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OT Final Exam
Question | Answer |
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What are the poetic books? | Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs |
Which 3 of these books are the books of wisdom? | Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes |
What are the 4 types of Psalms? | Lamentation, Thanksgiving, Hyms, and Wisdom |
What is Lamentation? | Tension of living in a sin cursed world |
What is Thanksgiving? | Celebration of God's deliverance/provision |
What is Hyms? | Descriptive praise of God |
Who is the primary author of Proverbs? | Solomon |
What is a proverb? | A wise saying |
What are the 2 choices shown in the book of Proverbs? | 1. way of wisdom (righteousness) 2. way of folly (sin, disaster) |
Proverbs 31 | the virtuous woman |
What is Song of Songs (solomon)? | collection of descriptive love poetry |
Who wrote Song of Songs? | Abishag |
What are the 3 symbols in which song of songs embodies? | 1. husband and wife 2. Israel and God 3. Church and Christ |
When was Israel divided into 2 kingdom? | After Solomon's death |
How many tribes were in the southern kingdom? | 2- Judah and Benjamin |
Who were the the enemies of the southern kingdom? | babylonians-captivity |
How many dynasties did the southern kingdom have? | 1 |
Who was the first king of the southern kingdom? | Rehoboam |
Who were the enemies of the northern kingdom? | assyrians- destroy them |
How many dynasties did the northern kingdom have? | 8, 19 kings |
Who was the first king of the northern kingdom? | Jereboam |
What 4 things did Jereboam do? | 1. designates Dan and Bethel as worship sites 2. Erects golden calves at each site 3. anyone can be a priest 4. changes days of religious celebration |
What is a prophet? | men and women whom God calls to announce and illuminate his will and work in history |
What is a prophet's task? | foretell and forth tell |
What is a prophet's message? | judgment for sin, salvation upon repentance |
What are the 2 promises God makes to the prophets? | 1. presence- he will be with them 2. power- enable them to do what he asks |
What is a prophets function? | to be the "spokesperson for God" |
What is a false prophet? | a prophet who speaks words other than God's |
722 B.C | northern kingdom captured by assyrians |
606 B.C | 1st invasion of Judah by babylonians |
597 B.C | 2nd invasion by babylonians |
596 B.C | 3rd invasion, Solomon's temple destroyed |
536 B.C | 1st restoration- led by zerubbabel |
520 B.C | restart temple construction |
516 B.C | completion of zerubbabel's temple |
Amos | a shepard and gardener from Judah. Was a prophet in Israel. Thunders God's judgement. |
How did Isreal sin in the time of Amos? | Rich oppress the poor, buisness people cheat the poor, rich foreclose on the smallest debt, bribery necessary to receive fair judgement |
Isaiah | the messianic prophet |
Isiah 40 | greatness of God |
King Ahab | Evil King, him and his wife Jezabel combine to be the most wicked duo. |
Athaliah | daughter of Ahab and Jezabel |
Elijah | God's most powerful prophet |
How many miracles did Elijah perform? | 8 |
Who is Elijah's succesor? | Elisha |
Elisha | Israel's leading citizen for sixty years. Sixten recorded miracles. |
Jehoshaphat | Riteous, but didn't eraticate the pagan places of worship. Personally obedient. |
Hezekiah | Riteous king compared to David. Destoryed pagan places of worship. Demonstrates what it means to take your problems to the lord. Recites his riteous deeds to live fiftenn more years. |
Josiah | The "boy king". Last godly king of Judah. Takes crown at age eight. Finds book of the law. |
What are Josiah's actions of renewal? | Cleanse the temple of all form of ideolotry; articles made for Baal, remove pagan priest, tore down ashera pole, tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitues. |
Jonah | Profit to Ninevah |
What are the lessons from Jonah? | Can't out run God, national sin demans national repentance, miracles are normal with God, personal presupposition can't get in the way of God's will for our lifes. |
Hosea | The profit of love; graphically displays God's loving kindness for his children. Shares God's denouncing the moral, religious, and political sin of Israel. |
How does Hosea's family reflect Israel's leaving God? | Gomer's audulterous relationship, Gomer leaves Hosea and becomes part of some sort of bondage, Hosea buys Gomer at a slave market and bring her home. |
Hosea 17 | Capture and destruction of northern kingdom *722 B.C.(Know date as well) |
Hosea 25 | Capture of Judah by Babylonions |
457 B.C. | Restoration under Ezara |
Nehemiah | Builder of Jerusalem's walls; burdened and grieved about the daily living conditions in Jerusalem, couldn't hide his grief from the king. |
Who are Nehemiah's two enemy's once he is sent to Jerusalem? | Sanballet- governor of sameria(land) Tobiah- governor of transjordan(money) |
What are the six leadership principles? | 1. Know the challenge to be done before sharing it. 2. Assign individuals to the area of their concern. 3. Everyone participated. 4. Praise before every challenge. 5. Doesn't allow fear to stop the work. 6. Doesn't talk when he should be working. |