Chapter 8 The Exile: Prophets of Warning, Consolation, and Hope
Introduction
1. Chart
721 BCE North Israel Assyrians
586 BCE South Judah Babylonians
2. What did the Deuteronomists, writing in the Exile,
point out?
3. What are the last 5 chapters of the book of 2 Kings
about?
4. What was and is the Prophet’s role?
5. List the books covered in this chapter
a. e.
b. f.
c. g.
d. h.
Concept A Judah’s Slippery Slope
Read pp. 183 to 186 Answer Review on pg. 186
1. What does King Josiah do?
2. What is Zephaniah’s message?
3. Who are the remnant?
4. When Babylon destroys Assyria, what does Nahum
call Judah to?
5. What doesn’t Nahum realize?
6. What is Habakkuk’s book the first to introduce and
give an example?
Concept B Jeremiah
Read pp. 187 to 196 Answer Review on pg. 196
A. Introduction
1. What is Jeremiah’s message?
a.
b.
B. Jeremiah
1. How old is Jeremiah when he is called to be a
prophet and what is his response?
2. Explain Jeremiah’s visions
a.
b.
3. What did the people of Jerusalem think?
4. Why did the court prophets start a riot and call for
Jeremiah’s death?
5. What symbol did he use to predict Jerusalem’s
downfall?
6. What brought about Jerusalem’s first exile
( 597 BCE)?
7. What is Jeremiah’s response?
8. What does Jeremiah say the Exile is for?
9. Activity 9 pg. 192 What law is written on your
heart?
10. Why did Jeremiah wear a wooden yoke?
11. What happened in 587 BCE?
a.
b.
c.
12. How did the people see the “failure” of Jeremiah’s
life?
13. What did the Exile turn out to be?
C. Lamentations
1. Define Lamentations
2. Why are these dirges attributed to Jeremiah?
D. Baruch
1. Who wrote the Book of Baruch?
2. What was the purpose of the Book of Baruch?
Concept C Ezekiel
Read pp. 196 to 201 Answer Review on pg. 201
A. Introduction
1. How does Ezekiel’s life of prophecy begin?
B. Eziekel
1. Ezekiel said after eating the scroll that it is “as
sweet as honey”. This is interpreted as meaning
a.
b.
2. List the prophetic actions and storytelling that
Ezekiel used to predict the Exile
a.
b.
c.
d.
C. Babylonian Exile
1. Key Words
a. Hammurabi
b. Gilgamesh Epic
c. Hanging Gardens
d. 6th C Talmud
2. What did Exile mean?
D. Symbols
1. “ A New Heart and a New Spirit” Within
2. Dry Bones
D. Vision of a New Jerusalem
1. What are the last chapters of Ezekiel about?
a.
b.
c.
E. Ezekiel and Jeremiah: A New Covenant
Concept D Second Isaiah
Read pp. 201 to 209 Answer Review on pg. 209
A. Introduction
1. What period of time does Second Isaiah cover?
2. Describe their faithfulness to God by 550 BCE
B. Second Isaiah
1. What challenge does Second Isaiah present?
2. What is Second Isaiah about?
3. What would be the mission of the Servant of God?
4. What is significant about Cyrus from Persia
liberating the Jews?
5. In Second Isaiah, how does God show that the way
home will be made ready for them?
6. What are the Songs of the Suffering Servant about?
7. What new concept is developed?
8. What are the four Servant Songs about?
a.
b.
c.
d.
C. Jews of the Dispersion
1. What caused the Dispersion?
2. What happened in the 3rd C in Alexandria, Egypt?
D. Two Images
1.A Mother -
2.The Feast -
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