BHL Minor Prophets and Intertestamental Period

See, the stone i have set in front of Joshua! There are seven eyes on that one stone, and I will engrave an inscription on it, says the Lord Almighty, and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day.

Zechariah

But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will leap like calves released from the stall.

Malachi

"See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes."

Malachi

I will shake all the nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord Almighty

Haggai

But many of the older priests and Levites and family heads, who had seen the former temple, wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid, while many others shouted for joy

Ezra

I prayed, Now strengthen my hands

Nehemiah

Now make confession to the Lord the God of your fathers, and do his will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.

Ezra

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?"

Esther

In those days ten men from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say, "let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you."

Zechariah

Remember me with favor, my God, for all I have done for these people

Nehemiah

I have loved you, says the LORD. But you ask, how have you loved us?

Malachi

They will look on the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child.

Zechariah

(True/False) The feast of tabernacles was a Jewish celebration that commemorated the return from exile in Persia

false

(True/False) The temple structure, rebuilt by the Jewish exiles that returned to Jersulam, was finished during the reign of the Persian king Darius I

true

(True/False) Nehemiah was a priest

false

(True/False) Zechariahs prophecy is an example of apocalyptic literature

true

(True/False) Haggai and Zechariah were prophesying at the same time that Ezra was encouraging spiritual renewal

false (haggai and zechariah prophesied under Darius)

(True/False) Ezra was instrumental in the effort to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem

false (temple was finished under Darius, Ezra under Artaxerxes)

(True/False) The Jewish exiles who returned to Judah were will under the regulations of the Mosaic covenant

true

(True/False) OT believers were saved by obedience; NT believers were saved by faith

false

Put the Events in order

Cyrus decree of return

Nehemiah's completion of the walls

Esther becomes Queen

Rebuilding of the Temple

Return exiles under Ezra

Cyrus decree of return

Rebuilding of the Temple

Esther becomes Queen

Return exiles under Ezra

Nehemiah's completion of the walls

"I am with you declares the Lord"

Haggai

Give careful thought to you ways

Haggai

Holy week prophet

Zechariah

"Return to me, and I will return to you"

Zechariah

Study timeline

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When was the Maccabean Revolt?

167 BC

What is the Septuagint? (LXX)

Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible

What is are the canonical books?

The standard by which we measure our christian faith

Why don't we recognize the apocrypha

not in the same collection as the other books

jesus doesn't quote it

Line of rulers in the intertestamental history

Alexander the Great, Ptolemes of Egypt, Selecids of Syria, Hasmanean rule, Rome/Herod

Which prophet preaches spiritual renewal and the 'great divorce'

Ezra

List the Persian Kings in order

Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes, Artaxerxes

Under which king did the command to return to Jerusalem come from?

Cyrus

Under which king was the temples finished

Darius

Which king was Esther married to?

Xerxes

Under which king did Nehemiah and Ezra serve?

Artaxerxes

On that day, declares the Lord Almighty, I will take you my servant Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, declares the Lord, and I will make you like my signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the Lord Almighty

haggai

(True/False) The term apocrypha refers to the OT literature that focuses chiefly on meanings of visions

false

(True/False) The apocryphal book, Bel and the Dragon, records an episode in which Daniel was thrown into a den of lions

true

(True/False) After the breakup of Alexander's empire, the land of Judah was controlled initially by the Seleucid dynasty

false

(True/False) According to the book of 1 Maccabees, Judas Maccabaeus was the priest who purified and rededicated the temple in Jerusalem during the jewish revolt of the second century BC

true

(True/False) NOne of the writings contained in the apocrypha were included in any hebrew collection of authoritative books

true

(True/False) Hellenization is a term that refers to a cultural trend to adoption of Greek language and customs by the Jews during the intertestamental period

true

Which dynasty ruled from Egypt after the breakup of the Macedonian empire?

Ptolemies

The separatist Jewish sect associated with a curious form of dualistic philosophy and communal living was....

The Essenes

The Jewish sect that emphasized only the Mosaic code and its connection to Temple rites and rituals was...

the Sadducees

Why is the Septuagint an important part of the history of the transmission of the Scriptures?

This translation is older than any hebrew translation we have and it was translated by the hebrews/jews so they know and understand certain phrases.

You have wearied the Lord with your words. "How have we wearied him?" you ask.

malachi

But as for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like calves released from the stall

Malachi

"A voice of one calling in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God."

Zechariah