The Sins of the Ancestors
This commandment was continually violated by the ancestors
What is the first commandment,
Exodus 20:3 (NIV) “You shall have no other gods before me.
This prophet started seeing visions from God among the exiles by Kebar Canal in the land of the Babylonians
Who is the prophet Ezekiel
Ezekiel 1:1 (NIV) In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
Daniel asked the Babylonian king's chief of his court officials, Ashpenaz, to test him for 10 days, what was the test
What is to eat only vegetables and drink only water.
Daniel 1:12 (NIV) “Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink.
Who said “Surely your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, for you were able to reveal this mystery.”
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar
Daniel 2:46-47 (NIV) 46 Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell prostrate before Daniel and paid him honor and ordered that an offering and incense be presented to him. 47 The king said to Daniel, “Surely your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, for you were able to reveal this mystery.”
In Ezekiel's vision the Lord told him not to rebel like the rebellious people, but to open his mouth and eat this
What is a scroll written with words of woe and lament on both sides.
Ezekiel 2:9-10 (NIV) 9 Then I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out to me. In it was a scroll, 10 which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe.
What law did King Solomon violate?
What is God's law preventing the Israelites to intermarry with the local Caananites.
Deuteronomy 7:1-4 (NIV) 1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations--the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you... 3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons
How did God protect Daniel and the wisemen from the King Nebuchadnezzar's proclamation
Daniel 2:12 (NIV) This made the king so angry and furious that he ordered the execution of all the wise men of Babylon.
What is telling Daniel what king Nebuchadnezzar's dreamed and then interpreting it
Daniel 2:19-22 (NIV) 19 During the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision. Then Daniel praised the God of heaven 20 and said: “Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his. 21 He changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. 22 He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him.
This woman received special care from the king's chief eunuch, Hegai
Who is Esther
Esther 2:9 (NIV) She pleased him (Hegai) and won his favor. Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food. He assigned to her seven female attendants selected from the king’s palace and moved her and her attendants into the best place in the harem.
This Jewish man was 2nd in rank to King Xerxes
Who was Mordechai the Jew
Esther 10:3 (NIV) Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews, and held in high esteem by his many fellow Jews, because he worked for the good of his people and spoke up for the welfare of all the Jews.
What are gold and silver, goods and livestock, and freewill offerings for the temple
Ezra 1:4 (NIV) And in any locality where survivors may now be living, the people are to provide them with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with freewill offerings for the temple of God in Jerusalem.’ ”
Who did the ancestors rob and abuse and mistreat?
Who are the poor, the widows, the orphans, and God
Isaiah 10:1-2 (NIV) 1 Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, 2 to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.
Malachi 3:8 (NIV) “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings.
When Babylonian empire captured Judah, what did God faithfully preserve?
What is the family line of King David.
2 Samuel 7:16-17 (NIV) 16 Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever.’ ” 17 Nathan reported to David all the words of this entire revelation.
Reading the book of the chronicles, King Nebuchadnezzar was reminded of what event?
When Mordechai uncovered the plot to assassinate the king by two of the king's officers.
Esther 2:21 (NIV) During the time Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s officers who guarded the doorway, became angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
God commanded Ezekiel to prophecy to these
What are dry bones
Ezekiel 37:4 (NIV) Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!
This person found favor in the eyes of king Artaxerxes, who allowed him to go back and rebuild Jerusalem
Who is Nehemiah
Nehemiah 2:6 (NIV) Then the king, with the queen sitting beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you get back?” It pleased the king to send me; so I set a time.
Which commandment from God did the Israelites violated against their neighbor when standing before a judge?
What is the ninth commandment, You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor
Exodus 20:16 (NIV) “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
What plan did God enable Esther to expose to the king?
What is Haman's plan to have all the Jewish people in the kingdom killed.
Esther 7:6 (NIV) Esther said, “An adversary and enemy! This vile Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen.
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, what did the LORD do?
What is moved king Cyrus' heart to allow all the Israelites who desired to return to Jerusalem and build the temple
Ezra 1:2-3 (NIV) 2 “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: “ ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. 3 Any of his people among you may go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the LORD, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem, and may their God be with them.
The angel Gabriel came to Daniel in a vision and told him this amount of time to finish transgression and put an end to sin
What are seventy sevens
Daniel 9:24 (NIV) “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
Daniel broke this royal decree that put him in the Lions den
What is that anyone who prays to any god or human being, except for the king, would be thrown into the Lions den
Daniel 6:7 (NIV) The royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers and governors have all agreed that the king should issue an edict and enforce the decree that anyone who prays to any god or human being during the next thirty days, except to you, Your Majesty, shall be thrown into the lions’ den.
God broke off the hands and head of this idol when the Ark of the Covenant was in captivity?
What is the Philistine god Dagon.
1 Samuel 5:4 (NIV) But the following morning when they rose, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the LORD! His head and hands had been broken off and were lying on the threshold; only his body remained.
What did king Nebuchadnezzar see in the blazing furnace?
Who are Shadrack, Meshack, and Abednego, and a fourth person that looked like the son of gods.
Daniel 3:25 (NIV) He said, “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”
This prophet of God had prophesied that the people of Judah and Jerusalem would be taken into captivity by the Babylonians and the exile would last 70 years.
Who is the prophet Jeremiah
Jeremiah 25:11-12 (NIV) 11 This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 “But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians, for their guilt,” declares the LORD, “and will make it desolate forever.
These blessings Haman proclaimed should happen “For the man the king delights to honor"
What are
dress him in a royal robe the king has worn
have him ride a horse the king has ridden
One of the king's most noble princes parade him through the streets of Susa proclaiming: ‘This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!’
This holiday was established to celebrate the great victory of Mordechai and the Jews on the 14th and 15th days of the month of Adar
What is Purim
Esther 9:26 (NIV) (Therefore these days were called Purim, from the word pur.) Because of everything written in this letter and because of what they had seen and what had happened to them,