21. Explain why the Rechabites, Elijah, and others hated Canaanite civilization and wanted the people to go back to the old nomadic desert ways.
22. Describe the burnt-offerings of ancient Hebrew religion. What was the difference between ordinary sacrifices and special "whole burnt-offerings"?
23. Describe the life of the poor people of Israel in the time of Jeroboam II and the prophet Amos.
24. How did Amos criticize the religion of burnt-offerings?
25. What false ideas of God did Hosea combat?
26. How did Hosea come to think of God as loving and merciful?
27. How were superstitious ideas about God used by greedy priests and fortune-tellers in Micah's day to extort money from the people?
28. What did Micah say were the essential things in religion?
29. Why did the Jews in Isaiah's time seek for alliances with foreign countries?
30. How were these alliances connected with the worship of foreign gods?