Session 7 Study Questions

Question 1

Notice the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah

Answer 1

19 Kings of Israel

20 Kings of Judah

Question 2

Notice how Jehu of Israel provides a chronological synchronism between northern Israel and southern Judah kings.

Answer 2

He is the 10th king of Israel (not sure what the point is though).

Question 3

Notice the many fluctuations of the Assyrian Empire.

Answer 3

4 leaders

Question 4

Notice the great territory of the Persian Empire and its expansion.

Answer 4

woah…Cyrus took control of a lot of land!

Question 5

True/False: Dr. Merrill believes that Abner, Saul’s former general, did NOT have a full appreciation of David as the messianic king.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Who was the brave solider who gained access through the water tunnel into Jerusalem to capture the city for David’s capital?

Answer 6

Joab

Question 7

True/False: Merrill believes that the Ark was brought into the city of Jerusalem IMMEDIATELY AFTER the city was made Israel’s capital.

Answer 7

FALSE

Question 8

In your own words, what seems most surprising to you about Merrill’s reconstruction of the chronology of the life of David?

Answer 8

• Solomon had coregency with David.

* The tabernacle prepared by David to receive the Ark was constructed shortly before Absalom’s rebellion. etc.

Question 9

Merrill believes that the Pharaoh who gave his daughter in marriage to Solomon was Siamun.

Answer 9

MC

Question 10

Merrill believes that Mephibosheth was about how hold when David brought him to Jerusalem to live with him?

Answer 10

about 20 years old.

Question 11

Merrill believes that the three-year drought that came because of Saul’s slaughter of the Gibeonites was about 996-993.

Answer 11

TF

Question 12

What was the cause of David’s war with the Ammonites?

Answer 12

David’s emissaries who were sent to Rabbah (modern Amman, Jordan) to congratulate young Kin Hanun, were shamefully abused and sent home.

Question 13

What daughter of David was raped by his eldest son, Amnon?

Answer 13

Tamar, the virgin sister of Absalom. Absalom later had a daughter named Tamar in honor of his sister.

Question 14

True/False: Absalom killed his brother Amnon at Hebron because his father David did nothing to push Amnon for the rape of Tamar.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Who was the wise man and friend of David, whom God used to counteract the advice of Ahithophel, David’s trusted counselor who had defected to Absalom?

Answer 15

Hushai

Question 16

How did Absalom come to his death?

Answer 16

Joab threw darts into his body as Absalom was suspended by his hair from an oak tree.

Question 17

Who was the Benjaminite who sought to organize schismatic movement for himself after the death of Absalom?

Answer 17

Sheba

Question 18

What sin of David caused him to realize that Jerusalem was to be the location of the future Temple?

Answer 18

The numbering of the people (a census).

Question 19

What did God do in response to David’s desire to build Him a Temple in Jerusalem?

Answer 19

God declared His determination to build a house or Dynasty for David.

Question 20

Jeremiah shared the spiritual vision of what king of Judah?

Answer 20

Josiah

Question 21

Jeremiah’s preaching, according to Woychuk, was the outflow of what?

Answer 21

a broken heart

Question 22

Why is a preacher of the Word preeminently useful?

Answer 22

Because the Word is what unlocks the human heart, and God made the human heart.

Question 23

What were the six effects that Jeremiah’s preaching was to have on the kingdoms?

Answer 23

1. to root out
2. to destroy
3. to build
4. to pull down
5. to throw down
6. to plant

Question 24

How did Jeremiah come to know his God?

Answer 24

Because he believed God’s Word, and because he fed on God’s Word for himself.

Question 25

What is the seven-fold indictment which Jeremiah pronounces on behalf of God against the faithless pastors and the false prophets of his day?

Answer 25

1. scattered God’s flock
2. profaned God’s house
3. caused God’s people to err
4. stolen God’s words every one from his neighbor
5. spoke falsely with their tongues
6. prophesied “false dreams”
7. perverted the Words of the Living God

Question 26

What three elements of style are included in Jeremiah’s writing and preaching?

Answer 26

1. the marred linen “girdle” or belt
2. The good vs. bad figs
3. an earthen vessel broken to pieces in front of the people
4. A yoke of wood around his neck.

Question 27

What does Woychuck conclude about Jeremiah’s compassionate heart?

Answer 27

Jeremiah comes closer to feeling and experiencing the cross of Christ than any other OT saint.

Question 28

1 Kings 15:11

Answer 28

And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.

Question 29

Against Zerah the Ethiopian:

Answer 29

2 Chronicles 14:11 - And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.

Question 30

Azariah the son of Oded said by the Spirit:

Answer 30

2 Chronicles 15:2 - And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; the LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.