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CH. 7 &8
Old Test
Question | Answer |
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After whose reign did the kingdom split? | After Solomon's |
What was the purpose of Prophets? | receive direction from God to help people navigate challenges and situations. In the Bible, prophets urged the people to repent and foretold of the birth, death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. |
Why didn't they have many followers | Spoke messages that were generally unpopular which made them unpopular |
What is a call narrative and who had them? | Stores that describe people's initial awareness that God want them to do something specific, Prophets |
until 1948 Jews had no country of their own, after the holocaust where 6 million Jews died the independent state of Israel was established by the United Nations | Jewish diaspora |
Yahweh will bring a child who will lead the people to a time of justice and peace. Christians interpret this as Jesus, in whom "God is with us" forever | Immanuel ("God with us") Prophecy |
the members of the ten tribes of ancient Israel who were taken into captivity in 722 b.c. by Sargon II of Assyria and are believed never to have returned to Palestine. | The lost tries of Israel |
539 BCE many Israelites return to the promised land | THE REMNANT |
400 BCE Israelites rebuilt Jerusalem and the temple | THE RESTORATION |
Revolt was led by Judas Maccabeus who sought to take back the temple from Greek-Syrian enemy by force | Maccabean Revolt |
Rededication of the temple, when about to purify the temple they seek to light a flame and realize they don't have enough oil to burn, but the little oil they have lasts 8 days | Hanukkah |
Who was responsible for the destruction of the temple | The romans |
Prophet that mentions suffering servant, and speaks of Jesus as the coming messiah and hope for the world | Isaiah |
When was the birth of Jesus under whose rule? | 4 BCE, Romans and Titus |
-took over the capital Nineveh and conquered Egyptian forces -prince of Babylon - defeated Jerusalem and appointed a hebrew to serve as a figurehead for Babylonian loyalty | Prince Nebuchadnezzar |
founder of the Achaemenid Empire and king of Persia from 559 to 530 BC. He is venerated in the Hebrew Bible as Cyrus the Messiah for conquering Babylon and liberating the Jews from captivity. | King Cyrus |
- King when Greeks came to power - on and off with Jews - Greeks had a HUGE impact on the Jews and religon - Greek come common Launguage | Alexander the Great |
Order of people who impacted the Israelites | Assyrians Babylonians Persians Greeks Romans |
How did the Assyrians impact the Israelites | Used force to dominate Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Lebanon as well as the Northern kingdom |
Babylonians | Captured South kingdom, and exiled them |
Persians | Conquer Babylonian and King Cyrus sets free those who were exiled |
Greeks | Alexander the Great, not always treated the best, and were persuaded by Greek beliefs |
Romans | 1 millions Jews died, and temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, Jews kicked out of Jerusalem |