The One and Only God Flashcards
(25 cards)
Who was the land invaded by?
Egyptians & Babylonians
Who never abandoned his people?
God
For what was their faith & pride?
They were his people, and he was their god.
Who was the strange & powerless herdsman ?
The Jews
Where did Abraham come from?
He came from UR in the Chadees
What do Hammurabi’s strict and just laws turn up against?
The bible
The story of the Tower of Babel?
The people of the great city tried to build a tower that would reach up into heaven.
why was God mad about the tower of Babel?
angry at their pride.
One of Abraham’s Ur Descendants that the Bible tells us?
Joseph, son of Jacob.
What did Josephs brothers do to Joseph?
Took him to Egypt and sold him.
What did Joseph become?
A counselor and minister to the Pharaoh
Where did Josephs brothers and their children settle?
Egypt
what do you read in the first chapter of Exodus?
“And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor: and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in motar and in brick..”
What happened in the end of the first chapter of Exodus?
Moses led them out of Egypt into the desert (around 1250 BC)
What was the promise land?
The land in which their ancestors had lived since the time of Abraham.
The capital of their own small kingdom?
Jerusalem
The first king of the own small kingdom?
King Saul
When did King Solomon rule?
Soon after 1000 BC
What did King Solomon do?
Built the first temple of Jerusalem.
What is Jerusalem
The capital of the small kingdom
What was deep inside the heathen temples?
There were images of Anubis with his jackal’s head or of Baal, to whom even human sacrifices were made.
What happened after solomon’s reign?
Their kingdom split into two (kingdom of Israel & kingdom of Judah) & many battles followed
When was the city of Jerusalem destroyed? and by who?
in 586 BC & by King Zedekiah
The Babylonian empire was destroyed by who and when?
Destroyed by its Persian neighbor in 538 BC
