Bible Trivia Study

1. What prophet said that God would make a new covenant that would be written on men's hearts?

Answer: Jeremiah

"But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people." (Jer 31:33 KJV)

2. This man was a food commissioner for King Solomon, otherwise quite unknown, yet today his surname is famous! What is the surname?

Answer: Ben-Hur (meaning "son of Hur")

"And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision. And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:" (1 Ki 4:7-8 KJV)

"And Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household; each one made provision for one month of the year. These are their names: Ben-Hur, in the mountains of Ephraim;" (1 Ki 4:7-8 NKJV)

3. Re-order these words that follow to match a familiar verse.

"the righteous call to repentance not came sinners I to but"

Answer: see verse below

"I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." (Luke 5:32 KJV)

4. What man held a celebration that lasted about six months in order to show his wealth?

Answer: Ahasuerus

"Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:) That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace, In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him: When he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even and hundred and fourscore days." (Est 1:1-4 KJV)

5. What wife told her royal husband to make a gallows?

Answer: Zeresh

"Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made." (Est 5:14 KJV)

6. Does scripture ever record the disciples singing a hymn in the presence of Jesus?

Answer: Yes

"And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom. And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives." (Mat 26:27-30 KJV)

Also Mark 14:26

7. Re-order these words that follow to match a familiar verse.

"bear a virgin shall behold a son and conceive"

Answer: see verse below

"Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." (Isa 7:14 KJV)

8. Who worked a miracle by causing an iron cutting implement to float on water?

Answer: Elisha

"And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us. Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye. And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go. So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood. But as one was felling a beam, the ax head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed. And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he showed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim. Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it." (2 Ki 6:1-7 KJV)

9. This godly king of Judah is only one of two persons recorded in Scripture with this name that begins with the letter J.

Answer: Josiah

"Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD." (2 Ki 23:24 KJV)

10. What happened 40 days after Jesus' day of birth?

Answer: Mary's ceremonial purification is complete and Jesus presentation is made

"And when eight days were completed for the circumcision of the Child, His name was called JESUS, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb. Now when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord" (Luke 2:21-22 NKJV)

"Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean. And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled." (Lev 12:2-4 KJV)

Note: the eighth day -- the day of circumcision -- is part of the thirty-three days after the seven days. Therefore the total days required for purification being 40 days. The day after (i.e., 40 days after the birth) the male child is presented to the Lord.

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