Perek 16

Question 1

Which Navi came to reprove King Basha?

Answer 1

Yehu ben Chanani

Question 2

Whose ways did Basha copy?

Answer 2

Yeravam

Question 3

Who would eat the dead (relatives of Basha) of the city?

Answer 3

Dogs

Question 4

Who would eat the dead of the fields?

Answer 4

Birds

Question 5

Who reigned after Basha?

Answer 5

His son Elah

Question 6

Who was the servant of Elah?

Answer 6

Zimri

Question 7

What was Zimri’s position?

Answer 7

Officer over half the cavalry.

Question 8

What does it say Elah was doing when he was assassinated?

Answer 8

He was drinking himself drunk.

Question 9

Who killed him?

Answer 9

Zimri

Question 10

Who challenged Zimri’s right to the throne?

Answer 10

Omri, commander of the army

Question 11

How long did Zimri reign for?

Answer 11

7days

Question 12

Where did Zimri go when he saw that the city was captured?

Answer 12

He locked himself in the royal palace.

Question 13

What happened to Zimi?

Answer 13

He set fire to his own palace and died.

Question 14

Who ruled after Zimri?

Answer 14

Half of the kingdom supported Tivni and half supported Omri.

Question 15

How long after the death of Zimri did the people follow one king and who was that king?

Answer 15

5 years, Omri.

Question 16

How long did Omri rule for?

Answer 16

12 years (5 of which he shared the kingdom with Tivni)

Question 17

What zechut did Omri have?

Answer 17

He moved the capital from Tirtzah to Shomron. e had the merit of developing a city in Israel.

Question 18

How does the Navi describe Omri?

Answer 18

He was worse than all the kings before him.

Question 19

Who ruled after Omri?

Answer 19

His son Achav.

Question 20

How long did Achav rule for?

Answer 20

22 years

Question 21

Who did Achav take for a wife?

Answer 21

Izevel the daughter of Etbaal, king of the Phonecians.

Question 22

Which 2 forms of idol worship did Achav and Izevel introduce into the Kingdom of the Yisrael?

Answer 22

Baal and Asheira.

Question 23

Who rebuilt the city of Yericho during Achav’s rule?

Answer 23

Chiel

Question 24

Why had no one rebuilt the city before?

Answer 24

Yehoshua had put a curse on anyone who would rebuild the city. With the first son, he would lay the foundations (ie his child would die) and with the gates, he would bury his youngest.