3. Name five facts mentioned about the Garden of Eden.
4. Name G.o.d"s first recorded words, Satan"s, Adam"s.
5. Name the curses p.r.o.nounced upon the serpent, upon the woman, upon the ground for man"s sake.
6. Name the first blacksmith, the first musician, the first piece of poetry, the first city, the first and second t.i.thers.
7. Give ages of Adam, Methuselah, Noah, Abraham, Joseph.
8. Name the cause of the flood and the number of people saved.
9. Name the three sons of Noah and the prophecies regarding the descendants of each.
10. Why did the people build the Tower of Babel?
11. Name the seven promises made to Abraham in Chapter 15.
12. By what quality was Abraham saved? 15:6. See Gal. 3:8.
13. Who was Melchizedek? Hagar? Ishmael?
14. Name the wife and sons of Isaac.
15. In what two ways did Jacob mistreat Esau?
16. How long did Jacob serve for his wives and cattle?
17. Fill out the following diagram of Jacob"s wives, concubines and children. See 35:23.
18. Give origin, meaning and location of Mizpah.
19. Give the two chief reasons for the elevation of Joseph.
20. Name the dreams interpreted by Joseph.
21. Locate and give the substance of Judah"s plea.
22. How many of the house of Jacob went down into Egypt?
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 a.s.signing the questions on each book of the Bible let the teacher go over them with the cla.s.s, seeking their knowledge (or imparting it) as to the chapters in which the answers may be found. If the cla.s.s 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 G.o.d occurs.
XV. _Items of Special Interest:_
1. The symmetry of the paragraphs in the record of the six creative days in Chapter 1.
2. G.o.d"s notice of the human countenance. 4:6.
3. The first piece of recorded poetry is degenerating, b.l.o.o.d.y. 4:23, 24.
4. The word for "rooms," 6:14, in the margin is "nests"--a primitive description.
5. The richness of the historical prophecy in 9:27.
XVI. _Individual Finds:_
Chapters 10, or 23, or 37, or all. Or each of these three chapters could be a.s.signed to a third of the cla.s.s.
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