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Samaria was destroyed in the year ___________ BCE.
a. 722
b. 586
c. 850
d. 740
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Amos refers to Samarian women as:
a. fat cows
b. prostitutes
c. priestesses
d. angels
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Hoshea ousted ____________ as king of Israel.
a. Jeroboam II
b. Ahaz
c. Hezekiah
d. Pekah
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Hosea's wife was named:
a. Jezreel
b. Gomer
c. Athaliah
d. Miriam
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The Deuteronomistic historians' account of the fall of the northern kingdom does everything except:
a. blames the destruction on apostasy
b. emphasizes theological interpretation over historical details
c. laments that Yahweh is no longer worshipped in Samaria
d. describes the details of the deportation
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In many of the prophets, oracles of judgment often take on the form of a(n):
a. covenant
b. lawsuit
c. oath
d. alliance
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All of the following nations are condemned at the beginning of Amos except:
a. Tyre
b. Edom
c. Moab
d. Assyria
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Most Christian canons place _________ among the Major Prophets.
a. Job
b. Micah
c. Daniel
d. Zechariah
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All of the following prophets attack Israelite rituals except:
a. Obadiah
b. Isaiah
c. Amos
d. Hosea
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In Hosea, all of the following are listed as specific transgressions of God's law except:
a. worshiping other gods
b. forgetting the sabbath
c. making foreign alliances
d. denying social justice
