History of Israel: K-L

Question 1

King Hezekiah

Answer 1

2 Kings 18
Son of Ahaz
Righteous, reformer
Sought to keep Passover

Question 2

Sennacherib’s Invasion

Answer 2

2 Kings 18
Hezekiah told his people not to fear
Sennacherib sends the Rabshakeh

2 Kings 19
Hezekiah spreads Sennacherib’s letter before the Lord
God’s angel slays 185 000

Question 3

Hezekiah’s illness

Answer 3

2 Kings 20
Told to prepare for death, but prays for mercy
God grants him 15 years
Fails to guard the treasures of Israel against Assyria

Question 4

King Manasseh

Answer 4

2 Kings 21
Son of Hezekiah
spent many of his years undoing Hezekiah’s reforms
Sacrificed his sons in Ben-Hinnom
Because he spilled so much innocent blood, the Lord decreed Jerusalem’s destruction
Eventually he repented

Question 5

King Amon

Answer 5

2 Kings 21
Son of Manasseh
Assassinated by his servants

Question 6

King Josiah

Answer 6

2 Kings 22
Son of Amon
Reformer, purged idolatry
Removed altar at Bethel as prophesied in 1 Kings 13
Found book of the Law

Question 7

Josiah’s Rashness

Answer 7

2 Kings 23
Assyria collapses after death of Ashurbanipal
Pharaoh Neco marches through Palestine to Carchemish to aid Assyria against Babylon
Josiah intercepts Neco and died in Jerusalem

Question 8

King Jehoahaz

Answer 8

2 Kings 23
Son of Josiah
Younger brother of Jehoiakim
Deposed by Neco

Question 9

King Jehoiakim

Answer 9

2 Kings 23
Son of Josiah
Made king by Neco
changed his name from Eliakim to Jehoiakim

Question 10

Nebuchadnezzar takes exiles

Answer 10

Dan 1:1
Pushes into the Philistine plain and captures Daniel and his friends (first deportation)

Question 11

Jehoiakim’s rebellion

Answer 11

2 Kings 23
Jehoiakim rebels after three years of reign
Nebuchadnezzar returned, captured Jehoiakim, and he died (second deportation).

Question 12

King Jehoiachin (Jeconiah, Coniah)

Answer 12

2 Kings 24
Jehoiakim’s son
Nebuchadnezzar’s third deportation took him and 10 000

Question 13

King Zedekiah

Answer 13

2 Kings 24
Son of Josiah
Brother of Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim
Weak king, vascillating
Encouraged by God’s prophet to cooperate with Nebuchadnezzar. He refuses.

Question 14

Prophet Jeremiah

Answer 14

Prophesied under Josiah, Jehoiakim, Zedekiah

Question 15

Edict of Cyrus

Answer 15

Ezra 1

Question 16

Exiles Return

Answer 16

Ezra 2

Question 17

Temple reconstruction begins

Answer 17

Ezra 3

Question 18

Temple reconstruction halts

Answer 18

Ezra 4

Question 19

Temple reconstruction resumes

Answer 19

Ezra 5

Question 20

Temple reconstruction completed

Answer 20

Ezra 6

Question 21

Ezra commissioned

Answer 21

Ezra 7

Question 22

Ezra’s journey to Israel

Answer 22

Ezra 8

Question 23

Ezra confesses the people’s sins

Answer 23

Ezra 9

Question 24

The people repent under Ezra

Answer 24

Ezra 10

Question 25

Nehemiah prays to God for king’s favor

Answer 25

Nehemiah 1

Question 26

Nehemiah travels to Jerusalem

Answer 26

Nehemiah 2

Question 27

Jerusalem cooperates with each other to rebuild wall

Answer 27

Nehemiah 3

Question 28

Opposition to the wall’s reconstruction

Answer 28

Nehemiah 4

Question 29

Rich are rebuked for exploiting the poor during wall’s reconstruction

Answer 29

Nehemiah 5

Question 30

Attempts on Nehemiah’s life

Answer 30

Nehemiah 6

Question 31

Jerusalem resettled

Answer 31

Nehemiah 7

Question 32

Ezra reads the law

Answer 32

Nehemiah 8

Question 33

Levites confess the history of Israel’s sinfulness

Answer 33

Nehemiah 9

Question 34

ISraelites covenant to keep the whole law and forswear intermarriage

Answer 34

Nehemiah 10

Question 35

Plan to repopulate Jerusalem

Answer 35

Nehemiah 11

Question 36

Dedication of Jerusalem’s wall

Answer 36

Nehemiah 12

Question 37

Nehemiah called away, returns to see deformation

Answer 37

Nehemiah 13