TCP 06: 1 Kings - Esther w Text

Question 1

THEME of 1 Kings

Answer 1

United and Divided Kingdom

Question 2

DATE of Division of Kingdom (Solomon’s Death)

Answer 2

931 BC

Question 3

THE SPIRITUAL INFLUENCE OF A SPOUSE

Answer 3

1 Kings 11:3-4

He had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

Question 4

ISRAEL AND JUDAH DIVIDED

Answer 4

1 Kings 12:19

So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.

Question 5

A GODLY MAN DEALS WITH DEPRESSION

Answer 5

1 Kings 19

…And [Elijah] asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.” And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.” And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again. And the angel of the LORD came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.” And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God. There he came to a cave and lodged in it..

Question 6

GOD IS SOVEREIGN OVER DEMONS

Answer 6

1 Kings 22:20-23

and the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another. Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ And the LORD said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’ Now therefore behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the LORD has declared disaster for you.”

Question 7

THEME of 2 Kings

Answer 7

Israel and Judah Fall

Question 8

DATE of Exile of Northern Kingdom by Assyria

Answer 8

722 BC

Question 9

CONTRITE RESPONSE TO GOD’S WORD

Answer 9

2 Kings 22:11

When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes.

Question 10

THEME of 1 Chronicles

Answer 10

God’s View of David

Question 11

GOD OWNS AND PROVIDES EVERYTHING WE HAVE

Answer 11

1 Chronicles 29:11-12

Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.

Question 12

THEME of 2 Chronicles

Answer 12

God’s View of the Kings of Judah

Question 13

BABYLON DESTROYS JERUSALEM AND THE TEMPLE

Answer 13

2 Chronicles 36:19

And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels.

Question 14

THEME of Ezra

Answer 14

Rebuilding the Temple

Question 15

DATE: Cyrus DECREE people may return

Answer 15

538 BC

Question 16

DATE: Babylonian RETURN Phase 1 (Zerubbabel)

Answer 16

536 BC

Question 17

DATE: Babylonian RETURN Phase 2 (Ezra)

Answer 17

457 BC

Question 18

STUDY AND OBEY, THEN TEACH THE WORD

Answer 18

Ezra 7:10

For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.

Question 19

THEME of Nehemiah

Answer 19

Rebuilding the Walls

Question 20

DATE: Babylonian RETURN Phase 3 (Nehemiah)

Answer 20

445 BC

Question 21

GOOD EXEGESIS IN THE OT

Answer 21

Nehemiah 8:8

They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.

Question 22

THEME of Esther

Answer 22

Providential Preservation

Question 23

PROVIDENCE: SUCH A TIME AS THIS

Answer 23

Esther 4:14

For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”