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82 Cards in this Set
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-ezekiel's vision occurred near
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-the kebar canal
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-description of four "living creatures"
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-each possessed a human form, four faces (man, lion, ox, eagle), four wings, calflike feet, and human hands beneath their wings
-two wings spead upward, two wings covered body -moved straight ahead in unison, no wheeling around -glowed like fire, speed of lightning |
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-how such creatures functioned in ancient near eastern sculpture
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-throne bearers and sky bearers
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-what creatures and their wheels function as
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-the chariot of God
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-what the pan symbolized
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-the barrier that existed between God and his people
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-what the prophet's steady gaze symbolized
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-the Lord's determination to judge the city
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-what ezekiel was to eat and drink each day
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-eight ounces of bread and two-thirds of a quart of water
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-what the diet pictured
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-the siege conditions which jerusalem would endure, when food and water would be scarce
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-what he was to use as fuel
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-human excrement
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-what human excrement symbolized
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-how the people would be foced to eat ritually defiled food in exile
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-what God gave ezekiel permission to use as fuel
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-cow manure
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-identity of tammuz
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-mesopotamian god whose banishment to the underworld was lamented by his devotees
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-what the 25 men worshiped
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-the sun
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-the three men used as examples
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-noah, daniel, and job
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-why the lord denounced the leaders
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-for failing to carry out their responsibilities
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-the reality underlying the shepherd metaphor
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-the kingship of the Lord
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-jonah's message
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-in forty more days nineveh would be destroyed by divine judgment
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-why jonah initially rejected his commission
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-he knew that God, because of his loving and compassionate nature, would exted his mercy to the ninevites if they repented and wanted no part in the moral reclamation of such a wicked city
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--what the inability to discern "their right hand from their left" may refer to
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-moral ignorance
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-why people ceased work on the temple
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-under pressure from hostile neighboring peoples, they rationalized that the time was just not right for the project to be completed
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what the people built instead
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-nice homes for themselves
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-the two who led the people in haggai: governor and high priest
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-zerubbabel, governor
-joshua, high priest |
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-hebrew term for "adversary"
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-hassatan
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-what "adversary" refers to when used without the definite article
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-a human adversary
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-what "adversary" refers to when used with the definite article
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-a being who seems to serve as a prosecuting attorney in the heavenly court
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-who would be the messenger who would return prior to "the day of the Lord"
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-ancient prophet elijah
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-what his task would be
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-turning the community back to God so that the severe judgment of the wicked announced earlier in the prophecy might be averted
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-who jesus said fulfilled this prophecy
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-john the baptist
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-meaning of ezekiel
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-God strengthens
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-meaning of Jonah
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-dove
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-meaning of haggai
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-my festivals
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-meaning of zechariah
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-God remembers
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-meaning of malachi
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-my messenger
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-"son of man, i have made you a watchman for the house of israel; so hear the word i speak and give them warning from me"
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-ezekiel 3:17
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-he prayed to the Lord "o Lord, is this not what i said when i was still at home? that is why i was so quick to flee to tarshish. i knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity"
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-jonah 4:2
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-though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet i will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my savior
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-habakkuk 3:17-18
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-i the Lord do not change. so you, o descendents of jacob, are not destroyed.
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-malachi 3:6
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-what is the messenger formula
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-thus says the lord
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-what type of prophet was someone with the gift of clairvoyance who was able to see what others could not see and thus inform them of truths they could not know
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-seer
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-what type of prophet read the signs of nature in an effort to determine the will of the deity or deities
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-diviner
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-what type of prophet was employed by the king and summoned when the king needed special direction during a crisis time
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-court
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-what phrase referred to an enacted prophetic word
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-symbolic action
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-the minor prophets are known collectively as
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-the twelve
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-why is the book of jonah unique among the minor prophets
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-it is primarily biographical, rather than hortatory
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-what two jobs did amos have
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-herdsman and vinedresser
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in the introductory formula found in amos 1:3-2:16, what does the word "sins" refer to
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-acts of rebellion
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-what ruled israel during the time of amos
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-a royal military bureaucracy
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-when amos spoke about the horns of the altar being cut off, what did that symbolize
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-israel would find no place of asylum from the coming judgment
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-how did amos refer to the wives of the wealthy bureaucrats who lived in samaria
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-cows of bashan
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-what was the name of hosea's wife
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-gomer
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-what did the name of hosea's daughter lo-ruhamah foreshadow
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-the lord's rejection of israel
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-what term was used to refer to a formal curse, made in the name of a deity, in which one person would call calamity down upon another
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-imprecation
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-when did worshipers of baal practice self-mutilation
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-in time of drought
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-according to hosea 11:1-11, what was God's supreme act of love
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-the exodus
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-what is the basic sense of the word holy
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-special, unique, set apart from that which is commonplace
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-which one of the following do the woe oracles in isaiah 5:8-30 not condemn: the spiritual insensitivity of the people, the bureaucrats' excessive lifestyle made possible by their dishonest and oppressive practices, the people's social injustice and the excessive lifestyle to which injustice gave rise, or the people's failure to worship in the temple and provide sacrifices
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-the people's failure to worship in the temple and provide sacrifices
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-why did egypt want judah
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-to serve as a buffer state against assyrian aggression
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-how does the phrase "mighty God" portray the king
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-as God's respresentative on the battlefield
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-how does the phrase "everlasting father" portray the king
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-as the protector of his people
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-what is the meaning of the phrase "fear the lord"
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-having a healthy respect for God's authority that produces obedience
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-what was a "redeemer"
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-one who protected the interests of his extended family in a variety of ways
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-what term did isaiah use in isaiah 44:24-45:8 to describe cyrus
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-shepherd
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-micah was a contemporary of what other major prophet
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-isaiah
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-when did david use the words "tell it not in gath"
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-when he lamented the tragic deaths of jonathan and saul at the hands of the philistines
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-what made many prophets proclaim peace for their clients
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-the reception of food
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-according to micah, God forgives the nation for the sake of what two people
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-abraham and jacob
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-why did the people of jeremiah's generation believe they were isolated from judgment
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-God's temple, symbolizing his presence with his people, stodd in the middle of jerusalem
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-what were the men of anathoth planning to do to jeremiah
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-kill him
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-during one of his complaints to God, jeremiah wished that the messenger what had brought the news to his father that he had a son would have done what to jeremiah
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-killed him in his mother's womb
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-whom did the good figs symbolize in jeremiah's prophecy
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-those who had recently been taken into exile
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after jeremiah was arrested and the priests and prophets demanded that he be executed, the elders said not to execute jeremiah. they reminded the people that another prophet has also prophesied against judah, but hezekiah had not killed him. who was this other prophet
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-micah
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-what did hananiah do with the yoke he removed from jeremiah's neck
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-he broke it
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-when king zedekiah, his royal officials, and the upper class freed the slaves in jerusalem, they solemnized the proceedings by doing what
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-making a covenant before God in which they cut up a calf, arranged its carcass in two rows, and walked between its pieces as a self-imprecation
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-who founded the rechabites
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-jonadab
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-why did jeremiah leave jerusalem after the babylonians withdrew
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-he wanted to go to benjamite territory to transact some business
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-after jeremiah was arrested trying to leave jerusalem, what did the royal officials do to jeremiah
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-lowered him into a muddy cistern
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-who led the assassination plot against gedaliah
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-ishmael
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-where did johanan, jeremiah, and other jews settle in egypt
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-tahpanhes
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-how many people were deported from jerusalem when the babylonians conquered the city in august 586
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-832
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-to what does the phrase "day of the lord" refer in joel
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-a day when God intervenes in the world to judge his enemies
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-nahum prophesied the destruction of what city
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-nineveh
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-zephaniah may have been of what descent
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-royal
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