The Book Survey Method of Bible Study
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Step One = Read the Book
Step Two = Make Notes on What You Read
Step Three= Do a Background Study
Step Four = Make a Horizontal Chart of the Book’s Contents
Step Five= Make a Tentative Outline of the Book
Step Six-= Write Out a Personal Application
Survey= Get a birds eye view of the book.
Analysis = study everything in each chapter in detail.
Synthesis= put it back together again and draw some conclusions.
Step One = Read the Book
The vision of Obadiah.
Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom:
We have heard a report from the Lord,
and a messenger has been sent among the nations:
“Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!”
Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
you shall be utterly despised.
The pride of your heart has deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rock,
in your lofty dwelling,
who say in your heart,
“Who will bring me down to the ground?”
Though you soar aloft like the eagle,
though your nest is set among the stars,
from there I will bring you down,
declares the Lord.
If thieves came to you,
if plunderers came by night—
how you have been destroyed!—
would they not steal only enough for themselves?
If grape gatherers came to you,
would they not leave gleanings?
How Esau has been pillaged,
his treasures sought out!
If thieves came to you,
if plunderers came by night—
how you have been destroyed!—
would they not steal only enough for themselves?
If grape gatherers came to you,
would they not leave gleanings?
All your allies have driven you to your border;
those at peace with you have deceived you;
they have prevailed against you;
those who eat your bread have set a trap beneath you—
you have no understanding.
Will I not on that day, declares the Lord,
destroy the wise men out of Edom,
and understanding out of Mount Esau?
And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman,
so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob,
shame shall cover you,
and you shall be cut off forever.
On the day that you stood aloof,
on the day that strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
and cast lots for Jerusalem,
you were like one of them.
But do not gloat over the day of your brother
in the day of his misfortune;
do not rejoice over the people of Judah
in the day of their ruin;
do not boast
in the day of distress.
Do not enter the gate of my people
in the day of their calamity;
do not gloat over his disaster
in the day of his calamity;
do not loot his wealth
in the day of his calamity.
Do not stand at the crossroads
to cut off his fugitives;
do not hand over his survivors
in the day of distress.
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.
For as you have drunk on my holy mountain,
so all the nations shall drink continually;
they shall drink and swallow,
and shall be as though they had never been.
But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,
and it shall be holy,
and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
and the house of Joseph a flame,
and the house of Esau stubble;
they shall burn them and consume them,
and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.
Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau,
and those of the Shephelah shall possess the land of the Philistines;
they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria,
and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
The exiles of this host of the people of Israel
shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,
and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion
to rule Mount Esau,
and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
Step Two = Make Notes on What You Read
What Category is this Book ?
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First Impressions
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Key Words
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Key Verse
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Literary Style
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Emotional Tone
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Main Theme
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Structure of the Book
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Major People
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Step Three= Do a Background Study
What can I learn about the Author ?
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When was the Book written ?
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Where was the Book written ?
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To whom was the Book written ?
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Why was the Book written
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What other background information helps me understand this book better?
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Step Four = Make a Horizontal Chart of the Book’s Contents
You will need a blank piece of Paper
Read through the book again and find its major divisions
Read through the book again and name each chapter
Read through the book once more and do the same for all the paragraphs in the book.
Step Five= Make a Tentative Outline of the Book
I. THE HOUSE OF EDOM REDUCED BY GOD (1:1–16)
I. THE HOUSE OF EDOM REDUCED BY GOD (1:1–16)
A. Edom’s contempt (1:3, 10–14)
1. Their thankless hearts (1:3): Dwelling in the high and inaccessible cliffs of their land has made the Edomites boastful.
2. Their treacherous hand (1:10–14): The Edomites, relatives of the Israelites (the nations are descendants of the twin brothers Jacob and Esau), have sided with Jerusalem’s enemies on a number of occasions.
B. Edom’s condemnation (1:1–2, 4–9, 15–16)
1. The source (1:1–2, 7)
a. Her foes (1:1–2)
b. Her friends (1:7)
2. The severity (1:4–6, 8–9, 15–16)
a. Her wealth will be removed (1:4–6).
b. Her wisdom will be reduced (1:8–9).
c. Her wickedness will be returned (1:15–16): Edom will now reap what she has sown.
II. THE HOUSE OF JACOB RESTORED BY GOD (1:17–21)
A. They will repossess their land (1:17–20).
B. They will rule over their land (1:21).
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Willmington, H. L. (1999). The Outline Bible (). Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers.
Step Six-= Write Out a Personal Application
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