Q. What did Jonah say when the sun beat upon his head? A. It is better for me to die than to live. Jonah iv, 8. Q. What question did the Lord ask him? 4. Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? Jonah iv, 9. Q. How did Jonah answer? A. I do well to be angry, even unto death. A. Thou hast pity on the gourd, for which thou A. More than one hundred and twenty thousand. Jonah iv, 11. Q. When did Micah prophesy? A. About the same time as Isaiah, Joel, Hosea, and Amos. Q. What does he distinctly foretell? A. That Bethlehem should be the birth-place of Christ. Micah ར, 2. Q. When did Nahum probably prophesy? A. Between the captivity of the Israelites in Assyria and the destruction of Jerusalem. Q. What does he foretell? A. The destruction of Nineveh. Q. At what time did Habakkuk prophesy? . A. About the same period as Jeremiah. Q What other prophet lived at this period? A. Zephaniah. Q. Of what does he speak? A. Of the destruction of Nineveh. Zeph. ii, Q. When did Haggai fill the office of prophet? A. After the Jews had returned from captivity. Q. What was his principal object? A. To encourage the Jews to rebuild the temple. Q. Under what name does he predict the coming of Christ? A. The "Desire of all nations." Q. Who also prophesied with Haggai? A. Zechariah. Haggai ii, 7. Q. Under what figure does he speak of Christ? Q. Who is the inspired author of the last book in the A. Malachi. Q. Whose coming does he distinctly foretell? Q. What should be his office? A. To prepare the way Q. When did he prophesy? of the Lord. A. After the return from captivity, later than any other prophet. Q. How many years were there between his prophecy and the coming of Christ? A. About four hundred. LESSON XLI. The Return from Captivity. Question. How long did the Jews remain captive in Assyria? Answer. Seventy years. 2 Chron. xxxvi, 21. Q. Who gave them permission to return to Jerusalem? Q. What induced him to do this? A. The Lord stirred up his spirit. 2 Chron. xxxvi, 22. Q. What did he say the Lord had charged him? A. To build him a house in Jerusalem. 2 Chron. xxxvi, 23. Q. Who had predicted this concerning Cyrus ? A. Isaiah. Chapter xliv, 28. Q. How long before the birth of Cyrus? A. Nearly two hundred years. Q. What did Cyrus bestow upon the Jews that returned? A. The vessels of the house of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away. Ezra i, 7. Q. Who led up the first company as governor? A. Zerubbabel. Ezra ii, 2. What did they immediately commence? hen the foundation was laid, what did the people do? Q. How were the old men affected who had seen the former temple? A. They wept with a loud voice. Ezra iii, 12. Q. What did the adversaries of Judah request when they heard that they builded the temple? A. That they might build with them. Ezra iv, 2. Q. What was the answer of the people? A. Ye have nothing to do with us to build a house unto our God. Ezra iv, 3. Q. What did their enemies then do? A. They induced Artaxerxes, who had become king of Persia, to command them to stop building. Ezra iv, 23, 24. Q. How long were they hindered? A. Until the second year of the reign of Darius. Q. What noted scribe came up to Jerusalem from Babylon at this time? A. Ezra. Ezra vii, 1. Q. What did he become? A. Governor of Judea. Q. In what year of Darius was the temple finished? A. The sixth. Ezra vi, 15. Q. How long was it in building? A. About twenty years. Who succeeded Ezra as governor of Judea? A. Nehemiah. Q. What was his office in the court of Persia? 4. He was the king's cup-bearer. Nehemiah ii, 1. Q. What report had he heard from Jerusalem ? A. That the walls were broken down, and the gates burned with fire. Neh. i, 3. Q. How was he affected by this report? A. He mourned, wept, and fasted. Neh. i, 4. Q. What did the king notice when Nehemiah offered him wine? A. That his countenance was sad. Neh. ii, 2. Q. What did Nehemiah answer when the king asked the cause of it? A. The place of my fathers' sepulchres lieth waste. Neh. ii, 3. Q. What did the king then say? A. For what dost thou make request? Neh. ii, 4. Q. What did Nehemiah then do? A. He prayed silently to the God of heaven. Q. What request did he make of the king? A. Permission to visit and rebuild Jerusalem. Neh. ii, 5. Q. What did the king do? A. Granted him his request, and aided him in the work. Neh. ii, 6, 8. 2. Who attempted to hinder Nehemiah and the Jews? A. Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem. Neh. ii, 19. Q. How were they obliged to build the wall? A. They worked with one hand, and held their weapons in the other. Neh. iv, 17. Q. Why? A. Lest they should be suddenly attacked by their enemies. |