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17 Cards in this Set
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Joshua
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To record the fulfillment of God’s promise to give Israel the Land of Canaan through conquest, through its distribution to the 12 tribes, and through continued covenant faithfulness.
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Judges
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To establish the need for a godly King who would consolidate Israel’s power to complete and lead her in covenant faithfulness.
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Ruth
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To illustrate covenant faithfulness in David’s ancestor, Ruth the Moabite, as one demonstration of the legitimacy of his Kingship.
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Samuel
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To explain that God’s covenant with David’s house remained Israel’s best hope for a stable future, though David’s sins had brought covenant curse of exile on her.
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Kings
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To explain that the exile of Israel by Assyria (722 BC) and of Judah by Babylon (586 BC) were just acts of God’s judgment for apostasy and to call for repentance, so that the covenant might be renewed and they might return to the land.
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Chronicles
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To encourage and direct the returnees in reestablishing Israel’s kingdom after the exile with special emphases on a rebuilt and reformed Temple; Davidic leadership; and the reunification of “all Israel” represented in Jerusalem.
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Ezra-Nehemiah
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To encourage the returnees to maintain the reforms initiated by Zerubabbel, Ezra and Nehemiah despite opposition, economic hardships even though Israel’s former glory has not been restored.
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Esther
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To reaffirm Jewish identity in the post-exilic period by establishing the Feast of Purim as a memorial of God’s deliverance of his people even while they were exiled in Persia.
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Job
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To explore the limits and proper use of human wisdom in the case of a righteous individual’s suffering in order to respond wisely to God and to people who suffer.
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Psalms
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Hymnbook of the Second Temple consisting of both praise and lament.
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Proverbs
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To provide a reliable resource for teaching wisdom to young members of the royal court, and within households of Israel.
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Ecclesiastes
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To demonstrate the humiliation that death brings, such that even the best of lives lived merely for human pleasure or accomplishment is without ultimate meaning, and to show the wisdom of living faithfully and fearfully before the eternal God.
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Song of Songs
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To celebrate the blessing of romantic love between husbands and wives, and to instruct youth in the power of sexual love.
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Lamentations
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To express and guide the responses of God’s people to his sever punishment of Jerusalem at the hands of the Babylonians.
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Assyrian Period: Amos, Hosea, Jonah, Micah
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God's faithfulness and his people's unfaithfulness along with there hypocrisy of worship without social justice.
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Babylonian Period: Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Obadiah
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The day of the LORD reveals God's just rule over all the nations.
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Persian Period: Haggai, Malachi, Zachariah, Joel
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Judgment and blessing are coming on the Lord's day through the messenger of his covenant to establish righteousness.
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