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"THE QUIVER" BIBLE CLASS.
(BASED ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCRIPTURE LESSONS.)
QUESTIONS.
1. What action of Manasseh, king of Judah, shows how terribly the
people had sunk into idolatry?
2. In what way did Manasseh seek to protect his country from
invasion?
3. What is remarkable in the latter part of Manasseh's life?
4. Quote a proverb which warns us of the danger of evil companions.
5. In what way does the wise man express the beauty of a holy life?
6. In whose reign do we find the king sending to a woman for advice?
7. What great discovery was made while the Temple was being repaired
in the reign of Josiah?
8. What proof have we that at one time the Jews were
fire-worshippers?
9. In whose reign did God carry out the judgment which He pronounced
against the altar at Bethel which Jeroboam had made?
10. Of what gross act of contempt against God was Jehoiakim, king of
Judah, guilty?
11. What acts of cruelty are recorded against King Jehoiakim?
12. In what way did God punish Jehoiakim for his iniquity?
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ON PAGE 1147.
133. A tax of half a shekel of silver for every male of twenty years
old and upward (Exod. xxx. 12-14).
134. Joash, king of Judah, in order to obtain money for the
restoration of the Temple (2 Chron. xxiv. 6-9).
135. 2 Chron. xxiv. 8.
136. Isaiah is generally considered to have been the grandson of
King Joash, and thus has sometimes been called the royal prophet
(Isa. i. 1).
137. The altar seen by Isaiah in his vision was the altar of
burnt offering, on which the fire which came down from heaven was
perpetually burning (Isa. vi. 6; Lev. vi. 13; 2 Chron. vii. 1).
138. The effect of the teaching of the Gospel is to bring peace on
earth (Isa. xi. 6-10).
139. Isa. xi. 9.
140. In the reign of Hezekiah (2 Chron. xxx. 2; Numbers ix. 10, 11).
141. Because the Temple was not cleansed until the sixteenth day of
the first month (2 Chron. xxix. 3, 16-18).
142. It was the first Passover after the separation of Israel and
Judah at which any of the children of Israel were present (2 Chron.
xxx. 1).
143. By Sennacherib, whose army was destroyed by God in one night (2
Kings xviii. 17 and xix. 34, 35).
144. In the reign of Hezekiah (2 Kings xviii. 4).
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