Old Testament Flashcards
The Bible is a growing _________ of God and his plan of salvation for humanity.
Revaluation
The NT can be considered in the _______ and the ________ that give an account and explanation of God’s work through Jesus Christ, the church and of bringing his creation to completion in eternity.
Historical books
Epistles (books)
Name the first five books of the Bible that make up the Pentateuch.
1) Genesis
2) Exodus
3) Leviticus
4) Numbers
5) Deuteronomy
Who essentially wrote the Pentateuch?
Moses
Name the other two significant scriptures about creation.
Isaiah 4:26-28
Hebrews 11:3
Genesis 1:1
John 1:3
_______ is the act of God whereby he brought forth the visible and invisible universe.
(What verse?)
Without the use of pre-exciting materials and gave the world existence distinct fro him but always dependent on him.
Creation
Colossians 1:16
Adam and Eve were judge for their disobedience but God game them a _______.
Genesis 3:15
Promise of reception
Seth’s firstborn was _______, and then, the people began to upon God.
Genesis 4:26
Enosh
_______, one of the descendants of Enosh, walked so close with God that he was brought to be with him,
Genesis 5:24
Enoch
Noah and his family were saved from the flood because of Noah’s _______ with God.
Right relationship
The Abrahamic Covenant is found in Genesis 12:1-3 and was established as a _______ and _______.
Name the bible verse
Blood covenant
Genesis 15:1-21
The Abrahamic covenant is the foundation for the ________ ________ and the _______ _________.
Name the bible verses.
Palestinian Covenant
Deuteronomy 30:1-10
Davidic Covenant
2 Samuel 7: 12-16
At the burning bush, God chose Moses to deliver his people and revelation of his name _________.
“I AM”
What is the most frequently used name when addressing God, which means the owner and ruler of all things.
Adonai- The Lord
At the time of the tenth plague against Egypt, the _______ was instituted.
Passover
The purposes of the Law are:
1) ____________
2) To reveal the sinfulness of humanity.
3) ____________
4) To preserve the people
1) To reveal Holiness of God.
3) To reveal the need of salvation.
Ten Commandments
1) you shall have no other Gods before me.
2) You shall not make any idols.
3) You shall not misuse the name of the Lord.
4) Remember the sabbath day to keep it Holy..
5) Honor your father and mother
6) You shall not murder.
7) You shall not commit adultery
8) You shall not steal.
9) You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
10) You shall not covet.
The sabbath year occurred once every _____ years and was a _________, especially for the Lord.
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Time of rest.
The ________ ______ _________ ___________was the Jewish celebration that occurred every 50 years and was a time for everything to be restored back to its proper order.
Year of Jubilee
The __________ was the beginning of the Jewish religious yer and is a symbol of Jesus Christ.
Passover
The _____________ _______ _____________ was a celebration that came 50 days after the Passover and celebrated the gathering of the whole harvest.
Festival of Pentecost
The __________ _____ __________ followed 10 days after the Feast of Trumpets and was a day if fasting and atonement for the collective sins of the nation.
Day of atonement
The ______________ _______ _____________ was a celebration that reminded the Israelites of the time they wandered through the wilderness and had no permanent dwelling place.
Festival of Tabernacles
The __________ ___________ was an act of worship as a fellowship with God.
Peace offering
Owes was not allowed to enter into ___________, he went up on MT. Nero where he died at the age of 120.
Canaan
The exodus began 400 years after Joseph’s death and concludes with the Israelites at ________ __________.
Mt. Sinai
_____________ was written during the year that the Israelites camped at Mt. Sinai.
What book?
Leviticus
The full revelation of eh Law, the Priesthood, the Sacred calendar, and the sacrifices are recorded in __________.
What book?
Leviticus
The book of ______ is given that title because it retreats 2 censuses.
Numbers
The first 10 chapters of numbers occur during the year at __________ and the remaining chapters are a record of the _____________ and ____________.
2 of them are events.
Mt. Sinai
Kades- Barnes rebellion and Wilderness Wandering
The book of _______ intends to show that God did fulfill his promise to give the land of Canaan to Abraham’s descendants.
Joshua
What is the theme for the book of Joshua?
Starts with F and C
Faith and Compromise
____________ means “second law,” which was for addresses that Moses gave the Israelites at the end of their wondering.
Deuteronomy
What is the theme for the book of Judges?
Starts with F and C
Failure through compromise
__________ records a time of lack in central leadership and general disorder I Israel.
Judges
Who are the four judges in the book of Judges who made faith I God?
DJ- EG
1) Deborah
2) Gideon
3) Jephthah
4) Enud
__________ delivered God’s people miraculously and then at the end of his life, he made an idol.
Gideon
Who is the central person in the book of Ruth?
Ruth Moabite
What is the theme from the book of Ruth?
God’s grace through Kinsman (redeemer)
The Israelite monarch began in _________
1050 B.C.
The Northern Kingdom lasted until ________ and the Southern Kingdom of Judah lasted until _________.
NK- 722 BC
SK 586 BC
The Israelites demanded a _____________
King
What were the three reasons Israel wanted a king.
1) Samuel was old.
2) *They wanted to be like other nations. *
3) They wanted to prevent military loses.
_________ was able to full all of Israel during his Kingship.
David
The _________ that Solomon built in 7 years used the floor plan of the Tabernacle.
Temple
The book of Psalms can be divided into 2 types of Psalms. What are they?
1) Praise
2) Lament- Quiet/Sorrow
What is the OT book that best illustrates lament?
Key Clue: Prophet Jeremiah wrote it.
Lamentations
What are the two reasons the book of Proverbs endeavors to teach youth about how to achieve a a good life?
1) Decision making
2) Responsible leadership
The winter of ________ has an underlying reverence for God that is deeper than his despair, and he has a faith in God’s control of the world.
Name book- key Clue: Solomon wrote it.
Ecclesiastes
________ is an example of a man who’s life was above reproach to whom trouble came.
Job
The prophetic tradition began with ________.
Deuteronomy 18:15-22
Moses
A common phrase, “ _______ ________ _________ __________.”
Preference the message of God.
“ Thus says the Lord.”
What was the primary passion of the prophets?
Grief
God’s prophets spoke and wrote in _________ form verses.
Prophetic
Who were the four major prophets?
Clue: JEDI
1) Isaiah
2) Jeremiah
3) Ezekiel
4) Daniel
________ solved seeds of division by the way he governed.
Solomon
Solomon taxed the phone very heavily in order to _________ ______ ________, _________ __________, and other buildings in the kingdom.
Build the temple
His palace
The people urged ___________ to give them tax and forced- labor relief.
Rehoboam
(Solomon’s son)
__________, a well-respected administrator in Solomon’s court, became the king of the Northern half of the kingdom.
Jeroboam
What three reasons was the Northern Kingdom destroyed?
1) It’s unfaithfulness to God
2) It’s sin
3) Departure from God’s covenant
The intermixing (Gentile Assyrians) of forgiveness with the people of the Northern Kingdom created the ____________.
Samaritans
_________ name means “Yahweh is God. “Which explains his mission to confront the threat of Baal worship.
Elijah’s
____________ name means “ God saves.” Which describes his mission to announce that God was the Northern Kingdom’s salivation.
Elisha’s
Most of the books of the Minor prophets feature their message, however, the book of __________ tells a story about the prophet, rather that his message.
Jonah
The focus of the book of Jonah is on God’s call for the prophet to go to ________.
Nineveh
The entire book of Jonah can be considered as a _______ _______________of how God deals with his people.
Symbolic representation
____________ means “to carry.” Which illustrates that God carried Amos from the Southern Kingdom to Northern Kingdom.
Amos
Amos gave a crucial warning about God’s judgement which was depicted as not just a slap on the wrist, but a ___________ _____________, devastating the entire kingdom.
Roaring Lion
What two names were used in the book of Amos for Israel’s sins?
1) Social injustice
2) Religious compromise
___________ was the prophet to the last generation of the Northern Kingdom, the Last Messenger of judgement before destruction came.
Husband to Gomer
Hosea
Hosea’s contemporaries were ______________ and ______________.
Clue: AJ
Amos and Jonah
What two tribes of Israel made up the Southern Kingdom?
1) Benjamin
2) Judah
Who were the four kings of Judah?
Clue: JAM Z
1) Ahaz
2) Manasseh
3) Jehoiakim
4) Zedekiah
The six Kings of Judah were:
1) A: 911-870 BC
2) J: j873-848 BC
3) J: 835-796 BC
4) U: 791-739 BC
5) H: 728-686 BC
6) J: 640-609 BC
1) Asa
2) Jehoshaphat
3) Joash
4) Uzziah
5) Hezekiah
6) Josiah
__________ not only destroyed false worship, but he initiated constructive programs such as sending Levites throughout the land to teach the law of Moses. To help the people.
Jehoshaphat: Godly King
Jehoshaphat had one major failure in his reign. _______ _______ _______ ______ _____, Jehoram, to Athalia, the daughter of Jezabel.
The marriage of his son
When _________ was six years old, Jehoida brought him out of hiding and had him crowned king.
Joash
Ahoy promoted _______ worship, even sacrificing one of his sons to Baal.
Baal
_________ was the most wicked king in the history of Judah.
2 Kings 21:1 Father of Hezekiah
Manasseh
_______prophesied to show how God works from one generation to the next to preserve his covenant with the generation.
Isaiah
In the first chapter of Isaiah, God speaks to his people by using _________ _________?
Lawsuit imagery
The book of Isaiah, the _________ _________ is giving his life for the next generation.
Suffering servant
Messiah
What is the theme of the book of Micah?
Judgement
__________ prophesied the downfall of Ninevah which had become a very wicked city that was crue to God’s people.
Nahum
Nahum began his message by giving a revelation of God’s nature. God is ___________ and __________ god against the perpetrators of evil.
Jealous
Avenging
The book of __________ relates the struggle that goes on by. Habakkuk and God, as God gives him a message.
Habakkuk
Zephaniah’s message is related to __________reforms.
Josiah’s
The coming of the _________ _________ __________ __________ was a theme of Zephaniah’s message.
Day of the Lord
The book of Zephaniah emphasized __________ and __________.
Judgement and Mercy
___________ prophesied in the latter part of 600 BC.
Jeremiah
What are the four verbs of judgement in the book of Jeremiah?
DOTP
1) To pluck up
2) To tear down
3) To destroy
4) To overthrow
What are the two verbs of hope in the book of Jeremiah?
1) To build
2) To plant
What does Jeremiah record in Jeremiah Chapters 11-20?
Prayers to God
In Jeremiah 18:1-18, the prophet tells the story of the potter working with clay, which _________ God working in Israel.
Symbolizes
In Jeremiah 25:8-12 the Babylonian Exile was prophesied to be ____________ years.
70
What two reasons did the Babylonian Exile occur against Babylon?
1) Spiritual Idolatry
2) Political Alliance
Ezekiel has been called “__________ ____________ ___________ ___________ __________,” because of his frequent use of imagery and symbolism.
The strangest of the prophets
__________ has been called “________ _________ _________ ________ ________,” because he emphasized the personal nature of true faith.
Hint: E
Ezekiel
What are four of Ezekiel’s greatest visions?
1) The sovereign of God.
2) God’s glory departing from the temple.
3) The valley of dry bones.
4) The new temple and the glory of God returning.
The book of _________ is the shortest book of the prophetic literature.
Hint: O
Obadiah
What is the theme in the book of Daniel?
Hint: S
Sovereignty of God
The foundation of the rebuilding the temple was laid under the leadership of _____________.
Hint: Z
Zerubabel
12 years after Ezra came to Jerusalem, Nehemiah arrived in the city with a mission to ________ ________ ________ that were destroyed during he Babylonian invasion.
Nehemiah 1:3
Rebuild the walls
After rebuilding the wall I Jerusalem, Nehemiah returned to Persia and then returned to Jerusalem and dealt with what three things?
Hint: SST
1) Tithing
2) Reinstitute the Sabbath as a day of rest.
3) Strengthening the families
God’s providential care for his people is the theme of the book _________.
Hint: Woman
Esther
The ___________ of a woman is a unique feature I the book of Easter.
Elevation
What never appears in the book of Esther?
The name of God.
Haggai was called the ____________ _________ __________ _____________.
Prophet of the temple.
Zechariah, like ___________ and __________ was both a prophet and a priest.
Jeremiah and Ezekiel
The book of __________ consists of 8 visions which provide the materials for his message.
Zechariah
What were the 2 comings of the Messiah that were in the prophecies of Zechariah?
1) Suffering servant
2) Conquering King
__________ predicts the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost.
Joel 2:28-32
Acts 2:16-21
Joel
What is the theme of the book of Joel?
The day of the Lord.
_________ served as the Last of the noted Old Testament Prophets.
Malachi
In what eight way did Malachi say humans can rob God?
1) By neglecting his love.
2) By dishonoring his name.
3) By presenting blemished offerings.
4) By practicing idolatry.
5) By insincere worship.
6) By breaking the covenant of marriage.
7) By withholding tithes and offerings.
8) By serving God with carnal motives.
