The story goes like this: during the reign of King Josiah in Jerusalem (640–609 b.c.), someone, probably working in the temple, found a copy of a book, and the book was read before King Josiah. “Now it happened, when the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, that he tore his clothes” (2 Kings 22:11, NKJV). Why? Because he realized that he and his people were not obeying what was written in the book. Then, on the basis of that book, called the “Book of the Covenant” (2 Kings 23:2, NKJV), Josiah began a great reformation. We can read about that reformation in 2 Kings 23. What was the book that had such an impact on the king and his nation? It is believed to be Deuteronomy, our study for this quarter.
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Memory texts in this guide
- 1 1 John 4:8, NKJV He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
- 2 1 Corinthians 10:3-4, NKJV And they all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.
- 3 Genesis 17:7, RSV I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.
- 4 Deuteronomy 6:5, NKJV You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength.
- 5 Deuteronomy 10:19, NKJV Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
- 6 Deuteronomy 4:8, NKJV And what great nation is there that has such statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this law which I set before you this day?
- 7 Galatians 2:21, NKJV I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.
- 8 Deuteronomy 30:19, NKJV I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.
- 9 Deuteronomy 4:29, NKJV But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- 10 Deuteronomy 9:7, NKJV Remember! Do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.
- 11 Deuteronomy 10:15, NKJV The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.
- 12 Matthew 4:4, NKJV But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”
- 13 Jude 9, NKJV Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!"