Number 12 Flashcards
What is the subtitle of lamentations?
The Wailing Wall of the Bible- Jerusalem’s funeral
It is a mute reminder that sin, in spite of all its allurement and excitement carries with it heavyweights of sorrow, grief, misery, bareness, and pain. It is the other side of the eat, drink and be merry coin.
The lamentations of Jeremiah
The prostitution of Israel
Hosea
The transgression of Israel
Micah
The salvation of Israel
Isaiah
This weeping prophet(Jeremiah) is a picture of another weeping prophet who would also weep over the same city some six centuries later
Jesus Christ
The siege of Jerusalem lasted from 588 to 586 BC the city fell on July 19 and the city and Temple were burned on August 15
Lamentations was written to the ______ in Babylon to show that as God had faithfully delivered the covenant curses on Israel for their sin, even so he would faithfully fulfill his promises of restoration for their repentance
Captives
Jerusalem was destroyed on what date
586 BC
Tradition says Jeremiah sat weeping outside Jerusalem’s north wall as he wrote this book of lamentations under the knoll called ______
Golgotha
The Book of lamentations is composed of _____elegies, dirges, or ______songs, all lamenting, the tragic destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians.
5, funeral
The literary form of Lamentations is _____. A different Hebrew letter begins each of the._____verses in chapters 1,2 and 4, using each of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet successive.
Acrostic - 22
