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FUN WITH BIBLE NUMBERS |
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OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS OF POETRY & PROSE |
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| 206. ��� _____� Job had 7 sons and 3 daughters (Job 1:2).� How many children did he have? |
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| 207.���� _____� He also had 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 oxen, and 500 donkeys (Job 1:3).� How many animals did he have? |
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| 208.���� _____� All but his wife were destroyed in one day, and Job was struck with boils all over his body (Job 1:13 thru 22).� Then the book relates several discussions Job had with friends as to why it all happened: |
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| ����������� 9��������� by Job |
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| ����������� 3��������� by Eliphaz |
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| ����������� 3��������� by Bildad |
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| ����������� 2��������� by Zophar |
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| ����������� 1��������� by Elihu |
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| ����������� 1 �������� by God |
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| ����������� How many discussions trying to figure out why Job suffered took place? |
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| 209.���� _____� Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar spoke against Job and God, so offered 7 bulloocks and 7 rams to obtain forgiveness (Job 42:7 thru 9).� How many sacrifices was that in all? |
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| 210.���� _____� Job?s faithfulness to God and his new and greater faith were rewarded by his being healed, getting 10 more children, and being given twice as many hards as before (Job 42:10).� How many herds did he end up with?� (See question 207) |
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| 211.���� _____� Job lived to be 140 years of age and saw 4 generations of his children and grandchildren (Job 42:16).� A generation is about 30 years.� About how old was he when his first child was born? |
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| 212.���� _____� Of the Psalms assembled by David, they were written by these people (see intros to each psalm): |
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| ����������� 73������� by David |
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| ����������� 12������� by Asaph |
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| ����������� 11������� by Sons of Korah |
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| ����������� � 2������� by Solomon |
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| ����������� � 1������� by Moses |
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| ����������� � 1������� by Ethan |
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| ����������� 50������� by unknown authors |
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| ����������� How many people wrote the Psalms? |
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| 213.���� _____� 283 Old Testament scriptures are quoted in the New Testament.� Of them 116 are from the Psalms.� How many are from the rest of the Old Testament? |
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| 214.���� _____� Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible with 176 verses, and Psalm 117 is the shortest with 2 verses.� How many more verses does chapter 119 have than 117? |
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| 215.���� _____� Psalms has 150 chapters, more written by David than anyone else; and Proverbs has 31 chapters, most written by David?s son, Solomon.� How many more chapters are there in Psalms than Proverbs? |
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| 216.���� _____� Proverbs is divided into 5 parts:� Chapters 1 ~ 9, 10 ~ 24, 25 ~ 19, 30 and 31.� Which is the longest part? |
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| 217.���� _____� In Ecclesiastes 3, Solomon lists 28 things in 7 verses that there is a time to do under heaven.� What is the average number of those times per verse? |
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| 218.���� _____� Solomon wrote 12 chapters explaining his search for happiness by doing everything possible under the sun; yet 37 times he said that all is vanity.� How many times average per chapter did he say that? |
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| 219.���� _____� In Song of Solomon he mentions at this time he only had 60 wives and 80 concubines (6:8).� How many women belonged to Solomon at this time? |
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| 220.���� _____� How many less women did he have now than the 1000 listed in I Kings 11:3? |
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| 221.���� _____� Solomon wrote Proverbs (31 chapters), Ecclesiastes (12 chapters) and Song of Solomon (8 chapters).� How many chapters did he write in all? |
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Congratulations!� You have completed the section of the Bible on Poetry and Prose.� Now you are ready for the Major Prophets! |
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OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS OF THE MAJOR PROPHETS |
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| (NOTE:� These prophets backtrack to the time of the son of Solomon and the civil war that split the Jews into the northern kingdom of Israel and southern kingdom of Judah to show what the prophets were saying during the eventual downfall of both kingdoms.) |
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| 222.���� _____� Isaiah began preaching during the last year of Judah?s King Uzziah and continued preaching while King Jotham reigned 15 years, King Ahaz 15 years, and King Hezekiah 29 years (Isaiah 1:1).� About how many years did Isaiah preach? |
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| 223.���� _____� Isaiah warned the people of the southern kingdom of Judah that because of their wickedness, God would make 10 acres of vineyard yield only one bath of wine (Isaiah 5:10).� One bath is 6 gallons.� How many gallons would be produced by one acre? |
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| 224.���� _____� He also warned that a homer worth of seeds would bring forth only an ephah of crops (Isaiah 5:10).� A homer is 10 bushels, an ephah is 1 bushel.� How many bushels less would they have at harvest than time of planting? |
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| 225.���� _____� Because Ephraim in the northern kingdom joined the nation of Syria to make war against the southern kingdom of Judah, Isaiah predicted Ephraim would be destroyed in 3 score and 5 years (Isaiah 7:8). �A score is 20.� How long did Ephraim have left as a tribe? |
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| 226.���� _____� Because of Judah?s wickedness, Isaiah predicted Assyria would conquer it; and whereas 1,000 vines normally brought forth fruit worth 1,000 shekels of silver, it would afterwards bring forth briers and thorns (Isaiah 7:23).� How much had the 1,000 vines been worth? |
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| 227.���� _____� During the 14th year Hezekiah was king, the Assyrians tried unsuccessfully to conquer his kingdom of Judah (Isaiah 36:1).� How many years did he have left to rule after this?� (See question 222) |
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| 228.���� _____� Jeremiah began to preach in the 13th year of Josiah, King of Judah, and continued through his 31st year.� He also preached while Jehoahaz reigned 3 months, Jehoiakim reigned 11 years, Jehoiachin reigned 3 months, and Zedekiah reigned 11 years (Jeremiah 1:2, 3).� How many years did Jeremiah warn Judah of its coming captivity if she didn?t change her sinful ways? |
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| 229.���� _____� In the 1st year of the reign of Jehoiakim, some of the priests tried to have Jeremiah put to death for preaching the truth about the evil deeds of the people (Jeremiah 26:1 thru 16).� How many years had he been preaching by this time?� (See question 228) |
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| 230.���� _____� The 4th year of the reign of Jehoiakim over Judah was also the 1st year of the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar over in Babylon (Jeremiah 25:1).� How many years had Jeremiah been preaching by this time? |
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| 231.���� _____� In Jehoiakim?s 5th year, a scribe read to him Jeremiah?s prophecies concerning Jerusalem?s doom if the people didn?t quit doing bad things.� the king burned the book and tried to have Jeremiah arrested (Jeremiah 36:9-26).� How many years had Jeremiah been warning the people by this time? |
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| 232.���� _____� Jeremiah prophecied that the southern kingdom of Judah would be in Babylonian captivity 70 years (Jeremiah 25:11).� It started at the end of Zedekiah?s reign.� How many years after Jeremiah began preaching was the captivity to end?� (See question 205) |
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| 233.���� _____� In the 4th year of the reign of Zedekiah, Jeremiah exposed a false prophet who said they would only be captives 2 years (Jeremiah 28:1 thru 17).� How long had Jeremiah been preaching by this time? |
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| 234.���� _____� In the 10th year of Zedekiah, while King Nebuchadnessar of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, Jeremiah was put in prison for saying Nebuchadnezzar would win and they should go ahead and surrender to save their lives (Jeremiah 32:1-3).� How long had Jeremiah been preaching at this time? |
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| 235.���� _____� Nebuchadnezzar captured 3,000 Jews in his 7th year, 832 Jews in his 18th year, and 745 Jews in his 23rd year of reign (Jeremiah 52:28 thru 30).� How many Jews were taken captive to Babylon in all during this time? |
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| 236.���� _____� Jeremiah wrote 51 chapters in the book bearing his name, and 5 chapters in his book of Lamentations (sad lamenting) over Jereusalem?s fall.�� How many chapters did he write in all? |
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| 237.���� _____� When Ezekiel became 30 years old (the age when Levites were allowed into active service), he saw his first vision of heaven.� This was 5 years after King Jehoiakin and the Jewish nobles were taken captive to Babylon (Ezekiel 1:2).� How old was Ezekiel when he was taken captive with the other nobles? |
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| 238.���� _____� The phrase ~ They shall know that I am God ~ is found 62 times in 27 of the 48 chapters of Ezekiel.� How many times average per chapter is that? |
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| 239.���� _____� Considering the above, how many chapters do not have this phrase on average? |
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| 240.���� _____� Ezekiel was to lie on his side for 390 days to symbolize the discomfort of the Israelites for the next 390 years for not following God?s way (Ezekiel 4:5, 9).� About how many weeks was he to do this? |
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| 241.���� _____� Ezekiel was to start lying on his side in the year 592 BC.� Remembering that the ?BC? years are counted� backwards as years away from Jesus? birth, what year would the discomfort to the Israelites be lifted? |
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| 242.���� _____� Ezekiel had |
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| ����������� 1 vision in his 5th year of captivity (1:2) |
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| ����������� 1 vision in his 6th year (8:1) |
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| ����������� 1 vision in his 7th year (20:1) |
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| ����������� 1 vision in his 9th year (24:1) |
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| ����������� 1 vision in his 10th year (29:1) |
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| ����������� 1 vision in his 11th year (30:20) |
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| ����������� 3 visions in his 12th year (32:1; 32:17; 33:21) |
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| ����������� 1 vision in his 25th year (40:1) |
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| ����������� 1 vision in his 27th year (29:17) |
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| ����������� How many visions did Ezekiel have total? |
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| 243.���� _____� The visions of Ezekiel began when he was age 30 and ended when he was how old? |
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| 244.���� _____� Ezekiel saw a vision of the rebuilt Temple.� The measuring rod used at this time was 6 cubits and a hand breadth each long (Ezekiel 40:5).� A Jewish cubit was 18 inches long ~ their normal measuring rod.� A hand breadth was 3 inches, equalling 21 inches for a long cubit.� This longer cubit was possibly the Babylonian standard measure.� (For example, the US yardstick is 36? long, whereas the English meterstick is 39? long.) |
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| 245.���� _____� The porch was 8 long cubits long (Ezekiel 40:9).� How long was the porch in feet? |
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| 246.���� _____� The entry gate was ten long cubits broad (Ezekiel 40:11).� How many feet wide was the gate? |
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| 247.���� _____� The entry gate was 13 long cubits long (Ezekiel 40:11).� How many feet long was the gate? |
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| 248.���� _____� The chambers in the Temple were 6 long cubits wide and long each (Ezekiel 40:12).� How many feet was one side? |
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| 249.���� _____� There were 25 long cubits from the gate to the last chamber (Ezekiel 40:13).� How many feet was this? |
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| 250.���� _____� The posts from the gate to the other side of the courtyard covered 70 long cubits (Ezekiel 40:14).� It was how long in feet? |
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| 251.���� _____� It was 50 long cubits from the outer gate to the porch of the inner gate (Ezekiel 40:15).� How many feet was this? |
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| 252.���� _____� It was 100 long cubits from the first gate to the inner court (Ezekiel 40:19).� How many feet was this? |
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| 253.���� _____� The gates had rooms in them that were 50 long cubits long (Ezekiel 40:20, 21).� How many feet was this? |
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| 254.���� _____� The gates were 25 long cubits broad.� How many feet wide were they? |
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| 255.���� _____� At each of the 4 gates were 4 tables of stone on which to slay the sacrificial animals, being 1~1/2 long cubits long and broad (Ezekiel 40:41, 42).� How many feet square were they? |
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| 256.���� _____� The court was 100 long cubits long and wide each (Ezekiel 40:47).� How many square feet was it? |
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| 257.���� _____� The porch of the Temple was 20 long cubits long (Ezekiel 40:49).� How many feet long was the porch? |
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| 258.���� _____� The porch was 11 long cubits broad.� How many feet wide was the porch? |
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| 259.���� _____� The Temple was 12 long cubits wide (Ezekiel 41:1).� How many feet wide was the Temple? |
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| 260.���� _____� The door into the Temple was 10 long cubits wide (Ezekiel 41:2).� How many feet wide was the door? |
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| 261.���� _____� The doorway arch (nave) was 40 long cubits long (Ezekiel 41:2).� How many feet long was it? |
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| 262.���� _____� The doorway arch was 20 long cubits wide (Ezekiel 41:2).� How many feet was it? |
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| 263.���� _____� The Most Holy Place in the Temple was 20 long cubits long and wide each (Ezekiel 41:4).� How many feet on one side was it? |
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| 264.���� _____� The wall of the Temple was 6 long cubits thick (Ezekiel 41:5), or how many feet thick? |
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| 265.���� _____� In the wall of the Temple were rooms 3 stories high, 30 on each story (Ezekiel 41:6).� How many side rooms were there in all? |
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| 266.���� _____� The foundation for these side rooms was six long cubits deep (Ezekiel 41:8).� How many feet deep was it? |
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| 267.���� _____� Another building on the west side of the Temple grounds was 70 long cubits wide (Ezekiel 41:12), or how many feet? |
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| 268.���� _____� Its length was 90 long cubits or how many feet? |
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| 269.���� _____� The Temple and grounds totalled 100 long cubits long and wide each (Ezekiel 41:13~15).� How many feet square were the grounds? |
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| 270.���� _____� The altar of wood was 3 long cubits high (Ezekiel 41:22.� How many feet high was it? |
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| 271.���� _____� The altar was 2 long cubits long.� How many feet long was it? |
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| 272.���� _____� Another building on the north side of the Temple grounds was 100 long cubits long (Ezekiel 42:2).� How many feet long was it? |
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| 273.���� _____� It was also 50 long cubits wide, or how many feet? |
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| 274.���� _____� This building also had rooms around it with a walk way 10 long cubits wide (Ezekiel 42:4).� How many feet wide was it? |
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| 275.���� _____� The exterior of the Temple measured 500 rods (long cubits) long on each side (Ezekiel 52:`5 ~ 20), or how many feet each side? |
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| 276.���� _____� The altar of sacrifice was 2 long cubits from the ground to the lower settle (base); 4 long cubits from the lower settle to the upper settle; 4 long cubits from the upper settle to the top (Ezekiel 43:14, 15).� How many feet high was this altar? |
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| 277.���� _____� The main part of the altar was 12 long cubits wide on each side (Ezekiel 43:16).� How many feet wide was it? |
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| 278.���� _____� The settle or base on which the main part sat was 14 long cubits wide on each side (Ezekiel 43:17).� How many feet wide was the base? |
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| 279.���� _____� In returning to Canaan (formerly called Judah and Israel), the exiled Jews were to set aside for the |
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| _____� Temple and priests? houses 25,000 rods by 10,000 rods of land (Ezekiel 45:1-4).� If a rod here is one long cubit (21 inches) and a mile is 5,280 feet, how many milews long and wide was this territory? |
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| 280.���� _____� How many square miles would this be? |
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| 281.���� _____� The sanctuary or Temple was to be 500 long cubits square (Ezekiel 45:2).� How many feet on each side was this? |
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| 282.���� _____� The sanctuary grounds was to be 50 long cubits square (Ezekiel 45:2).� How many feet was this? |
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| 283.���� _____� Another 28 square miles was to be set aside for the Levites (Ezekiel 45:5) and another 28 for the Israelites in general (Ezekiel 45:6).� How many square miles was to be set aside for both groups? |
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| 284.���� _____� The Holy City was to have 3 gates on each side (Ezekiel 48:30).� How many gates was it to have in all? |
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| 285.���� _____� It was to be 1 � miles on each side (Ezekiel 48:31).� How many miles was it to be all the way around? |
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| 286.���� In Babylon, King Nebuchadnezzar made a gold image 60 regular cubits high for everyone in his kingdom to worship (Daniel 3:1).� A regular Jewish cubit is 18 inches.� This was how many feet high? |
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| 287.���� _____� This image was also 6 cubits wide.� How many feet wide was it. |
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| 288.���� _____� After Darius, King of Persia, conquered and absorbed Babylon, he set up 120 princes with three presidents over them, one being Daniel (Daniel 6:1, 2).� How many princes were the three presidents over each? |
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| 289?��� _____� Daniel saw a vision foretelling the Temple being defiled for 2,300 evenings and mornings (Daniel 8:13, 14).� With 1 evening and 1 morning in each day, this would be how many days? |
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| 290.���� _____� How many years was this defilement to last?� |
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| 291.���� _____� Daniel was told by the angel Gabriel that 70 weeks after the Jews were allowed to return to Jerusalem to rebuild it, the Messiah would come (Daniel 9:21 ~ 24); and again in verse 25 ~ 27 it is listed as 62 + 7 + 1 weeks.� How many weeks does this second amount total? |
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| 292.���� _____� If the 70 weeks is multiplied by the 7 days in a week, how many weeks would this be? |
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| 293.���� _____� Years after rebuilding the Temple, Ezra was allowed by a decree to lead more Jews from Babylon back to Jerusalem to begin building up the city ~ in 458 BC (Ezra 7:13, 14).� Jesus lived to be about 33 years old (Luke 3:23, etc.).� How many years was it from this decree to Jesus' death? |
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| 294.���� _____� But, in the middle of the last week (symbolic year), the Messiah would cause sacrifices and offerings to cease forever with his ultimate sacrifice on the cross (Daniel 9:27).� If the 7~day week here stands for 7 years, what would the number of years be that Jesus would be allowed to confirm the old covenant before causing it to cease at his death? |
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| 295.���� _____� Daniel also prophesied that the end of great tribulation would come in "a time, times, and half a time" (Daniel 12:7).� If time here means 1 year, and times means 2 years, how many years would the above scripture be referring to? |
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| 296.���� _____� The above years is how many months?� Compare with Revelation 12:14. |
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| 297.���� _____� This is how many days?� Compare with Revelation 11:2, 3; 12:6, 14. |
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| 298.���� _____� Jesus preached 3 � years; that is about how many days?� Compare this with the above answer. |
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| 299.���� _____� Daniel related that from the time the daily sacrifice is taken away until the abomination starts was to be 1,290 days (Daniel 12:11).� This is how many months?� After a brief rest, the following "time" would see more tribulation ~ see question 298. |
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| 300.���� _____� But he said there would be some blessed enough to endure 1,335 days (Daniel 12:12).� How many months is this?� (For some, the tribulation would last another "time".) |
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| 301.���� _____� Daniel prayed and fasted 3 weeks.� Three days later, the angel Michael told him he had been hard since the 1st day and Michael had been fighting Satan for 21 days (Daniel 10:2 ~ 13).� On what day of Daniel?s prayers did Michael stop fighting Satan? |
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Congratulations!� You have completed the section of the Bible on the Major Prophets.� Now you are ready for the Minor Prophets section. |
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OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS OF MINOR PROPHETS |
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(NOTE:� The minor prophets were not less important.� They just wrote shorter books than the major prophets.) |
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| 302.���� _____� Hosea was told to marry a prostitute (a woman acting like she was married to as many men as she wanted ~ sometimes hundreds) so he would understand what God felt like with the Israelites worshipping idols (Hosea 1:2).� God periodically talked to him about his marriage during the reigns of 4 kings of Judah, the southern kingdom.� During this same period, Jeroboam was reigning as king of Israel, the northern kingdom.� In the southern kingdom of Judah.... |
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| 52 years��������� Uzziah reigned (II Chronicles 26:3) |
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| 16 years��������� Jotham reigned (II Chronicles 27:1) |
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| 16 years��������� Ahaz reigned (II Chronicls 28:1) |
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| 29 years��������� Hezekiah reigned (II Chronicles 29:1) |
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| Assuming Hosea married her during the last 6 years of the reign of Uzziah and the first 5 years of the reign of Hezekiah, how many years would Hosea have been married to the prostitute?� (Compare your answer with the duration of the reign of Jeroboam in Israel's northern kingdom (II Kings 14:23.) |
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| 303.���� _____� Joel prophesied about 750 BC that God's Spirit would be poured out on all people (Joel 2:28).� This was fulfilled about 30 AD in Jerusalem (Acts 2:17-20).� How many years after the prophecy did it come true? |
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| 304.���� _____� Amos wrote about 3 transgressions of Damascus, 3 of Gaza, 3 of Tyrus, 3 of Edom, 3 of Ammon, 3 of Moab, 3 of Judah, and 3 of Israel (Amos 1:3; 2:6).� How many transgressions was that total? |
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| 305.���� _____� Obadiah prophesied that since the nation of Edom helped burn Jerusalem with those who captured the Jews (v. 10, 11) in 586 BC, the same would be done to it by the same Babylonian captors (v. 15).� This was fulfilled in 582 BC.� How many years later did Edom?s destruction come? |
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| 306.���� _____� Jonah lived in Gatthepher between Tyre and Samaria (II Kings 14:25).� God told him to warn Nineveh, the wicked capital of Assyria who captured the northern kingdom of Israel, to repent or be overthrown in 40 days.� Jonah did not like warning his enemies, so headed in the opposite direction 1,000 miles toward Tarshish (Spain) instead of west 500 miles to Nineveh.� He tried to get how many miles between them and his duty? |
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| 307.���� _____� Micah prophesied |
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| 1 chapter to the northern kingdom of Israel regarding its coming capture by Assyria |
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| 2 chapters to the southern kingdom of Judah regarding its coming capture by Babylon |
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| 1 chapter of general warning |
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| 2 chapters on the universal reign of Jesus over spiritually rebuilt Zion/Jerusalem. |
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| How many chapters did he write? |
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| 308.���� _____� Nahum prophesied about 630 BC the doom of Nineveh, capitol of Assyria, made possible by the river flood (Nahum 2:6).� this came true ion 607 BC while Babylon was there fighting.� How many years later did the prophecy come true? |
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| 309.���� _____� Habakkuk prophesied about 600 BC of the captivity of Jerusalem by Babylon.� This happened in 606 BC.� How many years later did it occur? |
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| 310.���� _____� Zephaniah refers to the Day of the Lord?s coming in chapter 1, verses 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 18; chapter 2:2, 3); and chapter 3:8.� How many times did he refer to the Day of the Lord? |
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| 311.���� _____� In 520 BC Haggai reminded the people who came out of Babylonian captivity in 537 BC that they should uncover the foundation of the Temple and finish rebuilding it.� How many years had it been since they first started rebuilding the Temple? |
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| 312.���� _____� Zechariah (Haggai's contemporary) saw a vision of a scroll flying over the land warning the Jews against returning to the lying, stealing and other sins of their forefathers.� The scroll was 20 cubits long and 10 cubits wide (Zechariah 5:1-3).� A cubit is 18 inches.� How many feet long was it? |
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| 313.���� _____� How many feet wide was this symbolic scroll? |
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| 314.���� _____� Malachi lived about a hundred years after the Jews returned home from Babylonian captivity in 536 BC.� About when did this last prophet of the Old Testament live? |
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Congratulations!� You have completed the section of the Bible called the Old Testament Minor Prophets.� Now you are ready to go to the New Testament life of Jesus Christ. |
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