The open Bible, helps for the Bible-reader; arranged according to the Chautauqua system of education by Berkowitz Henry 1857- & Jewish Chautauqua Soc

Author:Berkowitz, Henry, 1857- & Jewish Chautauqua Soc
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bible
Publisher: Phila
Published: 1896-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

30 III. Tests and Reviews.

1. Give the various causes that led to the breaking up of Solomon's empire.

2. Recite the effects of the disruption of the kingdom.

3. How is the fragmentary form of the records in the Books of Kings accounted for ?

4. Give some instances in which the doings of various kings are obviously reported with some bias.

5. What political events characterized the reigns of the first three kings of Judah, Rehoboam, Abijah and Asa ?

6. What are the main political events in the reigns of the first six kings of Israel, Jeroboam I, Nadab, Baasha, Elah, Zimri and Omri ?

7. What, in the eyes of the historian of Kings, makes a king ungodly ? How does his judgment compare with the standards of Godliness set forth in the Pentateuch ?

8. What is the spiritual significance of Elijah's vision at Horeb ?

LESSON XVI. Topic — The Divided Kingdom.

I. Required Readings.

Montefiore, Bible for Home Reading, chap, xiii, pp.

316-45-Moulton, Literary Study of the Bible, ' * Epic Prophecies of Elijah and EHsha," pp. 238-40.

II. Suggestions.

1. Note that the destrviction of the house of Omri was threatened, not on account of idolatry, but because of Ahab's crime against a simple peasant, Naboth.

2. The key-note of all Hebrew prophecy is struck by Elijah. Mark his rigid consistency and stern adherence to

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