Test 3 (final)

*Ch. 1-4

*Over his own tribe, Judah (Divided Kingdom)

*7yrs

*Ch.5-24

*Over ALL of Israel (United Kingdom)

*33yrs

*Brings the Ark to Jerusalem

*The Davidic Covenant

*David's victory

*Adultery (Bathsheba)

*Murder (Uriah)

*By numbering the people

*Amnon rape's half-sister (Absalom's full sister)

*Absalom murders Amnon

*Absalom rebels against David (killed by Joab)

*recieved God's blessing by asking for wisdom

*build temple

*pagan wives, builds shrines to other gods

*was a horse trader

*Rehoboam/Jeroboam to Ahab

*Ch.12-22

*Israel

*King Jeroboam (jerk)

*19 kings

*9 dynsasties

*7 died by assassination

*EVERY king was wicked

*Judah

*King Rehobam (real)

*19 Kings (and one queen mother Athaliah)

*All kings were of David's line

*Only 8 were good (especially Hezekiah and Josiah)

*Married Jezebel

*Israel's most wicked king

*his Baal-worship caused a great famine in the land

*major rival was Elijah

*death of himself and family predicted by the prophet Elijah

*announced a 3 1/2 yr drought

*at endof drought challenged Ahab and the prophets of Baal (450) to Contest on Mt. Carmel

*Elisha was choosen as successor

*he was taken to heaven in a chariot of fire without dying

-Jehoiakim

-Jehoiachin

-Jehoahaz

-Zedekian

-Habakukk

-Jeremiah

-3 by Babylon

-1st 605 BC,

-2nd 597 BC,

-3rd 586 BC,

Hebrew- "the word of the days," "the event of the times"

LXX- "omissions"

Covers basically the same info as kings different emphasis,

*political and religious emphasis

1st- 536, Zerubbabel rebuild the TEMBLE

2nd- 458, Ezra to teach people the LAW

3rd- 445, Nehemiah to rebuild WALLS