9A Study Questions for 1/2 Macabbees

1 and 2 Macabbees is the history of the Jews during the time of the Greek Empire. The books tell the story of how the Jews fought the Greeks for the right to worship Yahweh, the true God. The time period is approximately 170 to 100 b.C.
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  1. 1 Maccabbees
    1. Who was king and ruler of the entire area around the Mediterranean Sea about 330 B.C.? 1-4.

    1. What happened to him? 5-7.

    1. Who ruled in his place? 8-9.

    1. Who began to rule the area of Judah and Samaria 137 years after Alexander the Great?

    1. What 3 evils did he perpetrate among the Jews? 10-15.

    1. After conquering Egypt, how did Antiochus Epiphanes violate the Temple at Jerusalem? 16-24.

    1. What decree did Antiochus Epiphanes write to the Jews? How did the Jews react? 41-

    1. What other crimes did his soldiers commit in the land of Judah? 54-58

    1. What did Antiochus Epiphanes decree against the Jewish women? How did Jews react? 59-64

    2. How many sons did Mattathias have?

    2. How did Mattathias and his 5 sons react to king’s orders to offer pagan sacrifices? 15-22

    2. When one Jew tried to comply with the king’s orders, what did Mattathias do? 23-30

    2. When the king’s troops surrounded the Jews and demanded they comply with the king’s orders, what did the Jews reply? What happened to them? 31-38.

    2. What decision did Mattathias and his friends make when they heard what happened? 39-41.

    3. Who took command of the Jewish rebellion after Mattathias died? 1-2

    8. To whom did Judas appeal for help against the Greeks? 1, 17-20.

    9. How do we know that God had ceased to send prophets to the Jews? 27

    13. When did Israel (the Jews) finally win their freedom from the Gentiles? Who ruled them from then on? 41, 53.

    2 Maccabbees
    2. What did God order Jeremiah to do with the ark of the covenant and the temple altar? 4-8

    7. Why did the mother of seven sons encourage her sons to die rather than commit idolatry? What happened to them? What happened to the mother? 1-42

    12. When Judas Maccabbeus was fighting against the Greeks, what sin did he discover his own men had committed? 38-41. What did Judas and his comrades do for their dead friends? Why did they do it? 42-45







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