The One and Only God Flashcards
Between Egypt and Mesopotamia what is there?
Land of deep valleys and Rich pastures
Thousands of years herdsman tended?
Their flocks
They also planted blank?
Vines and Cereals
Why did the Babylonians invade ?
So that the people would move place to place constantly
But the people built towns and what else?
Fortresses
But it wasn’t strong to resist the Mighty?
Armies of the neighbors
The thousands of small tribes did what?
They made history
The people had something special and that was?
Their Religion
All the people prayed to who?
Isis, Osiris, Baal, and Astarte
They had campfires in the evening and did what?
Sing songs
But these Herdsmen prayed to one what?
God, and their own special protector and leader
The songs were about what?
Their leader’s battles and deeds
The strange and powerless herdsmen were who?
Jews
Their god talked about deeds?
And the Old Testament of the Bible
The story of Abraham is in what?
Book of genesis in chapter eleven
Where did Abraham come from?
Ur in the Chaldees
What did they find in the Persian Gulf?
Harps, Game boards, Weapons, and Jewelry
Abraham lived around the same time as who?
Hammurabi
When did Hammurabi lived around?
1700 BC
Many of Hammurabi’s laws showed up where?
In the Bible
What is the story of the Tower of Babel?
People tried to built a tower that would reach up to heaven
Who stopped the people from making the tower go higher?
God
The Babylonians really did build Gigantic towers?
That reached the heavens
The story of Noah and the flood took place where?
Mesopotamia
Tablets were dug up with what in them?
Cuneiform
One of Abraham of Ur descendants was who?
Was Joseph son of Jacob
Joseph become a what?
Counselor and minister to the pharaoh
Where did Joseph family settle?
In Egypt
In 1250 BC children of Israel who got them out of Egypt?
Moses
Jerusalem first king was who?
Saul
He fought against the neighboring tribe the blank?
Philistines
What happened to Saul on the battlefield?
He died
The Bible had a lot of great kings such as who?
King David and King Solomon
Who was a wise king?
King Solomon
Solomon had architects not Jews but what?
But foreign Artisans
Solomon’s reign didn’t go well the kingdom split in 2 what kingdom’s?
Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah
Which kingdom got conquered and destroyed?
Israel
Who invaded Israel the kingdom by the blank in when?
Assyrians in 722 BC
Their sermon was always the same what does that mean?
You yourselves are the cause of your misfortunes God is punishing you through your sins
Who was the mighty Babylonian king warrior and ruler?
King Nebuchadnezzar
Who had a war with the Egyptians?
King Nebuchadnezzar
Where did Nebuchadnezzar marched through where?
The Promised land
Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the city of what?
Jerusalem
When was Jerusalem attacked and destroyed?
586 BC
The Babylonian empire was destroyed by who?
Persian Neighbor In 538 BC
When the Jews returned to their homeland they had what?
Changed
Who was different from the surrounding tribes?
The Jews
How long ago was the Old Testament written
2500 years ago
The Jews had to distance themselves from who?
Other Tribes
The people called themselves what?
Chosen
