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55. To what does the expression, "clean and unclean animals" refer in Gen. vii. 2?

56. Can it refer to what were at that time proper or improper to be eaten?

57. What two great temporal blessings are promised to those who keep God's commandments?

58. What is meant by these words of the Jebusites to David, "Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither" (2 Sam. v. 6)?

59. What number of officers was appointed. over Israel by Jethro's advice?

60. Who killed Benhadad king of Syria?

61. What did Elisha say to Hazael, in answer

to his enquiry in the name of Benhadad, whether he would recover from his sickness?

62. How is this answer to be understood?

63. When the children of Israel saw the manna, what did they say to each other?

64. What was the nature of the fourth plague brought upon the Egyptians?

65. How many years after the death of Moses did David write his Psalms?

66. What motive had Joab for killing Abner? 67. Was it presumptuous in Joseph to offer advice to Pharaoh after interpreting the dream?

68. What rash oath did Saul take?

69. Was it kept?

70. What did Saul say on discovering that Jonathan had tasted of the honey?

71. Did the people allow this?

72. When David had obtained the water that he longed for from the well of Bethlehem, did he drink it?

73. What did he say at the time?

74. What is the meaning of n' (Bethlehem)?

75. How long after the Exodus from Egypt did Solomon begin to build the Temple?

76. In what year of his reign, and in what month?

77. What was remarkable while it was being built?

78. What name did Solomon give to the pillar which he set on the right side of the porch of the Temple?

79. What is its signification?

80. What did he call the name of the pillar on the left side?

81. What is its meaning?

82. How should Exod. ix. 15 be translated, which is thus rendered in the English version; "For now I will stretch out my hand that I

may smite thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou shalt be cut off from the earth,"-since we do not find that any pestilence followed? 83. When was the law given to Moses ? 84. How many commandments are there in the n (torah) Pentateuch?

85. What is meant by affirmative and negative precepts?

86. What are the divisions of the Pentateuch? 87. How are the sections termed in Hebrew? 88. How many sections are there in the five books of Moses?

89. But you said there were fifty-four

(sedarim), one of which is read every Sabbath throughout the year: Are there, then, fiftyfour weeks in the year?

90. How do they vary?

91. Is there no other variation?

92. Of how many days does the year, then, consist?

93. Why is the intercalary month introduced after Adar?

94. When is the season for keeping the Passover?

95. If the year thus varies from fifty to fiftyfive weeks, what arrangement is made for the reading of the fifty-four (sedarim)?

96. Are the Prophets read in the Synagogue? 97. Was it always the custom to read a portion of the prophets in the Synagogue?

98. The manuscript Pentateuch, you say, is divided into Paragraphs and Sections, but the printed copies are divided into Chapters and Verses when was this division made?

99. What is the signification of the word

?(Joshua) יהושע

100. What is the meaning of the word nap (koheleth), or Ecclesiastes ?

101. Who was the last king of the Ten Tribes of Israel?

102. To what king was Isaiah related?

103. Where was public worship performed before the erection of the Temple?

104. How many years were the children of Israel in Egypt?

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105. But in Exodus xi. 40, the words are : Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years." How do you understand this?

106. Can you give any proof that these four hundred and thirty years do not refer to the children of Israel's being in Egypt?

107. Of what duration was the Babylonian captivity?

108. How long did the First Temple stand? 109. By whom was it destroyed?

110. Who was king of Judah at the time?

111. To what king of Judah was Zedekiah related?

112. How did Nebuchadnezzar behave towards Zedekiah?

113. How long had Zedekiah reigned at the time?

114. How long did the kingdom of Judah exist under David and his lineal descendants?

115. What was the proximate cause of the separation of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah?

116. How long did the kingdom of Israel exist?

117. Who opposed the building of the second Temple?

118. How long did the Second Temple stand? 119. Who foretold that Jeroboam would be king?

120. How long did Jehoiachin remain prisoner at Babylon?

121. Who released him?

122. Whom did Nebuchadnezzar make governor of Judea after the destruction of Jerusalem?

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