Isaiah/Jeremiah quiz

Question 1

the king of Judah at the time when Isaiah was a prophet

Answer 1

Ahaz

Question 2

the name or title of an otherwise unidentifiable person in Isaiah’s prophecy; means “God is with us”

Answer 2

Immanuel

Question 3

monarch of the Neo-Assyrian Empire who beseiged Hezekiah’s Jerusalem in 701

Answer 3

Sennacherib

Question 4

monarch of the Neo-Assyrian empire at the time of Isaiah and the Syro-Ephraimite war

Answer 4

Tiglath-Pileser III

Question 5

the Judean prophet who challenged Jeremiah over the issue of the yoke of Babylon

Answer 5

Hananiah

Question 6

a prophet in Judah during the Babylonian crisis; he was persecuted because of his unpopular prophetic statements including a prediction of the fall of Jerusalem

Answer 6

Jeremiah

Question 7

a king of Judah; he restored the temple, resinstituted proper worship, and received God’s help against the Assyrians

Answer 7

Hezekiah

Question 8

king of Judah who reformed Judean religion and died in battle at Megiddo

Answer 8

Josiah

Question 9

second to the last king of Judah

Answer 9

Jehoiakim

Question 10

king of Judah for three months; he was taken captive to Babylon in the first deportation

Answer 10

Jehoiachin

Question 11

the last king of Judah

Answer 11

Zedekiah

Question 12

king of Judah; son of Hezekiah; sheds innocent blood and reestablishes altars to foreigns gods

Answer 12

Manasseh