Lesson 12

Question 1

What are the five poetic books of the bible?

Answer 1

Job
Psalms
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes 
Song of Solomon

Question 2

2. What is the purpose of Ecclesiastes?

Answer 2

The purpose of the book is so that you would ask the deeper question.

Question 3

3. What is the positive conclusion of Ecclesiastes?

Answer 3

Fear God and keep His commandments.

Question 4

4. What does the Song of Solomon celebrate and demonstrate?

Answer 4

Prue Song of Solomon celebrates sexual love and marriage, and demonstrates that this is part of God’s plan.

Question 5

5. Who wrote the earliest psalm?

Answer 5

Moses

Question 6

6. Fill in the appropriate dates:
   a. ____________ The United Monarchy divided into the Northern kingdom and southern kingdom
   b. ____________ The Assyrians took the Northern tribes into captivity
   c. ____________ The Babylonians destroyed the temple and took the southern tribes captive ( period of Exile)
   d. ____________ The Persian King, Cyrus, allows the Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their Temple.

Answer 6

931 B.C
722 B.C
586 B.C
536 B.C

Question 7

7. What do imprecatory Psalms reveal?

Answer 7

Emotions of the Psalmist.

Question 8

8. The 150-psalm collection was a celebratory way in which the people of God could do what?

Answer 8

Express their emotions, their needs, and their hopes to God.