Term
|
Definition
| was one of Solomon's chief officials. One day the prophet Ahijah met him on the road. He tore his cloak into twelve pieces and gave ten to Jeroboam, saying that God would take ten tribes away from Solomon's kingdom because of his idolatry, and give them to him. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| One day he met Jeroboam on the road. He tore his cloak into twelve pieces and gave ten to Jeroboam, saying that God would take ten tribes away from Solomon's kingdom because of his idolatry, and give them to Jeroboam. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Solomon's son - who prepared to take the throne. He met resistance from Jeroboam (Solomon's other son) who returned and with representatives of the people he met with the new king, begging him to lighten the heavy burden of taxes and labor that Solomon had laid on them. He rejected these pleas and raised the people's taxes. So the ten tribes of the north chose Jeroboam as their king |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a southern tribe of Israel - remained loyal to Rehoboam |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a southern tribe of Israel - remained loyal to Rehoboam |
|
|
Term
| Israel and Judah in 930BC |
|
Definition
| the northern kingdom was known as Israel, and the southern kingdom as Judah (1 Kings 12). |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the books of 1 and 2 Kings were originally one scroll, compiled in final form during this time, told at the end of 2 Kings (mid 6th century BC). |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The first dynasty to survive for any length of time in the north was this family, beginning around 880 BC |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| During Omri's reign of Israel, he moved the capital to this city |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Three of Omri's descendants were kings until 840 BC, the most famous being this son (c. 874 - 853). |
|
|
Term
The Mesha Stele
a.k.a. The Moabite Stone |
|
Definition
honors Mesha, king of Moab
(late 9th century BCE) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the kingdom that bordered the dead sea and consistently fought with Israel and Judah |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Probably the most famous of Omri's son's who had a successful rule - (c. 874 - 853) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Ahab's wife and referred to as a foreigner who worshipped Baal. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A prophet whose name means "My God is Yahweh," brought the word of the Lord to Ahab that He would send a drought for three years to punish Israel - God provided a brook and ravens that brought food to him during this time |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 1 Kings 18 - there were four hundred fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table that Elijah challenged |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
This range, composed of hard, porous, Cenomanian limestone, including a promontory jutting in a NW direction into the Mediterranean Sea, extends inland to the SE for about thirteen m.
Well known as the place where the prophet Elijah, under the blessing of God, defeated the prophets of Baal and restored the true worship of God to Israel |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The Jezreelite who refused to give his vineyard to Ahab, so Jezebel arranged to have him killed. Elijah the prophet gives him the Lord's message that in the same place that dogs licked up Naboth's blood, they will lick up yours and so it was as well as Jezebel being eaten by dogs |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Events in ch. 22 probably follow this historic battle 853 BC) in which Syria and Israel joined with ten other kings to fight off the major empire of Assyria. Ahab's contribution of 2000 chariots is mentioned on the Kurkh Monolith of Shalmaneser III (left). The Bible does not mention this battle. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, who served Baal and worshipped him. During Ahab's reign, killed off the Lord's prophets and arranged to have Naboth stoned for his vineyard. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Chosen by God to succeed Elijah |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| commander of the army of the king of Aram had leprosy, an Israelite slave serving his wife told him of Elisha whom he visited with the King's blessing and was cured after first not believing that just washing at the river would be sufficient - it took his servants convincing him that it does not have to be miraculous or difficult, just do what Elisha advises and he did |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The servant of Elisha who decided to take for himself the payment that Naaman had offered - as punishment, he and his descendants were stricken with leprosy |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| About 11 years after the death of king Ahab, Elisha anoints him to be the next king of Israel. He is the only northern king to receive at least a partial commendation from the author (10:30-31). His killing of the entire royal family (ch. 10) ends the four-king dynasty of Omri, as God had promised. Jehu throws Jehoram's body on the field that his father Ahab had stolen from Naboth. When Jezebel sees Jehu coming, she refers to him as Zimri, a previous usurper of the throne (1 Kings 16). Her death is particularly grisly, fulfilling the prophecy of Elijah. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| When he was king, Jehu became a vassal of Shalmaneser III, paying him tribute. On this, we see Jehu kneeling to kiss the Assyrian emperor's feet, the earliest portrait of any biblical character. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Jehu's descendant, who extended the territory of Israel to include all the land in the north as in the days of Solomon (including Samaria) and reigned for 41 years. During this time of political prosperity (c. 790-750 BC), a class structure developed within Israelite society, creating economic inequities and hardships for the poor who were increasingly victimized. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| This prophet condemned the lavish lifestyles of the rich, who exploited the poor during the reign of Jeroboam II. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The kings of Israel continued to lead the people in idolatry until this time period, when God allowed the Assyrians to conquer the land and take the people into exile. Prior to that time, in 734 BC Isaiah prophesied to the king of Judah that this destruction was coming. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| This giant empire was again threatening to invade Israel and its northern neighbor Aram (modern-day Syria). |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The son of Ahab who became king of Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years. He is known for sacrificing one of his sons to an idol. When he did not agree with the kings of Israel and Aram to form an alliance to attack Syria, they declared war on Judah (Isaiah 7:1-2; 2 Kings 16:5). |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| God sent this prophet to Ahaz to assure him that events would work out in his favor. Ahaz wanted to make an alliance with Assyria to protect Judah (2 Kings 16:7), but this prophet told him to wait on the Lord: "Do not lose heart. ... It will not happen. ... If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all" (Isa. 7:4, 7, 9). |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| True to God's promise to Ahaz, within two years (732 BC) this capital of Syria (Aram) had fallen and the threat to the southern kingdom was avoided. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Sargon II of Assyria conquered Samaria and took Israel as captives, Assyria populated the territory with foreigners who worshipped their own gods. (As these people intermarried with the few remaining Jews, they produced this race who were so hated by Jews in the NT.) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Sargon II of Assyria conquered Samaria and took Israel as captives, Assyria populated the territory with foreigners who worshipped their own gods. (As these people intermarried with the few remaining Jews, they produced this race who were so hated by Jews in the NT.) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Two kings of Judah who receive commendation from the author, saying "Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord ... Asa's heart was fully committed to the Lord all his life" (1 Kings 15:11, 14). "In everything the son who proceeded his father on the throne walked in the ways of his father and did not stray from them" (1 Kings 22:43). All together father and son reigned 66 years in faithful service to God. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Assassinated Ahab's son Jehoram in the northern kingdom, he also killed Judah's king Ahaziah, who was a grandson of Ahab. Jezebel was also slain thru him. He was son of Nimshi—he drives like a maniac |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Ahab's daughter and mother of Judah's king Ahaziah. Married into Judah's royal house for a political alliance. When Jehu killed her son, she decided to take the throne herself and tried to murder her grandchildren to eliminate future rivals. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Ahaziah's sister hides her nephew, one of Ahaziah's grandsons until the priest Jehoiada reveals his existence to the temple guards and they crown him the rightful king. They vow to rid the kingdom of worshipping Baal |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The son of Ahaz and unlike his father, he was one of Judah's most faithful kings: "There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before or after him" (18:5). He reigned 29 years from about 716-687 BC. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The text mentions that Hezekiah destroyed this which Moses had raised in the wilderness to cure snake bites (Numbers 21:9). Unfortunately, the Jews had begun worshipping this object as an idol. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| this is when Assyria invaded Judah. They successfully captured and destroyed several nearby cities, such as Lachish. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Archeologists in the 19th century found relief carvings of the siege of this city in the Assyrian capital of Nineveh They show a developed war-machinery. Upon a ramp that they built, the Assyrian soldiers approach the city walls in orders of archers, flanked by infantry, who in their turn defend carts which were used to pound the walls. Supplies were carried by camels. The Assyrians set the city on fire (in some place the archaeologists found 50 centimeters of ashes). Many inhabitants were exiled to Assyria to become slaves and servants, whole families are carried off, their goods looted; men are tortured and the Judean governor is seen kneeling before Sennacherib. Many people also died in the battle, as is witnessed by a mass grave which was later found by archaeologists, with 1500 human skeletons, mainly of women and children." This city was rebuilt and Jeremiah records that Azekah and this city were the last cities to fall to the Babylonians before they lay siege to Jerusalem |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The final good king of Judah who became king at age 8 when his father died. In 622 BC he set about to restore the temple, which had again fallen into disrepair. There they found the "Book of the Law" which was probably a lost copy of Deuteronomy. After reading the law, he established many reforms to bring the people of Judah back into obedience to the covenant. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The Ammonite god that required child sacrifices |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the Assyrian capital that fell to the Babylonian armies in 612 BC |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| This is the battle that finally ended the Assyrian empire in 605 when they were decisively defeated along with their Egyptian allies |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The new power in the middle east who was Babylon's king that made Babylon one of the greatest cities in history. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the son of Abigail of Carmel;new King gave him the name Belteshazzar;could understand visions and dreams of all kinds. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the word of the Lord came to this priest, the son of Buzi, by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Jer 8 Therefore the Lord Almighty says this: “Because you have not listened to my words, 9 I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy[a] them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin. 10 I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp. 11 This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Jer 31:33 “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
34 No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.” |
|
|
Term
| Meaning of the Statue dreamed by Nebuchanezzar |
|
Definition
| This prophecy tells of four kingdoms. Gold stands for Babylon, silver represents the Medes, bronze the Persians, and iron the rule of Alexander the Great who spread Greek culture throughout the middle east in the 4th century BC. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The crown prince who acted as king in his father's absence and experienced God's writing on the wall which Daniel interpreted. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the ruler of Persia but we know from other sources and other books in the OT that Cyrus was the Persian emperor at this time; see 6:28. One of my former Bible professors at Lipscomb believed that this name might have been another name for Cyrus (as rulers often were known by many names); another idea is that Darius is the regional governor under Cyrus at this time. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The Persian ruler had a different policy from that of the Babylonians. When they conquered lands, they sought to gain the people's loyalty by allowing them to return to their original places. The first of the Jews began to return to Canaan in 536 BC. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| One, a priest of the tribe of Levi, led another return in 457 BC. His contemporary also began rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem around 445. Both these leaders (as recorded in the books named for them) must deal with the more important spiritual restoration of the people. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Around the time of Jesus, he made massive improvements to the temple and the temple mount, making it one of the most beautiful buildings in the world, but the Romans destroyed this temple in 70 AD. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| God calls the Persian king Cyrus, "my messiah." The term in Hebrew means the Lord calls him the "messiah" and "anointed one," and is used for a king, high priest, or anyone whom God chooses for a special task |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| In world history, the Persian empire fell to this emperor in 333 BC. After his death, the empire was divided among his generals. From that time, the Jews were caught between struggling factions, with Syria in the north and Egypt in the south. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| In the 2nd century this Syrian king tried to wipe out Judaism. He prohibited circumcision, and desecrated the temple in 167 BC by sacrificing a pig (an unclean animal) on the altar. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| this family with a name meaning "hammer" rose up in civil war and defeated Antiochus IV. The cleansing of the temple by this family is celebrated today at Hanukkah. These events are prophesied in the second half of the book of Daniel and are recorded in the books of 1 and 2 of this family name, included in some Bibles in a section called the Apocrypha. |
|
|
