Verified Test Bank Judah 8th 7th Centuries BCE Ch18

Chapter 18: The Southern Kingdom of Judah in the Eighth and Early Seventh Centuries bce

Test Bank

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 01

1. The biblical writers who discuss this period in Israelite history describe Hezekiah’s reign as pivotal. Why was Hezekiah important both for the history of Israel and to the biblical writers who mention him?

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 02

2. How do archaeological remains inform our understanding of Sennacherib’s invasion of Israel? What gaps in the literary and historical record does archaeology fill?

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 03

3. Compare the contemporary prophets Isaiah and Micah. To whom do they prophesy and in what contexts? What messages do these prophets convey? Discuss any significant similarities and differences in their messages.

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 04

4. What was the Isaianic school and what evidence led scholars to posit its existence? How does the notion of an Isaianic school help us to better understand the book of Isaiah?

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 01

1. Isaiah and Micah were both southern prophets.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 02

2. The Syro-Ephraimite War is not mentioned in biblical texts.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 03

3. Isaiah was apparently a court prophet for kings Hezekiah and Manasseh.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 04

4. Sennacherib’s siege of Jerusalem was a part of the same campaign that destroyed Samaria.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 05

5. Every prophecy in the book of Micah likely originated with the eighth century prophet.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 06

6. The Lachish reliefs depict scenes from the siege of Jerusalem.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 07

7. Isaiah’s inaugural vision is of a meeting of the divine council.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 08

8. Many scholars believe that the book of Micah was expanded to refer to the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem in the fifth century BCE.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 09

9. Sennacherib besieged 46 fortified cities in Judea.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 10

10. The Deuteronomistic school was an apparent influence on Isaiah.

a) True

b) False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 01

1. Isaiah was from:

a. Samaria

b. Bethel

c. Lachish

d. Jerusalem

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 02

2. Scholars attribute the composition of Second Isaiah and revisions of Isaiah to the:

a. Deuteronomistic historians

b. School of Isaiah

c. scribal class

d. Levites

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 03

3. The Syro-Ephraimite War occurred in:

a. 701 bce

b. 722 bce

c. 734 bce

d. 750 bce

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 04

4. Hezekiah’s predecessor Ahaz relied on _______________ to defend Jerusalem during the Syro-Ephraimite War.

a. Assyria

b. Egypt

c. Yahweh

d. his military

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 05

5. Sennacherib’s palace in Assyria was located at:

a. Lachish

b. Babylon

c. Sidon

d. Nineveh

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 06

6. The prophetic sign of a pregnant woman who bears a son named Immanuel is given to _______________ to assure him to trust in Yahweh.

a. Ahaz

b. Pekah

c. Hoshea

d. Hezekiah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 07

7. Second Isaiah probably dates to the ___________ century bce.

a. eighth

b. seventh

c. sixth

d. fifth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 08

8. Micah employs all of the following genres except:

a. theophany

b. genealogy

c. lawsuit

d. lament

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 09

9. During the siege of Jerusalem, Sennacherib made this city his base:

a. Ekron

b. Beersheba

c. Lachish

d. Joppa

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 10

10. All were apparently children of Isaiah except:

a. Nathan

b. Immanuel

c. Maher-shalal-hash-baz

d. Shear-jashub

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 11

11. The Babylonian usurper Marduk-apla-iddina is referred to in the Bible as:

a. Maher-shalal-hash-baz

b. Tiglath-pileser

c. Merodach-baladan

d. Ashur-dan

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 12

12. The _____________ is a mythological account of the divine judgment of the end-time.

a. two-campaign hypothesis

b. Isaiah Apocalypse

c. covenant lawsuit

d. Rassam Cylinder

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 13

13. Interpreters have identified Immanuel with all of the following except:

a. Moses

b. Jesus

c. Isaiah’s son

d. Hezekiah

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 14

14. Nineveh was captured by the Babylonians in the year:

a. 689 bce

b. 612 bce

c. 586 bce

d. 562 bce

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 15

15. Micah suggests that a new ruler will rise from the city of:

a. Jerusalem

b. Samaria

c. Beersheba

d. Bethlehem

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 16

16. Hezekiah’s tunnel was supposed to divert the water from:

a. the Gihon Spring

b. the Jordan River

c. the Siloam Pool

d. Jacob’s well

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 17

17. Micah’s hometown was ________________.

a. Bethel

b. Bethlehem

c. Moresheth-gath

d. Lachish

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 18

18. Ahaz was all of the following except:

a. an Assyrian vassal

b. king of Judah

c. the son of Tabeel

d. an enemy of Aram and Israel

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 19

19. Both Isaiah and Micah prophesied during the reigns of every king except:

a. Jotham

b. Ahaz

c. Hezekiah

d. Manasseh

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 20

20. Every source neglects to mention Hezekiah’s payment of tribute to Sennacherib except:

a. Isaiah

b. the A-source

c. the B-source

d. 2 Chronicles 32

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 18 Question 01

1. In the ________________, Sennacherib gives his own account of the campaign through the Levant.

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 02

2. The prophet _____________________ directly quotes Micah’s judgment on Jerusalem.

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 03

3. The prophet Micah is from the town of _____________________.

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 04

4. Hezekiah’s tunnel is also called ________________________.

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 05

5. _____________ was a nineteenth-century ce scholar who saw problems with the unity of Isaiah.

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 06

6. The _______________________ is the term for the expanded area of Jerusalem beyond the fortified limits of the city of David where many refugees from the northern kingdom of Israel settled after its destruction in 722 bce.

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 07

7. _________________ paid tribute to Tiglath-pileser in 734 BCE.

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 08

8. The name “Immanuel” means ___________________.

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 09

9. The siege of Jerusalem by the kings of ____________ and ____________ happened during the Syro-Ephraimite War.

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 10

10. Chapters 56–66 of Isaiah are referred to as ______________________.