OT Final Exam

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How many religious reform movements were there in the kingdom of Israel?

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date: the exodus

1445 BC

date: Abraham's arrival in Canaan

2090 BC

3rd group returns from captivity

445 BC

date: 2nd group returns form captivity

458 BC

How may (approx.) returned in the first group from Babylon?

50,000

date: 1st group returns from captivity

538 BC

What was the date for the decree of Cyrus?

539 BC

date: 3rd stage of babylonian deportation

586 BC

date: 2nd stage of babylonian deportation

597 BC

date: 1st stage of babylonian deportation

605 BC

date: Fall of Samaria

722 BC

date: split of Solomon's Kingdom

930 BC

Which Judean kings led reform movements?

Asa, Jehoshaphat, Josiah, Menasseh, Joash, Hezekiah

Sargon ruled over _____?

Assyria

Nabonidus ruled over _____?

Babylon

Who was the Median king who conquered Babylon?

Cyrus

Where did Jeroboam put his golden calves?

Dan and Bethel

Necho ruled over _____?

Egypt

Who led the second group? the third group?

Ezra, Nehemiah

Who was Baal? (and what country primarily worshipped him?)

God of fertility/storms, Phoenicia

Philip II ruled over ______?

Greece/Macedonia

Which prophets encouraged the rebuilding of the second temple?

Haggai and Zechariah

What Jewish feast came out of the Maccabean Revolt?

Hanukah

Which Judean king foolishly boasted about Judah's wealth to the Babylonians?

Hezekiah

Which major prophet encouraged king Hezekiah?

Isaiah

Who was the priest who overthrew Athaliah?

Jehoiada

Which king cut up a scroll written by Jeremiah?

Jehoiakim

Who was Ahab's wife?

Jezebel

A scroll was found in the temple during the reforms of which Judean king?

Josiah

Which Judean king is mostly blamed for the fall of Judah?

Menasseh

Where did the Maccabean Revolt begin?

Modean

Which Babylonian king destroyed Jerusalem?

Nebechadnezzar

Who led the people to rebuild Jerusalem's walls?

Nehemiah

Darius ruled over ______?

Persia

Which Egyptian king fought against Josiah? where did their armies fight each other?

Pharaoh Necho II, Megiddo

Where was Ahab mortally wounded?

Ramoth Gilead

Who was Judah's first king? last one?

Rehoboam, Zedekiah

Which Assyrian King laid siege to Jerusalem in the time of Hezekiah?

Sennacherib

Where did Rehoboam go to be recognized as king?

Shechem

Which Egyptian king attacked Judah during the time of Rehoboam?

Shishak

What was the specific issue that split Solomon's kingdom?

Taxation

What is the name of the area framed by Carmel, Jezreel, and Mt. Tabor?

Valley of Jezreal, or Plain of Esdraelon

Who led the first group from Babylonian captivity?

Zerubbabel

What was the special significance of a burnt offering? a consecratory offering?

complete devotion, to set apart dedication

How often was a Jubilee year?

every 50th year

What is the Septuagint? where was it done?

greek version of the OT, done at alexandria, egypt

Who were the Samaritans? where did they come from?

half pagan/ half jewish, from north of judah

What was Ezra's occupation?

scribe and priest

What was "Hellenization"?

spread of greek culture, influence and control

What is the Siloam tunnel? who built it? (which king)

water/defense tunnel, Hezekiah


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