Final - Southern Kings Flashcards
- son of Solomon
Rehoboam
- limited success vs Jeroboam
- fortified about 15 cities
Rehoboam
- while protecting north, attacked at south
- fairly secure at north, exposed at south
Rehoboam
- son of Rehoboam
- continued in the sins of his father
Abijam
- briefly take bethel
Abijam
- first of godly kings**
- still not perfect
- trying to follow God
Asa
- removes his grandma from authority bc she was an idol worshipper
Asa
- called people to renew gov’t with God**
- invited ppl of north to come down
Asa
- his heart was blameless all his days***
Asa
- though he didn’t do everything right, his heart was always towards God
Asa
- first of kings to co-rule
Jehosephat
- godly king
- following in the way of his father Asa
Jehosephat
- orders Levites to teach book of law
Jehosephat
- successful military rules
- strong army
- military forces
Jehosephat
- establishes court system with civil judge/court**
- priests take care of religious issues
Jehosephat
- married to Athaliah
Jehoram
- does NOT follow godly ways of father*
Jehoram
- 5 events
- killed 6 brothers
- Edom revolted and broke free
- Libnah revolts
- Philistines and Arabians invade his territory
- Death by disease
Jehoram
- God would not destroy this king bc he is the line of David
Jehoram
- 2 Chron 21:20
- departed with no ones regret***
Jehoram
- succeeds father, influenced by mother Athalia
Ahaziah
- goes to North to visit uncle
- they both get killed
Ahaziah
- only woman to rule
Athaliah
- mother of Ahaziah
- daughter of Jezebel
- Baal worship
Athaliah
- approx. 7 years old
- first of two children kings
Joash
- priest raising him are advisors
- destroy Baal stuff
- created building funds for temple
- some high places are still there
Joash
- godly king, son of Joash
Amaziah
- 2 Chron 25:2 - right in the sight of the Lord but not with his whole heart**
Amaziah
- Jerusalem partially destroyed
Amaziah
- third God-approved king
Uzziah (Azariah)
- most successful king in S. kingdom
Uzziah (Azariah)
- last of Godly kings
Jotham
- Isaiah is reinging prophet
- confronts issues
- religious neglect is starting to set in
- whats good on outside doesn’t mean good on inside
Jotham
- decided he has to work with Assyria
Ahaz
- Assyria protector at a price
- send money to them
Ahaz
- builds an alter in jerusalem just like the one in Damascus
Ahaz
- military to Edom Damascus and Philistines
Ahaz
- godly king
- celebrates passover
- destroys bronze serpant idol
Hezekiah
- can’t openly rebel against Assyrians
Hezekiah
- crush revolt of Philistines
Hezekiah
- constructs tunnel to get water in tunnel of Simon
Hezekiah
- Sinacarib — proves he is a strong king in Assyria
- ______ pays for him to leave them alone
- Assyria king attacks Egypt
Hezekiah
- _______ gets sick but God says he will live for 15 more years
- sundial goes back 10 degrees to prove it
- son Manasseh is born
Hezekiah
- 2 Chron. 33
- one of the most ungodly king on the S. kingdom*
Manasseh
- 12 years old when he became king, reigned for 55 yrs
Manasseh
- v. 12 — he repents, God brings him home, and Hezekiah sees God
- removes foreign worship
- restores new worship in the S. kingdom
- miraculous turnaround
Manasseh
- follows father (Manasseh) before repentance
Amom
- son of Amom
Josiah
- second child king — age 8
Josiah
- time of peace for S. kingdom
Josiah
- while cleaning temple they find the Book of the Law***
- they had lost it D:
- 2 Kings 23 — could have read prophecy that someone would destroy the altar***
- 1 Kings 13:2
Josiah
- Jeremiah is prophesying
Josiah
- Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakuk are around
Josiah
- middle son of Josiah chosen to rule first
Jehoahaz
- put on throne by king of Egypt
Jehoiakim
- oldest son of Josiah
Jehoiakim
- he is a terrible king
- paying taxes to Egypt
- uses extra money to build temple
- uses people to build it
- throws scroll into fire to burn it
Jehoiakim
- from this point on, Egyptians will NOT be a world power again**
Jehoiakim
- Jehoiakim’s son, Josiah’s grandson
Jehoiachin
- this king, Ezekial, and others are taken to Babylon
- Daniel is already there
Jehoiachin
- Nebekanezzar puts him on the throne
Zedekiah
- revolts against Babylon
- thinks he can get Egypt to help him
Zedekiah
- July 586 BC
- Neb. takes everyone, kills Zedekiah, destroys temple
- no one left in the line of David to be on the throne of the S. kingdom**
- governor of Babylonian empire
Gedaliah
- from Judah
- assassinate G. w/ conspirators
- want to flee to Egypt
Ishmael
- tells them to stay and God will take care of them
- if they go to Egypt, they will die there
Jeremiah
first group taken to Babylon
- Daniel, friends, and others
second group taken to Babylon
Middle, about 10,00
- Jehoiachin
- Ezekiel
third group taken to Babylon
- All but poorest
- Zedekiah (last of ruling kings)
- city and temple destroyed
- Two prominent people
Daniel and Ezekiel
- first Babylonian ruler
- conquers Egypt
- building cities and templs
- Marduk is their god
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar
- take name of god
- Nebuchadnezzar’s son
- rules for about 2 years
- name in bible is Evil Meridoch
- 2 Kings 25:27-30
- murdered by brother-in-law
Amel-Marduk
- fought one military campaign
- ruled for a bit longer than Amel-Marduk
Neriglissar
- son of Neriglissar
- not significant for bible
- assassinated by next guys
Labashi-Marduk
- he and his group killed Labashi-Marduk
- fought 2 military campaigns
- worship moon-god Sin, not Marduk
- he leaves Belshazear in charge
Nabonidus
- second in command under Nabonidus
- makes Daniel 3rd in command
Belshazear
- ruler of Persian empire before takeover of Babylonian empire
Cambyses I
- consolidate empire
- captives can go home as long as they build their temple to their god as long as they pray for him
- son takes over
Cyrus
- Cyrus’s son
- kills his brother
Cambyses II
- seizes throne and claims he is Cambyses’ brother
- Cambyses thinks his brother came back from the dead so he kills himself
Gaumata
- big army
- establishes some judges
- creates first national postal system
- Hague and Zachariah
Darius I
- king with Ester as queen!
- takes military to Athens
- building and military campaigns
- assassinated by palace guard
Xerxes
- son of Xerxes
- successful for a period of time
- Ezra returns
- Nehemiah returns
- Malachi is written - last of OT books
Artaxerxes I
First Return
Sheshbazzar, Zerubbabel, Jeshua
Second Return
Ezra
Third Return
Nehemiah
Jewish Holliday from Esther
Feast of Purim
- from Macedonia (greece)
- takes over whole Persian empire and more!
- ruling Judah
- build city of Alexandria
- conquered the WORLD!
- didn’t think anyone was as great as him
Alexander the Great
general who ruled in Egypt after Alexander the Great
Ptolemy Lagus
general who ruled in Northern area after Alexander the Great
Seleucus
- making Jews comply with modernization
- sacrifice pig on altar?
- Epiphanes = manifest god
- ca. 167 BC
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
- guerrilla warfare, no army
- they win the war 😮
- oil burns for 8 days
- festival of light — Hanukkah
- Judah is an indépendant nation now
Judas Maccabeeus
- can’t keep peace in the land
- Roman empire is getting bigger and headed their way
- Romans take over
Hasmonian family
- not Jewish
- marries into Jewish Hasmonian family
- appointed to be rule of Jews
- spends $$ to restore temple
Herodian family
building reflect Greek culture
Synagogue
control synagogue
Pharisees
- control temple
- work with Romans to maintain civil order
Sadducees
- thought everyone else was corrupt
- live in wilderness away from world — like monks
- no real political influence
- scrolls
Essenes
- bible is not being written
- not Apocrypha
- style of literature
Apocalyptic
- translate from H to G
- the book the Jewish people used
Septuagint
- to hide
- authors were hidden by false names
- Macabees I and II
- read by Jewish people as a part of their history
- RC church added some of these books to their cannon
Apocrypha
