Ezekiel
This object is what Ezekiel's creature in his vivid vision was riding in chapter 1.
What is a wheel?
Daniel refuses food from the king’s table and requests vegetables and water for this reason, which results in better appearance and health.
Avoid defilement / contamination / impurity
This Persian king issued a decree allowing exiles to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple, famously supporting the Jewish return.
Who is King Cyrus (Cyrus the Great)?
This Jewish woman becomes queen after refusing to appear at the king’s second feast, later saving her people.
Who is Esther (or Hadassah)?
One of Zechariah’s famous images is of a man with a measuring line who measures Jerusalem
a symbol of future restoration and this activity of God, what is restoration/rebuilding?
These creatures in Ezekiel’s vision each had four faces — of a man, a lion, an ox, and this winged animal.
What is an eagle?
A fourth figure appears in this trap with three of Daniel's close friends and they escape unharmed.
What is the fiery furnace?
In Ezra 3, the returned exiles lay the foundation of this structure with much rejoicing; older priests wept while others shouted for joy.
What is the temple (the Second Temple)?
Esther’s cousin and guardian who refuses royal honors but is later honored; he uncovers a plot and rises to prominence.
Who is Mordecai?
Zechariah 3 presents Joshua the high priest standing before the angel and Satan, and he receives clean garments; this scene symbolizes removal of this from the priesthood/nation.
What is sin or impurity (or iniquity)?
In chapter 2, God commissions Ezekiel in this symbolic way, in order that he knows the Lord's lamentations, mourning and woe.
What is “eat the scroll”?
What is Daniel's refusal to comply, ability to interpret visions from God, faithful witness and unceasing prayer display?
Faithfulness to God, integrity, seeking wisdom and obedience
What did the local peoples (e.g., Tobiah, Sanballat) start to feel as they watched the rebuilding of the temple?
Rebellion, discomfort, opposition to the effort
Haman hated Mordecai and built a gallows to hang him. What actually happened?
Xerxes finds out Heman wanted to kill Mordecai and Heman is executed instead
In Zechariah 4, this phrase accompanies the vision of the lampstand and two olive trees: “Not by might nor by power, but by this.”
What is by my Spirit (or the Spirit of the LORD)?
God sends Ezekiel to these people, described as rebellious, defiled with idols, shed blood, profaned God's holy name and were judged and scattered throughout .
Who are the Israelites?
In Daniel 7, what does the fourth beast with ten horns, and a little horn arises that speaks great things symbolize?
The blasphemous/powerful ruler or anti-God political power (or the Antichrist)?
Ezra chapter 9–10 contains his strong response to a problem regarding marriage. What was this?
Intermarriage with non-Israelites, foreign wives and idols
What does Esther do to rescue her people from annihilation?
She fasts and prays for 3 days with the help of others to intercede and ask Xerxes to stop the assassination of all the Israelites.
Zechariah 9–10 contain oracles of salvation and a coming king riding on a donkey, later quoted at Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem; this scene points to this portrait of kingship.
What is humble/peaceful Messiah (or the coming king of peace)?
God showed Ezekiel this vision of bones, bone to bone, tendons and flesh and skin covering, then breath entered them and came alive.
Restoration, revival, return from exile
In chapter 2, this Babylonian king dreams a statue of gold, silver, bronze, iron, and clay which only Daniel can interpret as successive kingdoms.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
Why were there mixed emotions at the temple foundation—joy and weeping—
Memory of loss/imperfection coexists with hope and progress (or the awareness of past sin alongside present blessing)?
The book’s theme of “reversal” (peripeteia) — feasts, banquets, and reversals of fortune — invites reflection on this theological idea about God’s character.
What is divine providence, God's eternal plan, God's hand at work throughout history
Zechariah stresses corporate repentance and reliance on God’s Spirit rather than human power; state one practical implication for contemporary community leadership
What is to prioritize spiritual renewal and dependence on God rather than solely human strategy (or to seek prayerful discernment and humility)?