Sunday School Week 4

Judges

Prophets 

Kings 

Ruth 1 

7 With her two daughters-in-law she set out from the place where she had been living, and they took the road that would lead them back to Judah.

14 And again they wept together, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye. But Ruth clung tightly to Naomi. 

15 “Look,” Naomi said to her, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods. You should do the same.”

16 But Ruth replied, “Don’t ask me to leave you and turn back. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. 

17 Wherever you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me severely if I allow anything but death to separate us!” 

18 When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she said nothing more.

1 Samuel 3:19-20 — As Samuel grew up, the Lord was with him, and everything Samuel said proved to be reliable. And all Israel, from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south, knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the Lord. 

1 Samuel 8

4 Finally, all the elders of Israel met at Ramah to discuss the matter with Samuel. 

5 “Look,” they told him, “you are now old, and your sons are not like you. Give us a king to judge us like all the other nations have.” 

6 Samuel was displeased with their request and went to the Lord for guidance. 

7 “Do everything they say to you,” the Lord replied, “for they are rejecting me, not you. They don’t want me to be their king any longer. 

8 Ever since I brought them from Egypt they have continually abandoned me and followed other gods. And now they are giving you the same treatment. 

1 Samuel 9:2 — Kish had a son named Saul, who was a handsome young man. There was no one more handsome than Saul. He stood a head taller than any other man in Israel.

1 Samuel 15:11 — I regret that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me, and he has not carried out my words.” Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night.

1 Samuel 16:7 — But the Lord told him, “Samuel, don't think Eliab is the one just because he's tall and handsome. He isn't the one I've chosen. People judge others by what they look like, but I judge people by what is in their hearts.

2 Samuel 5:3-4 — So there at Hebron, King David made a covenant before the Lord with all the elders of Israel. And they anointed him king of Israel. David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in all.

1 Kings 11:4 — In Solomon’s old age, they turned his heart to worship other gods instead of being completely faithful to the Lord his God. 

2 Kings 18

2 Hezekiah was 25 years old when he began to rule. He ruled 29 years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.

3 Hezekiah did what the Lord said was right, just as David his ancestor had done.

5 Hezekiah trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel. There was no one like Hezekiah among all the kings of Judah before him or after him.

6 He was very faithful to the Lord and did not stop following him. He obeyed the commands that the Lord had given to Moses.

7 The Lord was with Hezekiah, so he was successful in everything he did. Hezekiah broke away from the king of Assyria and stopped serving him.

2 Kings 21:1-2 — Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother was Hephzibah. He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, following the detestable practices of the pagan nations that the Lord had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites.

ABUNDANCE

When riches increase, the essence of religion decreases in the same proportion. 

— John Wesley

DISOBEDIENCE / PARTIAL OBEDIENCE 

2 Kings 17

13 Again and again the Lord had sent his prophets and seers to warn both Israel and Judah: “Turn from all your evil ways. Obey my commands and decrees—the entire law that I commanded your ancestors to obey, and that I gave you through my servants the prophets.”

14 But the Israelites would not listen. They were as stubborn as their ancestors who had refused to believe in the Lord their God. 

15 They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and they despised all his warnings. 

ALLEGIANCE / ALIGNMENT 

Psalm 20:7 — Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. 

FORGETFULNESS 

Deuteronomy 5:15 — Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

Deuteronomy 6:12 — But be careful! Don’t forget the Lord. You were slaves in Egypt, but he brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 8:11 — Be careful. Don’t forget the Lord your God! Be careful to obey the commands, laws, and rules that I give you today.

Deuteronomy 8:18 — Remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to produce wealth.

Judges 2:10 — After that generation died, another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the Lord or remember the mighty things he had done for Israel.

Judges 8:33-35 — No sooner had Gideon died than the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They set up Baal-Berith as their god and did not remember the Lord their God, who had rescued them from the hands of all their enemies on every side. They also failed to show any loyalty to the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) in spite of all the good things he had done for them.

1 Chronicles 16:12 — Remember the wonders he has done, his signs and his spoken judgments.

Luke 22:19 — Do this in remembrance of Me.

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Psalm 103:2 — Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.