O.T. EXAM 3 /2 CHRONICLES Flashcards
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the Reign of king Solomon is found in?
2 Chronicles 1-9
what was Solomon’s greatness?
his real greatness lay in his humility before God.
=his fruits were his wealth and political influence.
what was Solomon’s primary service to the nation?
Solomon’s primary service to the nation was the erection of the temple
what was Solomon’s failure?
Solomon’s failure was that he ceased to recognize God’s sovereign rule over him and his kingdom, the very thing the temple he built promoted.
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what were the five main religious revivals? that usually started when attention was given to the temple or the word?
=Asa- restored the altar
=Jehoshaphat- sent messengers throughout the land to read the word of God to the people.
=Joash-renovated the temple
=Hezekiah- reopened it and revitalized worship in it.
=Josiah- repaired the temple.
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what are the messages of the books?
1 chronicles teaches that it was necessary that the people recognize God in everything.
2 Chronicles teaches that if that recognition is only formal and ceremonial, it is useless and impotent.
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the similarities between church & temple?
solomon’s temple:
1=solomon’s temple was a physical & material temple
2=The presence of God filled Solomon’s temple at its beginning.
3=Solomon’s temple was the center of spiritual life in Israel.
5=Solomon’s temple reminded his people of his heavenly rule over them and with them
6=Solomon’s temple degenerated into symbolism and form.
similarities between church & temple:
1=The Church is a spiritual temple
2=The Holy Spirit filled the church at its beginning
3=The church is to be the center of spiritual life in the world.
4=The Church is to remind all people of his rule over them and his presence with them.
5=At various times and places. the church has been reduced to form and symbolism.
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what’s the consequence of Israel’s failing to bring the light to the world?
As Israel failed to bring the light of God’s revelation to the world. so the church can fail to do so as well if we are content merely to play church.
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what was Solomon’s major accomplishment from the writer’s point of view?
The building of the temple was Solomon’s major accomplishment from the writer’s point of view.
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what chapter talks of the building of the temple
=what is the site of the temple?
chapter (2:1-5:1)
=the site of the temple is Mount Moriah, the very spot where Abraham was called to sacrifice his son Isaac.
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what did the golden age do for the jews?
the golden age reign of Solomon helped the jews of the restoration period know what they needed to do (repent and be faithful), and to what they could look forward.
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what does 2 Chronicle 7:14 say?
it is a key verse for the purpose of the chronicler.
“if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
1=what did Saul’s death became a pattern of?
2=what did 2 chronicles became a pattern of?
1=Saul’s life and death became the pattern of the EXILE, repeated in Israel’s history.
2= But 2 Chronicles 7:14 is the pattern for restoration. The chronicle presented these two models (restoration and exile), and called his readers to assess their own situation in the light of these archetypes, or patterns.
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where did the northern kingdom lay on the author’s purpose?q
the history of the northern kingdom lay outside the scope of the author’s purpose.
For the rest of the book he was interested in tracing the kings of the southern kingdom of Judah from Rehoboam to the Babylonian exile.
= the kingdom of Judah 2 Chronicles 10-36.
=Rehoboam son of Solomon.
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during what period was chronicles written?
in the restoration period after the exile.
(during this period they could not have a king because they were a province of the Persian Empire.
when was the second temple built, and what was the significance of it?
during the restoration period, but the people had already rebuilt the 2nd temple (5:9). The restoration community’s hope of the fulfillment of the promise God made to David centered on the temple. As long as they had permission to rebuild the temple, there was hope that someday a successor to David might rule over them again. the temple was in that sense the protector of the promise to David, both in Athaliah’s day and in the Chronicler’s day.
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what did the peoples response to the temple reflected?
In Chronicles, to honor the temple was to honor God. To neglect the temple was to neglect God. (king Joash (24).
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what was king Uzziah’s part of?
king Uzziah (26), reign was the third in a “royal trilogy” of kings who began well but ended poorly; Joash, Amaziah, and Uzziah. their histories show the importance of personal faithfulness to God “to the very end.”
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what was building projects a signed of?
Building projects and political success were signs of divine blessing for the chronicles.
=King Jotham (27)
a good king”he ordered his ways before the Lord his God” (6).
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what was the reason for Israel’s exile?
According to the Chronicler, the reason for Israel’s exile was the hardness of heart that King Ahaz demonstrated.
(God chastened king Ahaz because he never repented).
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To what king did the chronicler give the third most space?
The Chronicler gave more space to Hezekiah’s reign than to any others except David and Solomon.
what did king Hezekiah do?
1= reunified Israel
2=Hezekiah is portrayed as a second David and Solomon
3= Hezekiah also exemplifies the operation of the Chronicler’s retribution theology.
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what did king Hezikiah reflect?
king hezekiah (29-32)
Not since Solomon was there a king like Hezikiah who reflected the heart of David.
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king Manasseh (33)
was an evil Judean king who became good.
what did his released showed the Israel?
The assyrians captured Manasseh but released him after he repented(v.10-11). his eperience would have encouraged the returned exiles who read Chronicles. If God showed mercy to evil Manasseh and reestablished him in the land, he could do the same for them (7:14)
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what characterized the hearts of the Davidic kings?
It was the same hardness of heart characterized by Pharaoh under Moses which now characterized the Davidic kings.
=God humbled Zedekiah as he had humbled that Phaaoh
=in Zedekiah’s reign, Judah bottome out spiritually. he refused to humble himself before God.
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what did the Edict of Cyrus become an evidence of?
The edict of Cyrus for the rebuilding of the temple (36:22-23), was first hand evidence that God had not annulled His covenants with Israel nor the Levitical system revealed at Sinai.
