Concise Survey of
THE OLD TESTAMENT

And How It Contrasts With the New Testament


Lesson Eight
Exile & Return of the Southern Kingdom of Judah

Jeremiah
590 BC
DAY ONE:
29:1���� Jeremiah sent a letter to the first Jews exiled from Jerusalem to ______________________.
30:9���� God promised the exiles he would bring them back and some day they would serve God and ________________ who God will raise up for them.� Who do you think this David was God was referring to?� ____________________
31:33�� At that time God will put his law in their ____________________ and write it on their _________________.
37:16�� What did the people do to Jeremiah because they thought he was talking treason? _____________________________ ________________________________________________
38:6���� Although the king had Jeremiah taken out of there, some others had him put into an empty ____________________ where he sank down into the _______________________.� At the point of death he was released and returned to confinement in a courtyard.
39:6f��� What was the last thing Zedekiah saw before his eyes were put out by King Nebuchadnezar? _____________________
40:4���� Knowing that Jeremiah had tried to get the Jews to surrender, the Babylonian commander freed him from the chains on his ___________ and told him he could do what?� ___________________________________
40:6���� What did Jeremiah choose to do? ____________________ ________________________________________
II Kings
24:20f� King _________________, the next puppet king, rebelled against Babylon, so Nebuchadnezzar returned to Jerusalem and kept it under siege how many years?� _____________� (He was a different one by this name after Jehoiachin and lasted only three months.)
25:8f��� Eleven years after first attacking Jerusalem, King Nebuchadnezzar set fire to the magnificent ____________ in Jerusalem, the royal ________________, and every important ________________.� Then the ______________ were _______________ down.
25:11f� At that time, they took into exile the rest of the ________, leaving behind only the _________________ of the people.
Lamentations
588 BC
������� TAKEN FROM THE WORD LAMENT OR MOURN
1:1������ How ____________________________ lies the city, once so full of ____________________.
1:4������ The roads to ________________ mourn, for no one comes to her appointed __________________.
DAY TWO:
2:14���� The visions of the prophets were _________________...did not expose their ________________ to ward off their _________________________________.
3:33���� God does not _______________________ bring affliction on people.
4:13���� It happened because of the sins of the ________________ and ____________________.
Daniel
570 BC
3:11���� Over in Babylon, Jewish Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused to ________________________ Babylon's gods, even when threatened with a blazing _________________.
3:24f��� When they were punished by being thrown into the furnace, King Nebuchadnezzar saw how many men walking around in it?� _________________________� What did the fourth look like?� ____________________________
5:1f����� Who was made king of Babylon next? ________________, the __________ of Nebuchadnessar.
5:3������ During a banquet, he and his friends drank out of the gold _________________ that had been taken out of the _____ ______________________ in Jerusalem.
5:5������ Suddenly the _____________________ of a human hand appeared and wrote something on the wall.
5:28f��� Daniel interpreted the writing.� The last word meant his kingdom was being given to the _________________ and ___________________.� That very night the king was _______________________ and __________________________________, a Mede, took over Babylon.
6:1f����� Darius divided the kingdom into ____________ provinces with ____________ administrators over them, one of whom was __________________________.� Later Darius decided to make Daniel prime minister of the country.
6:10���� What did Daniel do three times a day? ________________ facing ________________________.� Remember when Solomon built and dedicated the temple (1 Kings 8:46-48)?� What did Solomon say would help them if they were ever taken captive to a foreign land? ______________________ ________________________________________________
6:8������ Not knowing this, Darius sealed a decree that no one could ask anything of anyone else but him for thirty days.� If they did, they would be thrown to the _____________________ _________________________.
6:18f��� Honoring his word, Darius had Daniel thrown into the lions den, but he spent the night without __________________ and he could not ________________________.� At dawn, he rushed to the den and called out, "Has your _________, whom you _____________________ continually, been able to ___________________ you from the lions?"� Had he?� __________
6:26���� Thereafter, King Darius issued a decree throughout Media and Persia (which had now absorbed Babylon also) that everyone must fear and ____________________________ the ___________________ of Daniel.
DAY THREE:
8:20f��� Daniel predicted that the Media-Persian Empire would be taken over by the king of ________________.
9:24f��� Here is an astounding prophecy.� Daniel prophecied the exact year the Messiah, the descendant of David who will become the eternal King of the Jews, will come.
����������� 70 weeks = 70 years they will be captives
����������� 69 weeks x 7 days in a week = 483 more years
����������������������� from the time Jerusalem is rebuilt until the Messiah comes.
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����������� In the middle of the 7s (3-1/2) week/years, the Messiah will be cut off (crucified)
����������� All this came about as predicted.
11:2���� Daniel predicted that there would be _________ more kings in Persia and the last one will go to war against _________.
Ezra
540 BC
1:2������ The next king of Persia was ____________________________________.� He decided to rebuild the _________________________ in Jerusalem.� This man had been predicted by name a hundred years earlier (see Isaiah 44:28).
1:5������ Men from which tribes returned to their homeland? _____ ________________________________________
����������� Where were the other northern tribes? ________________ _______________________________________
1:8������ All the Jews who wanted to returned to Jerusalem were under the leadership of ______________________ aka ____________________________________
2:64���� How many Jews chose to return to their homeland? _____ _______________________________________
3:8������ They did not begin rebuilding the temple until they had been back how long?� ________________
3:12���� When they laid the foundation, the people shouted and praised God, but the older people who had seen the _____________________ temple, ___________________ aloud because it was so much smaller than that of Solomon's.
4:4������ Who kept discouraging the people from rebuilding the temple?� ___________________________________
4:5������ They continually sent complaints to the King ___________ ____________________ and ____________________ both.
4:6������ When Xerxes began to reign, their enemies lodged _____________________ against the people of Judah.
4:7������ When his son,_______________________, came to power, they tried once more to stop the Jews from rebuilding the temple.
6:13f��� Finally the temple was _________________________.
DAY FOUR:
Haggai
520 BC
During the Time the People were Struggling to  Get the Temple Rebuilt
1:2f����� The people were saying, "The _______________ has not yet come for the Lord's house to be __________________."� But God questioned, "Is it _____________ for you to be living in __________________________ houses while the _______________ of God remains a _________________?"
2:3������ Once it was built, he asked the older people, "Who of you is left who saw this house in its _____________________ glory?� Does it not seem to you like __________________ _______________?� But now be _________________."
Zechariah
1:1������ During whose reign did Zechariah prophecy? ___________
3:8������ The high priest's name was _________________________.� This is the Hebrew version of the Aramaic name Jesus.� He was symbolic of things to ____________________, specifically bringing the Branch (sometimes translated Root) to earth.� Who was the Branch (Revelation 22:16)?� ________________________________________________
6:11���� What was placed on the high priest's head in 3:5?� The priestly _________________________________� What was placed on his head later?� The kingly _________________.� This Branch is to rule on his ____________________ as king and also be a ____________________________, with ____________________ between the two.� Who today is our king (John 18:37)? ______________________� Who is our priest (Hebrews 9:11)?� _________________________� This is why the high priest in Jesus day was so afraid of him.
9:9������ Rejoice!� Shout!� See, your ________________ comes to you righteous and having _________________, gentle and riding on the ______________________ of a donkey (see Matthew 21:2-5).
12:10�� They will look on me, the one they have ______________ ....and mourn for an _________________ child....a firstborn son.� Does this sound familiar?
13:1���� On that day a fountain will be opened...to ______________ them from ___________________.� What does fountain refer to (Mark 5:25 - KJV)?� _______________________� What did Jesus do for us (Revelation 7:14)?� ___________� ________________________________________________
14:6���� What happened for three hours the day Jesus was crucified (Matthew 27:45)? _______________________
14:5���� What happened as soon as Jesus died on the cross (Matthew 27:50-51)?� ___________________________
Esther
1:1������ Who was emperor over the Persian Empire at this time?� ____________________________________
2:17���� Who did King Xerxes make his queen? _______________� What was so unusual about this (see 2:6 & 7)?
����������� ______________________________________________________________� Had she revealed her nationality (see 2:10)?� ___________
3:13���� What decree did King Xerxes sign at the urging of an official named Haman?� ____________________________
����������� ________________________________________________
4:12f��� Her uncle, Mordecai, sent this message to her.� "Do not think that because you are in the king's house you alone of all the Jews will ___________________.� For if you remain ___________________ at this time, relief and __________ ______________________ for the Jews will arise from ______________________ place....Who knows but that you have come...for ______________________ a ___________ __________________________ as this?"� WOW!� Should that be our motto through life?
7:9������ When King Xerxes found out about Haman's plot, what did he do to Haman?� __________________
9:18f��� Even today Jews celebrate this event every December with a _______________, giving and receiving _____________, and which they call Hanukkah.
DAY FIVE:
Ezra
460 BC
7:1������ The temple was begun under Cyrus (1:1f), continued under Darius (6:1), and completed under Xerxes and Artaxerxes (4:6), the husband and son of Jewish Queen Esther.� During whose reign did Ezra go to Jerusalem? _________________
7:6������ Ezra was a priest and ______________________, and well versed in the __________ of ________________.
9:2������ Ezra found out that the _____________________ and ___________________ had led the way in marrying unbelieving wives.
9:6������ Ezra prayed, "I am too ______________________ and _____________________ to lift up my face to you."
8:1f����� How many Jewish men returned to their homeland with Ezra (add them up!)?� _____________
Nehemiah
445 BC
2:1������ Nehemiah was the cup bearer of King ________________, Esther's son.� He was depressed because of what?� ___________________________________________________________________________________
3:1f����� The king sent him back to Jerusalem to rebuild the walls.� Look through this chapter and tell which gates were rebuilt by various private citizens. __________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________
4:6������ Despite insults from enemies who did not want Jerusalem rebuilt, they got the wall how high?� _______________________� Why? ___________________ _____________________________________
4:16���� After that, half the workers worked on the wall and half _______________________________________
4:23���� Even while working and walking around the town, the men carried ____________________________.
5:14���� Finally King Artaxerxes made Nehemiah their __________ __________________________.� Even though previous governors placed heavy taxes on the people for food, etc. and _____________________ it over the people, Nehemiah never ___________________________________________ allotted to the governor.
6:15f��� When the wall was finally completed, their enemies were __________________________.
7:66���� How many Jews returned from exile (see also Ezra 2:64)?� _______________________________________
DAY SIX:
8:3������ Ezra read the Book of the Law of Moses from ______________________ to ________________ in the presence of the _____________________ and ______________________.
8:12���� How did the people respond? _______________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________________
9:3������ On another day, the Book of the Law of God was read for how long?� _____________________� How long did they confess their sins? _________________________________ _______________________________
10:28�� Then which people signed an oath of allegiance? ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________
10:30�� What were the first three parts of the oath?
����������� (1)_____________________________________________(2)_____________________________________________(3)_____________________________________________________________________________________________
13:25f� What did Nehemiah do to the men who had married unbelieving wives? ___________________________
����������� _______________________________� Why? _________________________________________________
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Malachi
430 BC
Written about twenty years after the Jews were saved from annihilation
1:7������ The remnant of Jews who returned to Jerusalem were offering what on the altar in their new temple?� ______________________________________� In what way was it defiled (see 1:13)? ___________________________ ______________________________� (Also, by today's standards we do not eat such food.)
1:10���� God said they may as well shut the temple ____________.
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2:8������ What were the priests busy doing? __________ ________________________________________________
2:16���� What does God hate?� _____________________________� What were they doing (see verse 14)? ________________ _____________________________________________________________________
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3:5������ What other sins had they returned to that caused the nation's original downfall?� _____________________
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3:8������ How were they robbing God? _______________________ _______________________________________
4:1f����� The ____________________ is coming when God will punish the _____________________ evildoer, and heal the ________________________________.
4:5������ How will the people know the day has arrived? ____ ___________________________________________�
����������� How did Elijah dress (2 Kings 1:8)?� _________________� _______________________________________
����������� How did John the Baptist dress (Matthew 3:4-6)? _______� ______________________________________
����������� When and through whom was this fulfilled (Matthew 17:10-13)?� _________________________________
����������� _________________________________________________� He was the forerunner of Jesus who introduced him to the world.
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