BL 511 Scripture Memorization

-Initiation of the divided kingdom "And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the Lord commanded. Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, "Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant. Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen."

1 Kings 11:9-13

-Kingship, idolatry, and exile "But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. And this house will become a heap of ruins. Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, 'Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?' Then they will say, 'Because they abandoned the Lord their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore the Lord has brought all this disaster on them.'"

1 Kings 9:6-9

-Mere ritual vs. obedience "And Samuel said, "Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king."

1 Samuel 15:22-23

-Exile of Israel by the Neo-Assyrians "But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison. Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it. In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes."

2 Kings 17:4-6

-Prophecy of the exile of Judah to Babylon "Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the Lord: Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord. And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon."

2 Kings 20:16-18

-Exile of Judah "And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it."

2 Kings 25:1

-Davidic Covenant "But the same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, "Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says the LORD: Would you build me a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling...Moreover, the LORD declares to you that the LORD will make a house. When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever."

2 Samuel 7:4-17

-Circumcision of the heart "Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn."

Deuteronomy 10:16

-Law of the king "When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,' you may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, 'You shall never return that way again...'"

Deuteronomy 17:14-20

-2nd prophetic test -Promise of a prophet like Moses "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers, it is to him you shall listen, just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.'"

Deuteronomy 18:15-22

-Circumcision of the heart "And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live."

Deuteronomy 30:6

-Decalogue, Ten Commandments, Ten Words "And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Not with our fathers did the LORD our God make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today. The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, while I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD. For you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain."

Deuteronomy 5:1-21

-Shema -Great Commandment "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart."

Deuteronomy 6:4-6

-Passover -Substitutionary Atonement "The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt."

Exodus 12:13

-Decalogue, Ten Commandments, Ten Words "And God spoke all these words, saying, "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall not (x10)"

Exodus 20:1-17

-Name of God, YHWH "The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and fourth generation."

Exodus 34:6-7

-Name of God, YHWH "God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And he said, "Say this to the people of Israel: 'I AM has sent me to you.'"

Exodus 3:14

-Covenant -Name of God, YHWH "I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians."

Exodus 6:7

-Fulfillment of prophecies for the return from exile "In the first year of Cyrus King of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing."

Ezra 1:1

-The Abrahamic Covenant "Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

Genesis 12:1-3

-Prophecy of Israel's slavery to Egypt "13 Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years."

Genesis 15:13

-Faith not law as the basis for righteousness "And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness."

Genesis 15:6

-The Abrahamic Covenant -Abram's name change to Abraham -Line of kings as part of Abrahamic Covenant -YHWH being God to his people "I an God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless, that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly...No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations."

Genesis 17:1-8

-Institution of circumcision as the sign of the Abrahamic Covenant "10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised."

Genesis 17:10

-God's absolute justice "Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"

Genesis 18:25

-Creation of Humanity in the Image of God -Creation Mandate "26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Genesis 1:26-28

-Creation of Humanity as the pinnacle of Creation "31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day."

Genesis 1:31

-The sacrifice of Isaac -Substitutionary Atonement "And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son."

Genesis 22:13

-Jacob's ladder -Reaffirmation of the Abrahamic Covenant to Jacob -Bethel "Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran...And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven...Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it!"

Genesis 28:10-17

-Adam's service in the garden -Tree of Knowledge -Death as a penalty of Sin "The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

Genesis 2:15-17

-Humanities need for relationship -Complementarity nature of humanity "Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."

Genesis 2:18

-Special creation of Eve -Naming of Eve "So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."

Genesis 2:21-23

-Institution of Marriage -Goodness of marital sexual relationship "24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed."

Genesis 2:24-25

-Establishment of Sabbath "3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation."

Genesis 2:3

-Special creation of Adam -Breath of Life "then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature."

Genesis 2:7

-Origin of name Israel -Jacob's name change "Then he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed."

Genesis 32:28

-The Seed promised -Protoevangelium "enmity between your offspring and her offspring, he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heal"

Genesis 3:15

-Sin's impact on Women -Sin's impact on the marriage relationship "16 To the woman he said, "I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you."

Genesis 3:16

-Sin's impact of Men -Sin's impact on agriculture -The institution of physical death "And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

Genesis 3:17-19

-The Fall "6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate."

Genesis 3:6

-Sovereignty -Theodicy "And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors."

Genesis 45:7

-Judah as the royal tribe "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples."

Genesis 49:10

-Sovereignty -Theodicy "As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today."

Genesis 50:20

-The Creation blessing reaffirmed to Noah -The Creation mandate reaffirmed to Noah "And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it."

Genesis 9:1,7

-The institution of capital punishment -The creation of humanity in the image of God reaffirmed to Noah "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his image"

Genesis 9:6

-The Noahic Covenant "I establish my covenant with you...never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood...this is my sign, I set my bow in the cloud"

Genesis 9:8-17

-Day of Atonement "He shall make atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the alter, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly."

Leviticus 16:33

-2nd Great Commandment "You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but shall love your neighbor as yourself: for I am the LORD."

Leviticus 19:18

-Forgiveness "Please pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now."

Numbers 14:19

-David's genealogy "And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, "A son has been born to Naomi." They named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David."

Ruth 4:17