Bible Study Reading?

[Bossi]

I've been reading the New Testament and i really love it. so much useful info to help me grow. ive been wanting to read in the old testament for so long but cannot find naything that grabs my attention or thats interesting. i liked Job, it was a very good book. If you guys could plz suggest any others that r very good plz hit it up on here. thank you.

BoS$i

 

[ChristineES]

You may like Genesis, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, those are all historical books. If you like poetry then maybe you will like psalms. I wouldn't start with Leviticus,Numbers or Deureronomy.

 

[stovebolts]

If you liked Job, perhaps you would like Lamentations?

Check it out,
Lamentations 3:22-24 It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

Wow, what a statment! I will hope in Him! Amen!!

Pretty fantastic words huh? But wait, look a few verses up at what he has to say.

Lamentations 2:20-22 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom you have done this. Shall the women eat their offspring, the children of their tender care? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; you have slain them in the day of your anger; you have killed, and not pitied. You have called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have cared for and brought up has my enemy consumed.

Jeremiah the Prophet wrote this during the fall of Jerusalem in 587/6 B.C.
http://www.bible.org/page.asp?page_id=917


What grabbed your attention in Job and what do you feel like you got out of it? Personally, I think Job is a great book and lean on it heavily at times.

 

[Georges]

The OT for many years was very boring.....then I got involved in Bible prophecy from a Jewish roots perspective...pretty much learning Judaism along the way....once that happened the OT (and NT) opened right up...

 

[sehad]

The OT for many years was very boring.....then I got involved in Bible prophecy from a Jewish roots perspective...pretty much learning Judaism along the way....once that happened the OT (and NT) opened right up...

Most of mine and Georges's veiws are somewhat different, but I must agree with her on this one. I started getting into comparing Old Testimate prohecies of Christ to how they were carried out in the New Testimate, makes for some interesting reading. May I suggest that studying a particular subject opens it up also. Like studying marriage or sacrificing or different ways and why GOD has punished people in the past or repentence or water baptism. It opens up and you tend to spend more time studying than just reading in general.

 

[John the Baptist]

I've been reading the New Testament and i really love it. so much useful info to help me grow. ive been wanting to read in the old testament for so long but cannot find naything that grabs my attention or thats interesting. i liked Job, it was a very good book. If you guys could plz suggest any others that r very good plz hit it up on here. thank you.

BoS$i

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Hi Bossi, I like the name! (John here)
Here is the way that I guess that I had always saw it? Can't remember when it was ever done by me any differently? (mom was a Sunday school teacher :fadein

Anyway, first was my Master's Words of Matthew 4:4 that I could not misunderstand, huh? Also, it is from what people call the new Testament. Then came another N.T. verse :wink: of 2 Timothy 3:16 that again tell's me that for me to understand [doctrine], then I must see the total Word for that true understanding! See verse 17 of 2 Timothy 3:17.

My suggestion is that you try building from the complete Book, on just a certain subject putting those Bible verses together like a puzzle. You might start by using a Strong's Bible Concordance & looking up the Word of perhaps, 'OBEY & OBEDIENCE'? (that is just a suggested word) When you have say 20 or so verses written down, see if you can understand more about obedience by putting the puzzle together?

By the way, Job understood this subject really well. :fadein:

 

[Bob666]

You might want to start with some of the minor prophets, which are smaller books at the end of OT. You might also want to get a good commentary, or several in fact, to read along with it which gives background on what the author was trying to get at. If you don't mind reading off a computer, ccel.org has some of the classic commentaries such as Matthew Henry's and Calvins to name a few. Their dated of course, but it never hurts to check out what they were thinking and get some grounding before diving into modern scholarship. Plus, if your on a budget, there great because there free.

Bob