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Each card below contains a symbol representing the book, the title, the theme, the category, and a significant passage.
Genesis
Beginnings & Patriarchs
PENTATEUCH
Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Exodus
Deliverance & Covenant
PENTATEUCH
God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”
Leviticus
Laws & Holiness
PENTATEUCH
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
Numbers
Wandering in the Wilderness
PENTATEUCH
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
Deuteronomy
Covenant Renewal
PENTATEUCH
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants.
Joshua
The Promised Land
HISTORY
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.
Judges
Cycles of Apostasy
HISTORY
In those days Israel had no king, and everyone did what was right in their own eyes.
Ruth
Redemption
HISTORY
Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.
1 Samuel
Samuel & Saul
HISTORY
But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, “Set a king over us.”
2 Samuel
David Reigns
HISTORY
Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever.
1 Kings
Solomon & Division
HISTORY
Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?
2 Kings
Israel’s Exile & Judah’s Fall
HISTORY
But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now.
1 Chronicles
Genealogies & David’s Reign
HISTORY
Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all.
2 Chronicles
Judah’s History & Temple
HISTORY
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.
Ezra
Restoration
HISTORY
For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
Nehemiah
Reconstruction
HISTORY
Let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father’s house have sinned.
Esther
Preservation
HISTORY
For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Job
Suffering & Sovereignty
WISDOM
And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”
Psalms
Worship & Poetry
WISDOM
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!
Proverbs
Practical Wisdom
WISDOM
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Ecclesiastes
Everything is Vanity
WISDOM
The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
Song of Songs
Love & Allegory
WISDOM
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD.
Isaiah
Salvation & Messiah
MAJOR PROPHETS
But they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Jeremiah
Judah’s Decline & Exile
MAJOR PROPHETS
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Lamentations
God’s People Conquered
MAJOR PROPHETS
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end.
Ezekiel
Prophetic Visions
MAJOR PROPHETS
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Daniel
Sovereignty of God
MAJOR PROPHETS
Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.”
Hosea
Love & Unfaithfulness
MINOR PROPHETS
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Joel
Day of the Lord
MINOR PROPHETS
Rend your hearts and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
Amos
Judgment is Coming
MINOR PROPHETS
Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.
Obadiah
Judgment on Edom
MINOR PROPHETS
For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.
Jonah
Mercy for All People
MINOR PROPHETS
Salvation belongs to the LORD!
Micah
Divine Justice
MINOR PROPHETS
He has told you, O man, what is good and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Nahum
Assyria will Fall
MINOR PROPHETS
The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.
Habakkuk
Faith in Crisis
MINOR PROPHETS
O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.
Zephaniah
Judah will be Judged
MINOR PROPHETS
The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Haggai
Rebuilding the Temple
MINOR PROPHETS
The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah
Restoration & Messiah
MINOR PROPHETS
Therefore say to them, “Thus declares the LORD of hosts: Return to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts.”
Malachi
God’s Love & Judgment
MINOR PROPHETS
For I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.