Old Testament Flashcards
The New Testament 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
The Bible is a growing ___________
Of God and His plan of Salvation for humanity.
Revelation
The Pentateuch is composed of which first five books of the Bible?
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy
The Pentateuch was written essentially by__________.
Moses
Some of the significant scriptures about creation are ________, Isaiah 40:26-28, __________, and Hebrews 11:3
Genesis 1:1
John 1:3
__________ is the act of God whereby he brought forth the visible and invisible universe (____________) without the use of pre existing materials and gave the world an existence distinct from Him but always depended on Him.
Creation
Colossians 1:16
Adam and Eve were judged for their disobedience, but God gave them a ______________ of ___________.
Promise of redemption
Genesis 3:15
Seth’s firstborn was ___________ and then the people began to call upon God. (Genesis 4:26)
Enosh
_______, one of those descendants of Enosh, walked so close with God that 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 _______ ____________. (Genesis 15:1-21
Blood covenant
The Abrahamic covenant is the foundation for the __________
_________ (Deuteronomy 30: 1-10) and the ______________.
(2Samuel 7:12-16)
Palestinian Covenant
Davidic Covenant
At a burning bush, God chose Moses to deliver his people and revealed the revelation of His name:
I AM
_______-_______, which means the owner and ruler of all things! is the most frequently used name when addressing God.
Adonai– The Lord
At the time of the tenth plague against Egypt, the ____________ was instituted.
Passover
The purposes of the law are:
- to reveal the sinfulness of the human nature
- to preserve the people.
- To reveal the holiness of God
3. To reveal the need for salvation
The Ten Commandments are…
- You shall have no other gods before me.
- ___________________________________
- You shall not misuse the name of The Lord.
- _____________________________________
- Honor your father and mother.
- You shall not murder
- _____________________________________
- You shall not steal.
- _____________________________________
- You shall not covet.
- You shall not make any idols;
- Remember the Sabboth Day to keep it holy;
- You shall not commit adultery;
You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
The Sabboth year occurred once every_______ years and was a __________, especially for the land.
Seven
Time of rest
The ____________ was a Jewish celebration that occurred every 50 years and was a time for everything to be restored back to its proper order.
Year of Julibee
The _________ was the beginning of the Jewish religious year 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 ten days after the Feast of Trumpets and was a day of 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 offering to God.
Peace offering
Moses was not allowed to enter into _________; he went up on Mt. Nebo 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.
Leviticus
The full revelation of the law, the priesthood, the sacred calendar, and the sacrifices are recorded in _______________.
Leviticus
The first ten chapters of Numbers occur during the year at _______________, and the remaining chapters are a record of the __________ and ____________.
Mt. Sinai
Kadesh -Barnea rebellion
Wilderness wanderings
The book of _____________is given that title because it records two censuses.
Numbers
_____ means second law which was four addresses that Moses gave to the Israelites at the end of their wanderings.
Deuteronomy
The theme for the book of Joshua is __________.
Faith and compromise
The book of __________ intends to show that God did fulfill His promise to give the land of Canaan to Abraham’s descendants.
Joshua
__________ is the theme for the book of Judges.
Failure through compromise.
Four of the judges in the book of Judges who had faith in God were_____________, __________, ___________, __________.
Deborah
Gideon
Jephthah
Ehud
____________ delivered God’s people miraculously and then at the end of his life, he made an idol.
Gideon
Ruth, a ___________ is a central person in the book of Ruth.
Moabite
God’s grace through a _________ _________, is the theme in the book of Ruth.
Kinsman-Redeemer
The Israelite monarchy begin in __________.
1050 BC
The northern kingdom lasted until _______ and the southern kingdom of Judah lasted until ___________.
722 BC
586 BC
The Israelites demanded a _________.
King
Israel had these reasons for wanting a king:
- Samuel was old
- __________________________________
- They wanted to prevent military loss.
They wanted to be like other nations
___________ was able to rule all if Israelduring the kingship.
David
The _________ that Soloman built in seven years used the floor plan of the tabernacle.
Temple
The book of Psalms can be divided into two types of Psalms:
Praise
Lament
The Old Testament book that best illustrates lament is the book of ___________.
Lamentations
The book of Proverbs endeavors to teach youth about how to achieve a good life for :
- Decision making
2. Responsible Leadership
The writer 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.
Ecclesiastes
________ is an example of a man whose life was above reproach to whom trouble came.
Job
The prophetic tradition began with ________. Deuteronomy 18:15-22
Moses
A comman phrase ______ ______ _____ ______ prefaces the messages of God.
Thus says The Lord
God’s prophets spoke and wrote in ______ form– in verse.
Poetic
The primary passion of the prophets was _______.
Grief
The major prophets were:
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Daniel
_________ sowed seeds of division by the way he governed.
Solomon
Solomon taxed the people very heavily in order to ________, _________, _________________ and other buildings in the Kingdom.
Build the temple
His palace
The people urged_________ to give them tax and labor and forced labor relief.
Rehoboam
_________ A well represented admintrator in Solomon’s court, became the king of the northern half of the Kingdom
Jeroboam
The northern kingdom was destroyed because of:
IRS departure from God covenant.
1, It’s unfaithfulness to God
2, it’s sin
The intermixing of foreigners 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 salvation.
Elisha’s
Most of the books of the Minor Prophets feature their messages; however, the Book of ________tells a story about the prophet, rather than his message.
Jonah
The focus of the book of Jonah is on Gods call for the prophet to go to ________.
Nineveh
The entire book of Jonah can be consedered 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 the Northern kingdom.
Amos
Amos gave a crucial warning about Gods judgement which was depicted as not just a slap on the wrist but as a ________ ________ devastating the entire kingdom.
Roaring Lion
In the book of Amos, Israel’s sins were ______ ______ ______ ______.
Social injustice
Religious compromise
Hosea’s contemporaries were _______ and ______.
Amos
Jonah
______ was the prophet to the last generation of the northern kingdom, the last messenger of judgement before destruction came.
Hosea
The Southern kingdom was comprised of two tribes of Israel _______ _______.
Benjamin
Judah
The six godly kings of Judah were one Asa (911-870 B.C.) _________ (2) ________873-848 B.C.), 3)Joash (835-796 B.C)
(4) ___________(791-739 B.C. (5) Hezekiah (728-686 BC) and (6) _____________ (640-609 B.C.)
Jehoshaphat
Uzziah
Josiah
Four wicked kings of Judah (1) Ahaz (748-714 B.C.), (2) __________
(697-642 B.C.) Jehoiakim (609-597 BC.) and __________(597-586 B.C.)
Mannasseh
Zedekiah
________ 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
Jehoshaphat had one major failure in his resign _________, Jehoram to Athalia, the daughter of Jezebel.
The marriage of his son.
When ______ was six years old, Jehoida brought him out of hiding and had him crowned King.
Joash
Ahaz promoted ________ worship even sacrificing one of his sons to Baal.
Baal
_______ was the most wicked King in the history of Judah.
Manasseh
_______ prophesied to show how God works from one generation to the next generation to the next to preserve His covenant with the generations.
Isaiah
In the first chapters of Isaiah, god speaks to his people by using
_________.
Lawsuit imagery
In the book of Isaiah, the _________ is giving His life for the next generation.
Suffering Servant (Messiah)
The theme so the BooK of Micah is ________.
Judgment
__________ prophesied the downfall of Nineveh, which had become a very wicked city that was cruel to God’s people.
Nahum
Nahum began his message by giving a revelation of God’s nature—-God is a ________ and _______ God against the perpetrators of evil.
Jealous
Avenging
The book of ______ relates the struggle that goes on between Habakkuk and God, as God gives him a message.
Habakkuk
Zephaniah’s message is related to ______ reforms.
Josiah’s
The coming of the ____ __ ____ _____ was the theme of Zephaniah’s message.
The day of The Lord
The book of Zephaniah emphasized ______ and _______.
Judgement
Mercy
______ prophesied in the later part of 600 BC.
Jeremiah
The four verbs of judgement in the book of Jeremiah were
1) _______, (2) to tear down, 3). ____ _____, and to (4) to overthrow.
To pluck up
To destroy
The two verbs of hope in the book of Jeremiah were (1) ________, and (2) ___________.
To build
To plant
In chapters 11-20, the the book of Jeremiah records Jeremiah’s ________ to God.
Prayers
In Jeremiah 18:1-18, the prophet tells the story of the potter working on the clay, which _______God working in Israel.
Symbolizes
In Jeremiah 25:8-12, the Babylonian Exile was prophesied to be ____ years.
70
The Babylonian Exile occurred because of ________ _______ and a _______ ________ against Babylon.
Spiritual idolatry
Political Alliance
Ezekiel has been called “________” because of his frequent use of imagery and symbolism.
The strangest of the prophets
________ has been called the “ prophet of personal responsibility,” because he stressed the personal nature of true faith. (Ezekiel 18:4)
Ezekiel
The book of Ezekiel records four of Ezekiel’s great visions; (1) the sovereign God (1-3) (2) _________, (3)_________, (37;1-10) , and (4) the new temple and the glory of God returning (40-48)
God’s glory departing from the temple (8-11)
The valley of dry bones
The book of _________ is the shortest book of the prophetic literature.
Obadiah
The _________ is the theme in the book of Daniel.
Sovereignty of God
The foundation of the rebuilding of the temple was laid under leadership of _________.
Zerubbabel
Twelve years after Ezra came to Jerusalem, Nehemiah arrived in the city with a mission to _________ _________ _________ that were destroyed during the Babylonian invasion (Nehemiah 1:3).
Rebuild the walls
After rebuilding the walls in Jerusalem, Nehemiah return ended to Persia, and then returned to Jerusalem and dealt with (1) tithing (13:10-14), (2) reinstating the Sabbath as a day of rest, (13:15-22,) and (3) ________________.
Strengthening the families (13:23-25)
God’s providential care for his people is the theme of the book of _________.
Esther
The ______ of a woman is a unique feature in the book of Esther.
Elevation
The ___________ never appears in the book of Esther.
Name of God
Haggai was called the “___________”.
Prophet of the temple
Zechariah, like ________and_________, was both a prophet and a priest.
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
The book of ________ consists of eight visions which provide the materials for his messages.
Zechariah
In his prophecies, Zechariah set fourth two comings of the messiah -first as __________ (9-11) in second as the _________ (12-14)
Suffering servant
Conquering king
_________ was predicted the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. (Joel 3:17-21);- Acts 2:16-2,.
Joel
The theme of the book of Joel is the _________.
Day of The Lord
______ served as the last of the noted Old Testament prophets.
Malachi
Malachi said humans can rob got in 8 areas.
(1) by neglecting his love.
(2) By _________his name. (1:60)
(3) By presenting blemished offerings (1:7, 8, 13, 14)
(4) By practicing idolatry (2:10-12)
(5) By __________ worship.(2:13)
(6) By breaking the covenant of marriage (3:14-16)
(7) By ________ tithes and offerings (3:8-10)
(8) By serving God with carnal motives (3:14, 15)
2) Dishonoring
(5) insincere
(7) withholding
