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Gospel Overview Section Three Test (The Kings & the Prophets)
Pages 51-79
1. Elijah the prophet does what to the prophets of Baal?
a. Kills them
b. Joins them
c. Does not associate with them
d. Ignores them
2. Why should the people of Israel believe Elijah over the prophets of Baal? ______
3. True or False? Most of the people of Israel are following God in the time of Elijah.
4. Ahab disobeyed the command of the Lord ______.
a. Not to commit adultery
b. Not to intermarry with pagan women
c. To kill King Agag
d. To build the temple
5. Like Solomon, Ahab is led astray by ______.
6. True of False? Jezebel had just cause to seek to kill Elijah.
7. Samuel anoints David. Elisha anoints Jehu. Both of these are example of…
a. A priest anoints a prophet
b. A king anoints a priest
c. A king anoints a king
d. A prophet anoints a king
8. Which of the following people does Jehu not cut off?
a. Jezebel
b. Elijah
c. All of Ahab’s household
d. The prophets of Baal
9. True or False? Jehu leads the people astray when he turns away from the Lord.
10. True or False? It’s okay to do what you think is right even if the Lord has specifically said that it isn’t.
11. Who should we strive to be like?
a. Saul
b. David
c. Ahab
d. Solomon
12. What had been lost for a period of time and was found by Hilkiah the priest and given to Josiah the King? ______
13. What did Moses command the people to tear down? ______
14. True or False? It was okay for the Israelites to worship God on what used to be pagan high places.
15. True or False? God rejects those who do not seek His commands and disobey what is known.
16. Although King Hezekiah destroyed the high places, by the time of his great grandson, King Josiah, the people had ...
a. Built the high places back up
b. Built the temple
c. Left the high places destroyed
d. Torn down the temple
17. True or False? The people have a general desire to worship God in the way that the pagans worship their gods.
18. True or False? Many kings and generations of God’s people did not seek and disobeyed God’s commandments which He gave them through Moses.
19. What did Moses, Joshua and the prophets warn that God would do to Israel if they disobeyed His commands? ______.
20. The northern kingdom of Israel was exiled to ______in the year 721 B.C.
a. Egypt
b. Israel
c. Assyria
d. Russia
21. The southern kingdom of Judah was exiled to ______in the year 586 B.C.
a. Egypt
b. Europe
c. China
d. Babylon
22. The books of Jeremiah and Isaiah prophesied that after the exile God would bring the people of Israel ______.
23. True or False? The temple was rebuilt 70 years after the exile just as Jeremiah had prophesied.
24. True or False? When the people of Israel returned to the land some of them took wives from among the pagan peoples though they were forbidden to do so in the law.
25. What did Ezra say that the law of God required them to do with their unlawful wives and children? ______
26. Throughout the Old Testament God promises that He will set up a kingdom on ______.
27. To which king did God promise his descendant would rule forever? ______.
28. True or False? God himself will be this king who will rule over the earth forever.
29. The Day of the Lord is what…
a. The day that Saul would become king
b. The day when God will return as King and judge the earth
c. Christmas
d. The first day of creation
30. Moses prophesied that one day his successor would bring a new ______.
31. True or False? Abraham, Isaiah, Daniel, and Zechariah all prophesied that the deliverer, Moses’ successor, would be put to death as an offering for sin.
32. This new covenant would include not only the people of Israel but also the ______.
33. How does God feel about people who say things in God’s name that He has not said? ______.
34. Number the following Old Testament events in the right order (1-7)…
____ Noah to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
____ The return of God’s people to the Promised Land
____ Saul, David, Solomon, and the kings of Israel and Judah (The Temple is built)
____ Joseph and the Israelites in Egypt to Moses
____ Adam to Noah and the Flood
____ Joshua and the Judges to Samuel (The Israelites conquer the Promised Land)
____ The exiles of Israel and Judah (Jerusalem and the Temple destroyed)
35. Fellowship and unity are about ______.
36. True or False? Repentance means that you stop your disobedient behavior.
37. Which comes first, loving God or loving your neighbor? ______
38. True or False? Sometimes when God judges the earth only a few are saved.
39. Moses will have a successor who…(Circle as many as are correct.)
a. is first rejected by His people
b. later returns to deliver them
c. will give God’s people a law
d. will be the minister of the a covenant between God and His people
e. will lead God’s people out of slavery
40. True or False? You have to be physically alive in order to inherit God’s promises.