BIBL 104 Quiz 4

BIBL 104 Quiz 4

BIBL 104 Quiz 4 Liberty University

BIBL 104 Quiz The Old Testament Books of Prophecy

1. According to the textbook, the key verse to the book of Lamentations is “Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness” (Lam. 3:22–23).
2. The Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah makes clear that this is not a typical human child because he is described as a “Prince of Heaven.”
3. Daniel and his three friends were not able to keep their kosher diet while serving the king.
4. In his first vision, Zechariah saw a flying scroll that measured thirty feet by fifteen feet and was covered with written curses against those who had broken God’s commandments
5. The Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah makes clear that this is not a typical human child because he is described as a “Wonderful Counselor”
6. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as the true vine.
7. Habakkuk’s first question was:
8. God commanded Hosea to marry a promiscuous and unfaithful wife, who subsequently gave birth to three children with symbolic names. Both the woman and the children were metaphors of Israel’s covenant unfaithfulness toward the Lord. Israel had prostituted itself by turning away from the Lord and following other gods.
9. The Immanuel prophecy depicts one whose government is from the throne of David.
10. Daniel’s three friends were Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
11. According to our textbook, the overall theme of Daniel is God’s sovereignty over the people of Israel and the nations of the world.
12. Micah likened the greed and the disregard of Israel’s leaders for the poor to cannibals that chopped the people up and made them into stew.
13. Daniel is not mentioned in the account of the statue and the fiery furnace because he willingly bowed to Nebuchadnezzar’s golden statue.
14. Because of his strong preaching, Jeremiah was appreciated by kings, priests, and the people of Judah.
15. The king and people of Nineveh took Jonah’s warning of destruction seriously and expressed their repentance by fasting from food and drink, wearing sackcloth, crying out to God, and turning from their violent behavior.
16. Habakkuk’s message is a personal one in which the prophet laments and dialogues with the Lord over the justice of His ways in using the Babylonians to punish Judah’s sins.
17. The book of Jonah is a two-part story. The first part of the book is about God’s mercy to His disobedient prophet. The second part of the book is about God’s mercy to the wicked people of Nineveh.
18. The book of Lamentations is an anonymous composition but early tradition identifies ___________ as the author of the book.
19. The possibility that the Lord might show mercy to the Assyrians was why Jonah refused to go to the city in the first place.
20. The Lord commissioned Isaiah as a prophet in the year of King Uzziah’s death.
21. Hosea compared Israel’s unfaithfulness to spoiled grapes, a wild vine, a trained heifer, and a rebellious daughter.
22. During Hosea’s life Israel’s political size and economic stability increased, these were not indicators of spiritual vitality.
23. According to Nahum, God’s justice demanded the Assyrians experience the suffering and degradation they inflicted on others.
24. Nahum delivered his messages during the reign of Josiah around the same time Daniel commenced his prophetic ministry.
25. Like a con artist, Nineveh had seduced other nations into alliances and then had
    betrayed them because of her greed and lust for wealth.
26. Daniel was thrown into a lion’s den because he refused to stop praying.
27. Daniel and his three friends were given Babylonian names in order to acclimate them to Babylonian life and culture.
28. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as the healer of the nations.
29. Zephaniah’s preaching thus helped influence perhaps the greatest revival in Judah’s history.
30. The book of Lamentations is a series of five separate laments over the fall of Jerusalem to the
31. The book of Isaiah opens with seven sermons that serve as a thematic introduction to the book.
32. Matthew 8:17 quotes from Isa 53:4 (“He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases”) as evidence that Jesus is Isaiah’s suffering servant.
33. John 12:38 quotes from Isa 53:1 (“Lord, who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”) as evidence that Jesus is Isaiah’s suffering servant.
34. Zechariah was a postexilic prophet who foretold the coming of Israel’s true and final King.
35. According to Lamentations, Jerusalem’s fate was worse than that of Sodom.
36. Judgment, however, was not the final word for Judah or the nations. In the last days, the Lord would purify the speech of all peoples so they might worship and serve Him.
37. Amos opened his book of prophecies with the startling image of God as a ___________. Rather than protecting them, Yahweh would roar out in judgment against them.
38. The Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah makes clear that this is not a typical human child because he is described as an “Everlasting Father.”
39. Habakkuk was a contemporary of
40. The enormity of the temple rebuilding process, economic hardships, and opposition from the surrounding peoples stalled the project for sixteen months.
41. The extended message of salvation at the center of the book of Micah, as well as the emphasis on salvation at the end of each section, reflects Micah’s focus on the hope of Israel’s future salvation.
42. The Immanuel prophecy depicts one whose government is noted for peace without end.
43. The Immanuel prophecy depicts one whose government is marked by grace and truth.
44. Critical scholarship has argued for multiple authorship of the book and has viewed chapters 40–66 as coming after the time of Isaiah.
45. One lament in Lamentations features a beleaguered individual who probably is the personification of the city of Jerusalem.
46. Daniel was a contemporary of ___________ and _____________.
47. Rather than rejoicing in his successful preaching mission and the salvation of the Ninevites, Jonah was angered that the Lord spared the city.
48. The name Immanuel means “God for us.”
49. During an extravagant banquet Belshazzar desecrated the temple vessels taken from
50. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as a suffering servant.

Other sets

1. King Cyrus’s decree granted permission but not resources for rebuilding the temple. So, the returnees and their leaders began the project seeking necessary resources.
2. According to Lamentations, Jerusalem’s fate was worse than that of Sodom.
3. Peter cites and quotes from Isa 53:4–5, 9, 11–12 (“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth,” and “by his wounds you have been healed”) in 1 Peter 2:21-25 as evidence that Jesus is Isaiah’s suffering servant.
4. _________ is the shortest book in the Old Testament.
5. The questions in the book of Malachi follow the pattern of: (1) accusation, (2) refutation, (3) interrogation, and (4) conclusion.
6. Lamentations 1–4 are acrostic poems.
7. Daniel and his three friends were given Babylonian names in order to acclimate them to Babylonian life and culture.
8. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as the coming conqueror.
9. Habakkuk’s first question was:
10. In Malachi, God denounces His people by raising the question of
11. In Malachi, God denounces His people by raising the question of
12. In his second vision, Zechariah saw four horns crushed.
13. Lamentations reveals that, as the Divine Warrior, the Lord poured out His anger on the city of Jerusalem. However, He would not abandon the Temple for it was His own sanctuary.
14. Ezekiel’s vision of _____________ confirmed the Lord’s promise to restore and spiritually renew the people of Israel.
15. Luke 22:37 quotes from Isa 53:12 (“And he was numbered with the transgressors”) as evidence that Jesus is Isaiah’s suffering servant.
16. Because of his strong preaching, Jeremiah was appreciated by kings, priests, and the people of Judah.
17. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as a stumbling block for the Jews.
18. Jonah is scandalized that the Lord would show the same grace he has shown to Israel to the people of Nineveh.
19. Habakkuk prophesied in Israel prior to the Assyrian invasion and warned that the Lord would send the Assyrians to punish the people in Samaria.
20. Habakkuk’s third question was:
21. Amos concluded his prophecies of unrelenting judgment with a message of hope concerning Israel’s future restoration. God promised:
22. The book of Ezekiel ends with a vision of an eschatological temple where God dwells with his people and a life-giving river flows out from this temple.
23. Nahum delivered his messages during the reign of Josiah around the same time Daniel commenced his prophetic ministry.
24. Habakkuk ended his dialogue with God by composing a prayer that could be song as a hymn.
25. The Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah makes clear that this is not a typical human child because he is described as an “Everlasting Father.”
26. In Haggai’s final message the Lord promised to bless Zerubbabel who was the weak governor of Judah and a member of the house of David.
27. According to the textbook, the key verse to the book of Lamentations is “Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness” (Lam. 3:22–23).
28. Isaiah subsequently served during the reigns of three kings in Judah.
29. Micah prophecies that God would raise up another “ruler over Israel” who would come from the Galilean town of Nazareth. This prophecy is fulfilled in Matthew 2:3-6.
30. The book of Jonah is a two-part story. The first part of the book is about God’s mercy to His disobedient prophet. The second part of the book is about God’s mercy to the wicked people of Nineveh.
31. According to the textbook, the key word(s) for the book of Lamentations is Faithful love which means chêsêd in Hebrew.
32. Amos concluded his prophecies of unrelenting judgment with a message of hope concerning Israel’s future restoration. God promised:
33. Amos opened his book of prophecies with the startling image of God as a ___________. Rather than protecting them, Yahweh would roar out in judgment against them.
34. The Lord commissioned Isaiah as a prophet in the year of King Uzziah’s death.
35. Zephaniah’s preaching thus helped influence perhaps the greatest revival in Judah’s history.
36. In Malachi, God denounces His people by raising the question of
37. Haggai in tandem with ______________ challenged the postexilic community to resume the work of rebuilding the temple.
38. Daniel was a contemporary of ___________ and _____________.
39. The story of Jonah is a reminder that the Lord’s plan of salvation extends beyond Israel to include all the nations, even those who were Israel’s greatest enemies.
40. Daniel and his three friends were not able to keep their kosher diet while serving the king.
41. Jeremiah prophesied during the reign of Judah’s last five kings.
42. The Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah makes clear that this is not a typical human child because he is described as a “Prince of Heaven.”
43. Obadiah announced that God would judge ____________ because of their participation with the southern kingdom of Judah’s enemies in the plundering of Jerusalem.
44. The book of Malachi is structured around disputations in which the Lord dialogues with His people in a series of questions and answers.
45. Habakkuk’s message is a personal one in which the prophet laments and dialogues with the Lord over the justice of His ways in using the Babylonians to punish Judah’s sins.
46. The extended message of salvation at the center of the book of Micah, as well as the emphasis on salvation at the end of each section, reflects Micah’s focus on the hope of Israel’s future salvation.
47. Amos concluded his prophecies of unrelenting judgment with a message of hope concerning Israel’s future restoration. God promised:
48. Edom was lifted up because of excessive pride. They believed their mountain fortresses made them invulnerable to enemy attack.
49. The king and people of Nineveh took Jonah’s warning of destruction seriously and expressed their repentance by fasting from food and drink, wearing sackcloth, crying out to God, and turning from their violent behavior.
50. According to Micah, because the rich deprived the poor of their land, the Lord would now do the same to them.

Other sets

Set 1

1. According to Nahum, God’s justice demanded the Assyrians experience the suffering and degradation they inflicted on others.
2. In Zechariah, the Lord promised that He would “return” to His people if they would “return” to Him.
3. The questions in the book of Malachi follow the pattern of: (1) accusation, (2) refutation, (3) interrogation, and (4) conclusion.
4. Jonah is scandalized that the Lord would show the same grace he has shown to Israel to the people of Nineveh.
5. The Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah makes clear that this is not a typical human child because he is described as a “Prince of Heaven.”
6. The Babylonians allowed Jeremiah to remain in the land of Judah, and he ministered there until he and his scribe Baruch were kidnapped by a faction of Jews and taken away as hostages to Egypt.
7. According to the textbook, Habakkuk’s interaction with God is a reminder that the life of faith often involves lament, complaint, and the pouring out of one’s honest emotions and feelings to God.
8. Edom was lifted up because of excessive pride. They trusted in their political and military advisors for their security.
9. The book of Lamentations is an anonymous composition but early tradition identifies
10. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as the true vine.
11. Peter cites and quotes from Isa 53:4–5, 9, 11–12 (“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth,” and “by his wounds you have been healed”) in 1 Peter 2:21-25 as evidence that Jesus is Isaiah’s suffering servant.
12. The poems in the book of Lamentations most closely resemble the communal laments in the .
13. Amos concluded his prophecies of unrelenting judgment with a message of hope concerning Israel’s future restoration. God promised:
14. is the shortest book in the Old Testament.
15. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as the healer of the nations.
16. In Malachi, the Lord promised that He would send the prophet prior to the future Day of the Lord to restore His people.
17. Ezekiel came from a priestly family, which helps explain his emphasis on sin as uncleanness and defilement and his interest in the rebuilding of the future temple.
18. Habakkuk’s message is a personal one in which the prophet laments and dialogues with the Lord over the justice of His ways in using the Babylonians to punish Judah’s sins.
19. According to the textbook, the key word(s) for the book of Lamentations is Faithful love which means chêsêd in Hebrew.
20. The King of Babylon has a dream about four empires that is only successfully interpreted by Daniel.
21. The were descendants of Esau and had a stormy relationship with Israel throughout their history.
22. Amos concluded his prophecies of unrelenting judgment with a message of hope concerning Israel’s future restoration. God promised:
23. Altogether the book of Malachi raises twenty-three questions.
24. Habakkuk’s third question was:
25. Lamentations 1–4 are acrostic poems.
26. Hosea charged Israel with three separate indictments. One of these indictments indicated that “They have broken the covenant; they were unfaithful to me there.” (Hos. 6:7)
27. Obadiah announced that God would judge because of their participation with the southern kingdom of Judah’s enemies in the plundering of Jerusalem.
28. Habakkuk was a contemporary of
29. The Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah makes clear that this is not a typical human child because he is described as a “Wonderful Counselor”
30. According to the textbook, Zephaniah’s ministry reminds us of the importance of preaching which confronts evil, calls for repentance, and leads to revival.
31. Micah likened the greed and the disregard of Israel’s leaders for the poor to cannibals that chopped the people up and made them into stew.
32. Micah was a prophet in Judah and a contemporary of the prophet .
33. Jesus quoted from both “halves” of Isaiah and attributed them to Isaiah the prophet.
34. The extended message of salvation at the center of the book of Micah, as well as the emphasis on salvation at the end of each section, reflects Micah’s focus on the hope of Israel’s future salvation.
35. Ezekiel’s role as a Prophet is compared to the work of a “ .”
36. Hosea charged Israel with three separate indictments. One of these indictments indicated that “The Lord has a charge to bring against you who live in the land.” (Hos. 4:1)
37. Amos’ prophecies of judgment demanded a response because they were not absolute predictions of what must happen in the future as much as they were warnings of what would happen if Israel did not repent and change its ways.
38. is the central theme of the book of Zephaniah.
39. Zephaniah highlights the judgment of God by detailing how God will reverse his work of creation and destroy all living things.
40. Rather than rejoicing in his successful preaching mission and the salvation of the Ninevites, Jonah was angered that the Lord spared the city.
41. Haggai in tandem with challenged the postexilic community to resume the work of rebuilding the temple.
42. Zechariah’s book can be divided up into eight visions, four messages, and two burdens.
43. The book of Lamentations is a series of five separate laments over the fall of Jerusalem to the .
44. The moral failure of Judah’s leadership had little impact on the spiritual corruption of the nation. However, the same could not be said for Judah’s priests.
45. The ultimate fulfillment of the Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah was the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, who was literally God incarnate and who would preserve the line of David forever.
46. Amos concluded his prophecies of unrelenting judgment with a message of hope concerning Israel’s future restoration. God promised:
47. According to the textbook, the New Testament explains that John the Baptist is the fulfillment of the messenger prophesied by Malachi.
48. In his second vision, Zechariah saw four horns crushed.
49. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as a stumbling block for the Jews.
50. The Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah makes clear that this is not a typical human child because he is described as an “Everlasting Father.”

Set 2

1. Haggai in tandem with ______________ challenged the postexilic community to resume the work of rebuilding the temple.
2. According to our textbook, the overall theme of Daniel is God’s sovereignty over the people of Israel and the nations of the world.
3. Habakkuk’s message is a personal one in which the prophet laments and dialogues with the Lord over the justice of His ways in using the Babylonians to punish Judah’s sins.
4. Hosea charged Israel with three separate indictments. One of these indictments indicated that “They have broken the covenant; they were unfaithful to me there.” (Hos. 6:7)
5. In the Zechariah third vision he saw a man with a measuring rod, surveying Jerusalem in preparation for the rebuilding of its walls.
6. In Malachi, God denounces His people by raising the question of
7. Ezekiel portrayed the siege of Jerusalem through a series of four __________ in order to show the exiles that the fall of Jerusalem was near,
8. Habakkuk’s second question was:
9. Isaiah is the most referenced Old Testament book in the New Testament, with approximately 100 citations and 500 allusions.
10. Micah was a prophet in Judah and a contemporary of the prophet ________.
11. The Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah makes clear that this is not a typical human child because he is described as a “Wonderful Counselor”
12. ______________ is the central theme of the book of Zephaniah.
13. Zephaniah began his ministry at approximately the same time as Ezekiel.
14. Amos concluded his prophecies of unrelenting judgment with a message of hope concerning Israel’s future restoration. God promised:
15. The Immanuel prophecy depicts one whose government is marked by grace and truth.
16. Obadiah announced that God would judge ____________ because of their participation with the southern kingdom of Judah’s enemies in the plundering of Jerusalem.
17. Edom was lifted up because of excessive pride. They trusted in their political and military advisors for their security.
18. Zechariah called the people to repent and return to the Lord. Without true spiritual renewal on the people’s part, rebuilding the temple was useless.
19. In his first vision, Zechariah saw a flying scroll that measured thirty feet by fifteen feet and was covered with written curses against those who had broken God’s commandments
20. The book of Jonah is a two-part story. The first part of the book is about God’s mercy to His disobedient prophet. The second part of the book is about God’s mercy to the wicked people of Nineveh.
21. One poem in Lamentations portrays Jerusalem as a grieving widow mourning her
22. Haggai’s threefold encouragement was for the people included
23. _________ is the shortest book in the Old Testament.
24. Micah likened the greed and the disregard of Israel’s leaders for the poor to cannibals that chopped the people up and made them into stew.
25. Ezekiel also delivered a series of oracles against Egypt.
26. Habakkuk prophesied in Israel prior to the Assyrian invasion and warned that the Lord would send the Assyrians to punish the people in Samaria.
27. In Haggai’s final message the Lord promised to bless Zerubbabel who was the weak governor of Judah and a member of the house of David.
28. John 12:38 quotes from Isa 53:1 (“Lord, who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”) as evidence that Jesus is Isaiah’s suffering servant.
29. According to Nahum, God’s justice demanded the Assyrians experience the suffering and degradation they inflicted on others.
30. The use of the title “Holy One of Israel” appears equally in both “halves” of the book of Isaiah. This unifying element argues for Isaiah’s authorship of the whole book.
31. God commanded Hosea to marry a promiscuous and unfaithful wife, who subsequently gave birth to three children with symbolic names. Both the woman and the children were metaphors of Israel’s covenant unfaithfulness toward the Lord. Israel had prostituted itself by turning away from the Lord and following other gods.
32. Amos’ prophecies of judgment demanded a response because they were not absolute predictions of what must happen in the future as much as they were warnings of what would happen if Israel did not repent and change its ways.
33. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as the true vine.
34. The questions in the book of Malachi follow the pattern of: (1) accusation, (2) refutation, (3) interrogation, and (4) conclusion.
35. The Immanuel prophecy depicts one whose government is from the throne of David.
36. Amos opened his book of prophecies with the startling image of God as a ___________. Rather than protecting them, Yahweh would roar out in judgment against them.
37. Ezekiel came from a priestly family, which helps explain his emphasis on sin as uncleanness and defilement and his interest in the rebuilding of the future temple.
38. Habakkuk ended his dialogue with God by composing a prayer that could be song as a hymn.
39. Peter cites and quotes from Isa 53:4–5, 9, 11–12 (“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth,” and “by his wounds you have been healed”) in 1 Peter 2:21-25 as evidence that Jesus is Isaiah’s suffering servant.
40. Zephaniah was of royal descent, the great-great grandson of King Hezekiah.
41. During an extravagant banquet Belshazzar desecrated the temple vessels taken from
42. The moral failure of Judah’s leadership had little impact on the spiritual corruption of the nation. However, the same could not be said for Judah’s priests.
43. The possibility that the Lord might show mercy to the Assyrians was why Jonah refused to go to the city in the first place.
44. Jeremiah prophesied until Judah’s last days as a nation and warned of the coming Babylonian exile as the Lord’s punishment for Judah’s sins.
45. Judgment, however, was not the final word for Judah or the nations. In the last days, the Lord would purify the speech of all peoples so they might worship and serve Him.
46. One lament in Lamentations features a beleaguered individual who probably is the personification of the city of Jerusalem.
47. Jeremiah’s two visits to the potter were prophetic sign acts that visualized how the covenantal relationship between the Lord and His people had reached a breaking point.
48. In the final section of the book of Micah, God’s relationship to His people is presented as
49. The ____________ were descendants of Esau and had a stormy relationship with Israel throughout their history.
50. In Malachi, the Lord promised that He would send the prophet _________ prior to the future Day of the Lord to restore His people.

Set 3

1. According to the textbook, the New Testament explains that John the Baptist is the fulfillment of the messenger prophesied by Malachi.
2. Eventually, King Nebuchadnezzar would go temporarily insane and behave in an animal-like manner.
3. In his first vision, Zechariah saw a flying scroll that measured thirty feet by fifteen feet and was covered with written curses against those who had broken God’s commandments
4. Amos concluded his prophecies of unrelenting judgment with a message of hope concerning Israel’s future restoration. God promised:
5. ______________ is the central theme of the book of Zephaniah.
6. The moral failure of Judah’s leadership had little impact on the spiritual corruption of the nation. However, the same could not be said for Judah’s priests.
7. Habakkuk ended his dialogue with God by composing a prayer that could be song as a hymn.
8. Jeremiah prophesied during the reign of Judah’s last five kings.
9. One lament in Lamentations features a beleaguered individual who probably is the personification of the city of Jerusalem.
10. The Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah makes clear that this is not a typical human child because he is described as a “Prince of Heaven.”
11. In his second vision, Zechariah saw four horns crushed.
12. Daniel was a contemporary of ___________ and _____________.
13. Nebuchadnezzar built a golden statue and required Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, as well all of his government officials to worship this statue when certain music played.
14. Ezekiel was transported into exile as part of the first Babylonian deportation.
15. Isaiah ministered in to the southern two tribes known as Judah.
16. Lamentations reveals that, as the Divine Warrior, the Lord poured out His anger on the city of Jerusalem. However, He would not abandon the Temple for it was His own sanctuary.
17. According to Micah, because the rich deprived the poor of their land, the Lord would now do the same to them.
18. The ____________ were descendants of Esau and had a stormy relationship with Israel throughout their history.
19. Zechariah was a postexilic prophet who foretold the coming of Israel’s true and final King.
20. King Cyrus’s decree granted permission but not resources for rebuilding the temple. So, the returnees and their leaders began the project seeking necessary resources.
21. Jonah’s prayer in Jonah 2:1-10 closely follows the form of a songs of confession in the Psalms – where the worshipper confesses a sin to God and asks for a specific act of deliverance.
22. In Malachi, God denounces His people by raising the question of
23. Ezekiel’s role as a Prophet is compared to the work of a “_____________.”
24. book
25. Malachi prophesied in the postexilic period before the rebuilding of the temple and the reinstitution of the sacrifices and rituals associated with the temple.
26. Ezekiel delivered an extensive message of judgment against Tyre, the capital of Phoenicia.
27. Zephaniah highlights the judgment of God by detailing how God will reverse his work of creation and destroy all living things.
28. According to the textbook, the key word(s) for the book of Lamentations is Faithful love which means chêsêd in Hebrew.
29. Haggai encouraged some of the older people who still remembered the glorious first temple and felt like giving up when they considered the inferiority of the new temple.
30. The Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah makes clear that this is not a typical human child because he is described as an “Everlasting Father.”
31. Jeremiah’s two visits to the potter were prophetic sign acts that visualized how the covenantal relationship between the Lord and His people had reached a breaking point.
32. In the final section of the book of Micah, God’s relationship to His people is presented as
33. According to the textbook, Jeremiah’s temple sermon (Jer. 7:1–15) was one of the defining and critical moments in his ministry.
34. According to the textbook, the key verse to the book of Lamentations is “Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness” (Lam. 3:22–23).
35. Zephaniah was of royal descent, the great-great grandson of King Hezekiah.
36. Hosea charged Israel with three separate indictments. One of these indictments indicated that “The Lord has a charge to bring against you who live in the land.” (Hos. 4:1)
37. One poem in Lamentations portrays Jerusalem as a grieving widow mourning her
38. Amos’ prophecies of judgment demanded a response because they were not absolute predictions of what must happen in the future as much as they were warnings of what would happen if Israel did not repent and change its ways.
39. Daniel was thrown into a lion’s den because he refused to stop praying.
40. Zephaniah began his ministry at approximately the same time as Ezekiel.
41. Isaiah is the most referenced Old Testament book in the New Testament, with approximately 100 citations and 500 allusions.
42. The use of the title “Holy One of Israel” appears equally in both “halves” of the book of Isaiah. This unifying element argues for Isaiah’s authorship of the whole book.
43. Ezekiel’s vision of _____________ confirmed the Lord’s promise to restore and spiritually renew the people of Israel.
44. Zechariah called the people to repent and return to the Lord. Without true spiritual renewal on the people’s part, rebuilding the temple was useless.
45. According to the textbook, Habakkuk’s interaction with God is a reminder that the life of faith often involves lament, complaint, and the pouring out of one’s honest emotions and feelings to God.
46. In Malachi, God denounces His people by raising the question of
47. Critical scholarship has argued for multiple authorship of the book and has viewed chapters 40–66 as coming after the time of Isaiah.
48. Judgment, however, was not the final word for Judah or the nations. In the last days, the Lord would purify the speech of all peoples so they might worship and serve Him.
49. Amos opened his book of prophecies with the startling image of God as a ___________. Rather than protecting them, Yahweh would roar out in judgment against them.
50. Habakkuk prophesied in Israel prior to the Assyrian invasion and warned that the Lord would send the Assyrians to punish the people in Samaria.

Set 4

1. The name Immanuel means “God for us.”
2. According to Nahum, God’s justice demanded the Assyrians experience the su ering and degradation they in icted on others.
3. In Zechariah, the Lord promised that He would “return” to His people if they would “return” to Him.
4. The Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah makes clear that this is not a typical human child because he is described as a “Prince of Heaven.”
5. In Malachi, God denounces His people by raising the question of
6. In his second vision, Zechariah saw four horns crushed.
7. Ezekiel’s role as a Prophet is compared to the work of a “_____________.”
8. In the final section of the book of Micah, God’s relationship to His people is presented
9. Habakkuk’s message is a personal one in which the prophet laments and dialogues with the Lord over the justice of His ways in using the Babylonians to punish Judah’s
10. The Immanuel prophecy depicts one whose government is marked by grace and truth.
11. During an extravagant banquet Belshazzar desecrated the temple vessels taken from Jerusalem.
12. Amos was a prophet to the southern kingdom of Judah.
13. Hosea’s ministry began at a time of great economic prosperity for Israel, but that rapidly disintegrated into one of national catastrophe by the end of his ministry.
14. _________ is the shortest book in the Old Testament.
15. The enormity of the temple rebuilding process, economic hardships, and opposition from the surrounding peoples stalled the project for sixteen months.
16. Habakkuk’s rst question was:
17. Zephaniah highlights the judgment of God by detailing how God will reverse his work of creation and destroy all living things.
18. God’s promise in Jeremiah 29:11 (“For I know the plans I have for you . . . to give you a future and a hope) addresses the impending exile and the future restoration of Judah because God loved His people with an eternal love.
19. Luke 22:37 quotes from Isa 53:12 (“And he was numbered with the transgressors”) as evidence that Jesus is Isaiah’s su ering servant.
20. Daniel’s three friends were Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
21. Daniel was a contemporary of ___________ and _____________.
22. According to Lamentations, Jerusalem’s fate was worse than that of Sodom.
23. Amos concluded his prophecies of unrelenting judgment with a message of hope concerning Israel’s future restoration. God promised:
24. In his first vision, Zechariah saw a ying scroll that measured thirty feet by fteen feet and was covered with written curses against those who had broken God’s commandments
25. According to the textbook, the key verse to the book of Lamentations is “Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness”
26. Daniel and his three friends were not able to keep their kosher diet while serving the king.
27. Ezekiel’s vision of _____________ confirmed the Lord’s promise to restore and spiritually renew the people of Israel.
28. Zechariah was a postexilic prophet who foretold the coming of Israel’s true and nal King.
29. Habakkuk’s third question was:
30. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as the coming conqueror.
31. The moral failure of Judah’s leadership had little impact on the spiritual corruption of the nation. However, the same could not be said for Judah’s priests.
32. Zechariah’s book can be divided up into eight visions, four messages, and two burdens.
33. The book of Lamentations is a series of ve separate laments over the fall of Jerusalem to the __________.
34. Amos compared the wealthy women of Samaria to well-fed cattle in that they oppressed the poor and were consumed with their own sel sh pleasures.
35. Isaiah ministered in to the southern two tribes known as Judah.
36. Jonah is scandalized that the Lord would show the same grace he has shown to Israel to the people of Nineveh.
37. The Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah makes clear that this is not a typical human child because he is described as an “Everlasting Father.”
38. According to the textbook, Habakkuk’s interaction with God is a reminder that the life of faith often involves lament, complaint, and the pouring out of one’s honest emotions and feelings to God.
39. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as the healer of the nations.
40. Malachi prophesied in the postexilic period before the rebuilding of the temple and the reinstitution of the sacrifices and rituals associated with the temple.
41. The use of the title “Holy One of Israel” appears equally in both “halves” of the book of Isaiah. This unifying element argues for Isaiah’s authorship of the whole book.
42. The Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah makes clear that this is not a typical human child because he is described as a “Might Savior.”
43. In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as the bread of life.
44. The story of Jonah is a reminder that the Lord’s plan of salvation extends beyond Israel to include all the nations, even those who were Israel’s greatest enemies.
45. The book of Nahum is a message against _____________.
46. Zephaniah began his ministry at approximately the same time as Ezekiel.
47. Amos concluded his prophecies of unrelenting judgment with a message of hope concerning Israel’s future restoration. God promised:
48. In Malachi, God denounces His people by raising the question of
49. One poem in Lamentations portrays Jerusalem as a grieving widow mourning her destruction.
50. Micah likened the greed and the disregard of Israel’s leaders for the poor to cannibals that chopped the people up and made them into stew.