Chapter 12 The Divided Kingdom

Why did God decide to divide the kingdom of David?

Because of Solomon's idolatry

From God's perspective why was Israel destroyed?

Because they would not listen to God's prophets and believe in the Lord their God

Assyria

Bloody Wicked Empire that terrorized the Middle East

Elisha

Devoted disciple who continued his mentors Mission and Israel

How did false prophets live?

Generally they lived easy lives, getting their living from telling what they wanted to hear.

Why would an Assyrian Conquest have been psychologically debilitating for Israel?

God gave Israelites the promised land and the experience would either kill or resettle them elsewhere and inhabit their land

How did God stop Jonah?

God sent Mighty Tempest that threatened to sink the ship. Jonah admitted he was a cause of the troubles, so the Shipmates tossed him into the sea

What was the substantial difference between the good and bad Kings of Israel?

Good things reformed worship and let people back to God whereas bad kings introduced foreign gods and sometimes persecuted worshipers of the one true God .

Elijah

Great prophet Who challenged the Pagan rulers of Israel he was taken up to heaven in a fiery chariot

How did Rehoboam respond to the request of Jeroboam and the elders?

He arrogantly told Jeroboam and the elders he would work them even harder than his father and punish them even more severely.

What did Jonah a dislike about God's request?

He knew God would forgive the ninevites if they would have repented, but he wanted them destroyed.

What was Jeroboam's solution to discourage Temple worship?

He made two golden calves for the people to worship with in Israel.

To what did Jonah compare his time in the whale?

He said it was like being in sheol the realm of the dead

How did Elijah call Elisha to be a prophet?

He talked his mantle over his shoulders to show he would continue in Elijah's prophetic roll

What did Abijah do to show Jeroboam he would be king of ten of the Twelve Tribes of Israel?

He took off the new garment he was wearing, ripped it into 12 pieces and told Jeroboam to take 10 of them

Why was Jeroboam fearful of the people going up to Jerusalem to worship?

He was afraid if his subjects and Israel went to Jerusalem in Judah to offer sacrifices in the temple they would turn their hearts to true worship the Lord and their allegiance to Rehoboam , David's grandson and would want to kill Jeroboam.

How did Elijah die?

He was taken to heaven in a world wind on a chariot of fire driven by horses of Fire

What was the significance of the ninevites having been given forty days to repent?

In scripture the number is symbolic of repentance

What did Jonah do when God ordered to go to Nineveh?

Instead of going east by Lantern in about, he sailed West.

In which Kingdom Israel or Judah did more bad kings rule been good?

Israel

What was the request of Jeroboam and the elders to Rehoboam, and what did Solomon's counselors advise Rehoboam to do?

Jeroboam and the elders ask him to ease their heavy labor and then exchange, they would be his good subjects. Solomon's wise counselors advised him to serve the delegation and speak good words to them.

Why did Elijah flee into the desert?

Jezebel threatened him with death because she had the slaughter of her profits.

Jeroboam

Minister of Solomon who led a revolt against to son Rehoboam

Tarshish

A far-off place possibly in Spain to which Jonah had planned to escape in his mission to Nineveh

What challenges faced the prophet of the one true God?

A prophet had to set aside his own opinions and desires to go work out and say what I want him to say.

Jonah

And unwilling Prophet sent to preach repentance to Nineveh. He spent three days in the belly of the whale

Israel

Originally the whole Kingdom of the 12 tribes of Israel but after Solomon's time refers to the northern of the two kingdoms into which Solomon's kingdom was divided.

Abijah

Prophet who announced to Jeroboam that God would give him 10 of the 12 tribes of Israel

Who was king during Israel's peak of Glory as a kingdom?

Solomon

Rehoboam

Solomon's son and Heir. His probably cause all but the two of the 12 tribes rebelled against him

What was the problem with Rehoboams upbringing?

Solomon's son was spoiled, having grown up in luxury and idleness

Which gods were worse, the golden calves or the Canaanites faults gods?

The Canaanites because they required human sacrifice and employed male and female called prostitution.

Who was Jezebel?

The Peg and princess I have married she was a worshipper of The Phoenician god baal

What was the still small voice?

The Voice God used to speak with Elijah

Nineveh

The capital of Assyrian Empire

How did Hosea pay tribute to the Assyrian King Shalamaneser?

The king learned Hosea had tried to force a military alliance with Egypt the king then invaded and then after three years destroyed the capital.

Judah

The name of the two kingdoms into which Israel was divided after Solomon

Dan

The northern of the two centers in the Northern Kingdom of Israel

Why did Rehoboam allow Israel to be divided without a fight?

The prophet Shemiah told him the division was God's doing perhaps Rehoboam did not want to risk of War he would not win.

Bethel

The southern of the two centers in the Northern Kingdom of Israel

Ahab

The wicked king of Israel

Jezebel

The wicked queen of Israel who persecuted the prophets of the true God.

Why did God say that the invites do not know the right hand or left?

They could not discern right from wrong for this reason they deserve the chance to repent.

Why were so many prophets of the one true God put the death?

They denounced the worship of false gods, even before Kings and other potentates.

What was especially bad about the Assyrian threat?

They were quite brutal and delighted in massacring their enemies

What did it mean for Elisha to have requested a double share of Elijah's power?

Thoughout Old Testament a double share of the father's property referred to the firstborn Sons inheritance he was asking to be his Heir and successor

How is this worship somewhere to the golden calf Aaron made at Mount Sinai?

When Aaron dedicated the golden calf in the wilderness, he said, behold your god Israel and Egypt Jeroboam use the same words

What did Elijah first do to show God's displeasure with Ahab and Jezebel?

Who stopped the rain for 3 years which caused a famine

Why did Jonah want Nineveh to be destroyed?

because it was the capital city of the syrians powerful enemies of the Israelites