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27 Cards in this Set
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What was the first great event of the Classical World?
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Assyrian Captivity
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Name Jacob's twelve sons.
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Reuben
Simeon Levi Judah Dan Naphtali Gad Asher Issachar Zebulun Joseph Benjamin |
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What were the names of the two tribes of Joseph?
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The tribe of Joseph was divided into two tribes: the tribe of Ephraim and the tribe of Manasseh--named after Joseph's two sons.
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What were the Levites chosen to be?
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The Levites were chosen by God to serve as priests and, like our priests today, were to have no possessions but God himself.
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Jeroboam
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one of Solomon's servants, who was encouraged by a prophet (1 Kings 11:31-39) to lead a rebellion against Solomon's son, Rehoboam
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Rehoboam
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Solomon's son who inherited the kingdom which had been cursed by Soloman's disobedience
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Israel
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The ten tribes were brought together under Jeroboam to form the northern kingdom, which was called Israel.
It had the material wealth and power. |
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Judah
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The smaller southern kingdom, ruled by Rehoboam retained its original tribal name, Judah.
It contained the city Jerusalem and in it Solomon's Temple, therefore, it was the spiritual center. |
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What four lessons does God's punishment of Solomon teach us?
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~God's judgments may not be sudden or shocking, but may be slow and hard to notice.
~No one who chooses to disobey God is safe from punishment. ~God is not afraid of sacrificing great and beautiful things for the sake of truth and justice. ~ Our efforts to obtain benefits apart from God leads to our loss of the benefits we already had as well as the opposite of what we were seeking. |
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Who did God send to warn the people of the northern kingdom?
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Hosea
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Who are the Assyrians?
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descendants of Noah's cursed son Ham
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Tiglath-Pileser
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the Assyrian king
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Menahem
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king of Israel (northern kingdom) after Jeroboam
offered the Assyrian king one talent (about 66 lbs) of silver for support against Judah (southern kingdom) |
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Ahaz
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king of Judah (after Rehoboam)
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Hoshea
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Isreal king (after Menahem)
secretly sent men to Egypt to seek an alliance against the Assyrians |
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Shalmaneser
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Assyrian king (after Tiglath-Pileser)
besieged Samaria and surrounding cities |
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Samaria
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the capital city of the northern kingdom
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Sargon
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Assyrian king after Shalmaneser who after three year "took Samaria"
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Assyrian Captivity
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Tens of thousands of Israelites were taken captive away from Israel. Samaria became a province of the Assyrian empire.
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What did the Assyrians do to conquered cities?
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After removing the wealthier inhabitants of a conquered city (they left the poor behind), the Assyrians brought peoples from other cities to fill it.
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Who was brought in to fill the city of Samaria?
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The city Samaria was filled with men from Mesopotamia who brought their idols with them.
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Samaritans
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a new race of people recreated when the Israelites intermarried with these pagan immigrants
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On what river was the Assyrian kingdom centered?
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The Assyrians occupied the land around northern Tigris River.
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Why was the land of Israel so important in the Ancient World?
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The position of Israel between Assyria and Egypt made it very important in the ancient world, for whoever controlled Israel controlled the highways between these great kingdoms.
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When did the Assyrian kingdom peak?
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The Assyrian Kingdom peaked around the time of Homer.
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What benefits did the land of Assyria enjoy?
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The Tigris River provided a constant supply of food, water and transportation. This wealth of natural resources and protection allowed their great civilization to develop over many centuries.
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With what two nations did the Assyrians chiefly trade?
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The Assyrians traded with the Babylonians to the south and the Egyptians to the east.
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