People
He sold his birthright to his brother for a pot of stew.
Who is Esau?
This is where Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit.
Where is Eden?
This refers to the day of rest, to be observed every seventh day of the week.
What is the Sabbath?
Before their were kings, these were the temporary leaders of Israel.
What are the Judges?
In those days there was no king in Israel; all the people did what was right in their own eyes.
What is the Book of Judges?
She was the mother-in-law of Ruth.
Who is Naomi?
This was the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel established by Omri.
What is Samaria?
This yearly ritual cleanses the Tabernacle from the effects of moral impurity.
What is Yom Kippur?
This is a name for the first 11 books in Genesis.
What is the primeval history?
In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God. He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, engaging in the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites. He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.
What is the Book of Kings?
He fathered a child by his daughter-in-law, Tamar.
Who is Judah.
This is the city that was conquered when Israel marched around it seven times carrying the ark.
What is Jericho?
This occurred in the year 721 BCE
The fall of Israel to the Assyrians.
Of the following books, this is NOT part of the Deuteronomistic history: Kings, Exodus, Joshua, Samuel
What is Exodus?
3 “‘If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you are to offer a male without defect. You must present it at the entrance to the tent of meeting so that it will be acceptable to the Lord. 4 You are to lay your hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on your behalf to make atonement for you.
What is Leviticus?
The death of her husband was plotted by David to cover up his crimes.
Who is Bathsheba?
This was the hometown of Boaz and then David.
What is Bethlehem?
This is an event that occurs every 50 years and involves the remission of debts and the freeing of Hebrew slaves.
What is the Jubilee?
This is a mythical story that explains origins.
What is an etiology?
13 Elisha then picked up Elijah’s cloak that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. 14 He took the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it. “Where now is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.
What is the Book of Kings?
He was an evil king of Judah whose sin was the cause of the Babylonian exile.
Who is Manasseh?
It was on the plains of this kingdom that Moses delivered his final address before the people entered the land of Canaan.
What is Moab?
This event is described both in Genesis 6–9 and the story of Atrahasis.
What is the Flood?
This is the Greek translation of the Old Testament.
What is the Septuagint?
Turn back, my daughters, go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me, even if I should have a husband tonight and bear sons, 13 would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, it has been far more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of the Lord has turned against me.
What is the Book of Ruth?