SURVEY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
Lesson Eight
EXILE & RETURN OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM OF JUDAH
JEREMIAH (PG. 763)
590 BC
DAY ONE:
29:1 Jeremiah sent a letter to
the first Jews exiled from Jerusalem to ______________________.
30:9 God promised the exiles he
would bring them back and some day they would serve God and
____________________ who God will raise up for them. Who do you think this David was God was referring to? ___________________________
31:33 At that time God will put
his law in their __________________________ and write it on their
_________________________.
37:16 What did the people do to
Jeremiah because they thought he was talking treason? _________________________________
_________________________________________________
38:6 Although the king had
Jeremiah taken out of there, some others had him put into an empty
__________________ where he sand down into the ______________________. At the point of death he was released and
returned to confinement in a courtyard.
39:6f What was the last thing
Zedekiah saw before his eyes were put out by King Nebuchadnezar? ________________________
40:4 Knowing that Jeremiah had
tried to get the Jews to surrender, the Babylonian commander freed him from the
chains on his ___________ and told him he could do what?
________________________________________________________________
40:6 What did Jeremiah choose
to do?
________________________________________________
2 KINGS
24:20f King _________________, the
next puppet king, rebelled against Babylon, so Nebuchadnezzar returned to
Jerusalem and kept it under siege how many years? ___________________________
25:8f Eleven years after first
attacking Jerusalem, King Nebuchadnezzar set fire to the magnificent
_______________________ in Jerusalem, the royal ___________________, and every
important ______________________. Then
the ______________________________ were _______________ down.
25:11f At that time, they took
into exile the rest of the _____________________, leaving behind only the
_____________________ of the people.
LAMENTATIONS (PG. 796)
588 BC
TAKEN FROM THE WORD
LAMENT OR MOURN
1:1 How
____________________________ lies the city, once so full of
____________________.
1:4 The roads to
________________ mourn, for no one comes to her appointed __________________.
DAY TWO:
2:14 The visions of the
prophets were _________________...did not expose their ________________ to ward
off their _________________________.
3:33 God does not
_______________________ bring affliction on people.
4:13 It happened because of the
sins of the _____________________ and _________________.
DANIEL (PG. 857)
570 BC
3:11 Over in Babylon, Jewish
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused to ________________________ Babylon's
gods, even when threatened with a blazing _______________________________.
3:24f When they were punished by
being thrown into the furnace, King Nebuchadnezzar saw how many men walking
around in it? _________________________ What did the fourth look like? ____________________________
5:1 Who was made king of
Babylon next?
_________________________, the ______ of Nebuchadnessar.
5:3 During a banquet, he and
his friends drank out of the gold _________________ that had been taken out of
the ______________________ in Jerusalem.
5:5 Suddenly the
_____________________ of a human hand appeared and wrote something on the wall.
5:28f Daniel interpreted the
writing. The last word meant his
kingdom was being given to the ____________________ and _______________________. That very night the king was
____________________________ and __________________________________, a Mede,
took over Babylon.
6:1f Darius divided the
kingdom into ____________ provinces with ____________ administrators over them,
one of whom was __________________________.
Later Darius decided to make Daniel prime minister of the country.
6:10 What did Daniel do three
times a day?
____________________________ facing ________________________. Remember when Solomon built and dedicated
the temple (1 Kings 8:46-48, pg. 334)?
What did Solomon say would help them if they were ever taken captive to
a foreign land? ______________________________________________
6:8 Not knowing this, Darius
sealed a decree that no one could ask anything of anyone else but him for
thirty days. If they did, they would be
thrown to the_________________________.
6:18f Honoring his word, Darius
had Daniel thrown into the lions den, but he spent the night without
__________________ and he could not ________________________. At dawn, he rushed to the den and called
out, "Has your __________________, whom you _____________________
continually, been able to ___________________ you from the lions?" Had he?
______
6:26 Thereafter, King Darius
issued a decree throughout Media and Persia (which had now absorbed Babylon
also) that everyone must fear and _____________________________ the
___________________ of Daniel.
DAY THREE:
8:20f Daniel predicted that the
Media-Persian Empire would be taken over by the king of ________________.
9:24f Here is an astounding
prophecy. Daniel prophesied the exact
year the Messiah, the descendant of David who will become the eternal King of
the Jews will come.
70 weeks
= 70 years they will be captives
69 weeks
x 7 days in a week = 483 more years from the time Jerusalem is rebuilt until
the Messiah comes.
In the middle of the 7s
(3-1/2) week/years, the Messiah will be cut off (crucified)
All this
came about as predicted.
11:2 Daniel predicted that
there would be ________________ more kings in Persia, and the last one will go
to war against ________________________.
EZRA (PG. 458)
540 BC
1:2 The next king of Persia
was ______________________. He decided
to rebuild the _________________________ in Jerusalem. This man had been predicted by name a
hundred years earlier (see Isaiah 44:28, pg. 707).
1:5 Men from which tribes
returned to their homeland?
__________________________________________________________
Where were the other
northern tribes?
_____________________________________________________________________
1:11 All the Jews who wanted to
returned to Jerusalem under the leadership of ______________________.
2:64 How many Jews chose to
return to their homeland?
______________________
3:8 They did not begin
rebuilding the temple until they had been back how long? ________________
3:12 When they laid the
foundation, the people shouted and praised God, but the older people who had
seen the __________________________ temple, ______________________ aloud
because it was so much smaller than that of Solomon's.
4:4 Who kept discouraging the
people from rebuilding the temple?
______________________________
4:5 They continually sent
complaints to the King ____________________ and ____________________ both.
4:6 When Xerxes began to
reign, their enemies lodged _____________________ against the people of Judah.
4:7 When his
son,_______________________, came to power, they tried once more to stop the
Jews from rebuilding the temple.
6:13f Finally the temple was
_________________________.
DAY FOUR:
HAGGAI (PG. 916)
520 BC
During the Time the People were
Struggling to Get the Temple Rebuilt.
1:2f The people were saying,
"The _______________ has not yet come for the Lord's house to be
__________________." But God
questioned, "Is it _____________ for you to be living in
__________________________ houses while the ____________________ of God remains
a ______________________?"
2:3 Once it was built, he
asked the older people, "Who of you is left who saw this house in its
_____________________ glory? Does it
not seem to you like ____________________________? But now be _________________."
ZECHARIAH (PG. 918)
1:1 During whose reign did
Zechariah prophecy?
______________________________
3:8 The high priest's name
was _________________________. This is
the Hebrew version of the Aramaic name Jesus.
He was symbolic of things to ____________________, specifically bringing
the Branch (sometimes translated Root) to earth. Who was the Branch (Revelation 22:16, pg. 1207)? ____________________________________________
6:11 What was placed on the
high priest's head in 3:5? The priestly
_________________________________ What
was placed on his head later? The
kingly _________________________________.
This Branch is to rule on his ____________________ as king and also be a
_______________________, with ____________________ between the two. Who today is our king (John 18:37, pg.
1050)? ______________________ Who is our priest (Hebrews 9:11, pg.
1166)? ____________________________ This is why the high priest in Jesus day was
so afraid of him.
9:9 Rejoice! Shout!
See, your ________________ comes to you righteous and having
_________________, gentle and riding on the ______________________ of a donkey
(see Matthew 21:2-5, pg. 955).
12:10 They will look on me, the
one they have ______________________________ ....and mourn for an
_________________ child....a firstborn son. Does this sound familiar?
13:1 On that day a
_____________________________ fountain will be opened...to
________________________ them from ___________________. What does fountain refer to (Mark 5:25 -
KJV)? ___________________________ What did Jesus do for us (Revelation 7:14,
pg. 1196)?
__________________________________
14:6 What happened for three
hours the day Jesus was crucified (Matthew 27:45, pg. 966)? _____________________________
14:5 What happened as soon as
Jesus died on the cross (Matthew 27:50-51, pg. 966)? __________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
ESTHER (PG. 485)
1:1 Who was emperor over the
Persian Empire at this time?
____________________________________
2:17 Who did King Xerxes make
his queen?
______________________________
What was so unusual about this (see 2:6 & 7)? ______________________________________________________________ Had she revealed her nationality (see
2:10)? ___________
3:13 What decree did King
Xerxes sign at the urging of an official named Haman? _________________
____________________________________________________________________
4:12f Her uncle, Mordecai, sent
this message to her. "Do not think
that because you are in the king's house you alone of all the Jews will
___________________. For if you remain
___________________ at this time, relief and ______________________ for the
Jews will arise from ______________________ place....Who knows but that you
have come...for ______________________ a __________________________ as
this?" WOW! Should that be our motto through life?
7:9 When King Xerxes found
out about Haman's plot, what did he do to Haman? __________________
9:18f Even today Jews celebrate
this event every December with a _______________, giving and receiving
_______________, and which they call Hanukkah.
DAY FIVE:
EZRA (PG. 463)
460 BC
7:1 The temple was begun
under Cyrus (1:1f), continued under Darius (6:1), and completed under Xerxes
and Artaxerxes (4:6), the husband and son of Jewish Queen Esther. During whose reign did Ezra go to
Jerusalem? ___________________________
7:6 Ezra was a priest, a
____________________________, and well versed in the ____________________ of
________________.
9:2 Ezra found out that the
_____________________ and ___________________ had led the way in marrying
unbelieving wives.
9:6 Ezra prayed, "I am
too ______________________ and _____________________ to lift up my face to
you."
8:1f How many Jewish men
returned to their homeland with Ezra (add them up!)? _____________
NEHEMIAH (PG. 469)
445 BC
2:1 Nehemiah was the cup
bearer of King _____________________________, Esther's son. He was depressed because of what? ___________________________________________________________________________________________
3:1f The king sent him back to
Jerusalem to rebuild the walls. Look
through this chapter and tell which gates were rebuilt by various private
citizens. _______________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
4:6 Despite insults from
enemies who did not want Jerusalem rebuilt, they got the wall how high? _______________________________________ Why?
____________________________________________________________________________
4:16 After that, half the
workers worked on the wall and half
_______________________________________________________
4:23 Even while working and
walking around the town, the men carried ____________________________.
5:14 Finally King Artaxerxes
made Nehemiah their ___________________________________. Even though previous governors placed heavy
taxes on the people for food, etc. and _____________________ it over the
people, Nehemiah never ________________________ allotted to the governor.
6:15f When the wall was finally
completed, their enemies were __________________________.
7:66 Once the walls were
rebuilt, how many more Jews returned from exile? ___________________
DAY SIX:
8:3 Ezra read the Book of the
Law of Moses from ______________________ to ________________ in the presence of
the _____________________ and ______________________.
8:12 How did the people
respond?
___________________________________________________________
9:3 On another day, the Book
of the Law of God was read for how long?
_____________________________________________ How long did they confess their sins? ____________________________________
10:28 Then which people signed an
oath of allegiance?
_____________________________________________________________
10:30 What were the first three
parts of the oath?
__________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
13:25f What did Nehemiah do to the
men who had married unbelieving wives?
____________________________________________
Why? _______________________________________________________________________________________________
MALACHI (PG. 928)
430 BC
Written about twenty years after
the Jews were saved from annihilation.
1:7 The remnant of Jews who
returned to Jerusalem were offering what on the altar in their new temple? ______________________________________ In what way was it defiled (see 1:13)? ______________________________
1:10 God said they may as well
shut the temple ________________________.
2:8 What were the priests
busy doing? ________________________________________________________
2:16 What does God hate? _____________________________ What were they doing (see verse 14)? ____________________
___________________________________________________________
3:5 What other sins had they
returned to that caused the nation's original downfall? _______________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
3:8 How were they robbing
God?
___________________________________________________________
4:1f The ____________________
is coming when God will punish the _____________________ evildoer, and heal the
___________________________.
4:5 How will the people know
the day has arrived?
___________________________________________
How did Elijah dress (2
Kings 1:8, pg. 355)?
_______________________________________________________________
How did John the
Baptist dress (Matthew 3:4-6, pg. 935)?
____________________________________________________
When and through whom
was this fulfilled (Matthew 17:10-13, pg. 951)? _____________________
_________________________________________________ He was the forerunner of Jesus who
introduced him to the world.