Ch.1 and 2 OT BOOK

Zedekiah aligned himself with Egypt & was encouraged to lead Israel to an independent state. ______________________.

The tools of the early Israelites can teach us is that the Israelites seemed to have settled in the _____________.

Water is a rich symbol in both the Old and New Testaments.

King Nebuchadnezzar led the Babylonians south to the Canaanite coastlines. In 597 BC,the young king of Judah, Jehoiachin

The Assyrian Empire was eventually defeated by the rise of a rival Mesopotamian power based in the _____________.

Nebuchadnezzar placed a puppet King of his choice in ______________ and renamed him “Zedekiah.”

The famous hieroglyphic writing of ancient Egypt was finally deciphered in 1822, after the recovery of the__________

The first ____chapters contain stories about the origins of the world, humans, and varying cultures is primeval history.

Sir Flanders Petrie made a discovery of an inscription known as the “Merneptah Stele.”

Israelite kings began to rule about 1020 BC. ______ is the first king.

Jerusalem was destroyed in 587-586 BC. Zedekiah was tortured and taken to Babylon. The Temple was destroyed

Before alphabets were invented _______ needed to learn literally hundreds of signs and symbols.

The Israelites took up residence in the hill country of Palestine because there was little competition for this land.

_______ reception of the Ten Commandments must be understood in the context of the Hebrew’s Exodus from Egypt

The son who eventually succeeded David was __________.

People in Judah later came to be called “Judeans” or “____________” for short.

_____ is an ancient activity. By the 17th century, it had become a romantic endeavor in the mode of Indiana Jones movies

The O.T. refers to the northern state as __________ and the southern state as Judah.

The “creation myths” of some of these empires reflected domination and control.

The Israelite Kingdom lacked stability in part because the prophets of the north (like Elisha) could proclaim new kings

Hill country that runs like a spine up the “back” of Palestine, and into modern Lebanon

the O.T. Biblical era runs from the decline of the Egyptian and Hittite Empires in roughly 1300-1100 BC

In 722 BC, the Northern Kingdom of Israel was destroyed by the invading ____________.

The earliest forms of writing were likely __________.

Practiced a military technique that guaranteed conquered territories would never again be able to offer resistance.

___________ was the most significant King who managed to unite a diversified people

The author of the First Letter of Peter attests that the flood waters in the story of________ (Gn 7) “prefigured baptism

The "Mesha Inscription,” discovered in 1868. This inscription comes from ________, one of the rival states of Israel

The ___________ were coastal invaders and enemies of the Israelites. They lived on the coast, west of the Israelites.

The O.T. refers to the northern state as Israel and the southern state as __________.