Biblical Cosmology: 2 Samuel Study Guide

Observe: (Make a list or mark each term with a designated symbol)

Who, what, when, where, why, how?

Repeated words or phrases

Verbs, tenses, cause and effect and more

Look up the definitions of certain words in Hebrew (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament)

Draw what is being depicted based on the scripture

Interpret:

What is the context for this passage (culture, audience, situation etc.)?

Are you assuming anything about the text that’s not explicitly stated or shown in the text?

What passages of scripture relate to this scripture? Is the same thing said or explained clearly elsewhere in the Bible?

2 Corinthians 13:1 “This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”

John 8:17

“It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.”

Application:

Is there a part of me that is not trusting or believing the Word?

What was the application intended for the original audience?

How can you apply what you’ve learned to your life?

Scripture:

2 Samuel 22:7-10:

7 In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.

9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.

2 Samuel 22:11-15:

11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.

14 The Lord thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.

15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.

16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;