Final - Southern Kings Flashcards
(101 cards)
1
Q
- son of Solomon
A
Rehoboam
2
Q
- limited success vs Jeroboam
- fortified about 15 cities
A
Rehoboam
3
Q
- while protecting north, attacked at south
- fairly secure at north, exposed at south
A
Rehoboam
4
Q
- son of Rehoboam
- continued in the sins of his father
A
Abijam
5
Q
- briefly take bethel
A
Abijam
6
Q
- first of godly kings**
- still not perfect
- trying to follow God
A
Asa
7
Q
- removes his grandma from authority bc she was an idol worshipper
A
Asa
8
Q
- called people to renew gov’t with God**
- invited ppl of north to come down
A
Asa
9
Q
- his heart was blameless all his days***
A
Asa
10
Q
- though he didn’t do everything right, his heart was always towards God
A
Asa
11
Q
- first of kings to co-rule
A
Jehosephat
12
Q
- godly king
- following in the way of his father Asa
A
Jehosephat
13
Q
- orders Levites to teach book of law
A
Jehosephat
14
Q
- successful military rules
- strong army
- military forces
A
Jehosephat
15
Q
- establishes court system with civil judge/court**
- priests take care of religious issues
A
Jehosephat
16
Q
- married to Athaliah
A
Jehoram
17
Q
- does NOT follow godly ways of father*
A
Jehoram
18
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- 5 events
- killed 6 brothers
- Edom revolted and broke free
- Libnah revolts
- Philistines and Arabians invade his territory
- Death by disease
A
Jehoram
19
Q
- God would not destroy this king bc he is the line of David
A
Jehoram
20
Q
- 2 Chron 21:20
- departed with no ones regret***
A
Jehoram
21
Q
- succeeds father, influenced by mother Athalia
A
Ahaziah
22
Q
- goes to North to visit uncle
- they both get killed
A
Ahaziah
23
Q
- only woman to rule
A
Athaliah
24
Q
- mother of Ahaziah
- daughter of Jezebel
- Baal worship
A
Athaliah
25
- approx. 7 years old
| - first of two children kings
Joash
26
- priest raising him are advisors
- destroy Baal stuff
- created building funds for temple
- some high places are still there
Joash
27
- godly king, son of Joash
Amaziah
28
- 2 Chron 25:2 - right in the sight of the Lord but not with his whole heart**
Amaziah
29
- Jerusalem partially destroyed
Amaziah
30
- third God-approved king
Uzziah (Azariah)
31
- most successful king in S. kingdom
Uzziah (Azariah)
32
- last of Godly kings
Jotham
33
- Isaiah is reinging prophet
- confronts issues
- religious neglect is starting to set in
- whats good on outside doesn’t mean good on inside
Jotham
34
- decided he has to work with Assyria
Ahaz
35
- Assyria protector at a price
| - send money to them
Ahaz
36
- builds an alter in jerusalem just like the one in Damascus
Ahaz
37
- military to Edom Damascus and Philistines
Ahaz
38
- godly king
- celebrates passover
- destroys bronze serpant idol
Hezekiah
39
- can’t openly rebel against Assyrians
Hezekiah
40
- crush revolt of Philistines
Hezekiah
41
- constructs tunnel to get water in tunnel of Simon
Hezekiah
42
- Sinacarib — proves he is a strong king in Assyria
- ______ pays for him to leave them alone
- Assyria king attacks Egypt
Hezekiah
43
- _______ gets sick but God says he will live for 15 more years
- sundial goes back 10 degrees to prove it
- son Manasseh is born
Hezekiah
44
- 2 Chron. 33
| - one of the most ungodly king on the S. kingdom*
Manasseh
45
- 12 years old when he became king, reigned for 55 yrs
Manasseh
46
- v. 12 — he repents, God brings him home, and Hezekiah sees God
- removes foreign worship
- restores new worship in the S. kingdom
- miraculous turnaround
Manasseh
47
- follows father (Manasseh) before repentance
Amom
48
- son of Amom
Josiah
49
- second child king — age 8
Josiah
50
- time of peace for S. kingdom
Josiah
51
- while cleaning temple they find the Book of the Law***
- they had lost it D:
- 2 Kings 23 — could have read prophecy that someone would destroy the altar***
- 1 Kings 13:2
Josiah
52
- Jeremiah is prophesying
Josiah
53
- Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakuk are around
Josiah
54
- middle son of Josiah chosen to rule first
Jehoahaz
55
- put on throne by king of Egypt
Jehoiakim
56
- oldest son of Josiah
Jehoiakim
57
- he is a terrible king
- paying taxes to Egypt
- uses extra money to build temple
- uses people to build it
- throws scroll into fire to burn it
Jehoiakim
58
- from this point on, Egyptians will NOT be a world power again**
Jehoiakim
59
- Jehoiakim’s son, Josiah’s grandson
Jehoiachin
60
- this king, Ezekial, and others are taken to Babylon
| - Daniel is already there
Jehoiachin
61
- Nebekanezzar puts him on the throne
Zedekiah
62
- revolts against Babylon
| - thinks he can get Egypt to help him
Zedekiah
63
- July 586 BC
- Neb. takes everyone, kills Zedekiah, destroys temple
| - no one left in the line of David to be on the throne of the S. kingdom**
64
- governor of Babylonian empire
Gedaliah
65
- from Judah
- assassinate G. w/ conspirators
- want to flee to Egypt
Ishmael
66
- tells them to stay and God will take care of them
| - if they go to Egypt, they will die there
Jeremiah
67
first group taken to Babylon
- Daniel, friends, and others
68
second group taken to Babylon
Middle, about 10,00
- Jehoiachin
- Ezekiel
69
third group taken to Babylon
- All but poorest
- Zedekiah (last of ruling kings)
- city and temple destroyed
70
- Two prominent people
Daniel and Ezekiel
71
- first Babylonian ruler
- conquers Egypt
- building cities and templs
- Marduk is their god
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar
72
- take name of god
- Nebuchadnezzar's son
- rules for about 2 years
- name in bible is Evil Meridoch
- 2 Kings 25:27-30
- murdered by brother-in-law
Amel-Marduk
73
- fought one military campaign
| - ruled for a bit longer than Amel-Marduk
Neriglissar
74
- son of Neriglissar
- not significant for bible
- assassinated by next guys
Labashi-Marduk
75
- he and his group killed Labashi-Marduk
- fought 2 military campaigns
- worship moon-god Sin, not Marduk
- he leaves Belshazear in charge
Nabonidus
76
- second in command under Nabonidus
| - makes Daniel 3rd in command
Belshazear
77
- ruler of Persian empire before takeover of Babylonian empire
Cambyses I
78
- consolidate empire
- captives can go home as long as they build their temple to their god as long as they pray for him
- son takes over
Cyrus
79
- Cyrus’s son
| - kills his brother
Cambyses II
80
- seizes throne and claims he is Cambyses’ brother
| - Cambyses thinks his brother came back from the dead so he kills himself
Gaumata
81
- big army
- establishes some judges
- creates first national postal system
- Hague and Zachariah
Darius I
82
- king with Ester as queen!
- takes military to Athens
- building and military campaigns
- assassinated by palace guard
Xerxes
83
- son of Xerxes
- successful for a period of time
- Ezra returns
- Nehemiah returns
- Malachi is written - last of OT books
Artaxerxes I
84
First Return
Sheshbazzar, Zerubbabel, Jeshua
85
Second Return
Ezra
86
Third Return
Nehemiah
87
Jewish Holliday from Esther
Feast of Purim
88
- from Macedonia (greece)
- takes over whole Persian empire and more!
- ruling Judah
- build city of Alexandria
- conquered the WORLD!
- didn’t think anyone was as great as him
Alexander the Great
89
general who ruled in Egypt after Alexander the Great
Ptolemy Lagus
90
general who ruled in Northern area after Alexander the Great
Seleucus
91
- making Jews comply with modernization
- sacrifice pig on altar?
- Epiphanes = manifest god
- ca. 167 BC
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
92
- guerrilla warfare, no army
- they win the war 😮
- oil burns for 8 days
- festival of light — Hanukkah
- Judah is an indépendant nation now
Judas Maccabeeus
93
- can’t keep peace in the land
- Roman empire is getting bigger and headed their way
- Romans take over
Hasmonian family
94
- not Jewish
- marries into Jewish Hasmonian family
- appointed to be rule of Jews
- spends $$ to restore temple
Herodian family
95
building reflect Greek culture
Synagogue
96
control synagogue
Pharisees
97
- control temple
| - work with Romans to maintain civil order
Sadducees
98
- thought everyone else was corrupt
- live in wilderness away from world — like monks
- no real political influence
- scrolls
Essenes
99
- bible is not being written
- not Apocrypha
- style of literature
Apocalyptic
100
- translate from H to G
| - the book the Jewish people used
Septuagint
101
- to hide
- authors were hidden by false names
- Macabees I and II
- read by Jewish people as a part of their history
- RC church added some of these books to their cannon
Apocrypha
