OTS Final Flashcards
Books of OT
Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Judges Ruth I Samuel II Samuel I Kings IIKings I Chronicles II Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah Esther Job Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi
The Canaanites worshiped the god ___________ which was often represented by a _____________ the strongest animal known to them
Baal
Bull
The trumpets blown by Gidean and his men were called ___________
Shophar
The two most popular deities in the land were ___________ who was the God of rain and harvest, and the goddess _____________ who was often made to resemble the figure of a woman
Baal
Ashteroth
What are the conditions of a Nazarite vow?
Forbidden to cut his hair or shave
No wine or strong drink
Don’t touch any dead thing
___________ was a lifetime Nazarite because his parents had made this promise to God.
Samson
When Samson carried the city gates of Gaza ______ miles
30
Ruth and Boaz married and had a son named Obed. Their grandson’s name was _____________ who was father of King ____________
Jesse
David
Samuel’s parents were _____________ and ____________
Elkanah
Hannah
Samuel’s parents traveled to the tabernacle at Shiloh each year to worship. This time of celebration was called the Feast of ____________
The Passover
Samuel was dedicated to a lifetime of service at the tabernacle at Shiloh under the mentorship of _____________
Eli
The golden candlestick was also known as the __________
Menorah
The ___________ branch of the golden candlestick could only be relit from the altar where the burnt offerings took place.
Center
The most common plague in Bible times was the ___________ plague which was carried by swarms of rats.
Bubonic
God killed many of the people of Beth Shemesh for _________________________
Looking inside the ark
The ark stayed in the house of ____________ until the days of David.
Abinidab
The ____________ were also called the Sea People, because they came from across the Mediterranean Sea.
Philistines
The ingredients for the holy oil recipe were kept secret and known only to _____________
A few priests
According to the textbook Goliath’s armor may have weighed ________ pounds
200
One of the reasons the Philistines were such a formidable enemy to the Israelites is that they alone knew the secret of ___________________
Forging the strong metal
The show bread which was baked every _____________ symbolized that God was ________________ for the nation of Israel
Friday afternoon
The bread of life
Although Saul fell on his own sword it was actually the _____________ who killed him on the slopes of Mount Gilboah
Philistines
A slave’s life was usually miserable, but in __________ a slave could own property and run his own business
Babylon
During the period of the Judges and until David’s time, the city of Jerusalem was called ________
Jebus
The __________ were a mixed Canaanite people.
Jebusites
Bathsheba became David’s ____________ wife.
Eighth
When David learned of his son’s plot to take over the kingdom he left Jerusalem by way of _______________
The mount of olives
To test Abraham’s faith, God asked home sacrifice his only son on mount ________
Moriah
Years later from that same site David bought Araunah’s threshing floor. And Solomon built ___________ on it
The temple
Today a Muslim mosque named __________________________ rests on that same spot
The dome of the rock
David wanted to build the temple but the Lord refused to let him, because David was _______________________
A bloody warrior
King Solomon had ________ and ______concubines
700 wives
300
The kingdom of Israel split dividing the tribes of Judah and Benjamin from ten northern tribes in ________ B.C.
931
When the kingdom divided after Solomon’s death, the ten northern tribes chose ____________ to rule over their tribes.
Jeroboam
The defecting two tribes to the south were named ___________
Judah
When a country was struck with hard times, usually the ______________ were the first to suffer from the effects.
Widows
_________ was probably one of the worst and most evil kings of Israel.
Ahab
The evil King married the wicked ____________ who worshipped Baal and tried to force this God on the rest of the the Israelites.
Jezebel
During Ahab and Elijah’s day, the good King of the Southern Kingdom of Judah was _____________
Jehoshaphat
The Syrian general with the milder form of leprosy was named __________
Naaman
It takes _____ to ______ years for leprosy to heal
10
20
A scribe, who was a professional ___________ might inscribe a message on papyrus or in ____________ with a ___________ used instead of a pen.
Writer
Wet clay
Stylus
In Bible times the basic unit of money was called a ___________
Shekel
A talent was worth about ___________ shekels
3.000
One talent was usually the price of a good ________
OC
The Assyrians populated the Israelite cities with captures foreigners from other lands and called them ____________
Samaritans
East of the Tigris River in modern day Iraq, lie the ruins of ____________
Nineveh
It was the capital of the ________________ empire, which explains why Jonah may have been afraid to go there.
Assyrian
_____________ was a prophet of Judah during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah
Isaiah
The Northern Kingdom of Israel ended as a nation in __________ when the ____________ carried the people into captivity.
722 B.C.
Assyrians
But Judah survived another ________ years until the _______________ captured them in _____________ B.C.
136
Babylonians
586
______________ was the last of Judah’s godly kings
Josiah
The ancient Babylon was a rectangularly shaped city with about ______ miles of double walls
50
The inner core of the walls were ______ feet thick
21
The outer core of the wall which surrounded the city was ______ feet thick
11
Egyptians paid a _________ of their crops to Pharaoh
5th
Prophets
9th century BC Joel 9th century BC Obadiah 8th century BC Amos 8th century BC Hosea 8th century BC Isaiah 8th century BC Micah 7th century BC Nahum 7th century BC Zephaniah 7th century BC Jeremiah 7th century BC Habakkuk 6th century BC Daniel 6th century BC Ezekiel 6th century BC Zephanaih 6th century BC Haggai 5th century BC Malachi
