Vocabulary
This is the belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
The Israelites were led by Joshua into this place - also called the Promised Land.
What is Canaan?
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 was the name of the event when Moses led the people out of Egypt.
What is the Exodus?
This Northern Kingdom was invaded by the Assyrians in 722 BC.
What is Israel?
This handsome, tall man was the first king of Israel.
Who is Saul?
This giant was brought down by a rock hurled at him by young David.
Who is Goliath?
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?
Once the Israelites acquired all of the land in Canaan, the land was divided and called this.
What are the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
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?
This group was seen as the worst enemy of the Israelites during the reign of King Saul.
Who were the Philistines?
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?
These are the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
What is the Torah?
When the Seleucids conquered Judah in 198 BC, they tried to make the people worship these gods.
Who are the Greek gods?
These two sons of Israel did not have any of the twelve parcels of land in the Twelve Tribes of Israel named after them.
Who are Levi and Joseph?
When these people stole the Ark of the Covenant, their people developed tumors.
Who are the Philistines?
This group was responsible for destroying the second temple and exiling the Jews in 70 AD.
Who were the Romans?
This tent was carried by the Israelites on their journey to the Promised Land.
What is the Tabernacle?
These were Joseph's sons.
Who are Ephraim and Manasseh?
This man took the Israelites across the Jordan River and into Canaan - the Promised Land.
Who is Joshua?
Solomon's temple was destroyed by this empire's army in 586 BC.
What is the New Babylonian Empire or the Babylonian Empire?
This king took his own life after being wounded on the battlefield when fighting against the Philistines.
Who is King Saul?