Quiz 2 - Week 4

Question 1

No nation in the Land Between was totally secure unless it held the regions of ___________, ___________ and ___________. These same regions lay directly in the path of imperial armies coming from the north.

Answer 1

Dan; Bashan; Damascus

Question 2

The commercial importance of Ammon, Bashan, Lower Gilead and ___________was painfully clear to Jewish Galileans in Jesus’ day. A group of Greek-type cities called the ___________flourished throughout these areas and had close connections with Rome via ___________.

Answer 2

Beth-shan; Decapolis; Caesarea

Question 3

The route Abraham and Jacob followed between ___________and Canaan is not named, but it no doubt passed through Damascus, Bashan and ___________to Succoth, ___________and ___________.

Answer 3

Aram; Gilead; Shechem; Bethel

Question 4

Soon after the Israelites arrived, most of the tribe of ___________forsook their allotted territory in the south near Judah and moved north to subdue and settle Laish, which they called Dan.

Answer 4

Dan

Question 5

Israelite tribes settled in the hills of ___________as can be seen by the northern locations of Asher and Naphtali. ___________activities kept these settlers to the secluded parts of their allotted territories. When they did expand they incurred the wrath of Egypt’s pharaoh ___________and of Canaanite kings at ___________.

Answer 5

Galilee; Egyptian; Merneptah; Hazor

Question 6

Saul, Israel’s first king, rescued Israelites at ______________ from an imminent Ammonite threat. When Saul was killed by the ___________on ___________, the men of Jabesh-gilead took his body from Beth-shan and buried it.

Answer 6

Jabesh-gilead; Philistines; Mount Gilboa

Question 7

When northern Israel became independent from Judah, Jeroboam made ___________his capital but soon moved to ___________and ___________, centers on either side of the Jordan.

Answer 7

Shechem; Penuel; Tirzah

Question 8

The rebellion of the Northern Kingdom of Israel following the death of Solomon led to Israel’s defection from Judah. However, two decades later the new dynasty of ___________ruled Israel from the ‘backwoods’ city of Tirzah.

Answer 8

Baasha

Question 9

Asa of Judah sent ‘the silver and gold left in the treasury of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house’ to Damascus and asked _____________of Damascus to break his treaty with Baasha. Faced with a two-front war, Baasha ‘stopped building Ramah and dwelt in Tirzah.’

Answer 9

Ben-hadad

Question 10

Hazor corridor is so ______________that ___________become a major difficulty for travel.

Answer 10

well-watered; swamps

Question 11

Ben-hadad of Damascus wisely chose to invade the ___________ ___________, the corridor running south along the western side of the __________ ___________ from Abel-beth-maachah and the region of Dan to Hazor and Chinnereth. This gave Damascus control of a ___________ ___________-___________ ___________ ___________and its junctions for ___________-___________ ___________from Transjordan to ports in ___________. The geopolitical implications of Ben-hadad’s invasion are obvious. The Hazor Highway opens the way for his entry into ___________ ___________and the ___________ ___________.

Answer 11

Hazor Highways; Huleh Basin; north-south imperial highway; east-west routes; Phoenicia; Lower Galilee; Jezreel Valley

Question 12

The invasion of Damascus into northern Israel during the early ninth century B.C. illustrates the importance of the Hazor Highway as a gateway into the land. The Bible records that 250 years later (-733) ______________________of ___________made a similar entrance into the land via the ___________Valley.

Answer 12

Tiglath-pileser III; Assyria; Beqaa

Question 13

The names of two main prophets, ___________and ___________, appear in the book of Kings. Events in these days of apostate abundance followed by dire distress give us the context we need to understand prophetic teaching about God’s work and the frailty of human faith. This is most clearly seen in the moving story of Elijah as it intersects with the apostate deeds of king ___________and his Phoenician wife ___________.

Answer 13

Elijah; Elisha; Ahab; Jezebel

Question 14

___________and ___________initiated several systematic policies which brought Israel and Judah to a point of strength and domination in the Land Between (cf. 1 Kgs 16:21-34). First, Omri moved the capital from ___________to the hill of ___________, a site much better situated for interaction with the ___________ ___________and Israel’s commercial connections with the ports of ___________. Secondly, Omri and son Ahab aligned themselves with Phoenicia by marriage. Ahab married ___________, the Phoenician princess. Thirdly, Ahab made peace with the house of David by giving a royal daughter, ___________, in marriage to Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat (cf. 2 Kgs 8:25-27).

Answer 14

Omri; Ahab; Tirzah; Samaria; Coastal Highway; Phoenicia; Jezebel; Athaliah

Question 15

‘Ahab of Israel expanded his kingdom southeastward in order to hold part of the Transjordanian Highway. The rebuilding of ___________ (1 Kgs 16:34) was an important part of this policy. 2 Kings 3:4-5, as well as the ___________ ___________speaks of ___________subjugation by Israel. This move to the southeast was part of a greater plan of commercial expansion.

Answer 15

Jericho; Mesha Stone; Moab’s

Question 16

________________ in -856 laid siege to Ahab’s capital city of Samaria (1 Kgs 20:1-21).

Answer 16

Ben-hadad

Question 17

Ahab’s systematic building program can be seen at sites such as ___________and ___________ (as well as at the strategic site of ___________). Ahab also built a winter palace at ___________above the Jezreel and Harod valleys (1 Kgs 21:1).

Answer 17

Hazor; Dan; Megiddo; Jezreel

Question 18

Around -___________ Egypt was relatively weak, a period known as the ___________ ___________ ___________. It was then that Alien Rulers invade Egypt. Egyptians called these alien rulers ___________.

Answer 18

-1700; Second Intermediate Period; Hyksos

Question 19

Ahmose, whose reign began Egypt’s _____ ___________, is credited with expelling alien rulers from Egypt. His campaign took him to ___________, the southern gateway to the Land Between. Egypt awoke to a new and mighty surge of nationalism and expansion which lasted four centuries. This has been called Egypt’s ________ ___________, known archeologically as the _________ _________ ________. In this period some of Egypt’s greatest pharaohs ruled the Land Between.

Answer 19

18th Dynasty; Sharuhen; New Kingdom; Late Bronze Age

Question 20

The importance of the ___________ ___________cannot be overestimated. They carried almost all of the commerce and military might of the ancient world passing through the Land Between, the land bridge between the Nile and Mesopotamian river valleys.

Answer 20

Carmel Passes

Question 21

It is clear why Thutmose III boasted that ‘Taking Megiddo is as good as capturing a thousand cities.’ His campaign provides us with one of the best illustrations of ___________ importance in the ___________ ___________. Megiddo continued to be a major Egyptian base in the Land Between throughout the reigns of later pharaohs of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty.

Answer 21

Meggido’s; Jezreel Valley

Question 22

Pharaohs of the _______ ___________found it necessary to reassert Egypt’s authority in the Land Between. ______________ reestablished Egypt’s control of important sites and roads in the Land Between. His successor, _____________ campaigned throughout Canaan and farther north into Aram where he met Egypt’s new rival, the ___________, who claimed Aram and its approaches to the Land Between.

Answer 22

19th Dynasty; Seti I; Ramses II; Hittites

Question 23

___________, Ramses’ successor, returned to reassert Egyptian dominance. A victory hymn cites some of his conquests on this campaign and also provides us with the first non-biblical reference to the ___________ of ___________.

Answer 23

Merneptah; people; Israel

Question 24

Deborah and Barak agreed to muster the northern Israelite militia at the prominent site, Mt. ___________, located between the tribal territories of ___________, ___________and ___________. Meanwhile Sisera, in the service of ‘Jabin, king of Canaan who reigned in ___________,’ mobilized his Canaanite forces ‘at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo.’ From their position on Mt. Tabor above the broad Plain of Tabor the Israelites could see the area of Megiddo and the highway which ran from Megiddo past Mt. Tabor to Hazor. The Israelites effectively separated the Canaanites forces from Hazor.

Answer 24

Tabor; Zebulun; Naphtali; Issachar; Hazor

Question 25

The Canaanite-Israelite battle was fought on the Plain of Tabor. To the west of this elevation tributaries drain into the poorly drained ___________ (___________ of) ___________. Judges 5:21 suggests that just before or during the battle a cloudburst made the Kishon a ‘surging nahal (streambed).’ The rich alluvial soil of the area would have quickly been transformed into ___________ ___________, impractical for ___________warfare. The Israelite peasant militia, however, were on foot and used these conditions to their advantage. They quickly turned certain disaster into a stunning victory, a reminder of how their forefathers had been delivered from pharaoh’s chariots at the Red Sea. The climax of the Israelite victory over the urbanized Canaanites of the north came by the hand of a ‘tent-dwelling woman.’

Answer 25

Nahal; Streambed; Kishon; heavy mud; chariot