Exile
This is the empire responsible for the exile of the Jews.
What is Babylon?
The Babylonians broke down and burned this structure that surrounded the city.
What is the wall?
This prophet did a series of street theater pieces to warn Judah of the coming exile.
Who is Ezekiel?
When in Babylon, Daniel and his friends requested to only eat this food and water instead of the king's prescribed diet.
What are vegetables?
His name means "planted in Babylon."
Who is Zerubbabel?
Being forced away from your home is the definition of this.
What is exile?
The Babylonians kept Jerusalem under siege until the Jews were completely out of this life giving substance.
What is food?
In Jeremiah 29, the prophet Jeremiah instructs the exiled Jews to build houses, plant gardens, make families, and pray for the peace and prosperity of this nation.
What is Babylon?
After having a disturbing dream of a broken statue, the king of Babylon decided to make this.
What is a golden statue?
After rebuilding the temple there was a mixture of celebrating and this reaction.
What is crying?
Adam and Eve were exiled from here after their sin.
What is Eden?
He was the king of Babylon when they took over Judah.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?
Ezekiel got a strange vision on his 30th birthday, the year he would have been installed as this vocation.
What is priest?
These three men were thrown into the fiery furnace, yet when the king looked in he saw a fourth man.
Who are Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego?
This king first allowed the Jewish people to return home and rebuild their temple.
Who is king Cyrus?
This is the empire that took over Babylon while the Jews were in exile.
What is the Persian empire?
He was the imprisoned king of Judah who was released and allowed to eat at the king of Babylon's table.
Who is Jahoiachin?
In Ezekiel's vision of the new temple there was a river of life flowing out of it which is an image of this fruitful place.
What is the garden of Eden?
The king of Babylon had a disturbing dream about this before he turned into a crazy wild man.
What is a tree?
The foreigners who were brought to the area by this empire asked to help rebuild the temple before being denied by the returning Jews.
What is the Assyrian empire?
He was the king of Persia who allowed the Jews to return to Judah from exile.
Who is King Cyrus?
He assembled 10 men to assassinate Gedaliah, the Babylonian appointed leader of Jerusalem.
Who is Ishmael?
Jeremiah warned the Jews not to listen to these people who were claiming things in the name of the LORD.
Who are false prophets?
The last king of Babylon was holding a feast when he saw this appear, and he knew the writing was on the wall.
What is a human hand?
Ezra who was an expert in this instructed the Jews to divorce their foreign wives and send them and their children away.
What is the Law of Moses?