Old Testament Survey Quiz on Ezra, Nehemiah, And Esther

foretold the Jews would be captives in a foreign land for seventy years.

The period of the Babylonian Captivity began in B.C.

The second group of captives was taken to Babylon in B.C.

, king of Babylon, destroyed Jerusalem in 586 B.C.

The Babylonian Empire was conquered by the Medes and in 539 B.C.

King permitted the Jews to return to their homeland.

was the leader of the first group to return.

The Babylonian Captivity lasted from 606 B.C. to B.C.

reorganized the temple worship.

rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem.

The book of tells how a Jewish girl came to be the queen of Persia.

Esther was raised by a relative named .

 was hanged on a gallows he had built for Mordecai.

Esther and are the only books in the Bible named after a woman.

Ezra was a descendant of King David.

Jews were taken into Babylon three different times.

If one approached a Persian king without being invited, he could be killed.

Mordecai was hanged on the gallows he had built for Haman.

Many Bible students believe Ezra began synagogues.

Ezra demanded the Jews come out of their unscriptural marriages.