Kings of Judah

Question 1

God caused him to instantly become leprous when he tried to burn incense in the temple.

Answer 1

Uzziah (Azariah)

Amaziah -> Uzziah -> Jotham

Question 2

How did Rehoboam lose his reign over Israel, and the kingdom became divided in two?

Answer 2

Jeroboam asked Rehoboam to lighten the people’s burden, but Rehoboam took the advice of his peers and threatened to increase it. And so the people rebelled and made Jeroboam king. But this was of God because of the idolatry of Solomon, Rehbooam’s father.

Question 3

A prophet spoke to Jeroboam saying that which future king of Judah would utterly destroy the altars he had built.

Answer 3

Josiah

Amon -> Josiah -> Jehoahaz

Question 4

Rehoboam’s mother was (tribe or nationality)

Answer 4

Ammonite. Her name was Naamah.

Question 5

Who was Abijam’s mother?

Answer 5

Abijam’s mother was Maacah, daughter of Absalom.

Rehoboam -> Abijam -> Asa

Question 6

Who was Asa’s mother?

Answer 6

Asa’s mother was Maacah, daughter of Absalom.

Abijam -> Asa -> Jehoshaphat

Question 7

Did Abijam do good or evil in the eyes of God?

Answer 7

Evil.

Rehoboam -> Abijam -> Asa

Question 8

Did Asa do good or evil in the eyes of God?

Answer 8

Good. He even removed his mother from her position because she had built an Ashera.
Abijam -> Asa -> Jehoshaphat

Question 9

Which king of Judah, in his old age, became “diseased in his feet”?

Answer 9

Asa. Yet he did not seek help from God, but only from doctors.
Abijam -> Asa -> Jehoshaphat

Question 10

Which king cast out the sodomites (male cult prostitutes) from Judah?

Answer 10

Johoshaphat

Asa -> Jehoshaphat -> Jehoram

Question 11

How many years did Jehoram reign in Judah? Who was his wife?

Answer 11

Jehoram reigned eight years, and his wife was Athaliah, daughter of Ahab king of Israel. Therefore he did evil.
Jehoshaphat -> Jehoram -> Ahaziah

Question 12

Who succeeded Jehoram in Judah, how long did he reign, and who was his mother?

Answer 12

Ahaziah succeeded Jehoram. He reigned just one year. His mother was Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel.
Jehoram -> Ahaziah -> Athaliah

Question 13

How did Ahaziah’s reign come to an end?

Answer 13

Ahaziah went with Joram, king of Israel, to fight Hazael the king of Syria. Joram was wounded and went to Jezreel to heal. Ahaziah went to see him. But Jehu was meanwhile anointed king and came to assassinate Joram in Jezreel. Since Ahaziah was also there, Jehu killed him too. Seeing that Ahaziah was dead, Athaliah killed all the heirs to the throne and reigned in Judah.
Jehoram -> Ahaziah -> Athaliah

Question 14

Who succeeded Athaliah as queen?

Answer 14

Joash was hidden from Athaliah when she killed all the heirs to the throne and took the throne for herself. After seven years in hiding, they anointed him king at the age of seven.
Athaliah -> Joash -> Amaziah

Question 15

What instigated the end of Baal worship in Judah?

Answer 15

Jehoiada, the priest, had hidden Joash for seven years. When Joash was anointed king, they killed Athaliah and Jehoiada instigated the destruction of Baal worship. This is around the same time that Jehu put an end to Baal worship in Israel.
Athaliah -> Joash -> Amaziah

Question 16

What happened when Hazael, king of Syria, conquered Gath and then set his sights on Jerusalem?

Answer 16

Joash paid him off with all the wealth of the temple.

Athaliah -> Joash -> Amaziah

Question 17

How did Joash’s reign come to an end?

Answer 17

His servants assassinated him and his son Amaziah became king.
Athaliah -> Joash -> Amaziah

Question 18

What did Amaziah do when he came into power, regarding those who assassinated his father?

Answer 18

He had them killed, but was obedient to the Law in not killing their children.
Joash -> Amaziah -> Uzziah/Azariah

Question 19

Amaziah declared war against which king of Israel? Who won?

Answer 19

Jehoahaz. But he was defeated by him.

Joash -> Amaziah -> Uzziah/Azariah

Question 20

How did Amaziah’s reign end?

Answer 20

They conspired to assassinate him. He fled to Lachish, but they pursued him there and killed him.
Joash -> Amaziah -> Uzziah/Azariah

Question 21

When Uzziah was struck with leprosy he had to separate himself from society. Who effectively reigned in his place during this time until his death?

Answer 21

Uzziah’s son Jotham reigned while Uzziah was still alive but separated due to his leprosy. Jotham succeeded the throne after the death of Uzziah.
Uzziah/Azariah -> Jotham -> Ahaz

Question 22

Which king of Judah sacrificed his son by fire (probably to Molech)?

Answer 22

Ahaz

Jotham -> Ahaz -> Hezekiah

Question 23

Who attacked Judah while Ahaz was in power, and what did Ahaz do about it?

Answer 23

Pekah, king of Israel, and Rezin, king of Syria, laid seige to Jerusalem but failed to take it. To defend himself from further attack, he paid Tiglath-Pileser to come to his aid. Tiglath-Pileser thus invaded the North, taking Damascus and killing Rezin.
Jotham -> Ahaz -> Hezekiah

Question 24

After Tiglath-Pileser allied with Ahaz and took Damascus, Ahaz went to Damascus to see him. What did he then do in Damascus?

Answer 24

Ahaz saw an altar in Damascus that he liked, so he sent the plans for it to be built in Jerusalem, rearranging all of the temple around it.
Jotham -> Ahaz -> Hezekiah

Question 25

Which king destroyed the brass serpent (Nehushtan)?

Answer 25

Hezekiah, during religious reform and a cleansing of the temple, also destroyed the brass serpent that Moses had made, but that the people had come to worship as an idol. Ahaz -> Hezekiah -> Manasseh

Question 26

What happened when Assyria, Sennacherib, came against Juda in the time of Hezekiah?

Answer 26

At first Hezekiah gave him all the treasure of the temple, but Sennacherib came to beseige Jerusalem anyway. But an angel went out and slew the army of Sennacherib. Ahaz -> Hezekiah -> Manasseh

Question 27

Which king was spared when he became sick, but during the extra life he was given, he exposed Judah to the Babylonians?

Answer 27

Hezekiah became sick and the prophet Isaiah prophesied that he would live another fifteen years. He confirmed this by the shadow of the clock going forwards ten steps. But after this, when Babylon sent messengers to comfort Hezekiah about his illness, he showed them all of his wealth. Isaiah then prophesied that all of the wealth they had seen would be carried off to Babylon. But Hezekiah thought "at least it won't happen in my time." Ahaz -> Hezekiah -> Manasseh

Question 28

After his father, who was zealous for God, which king was (one might say) equally zealous for every idol in opposition to God?

Answer 28

Manasseh | Hezekiah -> Manasseh -> Amon

Question 29

How did Amon's reign come to an end? How long did he reign?

Answer 29

The killed him in his home. He reigned just two years. But the people killed his assassins and made his son Josiah king. Manasseh -> Amon -> Josiah

Question 30

Which king finally removed the golden calves from Bethel and Dan?

Answer 30

Josiah had the temple rennovated, and during rennovation they found the Book of the Law. Convincted by it, Josiah overthrew all idolatry, including the golden calves in Bethel and Dan. He also conducted a proper Passover. Amon -> Josiah -> Jehoahaz

Question 31

How did Josiah die?

Answer 31

Pharaoh was travelling through Israel to fight Assyria, but Josiah went to oppose him and was killed by him at Megiddo. Pharaoh, when returning later, also looted the temple. Amon -> Josiah -> Jehoahaz

Question 32

How long did Jehoahaz reign, and how did his reign end?

Answer 32

Pharaoh killed Jehoahaz' father, Josiah, and so Jehoahaz reigned, but only for three months before Pharaoh returned, looted the temple, and took Jehoahaz prisoner to Egypt where he eventually died. Josiah -> Jehoahaz -> Jehoiakim

Question 33

How did Jehoiakim come into power?

Answer 33

Pharaoh had taken Jehoahaz prisoner to Eypt, never to be seen again, and made Jehoiakim king instead. Johoahaz -> Jehoiakim -> Jehoiachin

Question 34

Which king was in power when Nebuchadnezar attacked Judah?

Answer 34

Jehoiakim. But after three years, Jehoiakim rebelled against Nebuchadnezer. And so Nebuchadnezer destroyed Judah. Jehoiakim -> Jehoiachin -> Zedekiah

Question 35

Who was in power when Jerusalem fell?

Answer 35

Jehoichin was only in power three months while Jerusalem was under seige by Babylon. Jehoiachin gave himself up to Babylon. Johoiachin -> Zedekiah

Question 36

How did Zedekiah come into power?

Answer 36

When Jehoiachin gave himself up, Babylon ceased the seige of Jerusalem, and Nebuchadnezer took Jehoiachin's uncle, whose name was Mattaniah, and made him king, changing his name to Zedekiah. Jehoicahin -> Zedekiah

Question 37

Jerusalem finally fell while Zedekiah was in power. What happened to Zedekiah?

Answer 37

Zedekiah reigned eleven years. But Jerusalem was under seige because Zedekiah had rebelled against Nebuchadnezer. Zedekiah tried to flee, but they chased him and caught him. They executed his children in front of him and then removed his eyes and carried him off to Babylon. Jerusalem was laid waste. Jehoiachin -> Zedekiah

Question 38

Jehoiachin had been taken prisoner to Babylon. What was his end?

Answer 38

After some thirty seven years being held prisoner, a new king of Babylon came into power, Evil-Merodac. In the first year of his reign, he set Jehoiachin free and he ate at the king's table for the rest of his life. Jehoiakim -> Jehoiachin -> Zedekiah

Question 39

How was Joab related to King David?

Answer 39

Joab's mother was Zeruiah (Sarvia in Spanish), David's sister, making Joab David's cousin.