Answer: Adam
The book of I Chronicles covers a period of forty years. It begins with Adam and goes through his family tree. Abel and Cain are not mentioned as children of Adam. Seth is the only child of Adam's that is listed in I Chronicles.
II Chronicles covers a period of four hundred and fifty years. Solomon is the first person mentioned in the book of II Chronicles.
From Quiz: I and II Chronicles
Answer: Septuagint
Septuagint, meaning seventy, was compiled by seventy scholars commissioned by Ptolemy II in the 2nd and 3rd century BC to translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek. They were the first to divide the books Chronicles and also the books of Samuel and Kings.
Latin Vulgate was a translation done by Jerome in the fourth century and was translated from the Septuagint. In the fifteen hundreds the Council of Trent made it the official Latin Bible of the Catholic Church.
Masoretic Text was done by a group called Masores in the 7th to 10th century. They translated from the original Hebrew Bible adding notation for pronunciation. Their translation is considered by many to be more accurate than the Septuagint.
The King James version was commissioned by James VI of Scotland and I of England. It was translated by 47 scholars, all members of the Church of England.
From Quiz: BBB Bible Series: Second Chronicles
Answer: After the Babylonian Exile
The Babylonians under the rule of Nebuchadnezzar conquered Israel and many of the Israelites were taken captive to Babylon. They remained in slavery there for about seventy years and under the rule of Cyrus they were allowed to return back to Israel. Many Bible scholars believe the books of First as well as Second Chronicles, which at one time were just one book, were written after their return to Israel and that they were written to help the Israelites reconnect with their spiritual heritage and destiny as God's chosen people.
From Quiz: BBB Bible Series: First Chronicles
Answer: Solomon is David's son
II Chronicles 1:1 "And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly."
In 1993, a stone figure was found in Dan with the words "House of David." They believe this was the same David as the David who was Solomon's father. (www.biblehistory.net)
From Quiz: Second Chronicles
Answer: Esau
I Chronicles 1:34 "And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel." Jacob is the same person as Israel, not his brother. Joseph was Israel's favorite son.
From Quiz: First Chronicles
Answer: Authorship is uncertain
Many Bible scholars believe the books of First Chronicles and Second Chronicles were perhaps compiled by several scribes and priests under the oversight of Ezra the priest.
From Quiz: BBB Bible Series: First Chronicles
Answer: two tables
II Chronicles 5:10 "There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt."
According to www.jewishencylopedia.com the tables of Moses were six handbreadths in length. One handbreadth is equal to about four inches.
In some versions it does say tablets, but in the King James Version it was written as tables.
From Quiz: Second Chronicles
Answer: "Because I bare him with sorrow."
I Chronicles 4:9 "And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, 'Because I bare him with sorrow'." Bruce Wilkinson wrote a book called "The Prayer of Jabez".
The King James Version gives the word the archaic spelling of "bare," the past tense of "to bear" (as in, to bear a child). In modern times we would probably spell this word "bore."
From Quiz: First Chronicles
Answer: Egypt
Benaiah was the son of Jehoiada, a descendant of Simeon. Benaiah had killed a seven and a half foot Egyptian man with the man's own spear. Before that he had killed two lionlike Moabites and a lion stuck in a pit. For his actions, David made Benaiah head of the guard.
From Quiz: I and II Chronicles
Answer: Rehoboam
II Chronicles 11: 5-6: "And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah. He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa."
Rehoboam was the son of King Solomon. David was Rehoboam's grandfather.
From Quiz: Second Chronicles
Answer: 3
I Chronicles 6:1 "The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari." Levi was the son of Jacob (AKA Israel) and Leah. Levi was involved with his other brothers at one time to sell their brother Joseph as a slave in Egypt.
From Quiz: First Chronicles
Answer: Uzza
Uzza was a Levite and Levites were the only group allowed to carry the Ark of the Covenant because they were priests. Uzza helped move the ark onto a cart and out of Abinadab's house. On their way to the threshing floor of Chidon where the ark would stay, Uzza placed his hand on the ark to steady it when the oxen stumbled. God became angry because his orders to not touch the ark were disobeyed and Uzza immediately died. David became fearful of God's power and sent the ark to stay with Obededom for three months. David named the spot where Uzza died Perez Uzza.
From Quiz: I and II Chronicles
Answer: 14 days
"So Solomon observed the festival at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him-a vast assembly, people from Lebo Hamath to the Wadi of Egypt. On the eighth day they held an assembly, for they had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days and the festival for seven days more." (2 Chronicles 7:8-9 NIV)
Solomon dismissed the people and they returned home with joyful and glad hearts.
From Quiz: BBB Bible Series: Second Chronicles
Answer: David
"Saul died because he was unfaithful to the Lord; he did not keep the word of the Lord and even consulted a medium for guidance, and did not inquire of the Lord. So the Lord put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse." -- 1 Chronicles 10:13-14 (NIV)
Long before Saul died God chose David to replace Saul as Israel's king and made a special covenant with David that one of his sons would always remain on the throne.
From Quiz: BBB Bible Series: First Chronicles
Answer: Three days of plague
David was tempted by Satan to number the Israelite men who could fight even though God told him never to do that. Joab, David's troop commander, pleaded with him not to do it, but David insisted. Joab's count came back with one million one hundred thousand men who could fight including four hundred seventy thousand men in Judah. Joab still didn't like what David had ordered him to do so he didn't count the men in the tribes of Levi or Benjamin.
David realized God was angry with him for what he did and asked not to be punished for his arrogance and disobedience. God told David he could have a choice of three punishments for him and the Israelites. He could either endure three years of famine, three months of running from enemies, or three days of a horrible plague.
David said he would rather be punished by God than by his enemies so he chose three days of plague. With David's choice, seventy thousand Israelites died.
(FYI, three days of wandering alone in the wilderness was never a choice God gave David.)
From Quiz: I and II Chronicles
Answer: Hebron
"All Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, "We are your own flesh and blood. In the past, even while Saul was king, you were the one who led Israel on their military campaigns. And the Lord your God said to you, 'You will shepherd my people Israel, and you will become their ruler.' "
When all the elders of Israel had come to King David at Hebron, he made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel, as the Lord had promised through Samuel. See 1 Chronicles 11:1-3 (NIV).
David reigned in Hebron for about seven years.
From Quiz: BBB Bible Series: First Chronicles
Answer: 130 years old
Upon Jehoida's death, it seemed that Joash stopped being such a good king, and almost immediately did something evil.
(2 Chronicles 24:17-22)
From Quiz: Who Am I? Joash, Josiah or Another "J" Guy?
Answer: imperfect
II Chronicles 25:2 "And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart."
Amaziah became king when he was 25, after his father Joash was assassinated. Joash was killed during a conflict caused by his allowing (and participating in) the worship of other gods. He was injured during a battle in which many of his people died, then killed by his own officers who were angry at this, and at his earlier killing of the prophets who had been pointing out the error of his ways. (II Chronicles 24:17-27)
From Quiz: Second Chronicles
Answer: Aaronites
I Chronicles 12:27 "And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred." Jehoida was married to Jehosheba. Together they saved the infant Jehoash.
From Quiz: First Chronicles
Answer: Moriah
Solomon decided to build the temple on Mount Moriah where his father built an altar to God after the plague. Solomon began the construction of the temple on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
The foundation of the house was ninety feet long and thirty feet wide. The porch was thirty feet long and thirty feet high. The inside of the house was bathed in pure gold and jewels and Solomon had cherubim drawn on the walls. Solomon put a bronze altar in the temple. He had five basins put on the north wall and five basins put on the south wall for washing sacrifices. Five lamp stands were put next to the basins on both walls.
Five years after Solomon's death, the building became a temple for Baal.
From Quiz: I and II Chronicles
Answer: The kingdom divided
"...all Israel went to Rehoboam and said to him: "Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you." 2 Chronicles 10:3b-4 NIV
When Rehoboam refused to lighten their load and said he would even make it harsher all but the tribe of Judah and Benjamin rebelled against him. The ten remaining northern tribes raised up their own King.
In 2 Kings we see this came about because of his father Solomon's unfaithfulness in following after the gods of his wives.
"So the Lord said to Solomon, "Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates. Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son. Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom from him, but will give him one tribe for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen." (2 Kings 11-13 NIV)
From Quiz: BBB Bible Series: Second Chronicles
Answer: Joab
"David had said, "Whoever leads the attack on the Jebusites will become commander-in-chief." Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, and so he received the command." -- 1 Chronicles 11:6 (NIV)
Joab was also the son of David's sister Zeruiah. This chapter of 1 Chronicles goes on to list David's Mighty Men. These men all showed exceptional loyalty to David and bravery in their service.
From Quiz: BBB Bible Series: First Chronicles
Answer: a return to the worship of idols
They asked Joash to allow them to serve "groves and idols". Even though he tried to persuade them otherwise (after the fact), they ignored him.
(2 Chronicles 24:17-20)
From Quiz: Who Am I? Joash, Josiah or Another "J" Guy?
Answer: mocked them
II Chronicles 30:10 "So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them."
From Quiz: Second Chronicles
Answer: All other gods.
I Chronicles 16:25 "For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods." Psalms 48:1 and 145:3 also start with the words "Great is the Lord".
From Quiz: First Chronicles
Answer: Rehoboam
Solomon's reign over Judah lasted forty years and then he died and was buried within the city of David. Solomon's oldest son, Rehoboam, was made king while he was in Shechem. He didn't want to be a good king and Israel rebelled against him.
Rehoboam had eighteen wives along with sixty concubines. Together with his wives and concubines he had sixty daughters and twenty-eight sons. He reigned seventeen years as king and was buried in the city of David. His son, Abijah, took over as king.
From Quiz: I and II Chronicles
Answer: The ark of the Lord
"David assembled all Israel in Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the Lord to the place he had prepared for it." -- 1 Chronicles 15:3 (NIV)
David made two attempts to bring the ark of the Lord to Jerusalem. He aborted his first attempt when God killed one of the men helping to transport the ark, who had touched it. David, angry and confused, left the ark at the house of Obed-Edom and returned to Jerusalem. David came to understand later that God had prescribed specific instructions for handling the ark of the Lord.
"David said, 'No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the Lord chose them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister before him forever.'" -- 1 Chronicles 15:2 (NIV)
After he made the correct arrangements the ark was successfully brought to Jerusalem with great rejoicing and celebration.
From Quiz: BBB Bible Series: First Chronicles
Answer: they stoned him to death with the permission of King Joash
2 Chronicles 24:21-22 states that they stoned him at the commandment of King Joash and that, because the king did "not remember the kindness" of Zechariah's father, Jehoida, the high priest, that God would require it and take him to account. In verse 25, we see that the king's own servants conspired to kill him and that he was not buried in the city of David (Jerusalem) as most of the good kings were.
From Quiz: Who Am I? Joash, Josiah or Another "J" Guy?
Answer: evil
From Quiz: Second Chronicles
Answer: Jair
I Chronicles 20:5 "And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam." This was part of the war that led to the capture of Rabbah.
From Quiz: First Chronicles
Answer: Stabbed
Athalia was a descendant of Benjamin. Queen Athalia was wicked and led her son, King Ahaziah, to be a wicked king as well. Due to his wickedness, King Ahaziah was killed along with his sons. When Queen Athaliah learned that her son had been killed, she had the rest of the royal family killed. It was only due to the bravery of a princess that Ahaziah's youngest son, Joash, and his nurse were kept from being killed. The young boy remained hidden for six years while Athaliah cruelly ruled Judah.
Seven years later, the young boy was brought out of the temple and declared king by the people of Judah. Athaliah heard the news and reacted strongly. Jehoida, the priest, had Queen Athaliah brought out to a horse gate at the palace and stabbed to death. After her death all the idols were destroyed and Joash was made king of Judah at age seven.
From Quiz: I and II Chronicles
Answer: Athaliah
"Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri." (2Chronicles 22:2 NIV)
When Ahaziah was killed his mother took the reins of power for herself and killed all but one of the royal sons. One son, Joash, was rescued by Athaliah's sister and hid away until Athaliah was assassinated six years later. Joash was then installed as king. He was only seven years old.
From Quiz: BBB Bible Series: Second Chronicles
Answer: Building a house for the Lord
"After David was settled in his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, 'Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under a tent.'
Nathan replied to David, 'Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with you.'
But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:
'Go and tell my servant David, 'This is what the Lord says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in.''" -- 1 Chronicles 17:1-4 (NIV)
Even though David wasn't allowed to build a house for the ark of the Lord, during his lifetime he collected money and resources for it from the people as well as his own resources, and he also drew up plans for the construction of a lavish temple that his son Solomon would later build.
From Quiz: BBB Bible Series: First Chronicles
Answer: Huldah, a prophetess
These five men went to a prophetess, whose name was Huldah, and she told them to tell the king that, indeed, God would bring evil "upon this place." She further told them that Josiah would not have to witness this event as God would allow him to live out his life without having to see the punishment, because of his obedience and his pure heart.
(2 Chronicles 34:22-29)
From Quiz: Who Am I? Joash, Josiah or Another "J" Guy?
Answer: Josiah
II Chronicles 35:29 "And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations."
Jeremiah was known as the weeping prophet. Jeremiah was called the weeping prophet because the people's sins made him cry so much. (www.tftw.org)
From Quiz: Second Chronicles
Answer: Lahmi
I Chronicles 20:5 ""And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam." Lahmi was around the year 1020 BC according to the Smith's Bible Dictionary.
From Quiz: First Chronicles
Answer: Hezekiah
Hezekiah was twenty-five when he became king after his father Ahaz died. Hezekiah was considered a good king. He had the temple doors repaired and brought in the priests of Levi to sanctify the temple. The Levite priests took eight days to sanctify the temple. The priests brought back all the vessels that Ahaz had gotten rid of and sanctified them so they could be put back into the temple. After the temple had been sanctified, Hezekiah had an offering burnt in the temple before he reopened it.
From Quiz: I and II Chronicles
Answer: Took a census
"Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel. So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, 'Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan. Then report back to me so that I may know how many there are.'" -- 1 Chronicles 21:1-2 (NIV)
Perhaps pride motivated David to order this census that displeased God so much that he sent a plague that killed 70,000 men. Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. David and the elders dressed in sackcloth and fell on their faces. David confessed his wrongdoing and asked God to let his hand be against him and his house and not against the people. God commanded that David erect an altar on the threshing floor of Ornan. After David completed the altar he offered a burnt offering and a peace offering and called on the Lord. The Lord answered by sending fire on the offering and commanded the angel to return his sword to its sheath.
From Quiz: BBB Bible Series: First Chronicles
Answer: Samuel
Nearly the entire 35th chapter is devoted to the relaying of the details of this Passover; it must have been a hum-dinger. Sadly, the last part of the chapter tells of the good king Josiah's death.
From Quiz: Who Am I? Joash, Josiah or Another "J" Guy?
