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Which prophet was active during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah?

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Isaiah 1:1

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Which prophet proclaimed an oracle describing Israel as a vineyard that produced “bloodshed” instead of “justice” and a “cry” rather than “righteousness”?

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Isaiah 5:1-7

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Isaiah’s vision of “the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty … and the hem of his robe filled the temple” occurred in the year of which king’s death?

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Uzziah

Isaiah 6:1

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In which book does this quotation appear: “I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I; send me’”?

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Isaiah 6:8

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In response to what crisis did Isaiah say, “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel”?

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The threat of invasion by the kings of Ephraim and Aram

Isaiah7

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To which king did Isaiah say, “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel”?

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Ahaz

Isaiah 7:10-14

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To what child do the following words refer: “For before the child knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose two kings you are in dread will be deserted”?

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Immanuel

Isaiah 7:16

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What was the name God told Isaiah to call his son as a sign that “the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria”?

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Maher-shalal-hash-baz

Isaiah 8:3-4

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From which prophetic book is the following quotation taken: “A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. “

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Isaiah 11:1-2

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From which prophetic book is the following quotation taken: “The wolf shall live with the lamb, the lepoard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.”

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Isaiah 11:6

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Which king consulted Isaiah when Jerusalem was under siege by the Assyrian army and the Assyrian leader tried to convince the people of Judah to surrender?

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Hezekiah

Isaiah 37:1-13

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In the book of Isaiah, what action are the people called to do in response to the words of comfort that Jerusalem “has served her term, that her penalty is paid, that she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins”?

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“In the wilderness, prepare the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”

Isaiah 40:1-5

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Where is Israel referred to repeatedly as the servant of the Lord?

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Isaiah 40 - 55

Isaiah 41:8; 43:10; 44:1- 2,21; 49:3

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Complete this passage: “Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old…”

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“…I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?”

Isaiah 43:18-19

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In Isaiah 45, who is called the anointed one of the Lord?

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Cyrus

Isaiah 45:1

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In Isaiah 55, the prophet calls the people to the participate in the blessings of restoration from exile with what words?

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“Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.”

Isaiah 55:1

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In Isaiah 56, what does the Lord promise “the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, who choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant”?

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“A monument and a name better than sons or daughters”

Isaiah 56:4

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The words “The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners” come from what book?

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Isaiah 61:1

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According to Isaiah 61:1, what has God done to prepare the prophet to be “sent to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God”?

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“anointed” him by placing “the spirit of the Lord GOD” upon him
Isaiah 61:1-2

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To which prophet did the word of the LORD come in the days of King Josiah until the captivity of Jerusalem?

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Jeremiah 1:2-3

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Which prophet was commissioned “to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant”?

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Jeremiah 1:10

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God’s call of the prophet Jeremiah included which of the following statements:

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“Now I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

Jeremiah 1:9-10

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In his sermon at the gate of the temple, Jeremiah says that the LORD will dwell in the temple if the people obey the commandments and stop oppressing the

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alien, orphan, and widow.

Jeremiah 7:1-10

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Which of the following are the “deceptive words” that Jeremiah quotes in his condemnation of the people of Judah as he stands in the gate to the LORD’s house?

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“This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD . . . We are safe!”

Jeremiah 7:1-10

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In which prophetic book is the following quotation found: “O that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night for the slain of my poor people!”?

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Jeremiah 9:1

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Which prophet was sent to a potter’s house, where “the word of the LORD came to [him]: Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, just as this potter has done? … Just like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand”?

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Jeremiah 18:1-6

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Which prophet complained that God enticed him, overpowered him, and made him a laughingstock all day long?

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Jeremiah 20:7

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Which prophet counseled King Zedekiah: “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live”?

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Jeremiah 27:12

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Which prophet wrote a letter to the Judean exiles in Babylon urging them to “seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare”?

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Jeremiah 29:1-9

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30
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God’s promise of a “new covenant” that will “put my law within them” and “write it on their hearts” is found in which book?

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Jeremiah 31:31-33

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I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people is in found in which of the following books?

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Jeremiah 31:33

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Which prophet “bought the field at Anathoth” and preserved the deed as a sign that “Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land”?

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Jeremiah 32:9, 15

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33
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Which prophet dictated his message to a scribe who read the prophet’s words in the house of the LORD?

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Jeremiah 36:1-19

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Which prophet was imprisoned during the Babylonian invasion of Judah in a cistern that had been made a prison on a charge that he was “deserting to the Chaldeans”?

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Jeremiah 37:11-16

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35
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Which prophet prophesied in Egypt?

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Jeremiah 43:7-8

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36
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Whose voice is prominent in the book of Lamentations?

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Zion’s

Lamentations 1

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According to Lamentations, what does Zion have no longer?

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Comforters

Lamentations 1:2, 9,16,17, 21

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A central theme of which book is expressed in the verse, “Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her”?

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Lamentations

Lamentations 1:17

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Which book ends with the words, “…unless you have utterly rejected us, and are angry with us beyond measure”?

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Lamentations 5:22

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40
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Which prophet does God repeatedly address as “mortal”?

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Ezekiel 1-48

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41
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Which prophetic book opens with the prophet seeing “visions of God” as he “was among the exiles by the river Chebar”?

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Ezekiel 1:1

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Which prophet had a vision in which he ate a scroll containing “words of lamentation and mourning and woe” which nevertheless tasted “as sweet as honey “?

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Ezekiel 2:10; 3:3

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43
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To which prophet did God say, “O mortal, take a brick and set it before you. On it portray a city, Jerusalem; and put siegeworks against it”?

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Ezekiel 4:1-2a

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44
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What action did God command Ezekiel to perform in the sight of the exiles to illustrate the extent of the famine the inhabitants of Jerusalem would endure during the seige of the city?

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preparing and eating barley- cakes that he had baked over burning dung
Ezekiel 4:9-17

45
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Which prophet recounts being lifted “by a lock of my head; and the spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem”?

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Ezekiel 8:3

46
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From which prophetic book is the following quotation taken: “I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. Because you pushed with flank and shoulder, and butted at all the weak animals with your horns until you scattered them far and wide”?

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Ezekiel 34:20-22

47
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Complete this prophetic promise: “A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you…”

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“and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”

Ezekiel 36:26

48
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Which prophet was “brought … out by the spirit of the LORD and set … down in the middle of a valley … full of bones”?

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Ezekiel 37:1

49
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Ezekiel 40 - 48 presents a vision of

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a new temple in the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 40:1 - 48:35

50
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Which prophet has a vision of the glory of the God of Israel returning to the Temple?

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Ezekiel 43:1-5

51
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Along with Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, who was the Israelite “of the royal family and of the nobility” who refused the “daily portion of the royal rations of food and wine” provided for them as they were being trained for service to King Nebuchadnezzar?

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Daniel 1:1-16

52
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Who interpreted a vision of a statue with feet made of iron and clay?

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Daniel 2:27-28, 33, 36

53
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Daniel’s companions, Shadrach, Mesach, and Abednego, were sentenced to the fiery furnace by King Nebuchadnezzar. What was their offense?

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They refused to fall down and worship a golden statue of the king.
Daniel 3:8-18

54
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The story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego being delivered by God from a “furnace of blazing fire” is found in the book of

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Daniel 3:8-30

55
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According to Daniel’s interpretation of the inscription “MENE, MENE, TEKEL, and PARSIN” that appeared on the wall of King Belshazzar’s palace,

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the Babylonian kingdom would be divided and given to the Medes and the Persians.
Daniel 5:24-28

56
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As a result of a conspiracy by his rivals, Daniel was condemned to spend a night in a den of lions by which king?

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Darius

Daniel 6

57
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Who has a vision of “four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea, and four great beasts [that] came up out of the sea”?

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Daniel 7:2-3

58
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Who related a vision involving seventy weeks and an “abomination that desolates”?

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Daniel 9:24-27

59
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“Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt” is found in which book?

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Daniel 12:2

60
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Which prophet’s call begins by God saying to him, “Go, take for yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD”?

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Hosea 1:2

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To which prophet did the LORD say, “Go, take for yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD.”

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Hosea 1:2

62
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Which of the following was NOT one of the names Hosea was directed to give to his children?

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Ephraim

Hosea 1:2-9

63
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From which prophetic book is the following quotation taken: “Plead with your mother, plead - for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband - that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts, or I will strip her naked and expose her as in the day she was born”?

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Hosea 2:2-3

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In the writings of which prophet does God declare, “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son”?

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Hosea 11:1

65
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Which prophetic book contains God’s declaration, “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son”?

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Hosea 11:1

66
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In the oracles of which prophet does God promise, “I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent against you”?

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Joel 2:25

67
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Which prophet spoke the words of promise quoted in Acts 2, “I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh”?

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Joel 2:28

68
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Through which prophet does God promise, “I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions”?

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Joel 2:28

69
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Which prophet begins a series of judgments from the LORD by saying, “For three transgressions of” people in a particular place, “and for four, I will not revoke the punishment”?

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Amos 1:1-2:8

70
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Which prophet prophesied “concerning Israel in the days of king Uzziah of Judah and in the days of King Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel, two years before the earthquake”?

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Amos 1:1

71
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Which prophet condemns Israel because “they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals–they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and push the afflicted out of the way”?

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Amos 2:6-7

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Which prophetic book condemns Israel with the words: “I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies . . . But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream”?

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Amos 5:21-24

73
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In which book does this appear? “Why do you want the day of the LORD? It is darkness, not light.”

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Amos 5:18

74
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Which prophet had visions of a plumb line and summer fruit?

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Amos 7:7-9; 8:1-3

75
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Which prophet responded to king Amaziah’s command that he leave Israel by saying, “I am no prophet, nor a prophet’s son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees, and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel’”?

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Amos 7:12-14

76
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Which prophet declared, “Thus says the Lord: ‘For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke punishment; because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals…”?

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Amos 8:4-6

77
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Which prophetic book is directed entirely against Edom?

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Obadiah

78
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In “the vision of Obadiah,” the people of Edom are identified with which mountain?

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Mount Esau

Obadiah 8-9, 19

79
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Which prophet is told to “Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before me”?

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Jonah 1:2

80
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When Jonah was thrown overboard by the crew while sailing to Tarshish, what did God provide to rescue him?

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a great fish

Jonah 1:17

81
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In the book of Jonah, who expresses a possibility of hope by saying, “Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.”

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the king of Nineveh

Jonah 3:6-9

82
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Why did Jonah get angry?

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Because God spared Nineveh

Jonah 4:1-2

83
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When the LORD relents from punishing Nineveh, Jonah is so angry he

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asks the LORD to take his life.

Jonah 4:1-4

84
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Which prophet justified his behavior by saying, “I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and ready to relent from punishing”?

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Jonah 4:2

85
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Which prophetic book ends abruptly with God expressing concern for a great many animals?

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Jonah 4:11

86
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Which book contains the following: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks”?

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Micah 4:3

87
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Isaiah’s promise of a time when “they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks” is also found in the oracles of what other prophet?

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Micah 4:3

88
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Which prophetic book contains the following oracle: “But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule Israel”?

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Micah 5:2

89
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All of the following are quotations from the Book of Isaiah EXCEPT

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“But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule Israel.”

Micah 5:2

90
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Which prophet issued a call to “do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God”?

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Micah 6:8

91
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Aside from Jonah, which other prophet’s oracles are related only to Nineveh?

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Nahum 1:1

92
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Nahum encourages Judah to celebrate festivals because

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the LORD has condemned Nineveh.

Nahum 1:1, 15; 3:7

93
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About what city was the prophet Nahum speaking when he said, “I will let nations look on your nakedness and kingdoms on your shame. I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a spectacle”?

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Nineveh

Nahum 1:1; 3:5-6

94
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Which prophet challenged God’s use of empires to bring judgment against Judah, saying, “So the law becomes slack and justice never prevails. The wicked surround the righteous–therefore judgment comes forth perverted”?

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Habakuk 1:4

95
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From which prophetic book is the following quotation taken: “I will stand at my watchpost, and station myself on the rampart; I will keep watch to see what he will say to me, and what he will answer concering my complaint. Then the LORD answered me and said: Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so that a runner may read it.

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Habakkuk 2:1-2

96
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From which prophetic book is the following quotation taken: “I will stand at my watchpost, and station myself on the rampart; I will keep watch to see what he will say to me, and what he will answer concering my complaint. Then the LORD answered me and said: Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so that a runner may read it.

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Habakkuk 2:1-2

97
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To which prophet does God say, “Look at the proud! Their spirit is not right in them, but the righteous live by their faith.”

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Habakkuk 2:4

98
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Which prophetic book opens with an oracle about the “day of the LORD,” saying: “I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth, says the LORD. I will sweep away human and animals; I will sweep away the birds of the air and the fish of the sea”?

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Zephaniah 1:2-3

99
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Which is a major theme for the book of Haggai?

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the rebuilding of the temple

Haggai 1:1-4

100
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Through which prophet does God tell Zerubbabel that the people are enduring a drought “Because my house lies in ruins, while all of you hurry off to your own houses”?

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Haggai 1:3-11

101
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Which prophet is told by the LORD to speak to Zerubbabel, Joshua, and the remnant of the people saying “Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Is it not in your sight as nothing?”

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Haggai 2:2-3

102
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Who prophesied after the return from Babylonian exile?

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Zechariah 1:1

103
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Which prophet relates a vision of horsemen patrolling the earth that is accompanied by a message of comfort for Jerusalem.

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Zechariah 1:7-17

104
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Which prophet relates a vision of a lampstand and two olive trees in which the branches of the olive trees are called “the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth”?

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Zechariah 4:1-14

105
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Which prophet calls on the people of Jerusalem to rejoice because of a coming period of “peace to the nations” established by a king who comes “triumphant and victorious, … humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey”?

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Zechariah 9:9-10

106
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In which book are the people accused of having robbed God by the withholding of their tithes and offerings?

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Malachi 3:8

107
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Which prophetic book states: “See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble . . . But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings”?

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Malachi 4:1-2

108
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Which of the following books contains the statement, “Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes”?

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Malachi 4:5

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