-------------(10.2.1) Judah: Manasseh to Zedekiah and the Exile------------------
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| 21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Heph’zibah.
21:2 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the
abominable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the
people of Israel. 21:3 For he rebuilt the high places which Hezeki’ah his
father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Ba’al, and made an Ashe’rah,
as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven,
and served them. 21:4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of
which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem will I put my name.” 21:5 And he
built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house
of the LORD. 21:6 And he burned his son as an offering, and practiced soothsaying
and augury, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in
the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger. 21:7 And the graven image
of Ashe’rah that he had made he set in the house of which the LORD said
to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which
I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever;
21:8 and I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of
the land which I gave to their fathers, if only they will be careful to
do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the
law that my servant Moses commanded them.” 21:9 But they did not listen,
and Manas’seh seduced them to do more evil than the nations had done whom
the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.
21:10 And the LORD said by his servants the prophets, 21:11 “Because Manas’seh king of Judah has committed these abominations, and has done things more wicked than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols; 21:12 therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such evil that the ears of every one who hears of it will tingle. 21:13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Sama’ria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. 21:14 And I will cast off the remnant of my heritage, and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies, 21:15 because they have done what is evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.” 21:16 Moreover Manas’seh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin which he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. 21:17 Now the rest of the acts of Manas’seh, and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 21:18 And Manas’seh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his stead. |
33:1 Manas’seh was twelve years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 33:2 He did
what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominable practices
of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel. 33:3
For he rebuilt the high places which his father Hezeki’ah had broken down,
and erected altars to the Ba’als, and made Ashe’rahs, and worshiped all
the host of heaven, and served them. 33:4 And he built altars in the house
of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem shall my name be
for ever.” 33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two
courts of the house of the LORD. 33:6 And he burned his sons as an offering
in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and practiced soothsaying and augury
and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil
in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger. 33:7 And the image of
the idol which he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said
to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which
I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever;
33:8 and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land which I
appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that
I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given
through Moses.” 33:9 Manas’seh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
so that they did more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before
the people of Israel.
33:10 The LORD spoke to Manas’seh and to his people, but they gave no heed. 33:11 Therefore the LORD brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manas’seh with hooks and bound him with fetters of bronze and brought him to Babylon. 33:12 And when he was in distress he entreated the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 33:13 He prayed to him, and God received his entreaty and heard his supplication and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manas’seh knew that the LORD was God. 33:14 Afterwards he built an outer wall for the city of David west of Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into the Fish Gate, and carried it round Ophel, and raised it to a very great height; he also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah. 33:15 And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city. 33:16 He also restored the altar of the LORD and offered upon it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving; and he commanded Judah to serve the LORD the God of Israel. 33:17 Nevertheless the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God. 33:18 Now the rest of the acts of Manas’seh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD the God of Israel, behold, they are in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 33:19 And his prayer, and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Ashe’rim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers. 33:20 So Manas’seh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house; and Amon his son reigned in his stead. |
Answer the following questions from the above texts regarding the reign of Manasseh:
#. (10.2.1) How old was Manasseh when he began his reign in Judah?
#. (10.2.1) How long did Manasseh reign in Jerusalem?
#. (10.2.1)
Contrast the religious evaluation of Manasseh to his father Hezekiah.
____ #. (10.2.1) Which biblical account states that he sacrificed more than one son?
____ #. (10.2.1) Which biblical account identifies the name of the pagan deity whose image Manasseh placed in the temple?
a) 2 Kings 21 b) 2 Chronicles 33
____ #. (10.2.1) Based upon the different times of composition of the two biblical records, which one is drawing from the other in the parallel passage of 2 Kgs. 21:9 and 2 Chrn 33:9?
a) 2 Kings 21 b) 2 Chronicles 33
____ #. (10.2.1) Which biblical account indicates that Manasseh was taken prisoner by the Assyrians and brought to Babylon?
a) 2 Kings 21 b) 2 Chronicles 33
____ #. (10.2.1) Which biblical account records a period of repentance and return to Yahweh?
a) 2 Kings 21 b) 2 Chronicles 33
____ #. (10.2.1) Which biblical account highlights the brutality of Manasseh against the residents of Jerusalem?
a) 2 Kings 21 b) 2 Chronicles 33
____ #. (10.2.1) Which biblical account paints a consistently evil picture of Manasseh?
a) 2 Kings 21 b) 2 Chronicles 33
#. (10.2.1) Who succeeded Manasseh as king when he died?
a) 2 Kings 21 b) 2 Chronicles 33
____ #. (10.2.2.2.2) Which of the earlier prophets did the prophet Zephaniah draw much of his material?
a) True b) False
#. (10.2.2.3.2) After the scroll was found in the remodeling of the temple and Josiah heard it read, he led the people in a covenant renewal ceremony (2 Kings 23:1-27) in which he pledged to apply the law to reforming the nation of Judah. This led to three major actions described by Tullock. What were they?
a) Isaiah b) Elijah c) Amos
(1)(2)
(3)
____ #. (10.2.2.3.2) One of
the negative consequences of centralizing all worship services in the Jerusalem
temple was the resulting belief that God would never allow either the temple
or the city to be destroyed.
____ #. (10.2.2.3.2) Josiah’s move to centralize all worship of God in Jersusalem was motivated by
a) True b) False
a) his mistaken belief that God would then never allow the city to be destroyed.
b) a sincere desire to maintain the purity of the worship of God in light of the corruption that had previous taken place.
c) a greedy intent to gather money from the people giving to the central temple treasury.
____ #. (10.2.2.4) Josiah’s
reign of peace and prosperity was in large part due to the decline of the
Assyrian empire. When Babylonians aligned with the Medes and destroyed
the Assyrians in 612 B.C.E. dark storm clouds began looming over the future
of Judah.
#. (10.3.1.) One of the OT prophets who predicted the doom of Nineveh was Jonah, the other was ____________,
a) True b) False
____ #. (10.3.1) Nineveh was a large ____ city.
____ #. (10.3.2) Who was Eliakim?
a) Israelite b)Babylonian c) Assyrian
____ #. (10.3.2) From the timeline below, which Babylonian ruler invaded Jerusalem in 597 B.C.E.?
a) Jehoahaz II b) Jehoiakim c) Jehoiachin
____ #. (10.3.2) Which of the southern kings was forced to pay heavy tribute to Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt after 609 B.C.E.? (Use the timeline in the back of Tullock to find the answer.)
a) Nabopolassar b) Esarhaddon c) Nebuchadrezzar
#. (10.3.3) What is the basis for calling the prophet Habbakkuk the “philosopher prophet”?
a) Josiah b) Jehoahaz II c) Jehoiakim
____ #. (10.3.3.2) From the timeline in the back of Tullock, identify the prophet who ministered to the southern kingdom during the reign of Jehoiakim.
#. (10.3.3.2.1) List the two central questions that Habbakkuk demanded God answer:
a) Zephaniah b) Jeremiah c) Habbakkuk
(1)____ #. (10.4) Which of the OT prophets’ ministry extended beyond the fall of Judah into the period of the Exile?(2)
#. (10.4) List the three kings who reigned in the southern kingdom during Jeremiah’s ministry:
a) Zephaniah b) Jeremiah c) Habbakkuk
(1) 609-598: b) 598-597: c) 597-587/586:
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| 6:1 In the year that King Uzzi’ah died
I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train
filled the temple. 6:2 Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings:
with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with
two he flew. 6:3 And one called to another and said:
“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.” 6:4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 6:5 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!” 6:6 Then flew one of the seraphim to me, having in his hand a burning coal which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 6:7 And he touched my mouth, and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin forgiven.” 6:8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.” 6:9 And he said, “Go, and say to this people: ‘Hear and hear, but do not understand; see and see, but do not perceive.’ 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.” 6:11 Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said: “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without men, and the land is utterly desolate, 6:12 and the LORD removes men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. 6:13 And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains standing when it is felled.” The holy seed is its stump. |
1:1 The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilki’ah,
of the priests who were in An’athoth in the land of Benjamin, 1:2 to whom
the word of the LORD came in the days of Josi’ah the son of Amon, king
of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. 1:3 It came also in the
days of Jehoi’akim the son of Josi’ah, king of Judah, and until the end
of the eleventh year of Zedeki’ah, the son of Josi’ah, king of Judah, until
the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.
1:4 Now the word of the LORD came to me saying, 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” 1:6 Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.” 1:7 But the LORD said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you you shall go, and whatever I command you you shall speak. 1:8 Be not afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the LORD.” 1:9 Then the LORD put forth his hand and touched my mouth; and the LORD said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. 1:10 See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.” 1:11 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a rod of almond.” 1:12 Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.” 1:13 The word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a boiling pot, facing away from the north.” 1:14 Then the LORD said to me, “Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. 1:15 For, lo, I am calling all the tribes of the kingdoms of the north, says the LORD; and they shall come and every one shall set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, against all its walls round about, and against all the cities of Judah. 1:16 And I will utter my judgments against them, for all their wickedness in forsaking me; they have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands. 1:17 But you, gird up your loins; arise, and say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them. 1:18 And I, behold, I make you this day a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its princes, its priests, and the people of the land. 1:19 They will fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, says the LORD, to deliver you.” |
Answer the following questions from the above texts:
____ #. (10.4.1.1) Which of the two prophets tried to excuse himself from doing God’s bidding like Moses?
____ #. (10.4.1.1) Both accounts of God’s call begin by establishing a time frame during the reign of the respective king(s).
a) Isaiah b) Jeremiah
____ #. (10.4.1.1) The vision of God in Isaiah stressed God’s formation of the prophet while in Jeremiah it emphasized the greatness and holiness of Yahweh.
a) True b) False
____ #. (10.4.1.1) The divine call of both prophets stressed the difficulty of the task that lay before them.
a) True b) False
____ #. (10.4.1.1) Isaiah volunteered to go for God, while Jeremiah tried to make excuses to not go.
a) True b) False
____ #. (10.4.1.1) Which of the two visions associated with Jeremiah’s call involves the use of the following pun?
a) True b) False
____ #. (10.4.1.1) What is the point of the first vision in 1:11-12?
a) 1:11-12 b) 1:13-19
a) The object would remind Jeremiah that God would keep his word.
b) God's judgment would sweep over the land in destruction.
c) God would provide Jeremiah with plenty to eat in hard times.
____ #. (10.4.1.1) What is the
point of the second vision in 1:13-19?
a) The object would remind Jeremiah that God would keep his word.
b) God’s judgment would sweep over the land in destruction.
c) God would provide Jeremiah with plenty to eat in hard times.
____ #. (10.4.1.1) The first
deportation of the people of the southern kingdom to Babylon took place
in
a) 605 B.C.E. b) 597 B.C.E. c) 587/586 B.C.E.
#. (10.4.4.11) Who was Baruch?
a) True b) False
____ #. (10.4.5.1.3.1) While Zephaniah was influenced by Amos, Jeremiah was influenced by Hosea.
a) True b) False