Christian Scriptures Exam 2

Samuel

is the last judge of Israel before the monarchy is established. He is also a prophet to whom God communicates special revelation.

Saul

who is looking for his father’s lost donkeys and seeks advice from Samuel

Saul’s Failures

Saul Disobeys Samuel’s instructions by offering an unauthorized sacrifice when Samuel fails to appear on time. Later, fails to carry out herem against the Amalekites. God says he regrets making Saul king, and Samuel announces that God has rejected Saul as king

David

God instructs Samuel to anoint, the youngest son of a man named Jesse, as Israel’s next king, but Saul retains power

Goliath

Israel is at war with the Philistians, who have a giant warrior named; David visits his brothers at the battle front and volunters to fight him.

Jerusalem

David conquers, which becomes the new capital of Isreal

Nathan

tells David it is not God’s will for David to build a temple

The Davidic Covenant

God promises David an Unending Dynasty (2 Samuel 7:9-16)

Bathsheba

David lusts after a women, summons her to have sex with him, and she becomes pregnant

Uriah

David tries to hide his sin by summoning Bathsheba’s husband home from the war so people will assume that the baby is Uriah’s

Solomon

Bathsheba later conceive again and gives birth to another son, who eventually succeeds David as king

4 W’s of the reign of Solomon

Wisdom, Worship, Wealth, Wives

Jeroboam

the prophet Ahijah tells, one of Solomon’s officials, that God will give him control of 10 of the tribes of Israel (1 kings 11:38)

Rehoboam

Solomon’s son and successor, refuses to relieve the burden of labor and taxation that Solomon imposed

922 BCE

The division of the kingdom occurs

Israel

The Northern kingdom ruled by Jeroboam and his successors is still known as, but has a new capital at Samaria

Judah

The southern kingdom ruled by Rehoboam and Davids descendants is known as, and Jerusalem remains its capitial

Ahab and Jezebel

King and his wife build a temple of Baal in Samaria and promote Baal worship in Israel

Elijah

Prophet whose name means “My God is YHWH”

God declares through, that He is sending a drought on Israel as punishment for Ahab’s wickedness; performs powerful miracles to aid those who trust YHWH (1 Kings 17)

Elijah’s Departure (2 Kings 2)

does not die, but is taken up by God in a fiery chariot

Elisha

asks YHWH for a “double helping” of the prophetic authority that Elijah possessed

King Jehu (2 Kings 9-10)

God instructs Elisha to anoint a man, as the next king of Israel. He orchestrates the deaths of Jezebel and the remainder of Ahab’s family. He kills baal worshippers and destroys

Assyria

begging in mid 700s, Israel is threatened by the expansion of

Hoshea

when Assyria begins threatening Israel, a pro-Assyria Israelite; assassinates the king of Israel. Israel becomes a subject state of Assyria, and the king of Assyria rewards him by making him pupper king of Isreal

722 BCE

Hoshea later stops paying tribute and attempts to make an allinace with Egypt against Assyria, so the Assyrians invade and conquer Isreal in

Kings of Israel (the North) to know

Jeroboam - first

Ahab - worst

Jehu - best

Hoshea - last

King Hezekiah

Described as Judah’s best king: “There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah after him or among those who were before.” (2 Kings 18:5)

Destroyed idols and shrines of foreign gods

Isaiah

The prophet; tells Hezekiah not to fear the Assyrians but to trust YHWH. 

King Manasseh (2 Kings 21)

Son of Hezekiah, reigns 55 years

Judah’s most wicked king - rebuilt shrines to foregin gods, promoted worship of Baal, set up idols in the temple, killed innocent people.

King Josiah (2 Kings 22-23)

Manasseh’s grandson

Durning a renovation of the temple, the high priest discovers a “Book of the Law” that had seemingly been forgotten

Huldah

The prophetess tells Josiah that God will destroy Judah for its idolatry, but that becasue of Josiah’s repentance, the destruction will not occur durning his lifetime.

Babylonians

Durning Josiah’s reign, gradually replace the Assyrians as the dominant power in the region.

(Phase 3) 587 BCE

Zedekiah, the last king of Judah, launches another revolt, so the Babylonians besiege Jerusalem, burn the temple and the place, and take the remaining survivors’s into exile

Kings of Judah (the south) to know

Rehoboam - first

Manasseh - worst

Hezekiah - co-best

Josiah - co-best

Zedekaih - last