matthew 18:3 and 10)?� ________________________
12:23�� Do you think David believed his baby went to heaven?� ________________________
DAY FOUR:
13:11f� Soon after committing adultery, David's son Amnon committed ___________________ with David's daughter Tamar, his half-sister.
13:20f� As a result, Tamar lived in her brother Abasalom's house the rest of her life a _________________________ woman.� Their father was ______________________________ with Amnon, but he never did any more about it.� And Tamar's brother Absalom _____________________ Amnon for disgracing his sister.
13:23�� _______________ years passed.� According to the Law of Moses in Deuteronomy 22:28, a man who rapes a virgin is required to marry her.� According to Deuteronomy 22:23-24, if an engaged woman is raped, he shall be stoned - she too if she did not cry out.� Apparently there was no punishment other than David's anger.� Perhaps David couldn't punish his son for doing nearly the same thing he did.
13:28�� Finally Absalom punished Amnon himself by having him _________________________.��
13:38�� Absalom fled from his father to a nearby country where he stayed ____________ years.
14:23f� Finally David relented and allowed Absalom to return to ______________________________, but he refused to see him.� This lasted another _________ years (see v. 28).
15:7f��� __________________ years later, many people declared Absalom to be the _________________.� He had been twice betrayed by his father.� It had been eleven years since the rape, and two more years since David's own adultery, and it did irreparable damage to this family.
����������� PSALM 3:� Look at the note at the top of this psalm.� When did David write it?� _________________________
18:5���� After David fled Jerusalem from Absalom's army, he sent his own army out.� But he told the generals, "Be _________________ with the ___________________ man __________________________ for ________ sake."
18:33�� Absalom was killed anyway.� When David got the news, too late he wandered around weeping and murmuring, "O my son, ___________________________.� My son, my _________ Absalom.� If only I had ________________ instead of you - O Absalom, my _________, my ____________."
I Kings
1015 BC
1:5������ When David was old, another son named Adonijah made himself ________________ without his father's knowledge.
1:16f��� So Bathsheba went to David and reminded him that he had declared _________________ would be the next king.
3:1������ Soon after Solomon's ascension as king, he married who?� _________________________________� It is believed that the Song of Solomon (Song of Songs) was written to her (S of S 1:9).
Song of Songs
This wedding song by Solomon is considered an allegory of
the love Jesus has for the church.
Ephesians 5:25 &  29 says husbands should love their wives as Jesus loved the ____________________, and now feeds and ____ __________________ for us.
2:1f����� Sometimes Jesus is called a _______________ of Sharon, a ______________ of the valleys, among the ___________
8:6������ Love is strong as ____________________________.� Ephesians 5:25 says Jesus loved the church so much he gave ________________________ for her.
8:7������ "Many waters cannot quench ________________, rivers cannot wash it __________________.� If one were to give all the _____________________ of his house for ________________, it would be utterly scorned."
DAY FIVE:
I Kings
3:5������ God appeared to Solomon in a dream and said, "Ask for __________________________ you ______________ me to give you."
3:9������ Solomon asked for a ____________________________ heart to govern God's people and to distinguish between _____________________ and ______________________.
3:11f��� Because Solomon did not ask for ____________________ life, ___________________, or death of _______________,
����������� God decided to not only give him wisdom, but also both _____________________ and ________________.
4:32���� In his lifetime, Solomon spoke ______________________ proverbs and wrote ___________________ songs (the greatest of which was Song of Songs above).�
Proverbs
6:6f����� Go to the __________, you __________________________; consider its ways and be wise!� It has no commander, nor overseer or ruler, yet it _________________________ its provisions in ________________ and __________________ its food at harvest.
6:16f��� These six things the Lord hates, seven that are __________________ to him:� _________________ eyes, a ____________________ tongue, hands that shed _________________ blood, a heart that devises wicked _________________, feet that are ________________ to rush into ___________________, a _________________ witness who pours out lies, and a man who stirs up ___________________________ among brothers.
6:27f��� Can a man scoop ________________ into his lap, without his clothes being ______________________?� Can a man walk on hot _________________ without his feet being� _______________________?� So is he who sleeps with _________ man's wife.
7:2������ Keep my ________________________________ and you will live; _______________________ my teachings as the ______________________ of your eye.
8:22f��� Read verse 8 and through verses 22 through 31.� Do you see a relation between this and John 1:1-4, 14 & 18 _____________
10:12�� Hatred ________________ up dissension, but love _____________________ over all ________________.
11:13�� A _____________________ __________________________ a confidence, but a ______________________ man keeps a _________________________.
14:30�� ____________________ rots the _________________.
15:1���� A gentle answer ____________ ______________ wrath, but a harsh word _____________ ____ anger.
17:17�� A friend loves at ____________ times, and a brother is born for __________________________.
17:22�� A ____________________ heart is good _______________.
19:17�� He who is kind to the ________________________, ____________________ to the Lord.
23:13f� Do not ___________________________ discipline from a child; if you ___________________ him with a ________, he will not _________________.� Punish him with the rod and _______________ his soul from __________________.
25:20�� Like one who takes ____________ a garment on a _________ day...is one who ___________________ songs to a ___________________ heart.
28:13f� He who _________________________ his ___________ does not prosper, but whoever _________________ and renounces them finds _____________________________. Blessed is the man who ____________________________ _____________ the Lord, but he who _________________ his heart __________________ into trouble.
30:5f��� _____________________ word of God is flawless; he is a __________________ to those who take refuge in him.� Do _____________ ______________ to his words, or he will ___________________ you and prove you a liar.
31:10�� A _________________ of noble ______________ who can find?� She is worth far __________ than ___________________.� (NOTE:� Proverbs chapter 31 is considered the ideal woman.� Read it.� She's someone we'd all like to be like.)
DAY SIX:
I Kings
6:2������ Solomon built a huge temple to replace the tabernacle tent Moses had set up nearly 500 years earlier.� According to the footnote, the building was __________ feet long and ___________ wide and ___________ feet high (about 5 stories).
6:21���� Solomon overlaid the entire interior of the temple with pure ___________________.
6:23f��� In the inner sanctuary (holy of holies) Solomon made two angels which were ___________ high.� Each wing was ___________ feet long.
7:15f��� At the front of the Temple were two pillars, ___________ feet high, each with a capital another ____________ high.
7:23���� The Sea wherein the priests washed themselves was _____ feet wide and ________________ feet high (deep).� It stood on ______________ bulls, _____________ each facing north, west, south and east.� It held ________________ gallons of water.
8:27���� Really and truly, though, did God dwell in that temple or does he dwell in our church buildings today?� __________
8:35f��� In verses 35, 38, 42, 44, 48, if a person prays facing the direction of the _________________ during a variety of disasters, God will hear them.�
9:28���� Each year, Solomon's ships brought him _______________ tons of ______________.
10:23f� King Solomon had greater riches and wisdom than all the other ____________ of _____________.� The whole _____________ sought ________________________ with him.
11:1-3� But even his wisdom did not keep him from acting like a
����������� fool.� He married _________ wives and ____________ mistresses and they turned his heart after ______________ ________________, so that he did ____________ in the eyes of the Lord; he did not follow the Lord ___________ _______________________.
11:11�� As a result, God told him he would do what to his kingdom?� _______________________________________
Ecclesiastes
1:2������ In Solomon's old age, he cried out, "__________________! ________________________!� Everything is ___________ _____________________________."
1:18���� After pursuing wisdom, he decided with much of that comes much _____________________.� Why do you think that is? __________________________________________� _________________________________________________________________________________________
2:11���� After building mansions, parks, lakes, amassing treasures, acquiring singers and a harem, he declared, "Everything was a _________________ after the __________________."
2:18f��� Solomon got so he hated life because after he died, he had to leave everything he'd acquired to ________________, and who knows whether he will be a ________________ man or a fool.
3:11���� God has set __________________ in the hearts of man.
5:10���� Whoever loves ______________________ never has money ______________________.
8:15���� For the happiest life, a person should _____________ and drink and find _________________ in his _____________ from the hand of God.� (See also 2:24 and 5:18)
12:13�� After trying everything, what conclusion did Solomon come to?� _________________________________
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