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BI 501-Bible Survey2
Second Stack for Bible Survey class
Question | Answer |
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Minor Prophets in order | 1) Hosea 2) Joel 3) Amos 4) Obadiah 5) Jonah 6) Micah 7) Nahum 8) Habakkuk 9) Zephaniah 10) Haggai 11) Zechariah 12) Malachi |
Tended to rebel against ruling parties; center of Pagan worship (Baalism); never a healthy influence on Israel | Damascus |
Capital of Assyria; military center | Ninevah |
Religious and administrative center of Assyria | Asshur |
Abram’s hometown | Ur |
means “door;” Royal city of Persia; cite of story of Esther | Susa |
capital of Hittites; captured by Assyria; Uriah was a Hittite | Carchemish |
located on military highway leading from Egypt to Mesopotamia; Neco and Nebucudnezzer oppressed Judah’s kings from this location | Riblah |
Sister city to Susa; made for beauty | Persepolis |
Literary Type of Job | Theodicy |
Land in which Job lives | Uz |
Job's friends | Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar (and Elihu) |
Fault of Job's Friends | They condemned Job w/out being able to refute hiim |
Job's righteousness at end of book | He had not sinned with his tongue |
"Curse God and die" | Job |
Themes of Psalms | 1) Songs of worship & devotion to Yahweh 2) Thanksgiving 3) Laments 4) Praises 5) Prayers/Hymns |
Authors of Psalms | 1) David (73 Psalms) 2) Moses (Ps. 90) 3) Solomon (2 Psalms) 4) Asaph (12 Psalms) 5) Sons of Korah (12 Psalms) |
"Unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain" | Psalm 127 |
Songs of Ascent | 120-134 |
"May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart..." | Psalm 19 |
Authors of Proberbs | 1) Solomon 2) Saings of the Wise 3) Saying of Agur 4) King Lemuel |
Images in Proverbs | 1) Lady Wisdom 2) Dame Folly 3) Father Teaching the Son 4) Adulterers |
"Fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom..." | Proverbs |
"Train up a child.." | Proverbs |
"Guard your heart..." | Proverbs |
"Go to the ant..." | Proverbs |
"A gentle answer turns away wrath..." | Proverbs |
"Humility before honor..." | Proverbs |
"There is a way that seems right to man, but this is the way to destruction." | Proverbs |
Main Character in Ecclesiastes | Qohellet |
Hezekiah's sickness | Isaiah |
Envoys from Babylon | Isaiah |
"The ox knows his master... but Israel does not know, my people do not understand" | Isaiah |
"A virgin will be with child..." | Isaiah |
"The people walking in darkness have seen a great light..." | Isaiah |
Plows out of axes | Isaiah |
"For to us a child is born, a son is given. The government will be on his shoulders..." | Isaiah |
"The wolf will lie down with the lamb..." | Isaiah |
"A voice crying in the wilderness 'Prepare the way of the LORD.'" | Isaiah |
"All men are like grass... the grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of the LORD stands forever." | Isaiah |
"Those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength..." | Isaiah |
"open the eyes of the blind, free the captives from prison..." | Isaiah |
Weeping prophet | Jeremiah |
Visual aids in Jeremiah | 1) Linen Belt 2) Clay Jar 3) Two Baskets of Figs 4) Land Title in Clay Jars 5) Recabites |
"Has a nation ever changed its Gods? But my people have exchanged their Glory for worthless idols." | Jeremiah |
"They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns." | Jeremiah |
Prophesied destruction through Babylon for 70 years | Jeremiah |
Burned Jeremiah's scrolls | Jehoiakim |
"The time is coming" declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel..." | Jeremiah |
"Two are better than one..." | Ecclesiastes |
"A three-fold strand is not easily broken..." | Ecclesiastes |
"Remember your creator in the days of your youth..." | Ecclesiastes |
Characters in Song of Songs | 1) Woman (Lover) 2) Man (Beloved) 3) King 4) Shephard 5) Shulemite 6) Daughters of Jerusalem 7) Brothers |
Sennacherib threatens Jerusalem | Isaiah |
Layout of Jeremiah | 5 Poems (Dirges - 22 - 22 - 66 - 22 - 22 (verses); acrostic |
"Because of the LORD's great love are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning, great is your faithfulness." | Lamentations |
Sees vision of Yahweh on war chariot | Ezekiel |
Sees Glory Cloud | Ezekiel (2) |
Sees glory departing from temple | Ezekiel (10) |
Prophesies that God will give his people a new heart | Ezekiel (36) |
Valley of Dry Bones | Ezekiel (37) |
Gog and Magog | Ezekiel (38) |
Visions of Ezekiel | 1) Glory departing from temple 2) New Heart 3) Valley of Dry Bones 4) Gog and Magog |
Hebrew boys in Daniel | 1) Daniel (Belteshazzar) 2) Shadrach 3) Meshach 4) Abednego |
Words written on wall in Daniel | mene mene tekel parsin |
Beasts in Daniel's vision | 1) lion 2) bear 3) leopard 4) monstrosity (w/ little boastful horn) |
Daniel's Visions | 1) Four Beasts 2) Man comes in clouds of great glory 3) Ram (Medes & Persians) and Goat (Greece) 4) Daniel reading prophesy of Jeremiah 5) Resurrection of Holy One |
"I will betroth you..." | Hosea |
"How can I give you over, Ephriam..." | Hosea |
"I am their Baal, but they have taken another Baal..." | Hosea |
Hosea's Children | 1) Jezreel 2) Lo-Ruhamah 3) Lo-Ammi |
Joel spoke about... | Day of Lord as a plague of locusts, smoke and fire, and darkness and confusion |
"The day of the LORD is dreadful, who can endure it?" | Joel |
"And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams..." | Joel |
"I was not a prophet or the son of a prophet..." | Amos |
"Go up to Bethel and preach." | Amos |
Images in Amos | 1) Plumb Line 2) Basket of ripe fruit 3) Famine of the Word of God 4) Bulls of Bashan |
"Go up to Bethel and sin." | Amos |
"I hate, I despise your religious feasts; I cannot stand your assemblies." | Amos |
"But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!" | Amos |
Propesied against Israel in time of prosperity | Amos |
Shortest Book in OT | Obadiah |
Prophesied against Edom | Obadiah |
To where did Jonah flee? | Tarshish, by way of Joppa (closest port city to Israel) |
Prophesied against Judah in time of prosperity | Micah |
"He will judge between many peoples and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks." | Micah |
"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel..." | Micah |
"Do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly before your God." | Micah |
Rejoices over fall of Assyria | Nahum |
"For who has not felt your unceasing cruelty." | Nahum |
Questions God trying to understand the Problem of Evil | Habakkuk |
"How can you use a people more wicked to destroy the wicked people?" | Habakkuk |
"My righteous one shall live by faith..." | Habakkuk |
"Though the fig tree does not blossom... Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior." | Habakkuk |
Asks how God could use Babylonians to correct Judah | Habakkuk |
Mini-Jeremiah or Mini-Ezekiel | Zephaniah (Day of the Lord there will be faithful remnant preserved) |
Prophesies about the rebuilding of the temple and more glory than before | Haggai |
"The silver is mine, the gold is mine." | Haggai |
Zechariah's Night Visions | 1) Man among myrtle trees riding horses 2) Four horns and four craftsmen 3) Man with measuring line 4) Clean garments for Joshua 5) Gold lampstand with two olive trees 6) Flying Scroll 7) Woman in basket w/ wickedness 8) Four chariots w/ colored horses |
"Strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered" | Zechariah |
"your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey..." | Zechariah |
Prophesies against Jews' half-hearted in their devotion to Yahweh | Malachi |
Series of charges that God is bringing against Jews | Malachi |
"Has not the LORD made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his. And why one? Because he was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth. I hate divorce," | Malachi |
"Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it" | Malachi |
"You have said, It is futile to serve God. What did we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the LORD Almighty? But now we call the arrogant blessed." | Malachi |
"See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes. 6 He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers" | Malachi |
4th generation descendant of Hezekiah | Zephaniah |