Exam 2: Joshua – Esther
Study Guide
Fall 2018
1. Who was the leader who guided Israel after Moses?
2. What is the theme of Joshua?
3. How was Joshua like a second Moses?
4. What did God use Joshua to accomplish?
5. How was the generation entering the promised land described?
6. Know the outline of Joshua given in class.
7. Know the division of the promised land between the tribes given in class.
8. What were the three memorial practiced by Joshua and Israel before they
entered
the promised land? What was the significance of these memorials?
9. Who was the woman who hid the spies and was saved by God in the battle
of
Jericho? How many spies were sent to her? What was significant about this
woman?
10. What Israelite warrior was put to death for violating God’s command in
the battle of
Jericho?
11. What tribe received no territory in the division of the promise land and
why was this
significant?
12. How many tribes received land on the east bank and how many tribes
received
land on the west bank?
13. What did God intend to do through Israel?
14. What three warnings did Joshua give Israel in his farewell address?
15. Whose side was the Captain of the Hosts fighting on?
16. When did Joshua encounter the Divine Commander?
17. How was the second generation of Israelites characterized?
18. How many campaigns are involved in conquering the promise land?
19. How are the campaigns to conquer the promise land divided?
20. What was significant about each campaign?
21. What did Israel’s conquest of the promise land show them about God and
his
deliverance?
22. What does the story of Rahab teach us with regards to God’s intention for
the
nations?
23. Why did Israel lose the battle at Ai?
24. What is the point of the contrast between the battles of Jericho and Ai?
24. What two individuals are contrasted in the central campaign?
26. What are the implications that can be drawn from the book of Joshua?
27. How many cities of refuge were established in the promised land?
28. What were the reason given for Israel’s total failure in the book of
Judges?
29. What is significant about the burials in Joshua?
30. What are the implications drawn from Rahab in the book of Joshua?
31. What were the Judges? List all five descriptors.
32. How many Judges were there?
33. What does Caleb’s story remind us of?
34. Why did Israel not drive out the Canaanites?
35. Who were the six most prominent Judges?
36. What one word description (good, ok, etc.) was used for each of these
Judges?
37. What Judge was left-handed?
38. What Judge led Israel into idolatry?
39. What Judge may have sacrificed his daughter?
40. Who was the only female Judge?
41. What are the six parts to the cycle of sin in Judges?
42. What type of person did God call to be a judge?
43. How many judges were there?
44. Did the judges get better or worse as time went on?
45. Know which judges were raised up to accomplish distinct tasks.
46. When does the story of Ruth take place?
47. How does the story of Ruth serve as a contrast to the stories in Judges?
48. Who are the “noble characters” in Ruth?
49. What does Naomi change her name to and what does it mean?
50. Who was Samuel’s birth a blessing to?
51. Who dedicated Samuel to the Lord?
52. What characterized Eli’s sons?
53. Whose field does Ruth glean in?
54. Who was Ruth and Naomi’s Kinsmen-Redeemer and was he the only one
available?
55. What were the qualifications for the Kinsmen-Redeemer?
56. What is the contrast that frames the beginning and end of the story of
Ruth?
57. What was the name of the child born to Ruth and Boaz?
58. What four implications does Ruth’s story have for us today?
59. How is 1 Samuel a period of transition?
60. Who was the first King of Israel?
61. From Saul’s outward appearances, was he qualified to be king?
62. Who was the second King of Israel?
63. Who was the third King of Israel?
64. Which nation captured the Ark of the Covenant and how did they get it?
65. How did the Israelites get the Ark of the Covenant back?
66. Why did Israel want a king?
67. What are the two reasons that God rejected Saul and his authority?
68. What was David’s occupation before he became king?
69. What event is the turning point in David’s life?
70. What city does David make the capital city of Israel?
71. Who is struck dead because he touches the Ark of the Covenant?
72. Who was appalled at David’s behavior when the Ark of the Covenant
entered
Jerusalem?
73. What were the three general factors and the seven specific components
to the
Davidic Covenant?
74. Who was Uriah?
75. What were the consequences of David’s sin with Bathsheba?
76. What are the moral and theological lessons we can learn from David’s
adultery with
Bathsheba?
77. Which one of David’s sons led a rebellion against him?
78. Which one of David’s sons assaulted Tamar?
79. Which one of David’s sons plotted revenge because of this assault?
80. Was Solomon faithful to the “laws for the Kings of Israel” established by
God?
81. How long did it take to build the temple?
82. How many of God’s commands for the King did Solomon break?
83. What happened to the United Nation of Israel shortly after the death of
Solomon?
84. Who was the king immediately after Solomon?
85. Who was the first king of the Northern Kingdom (known as Israel)?
86. What was the capital city of the Northern Kingdom (known as Israel)?
87. What were the criteria for evaluating kings in the books of 1 and 2 Kings?
88. Who were the two noted good kings in the Southern Kingdom? What was
significant about their reign?
89. Who was the one noted bad king in the Southern Kingdom? What was
significant
about his reign?
90. Who are the two major prophets during the period of 1 and 2 Kings?
91. What nation took the Northern Kingdom (Israel) into exile?
92. What nation took the Southern Kingdom (Judah) into exile?
93. Which book focuses on the rebuilding of the Temple?
94. Which book focuses on the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem?
95. Who was Ezra and why is that important to his role in the rebuilding of
the Temple?
96. How did Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem seek to stop Nehemiah’s work in
the
rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem?
97. What can we learn from Ezra’s commitment to the Word of God and
Nehemiah’s
commitment to prayer?
98. What Persian King allowed the followers of God to return to Jerusalem?
99. What was rebuilt during the first return as recounted in Ezra 1-6?
100. Before Nehemiah’s return from exile, what position did he hold?
101. What four areas are addressed in the covenant renewal in Nehemiah?
102. Which book focuses on the lives of some of the followers of God who did
not
return after the exile?
103. Who was Mordecai?
104. In general, how were Esther and Mordecai’s lives characterized?
105. What is unique about the book of Esther?
106. What do Esther and Mordecai’s names mean?
107. Did Esther make her Jewish heritage known when the selection process
for the
new queen began?
108. What happened to queen Vashti after she was deposed as queen?
109. Who was executed for plotting the death of the followers of God who
remained in
Persia in the book of Esther?
110. What does Esther reveal to the king that completely catches him by
surprise?
111. Who was King of Persia during the book of Esther?
112. Who was Esther’s cousin?
113. What Queen of Persia did Esther replace?
114. What is one curious feature of the book of Esther?
115. What four implications can be drawn from the book of Esther?
116. What two questions does the Old Testament seek to answer?
117. What are the five acts of the Bible (as noted in The Big Story)?
