BIL 101 Old Testament Final
Lennox thinks that the first think you should think of when you read the psalms is Jesus, so you can see the eternal significance of each psalm immediately.
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Lennox thinks the psalmists were every bit as bloodthirsty as they can sometimes sound.
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More than any other aspect of God, Ezekiel emphasizes God's love.
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One of the central lessons of the historical books is that bad things often happen to good people, and good things often happen to bad people.
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Psalm 14 indicates that it is foolish not to wonder if God exists.
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Psalm 19 indicates that nothing but Scripture tells us anything about God.
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Psalm 23 compares God to a judge to makes sure the evil get punished.
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Psalm 51 is often read in relation to Abraham when he told Sarah to lie that she was his sister.
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Psalm 8 is amazed at how despicable human beings are.
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Ruth was an Israelite who moved to Moab during a famine.
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Samson dies peacefully of old age after a long life of faithfully serving Yahweh.
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The Minor Prophets are called minor because their messages were not as important as those of the Major Prophets.
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The book of Daniel mentions both the angel Gabriel and Raphael by name.
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The book of Job is only one type of literature, namely narrative.
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The book of Jonah demonstrates that God in the Old Testament is not a God of love and mercy.
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The book of Jonah has oracles against Babylon just like several other prophetic books.
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The book of Judges describes the actions of seven main judges--a perfect number.
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The cities of refuge provided protection for those who intentionally murdered others.
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The foolish in Proverbs are those who are uneducated, simple-minded, and dumb.
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The judges in the book of Judges gradually get better as time goes by.
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The kingdom of Judah was in the north and the kingdom of Israel in the south.
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The last chapter of Isaiah predicts that the moon will fall to the earth and make all the rivers of Israel bitter.
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The last section of Isaiah (chapters 40-66) deal with issues that took place during the last part of Isaiah's life.
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The longest psalm is Psalm 23.
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The main job of the judges in Judges was to settle disputes between Israelites.
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The name of David's son who took over the kingdom in a coup for a short time was Abner.
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The name of the giant Philistine that David killed was Cyclops.
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The name of the king that allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem from Babylon was Nebuchadnezzar.
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The name of the priest when Samuel first began serving at the sanctuary was Aaron.
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The prophets Ezra and Malachi urged the reconstruction of the temple after the Jews returned from exile in Babylon.
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The region of land that the Levites inherited was in the very north of Israel.
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The temple was finally rebuilt in the year 586BC.
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The theme of God as the "Holy One of Israel" only appears in the first 35 chapters of Isaiah.
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There is no debate among scholars about whether Isaiah himself wrote the entire book.
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There is nothing similar to any of the proverbs in any Ancient Near Eastern literature.
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Two of the other gods that the Israelites wrongly served were Zeus and Aphrodite, both mentioned in Judges.
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We associate Ezra especially with the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem.
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We associate Nehemiah with teaching Israel to follow the Law again after returning from captivity in Babylon.
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According to Lennox, the book of Job shows that faith in God, not arguments and discussion, is what really helps those who are suffering.
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According to Lennox, the main purpose of Joshua was to show that God kept his promise to bring Israel into the land of Canaan?
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According to Lennox, the violence in the book of Joshua would not have offended someone from the Ancient Near East
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After their defeat by Assyria, the people of the northern kingdom eventually disappeared from history.
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An oracle was a message from God delivered to one of his spokespersons, the prophets.
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Apocalyptic literature usually presents revelation by way of visions and unusual symbolism.
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At one point David hides from Saul in a cave.
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At one point Isaiah has a vision of angels in God's presence crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy."
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At one point in Judges, a woman served as the highest leader of Israel, and the leader of Israel's armies is not willing to go into battle unless she fights with him, which she does. Accordingly, she is given credit for winning the battle.
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At one point in the last part of Isaiah, God calls Israel his servant.
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At times, according to Lennox, Isaiah seems to blur the distinction between events of ancient times and God's ultimate victory at the end of history.
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Baal was the name of the god whose prophets Elijah outdid and whom he ended up killing.
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Cyrus, king of Persia, defeated Babylon in 539BC.
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Daniel 7 mentions a "son of man" whom the New Testament equates with Jesus.
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Daniel has one of the earliest mentions of resurrection in the Old Testament.
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Daniel was taken captive to Babylon and prophesied from there.
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During a party mentioned in the book of Daniel the king sees a hand start writing on the wall about his judgment.
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Each book of the Psalms ends with a psalm that is a doxology.
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Ezekiel 18 looks to a shift from punishment on everyone for the sins of some to each person being responsible for his or her own sin.
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Ezekiel came from a family of priests.
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Ezekiel had visions both of God's glory leaving the Temple and of a future Temple.
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Ezekiel probably performed the most bizarre symbolic actions of any of Israel's prophets that we know.
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Ezra and Nehemiah are historical books about the time after the exile.
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For Lennox, it is important to read the book of Ecclesiastes to the end, where the author finds meaning in reverence for God.
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From time to time, both Jeremiah and Ezekiel used symbolic actions to prophesy.
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Gideon asks God to show him that he will be with him in battle by way of a fleece.
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God addresses the gods of the other nations in Psalm 82
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God basically tells Job that he is not equipped to understand why God does and allows the things that he does.
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God's covenant with David did not replace his covenant with Abraham but rather it supplemented it.
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God's word never fails but always accomplishes what God wants it to accomplish.
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In Jeremiah 29, Jeremiah tells those who already captive in Babylon that God will give them a future and a hope.
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In Psalm 1, the blessed person delights in the Law of the LORD?
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In Psalm 110, the LORD tells the Lord in so many words that he is going to help him overcome his enemies.
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In the Greek version of the Old Testament, the Septuagint, only Achan is put to death, not his whole family.
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In the book of Proverbs, wisdom is at one point portrayed as a woman.
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In the year 586BC, the kingdom of Judah was destroyed by the Babylonians.
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In the year 722BC, the northern kingdom was destroyed by the Assyrians.
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Isaiah 13-23 is a series of prophecies against the nations surrounding Judah and, in the end, against Israel and Judah too.
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Isaiah has some of the most "monotheistic" language in the whole Old Testament.
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Isaiah looks to a day when not just Israel but other nations too will flock to Jerusalem to serve Yahweh.
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Isaiah looks to a time when some non-Jews will turn to the LORD and want to worship him.
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Isaiah prophesied in the 700s BC and lived somewhere in or around Jerusalem.
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Isaiah teaches that God is more interested in living out his values--things like defending the orphan and widow--than offering vast numbers of sacrifices.
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Isaiah's image of God's servant seems to refer to multiple different servants.
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Israel lost to the town of Ai because one of the Israelites had stolen something that belonged to God.
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Israel seemed to think that God would not allow his temple to be destroyed.
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Jeremiah predicted that the Jews would be allowed to return from Babylon in seventy years.
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Jesus quoted Isaiah when he began his ministry, indicating that God's Spirit was working in him to proclaim good news to the poor, liberty to captives, and sight to the blind.
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Jesus quoted a psalm from the cross as he felt incredibly discouraged.
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Joel was a pre-exilic prophet.
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Judges repeatedly shows that disobedience to God results in disaster.
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Lennox believes that one of the servants to which Isaiah refers was the Messiah, Jesus.
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Lennox has some doubt about whether Solomon was the author of Ecclesiastes.
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Lennox suggests that the role of a prophet changed from that of advisor to that of commentator about 800BC.
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Lennox things that the prophecies of Daniel were primarily concerned with the centuries leading up to and including the first century AD.
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Lennox thinks that David probably wrote a substantial number of the psalms.
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Lennox thinks that God probably did command Hosea to marry a prostitute.
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Lennox thinks that the curses of the Psalms, in the mouth of someone seeking revenge, are sinful words.
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Locust invasions could be devastating to crops for a few years.
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Micah indicates that it is not primarily sacrifice but justice and mercy that God wants from his people.
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Most of the psalms were written to celebrate God's rule as King.
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Most of the psalms where the psalmist complains still end with praise to God.
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Nahum predicted the destruction of the same empire to whom God gave mercy in Jonah.
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Near the end of Judges, a Levite chops up his dead concubine into twelve pieces and sends the pieces to the tribes of Israel.
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Obadiah is the shortest book in the Old Testament.
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Of all the people in Jericho, the one family that Israel did not destroy was the family of a prostitute named Rahab.
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One of the psalms calls blessed the person who would bash a Babylonian baby against a rock.
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Originally, 1 and 2 Samuel were one rather than two books.
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Over a dozen of the psalms in the final part of the Psalms are "psalms of ascent," possibly psalms sung while proceeding up to the temple.
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Psalm 119 mostly celebrates the virtues of the Law.
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Psalm 2 was originally a royal psalm, but the New Testament understood it spiritually in relation to Jesus.
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Solomon asked God for wisdom and was given great discernment.
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The New Testament understands the coming of the Holy Spirit on the church in Acts 2 as an example of a prophecy in Joel about God pouring out his Spirit.
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The Psalms are grouped into five "books," although we do not know for certain why.
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The Psalms were originally Israel's songbook for worship in the Temple.
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The Song of Songs sure appears to be about physical love!
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The book of Esther never explicitly mentions God.
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The book of Isaiah has three main sections.
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The book of Job ends without God telling Job about Satan's involvement in his situation.
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The book of Job shows that suffering is not always a result of sin.
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The book of Jonah shows the mercy of God not only toward Israel but toward other nations as well.
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The book of Joshua ends with Israel renewing its commitment to the covenant at Shechem.
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The book of Lamentations has several acrostic psalms, where each verse begins with the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
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The complaint psalms represent the anguished cries of those who were unjustly suffering and who had no recourse in any human court.
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The final chapter praises a wife of noble character, based on the virtues of a woman in the Ancient Near East.
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The first few chapters of Proverbs address the "son" of Solomon.
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The good news that is going to be proclaimed as Israel returns from captivity is, "Our God reigns!"
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The governor of Judah in the days of Haggai was named Zerubbabel.
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The middle chapters of Isaiah, chapters 36-39, give some historical information that is practically identical to information we find in 2 Kings
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The northern kingdom of Israel was less politically stable than the southern kingdom.
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The prophecies of Zechariah were more apocalyptic in flavor than the other minor prophets.
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The prophet Amos was a farmer of sycamore trees.
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The prophet Habakkuk also asked God questions about how long he was going to wait to fix Israel.
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The psalmists themselves may not have been thinking of Jesus when they wrote, but Lennox thinks God certainly was.
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The psalms have clues here and there for their musical performance in worship.
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The role of a kinsman redeemer was to make sure that the right thing was done in relation to the members of the clan (justice, rescue, etc).
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The sanctuary was at a place called Shiloh when the book of 1 Samuel opens.
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The story of Esther takes place in Persia, farther away from Israel than either Assyria or Babylon were.
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The suffering servant of Isaiah suffered for the sins of Israel. This passage sometimes is also connected to the sufferings of Jesus.
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The two main themes of Isaiah are judgment and hope.
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The two minor prophets that prophesied to the northern kingdom were Hosea and Amos.
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Those that wait on the LORD will renew their strength will "run and not be weary." They will "walk and not faint."
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Those who returned from Babylon and those who live in Jerusalem from this point on are often called Jews because they were the remnant of the kingdom of Judah.
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We learn more about God's role in creation from Proverbs than almost any other book in the Old Testament except Genesis.
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When Ehud thrust his sword into King Eglon, he was not able to get it out.
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When God forgave David for his sin with Bathsheba, he took away all the consequences of his sin.
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When they find the Book of the Law in the temple during the reign of Josiah, the high priest takes it to a prophetess named Huldah to verify that it is legitimate.
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While the book of Ezra commanded the Israelites to divorce their foreign wives, the prophet Malachi strongly proclaimed that God hates divorce.
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Isaiah and Jeremiah are the two most prominent prophets in the books of the Kings.
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Isaiah predicted that Jesus would be born without either a human father or mother but would appear on Mary's doorstep in a time of persecution.
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Isaiah refers to a Persian king named Nebuchadnezzar, a man who lived 150 years after Isaiah's death.
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Israel's orders were to kill all the men of the city of Jericho, but to spare the women and children.
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It is difficult to relate the events of Daniel to any events in history so far.
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Jeremiah's prophecies were celebrated by all the leaders of Israel.
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King David was the father of Ruth.
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Lennox believes that God directly ordered an evil spirit to come on Saul.
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Lennox believes that Joshua himself wrote the book of Joshua.
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Lennox believes that proverbs are promises that are guaranteed.
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Lennox believes that the Behemoth was a Woolly Mammoth and Leviathan an ancient crocodile.
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Lennox believes that the latter chapters of Ezekiel have not yet been fulfilled.
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Lennox favors the idea that Daniel was not actually written by Daniel but by someone using Daniel as a pseudonym several centuries later.
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Lennox is quite insistent that Song of Songs is not about physical love but is an allegory for Christ's love of the Church.
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"Immanuel" means, "a man will save them."
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According to Lennox, Psalms gives us a window into the suffering of God's covenant people.
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According to Lennox, one of the main purposes of the book of Judges is to show us how to live and how to find God's will.
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According to Lennox, the (minor) prophets prophesied primarily about events that are happening right now in the Middle East.
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According to Lennox, the book of Jeremiah is arranged by chronology.
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According to Lennox, the book of Job fully resolves the question of why a loving God allows righteous people to suffer.
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According to Lennox, the primary concern of the prophets was to predict the future.
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According to Lennox, the victories in Joshua ultimately belonged to Israel.
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After only two years of ruling, God caused the most wicked king of Judah to be killed in battle.
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After the split into a divided kingdom, the northern kingdom was called Judah.
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All the psalms were finished before David died, at the beginning of the time when Israel had kings.
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Although Jeremiah was in difficult circumstances, he never complained to God.
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At one point in the book of Judges, the moon stands still.
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Because Job's family is all righteous, they survive and prosper. Only Job and his wife get boils.
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Chronicles is much more critical of David and Solomon than the books of Samuel were.
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Daniel tells of three young men thrown into a furnace and burnt to death.
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Daniel was thrown into the den of a dragon, kept in Babylon from prehistoric times.
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David asked God and was given permission to build a permanent temple for Yahweh in Jerusalem.
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David was the first king of Israel.
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David wrote all the psalms in Psalms.
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David's archenemy was the son of King Saul, Jonathan.
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Elijah was the greatest of the writing prophets.
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Ezekiel prophesied from Jerusalem before any of the Babylonian invasions.
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Gideon never makes an idol again for the rest of his life, after God gave him the victory in battle the first time.
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God appointed Jeremiah to announce to Israel that God was going to deliver them.
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God decided to call Jeremiah as a prophet on his twentieth birthday.
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God tells Job and his friends that he is suffering because of his sins.
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Haggai was a pre-exilic prophet.
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In the middle of Solomon's reign, the kingdom was split into a northern and a southern kingdom.
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1 Chronicles says that Satan did something that 2 Samuel says God did.
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A group that escaped destruction at the hands of the Israelites were the Gibeonites who tricked them by saying they were from far away.
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A priest in the northern kingdom tells the prophet Amos to go back home.
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According to Habakkuk, the righteous live by faith despite the wicked around them.
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According to Lennox, Job teaches that God allows suffering but does not directly bring it.
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According to Lennox, Old Testament books like Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai, and Zechariah addressed the "homecoming" of Israel back from exile.
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According to Lennox, most psalms either praise God or complain about a problem.
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According to Lennox, one of the judges ended up sacrificing his daughter to God?
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According to Lennox, one of the purposes of 1 and 2 Chronicles was to give hope to Israel that if they would repent, God would heal their land.
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