Vocabulary
This is the belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
This was the name of the tribes of Israel who settled in the Promised Land.
What are the Twelve Tribes?
This man was a prophet and a judge who helped the Twelve Tribes find their first king.
Who is Samuel?
In 586 BC Jews were exiled from Judah and forced to move to Babylon. This was known as...
What is the Babylonian Exile?
This kingdom was made up of Judah and Benjamin; it was known as the Southern Kingdom.
What is Judah?
This is being forced to leave one's homeland.
What is exiled or exile?
These ten tribes were part of the Northern Kingdom (Israel) after the nation split into two kingdoms. When these people were exiled to other parts of the world, they became known as the Ten __________ Tribes.
What is lost?
This handsome, tall man was the first king of Israel.
Who is Saul?
David used a slingshot to hurl one of these at Goliath's head to bring him down.
What is a stone?
This Northern Kingdom was made up of the remaining ten tribes which included ancestors of Reuben, Simeon, Issachar, Dan, Asher, and Naphtali.
What is Israel?
These were the people who ruled the Twelve Tribes of Israel before they had a king.
What is a judge?
These were the greatest enemies of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
Who are the Philistines?
This second king of Israel killed a Philistine giant named Goliath.
Who is David?
This god of the Philistines was found face down in his temple after the Ark of the Covenant was placed there.
Who is Dagon?
This group attacked the Northern Tribe or Israel in 722 BC and scattered them around the known world.
Who are the Assyrians?
These were people with whom God communicated.
What are prophets?
This was the nation that attacked Babylon in 539 BC when the Jewish people were being held captive there. Their king allowed the Jews to return to Judah.
Who are the Persians?
This third king of Israel asked God for wisdom and knowledge; he also built a magnificent temple in Jerusalem.
Who is Solomon?
During one battle against the Philistines, the Israelites brought the Ark of the Covenant with them when God hadn't told them to do so. What happened to the ark?
It was stolen by the Phiistines.
Nebuchadnezzar was the king of this empire; he was responsible for exiling the Jews from Judah in 586 BC.
What is the New Babylonian Empire?
This wooden and golden box contained the Ten Commandments.
What is the Ark of the Covenant?
This group was responsible for the exile of the Jews from Judah during the Diaspora.
Who are the Romans?
The Hebrew and Christian Bibles, along with the Islamic holy book, the Quran, all acknowledge this man as the founder of their nation.
Who is Abraham?
In 70 AD, Roman forces destroyed the Second Temple and exiled the remaining Jews in Judah. This was called...
the Diaspora
Cyrus the Great was from this country; he allowed the Jews to return to Judah to build the Second Temple.
What is Persia?