Bible Study Quiz

Answers to June 1998 Study


The verses from Scripture are given with the answer. You can click on the verse hyperlink [e.g., (Jhn 3:16 KJV) ] to read the indicated verse within the context of its entire chapter.
1. Which was the first Apostle to be martyred as recorded in the scriptures?
 
Answer: James, son of Zebedee
(Acts 12:1-2 KJV) Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

(Mat 4:21 KJV) And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.

2. Re-order these words that follow to match a familiar portion of Scripture.
"created God God in his man own of he him image in image so the created"
 
Answer: see verse below
(Gen 1:27 KJV) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

3. What type of bird was first sent from the ark by Noah?
Dove
Raven
Pigeon
Eagle
 
Answer: Raven
(Gen 8:6-7 KJV) And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: [7] And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

4. How many years did the Israelites suffer as slaves in Egypt?
100
300
400
700
1,000
 
Answer: 400
(Gen 15:13 KJV) And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

5. How many wives did King Solomon have?
100
300
400
700
1,000
 
Answer: 700
(1 Ki 11:1-3 KJV) But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; [2] Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love. [3] And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

6. What Hebrew tribe had 700 left-handed men who could sling a stone at a hair and hit it?
 
Answer: Benjamin
(Judg 20:15-16 KJV) And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men. [16] Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.

7. Re-order these words that follow to match a familiar portion of Scripture.
"made a little angels lower him for hast thou than the"
 
Answer: see verse below
(Psa 8:5 KJV) For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

8. This prophet was a hairy man and wore a leather belt. Who was he?
John the Baptist
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Elijah
Zechariah
 
Answer: Elijah
(2 Ki 1:8 KJV) And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

9. How many of the clean animals did Noah take into the ark?
2
4
10
14
 
Answer: 14 (7 each of male and female) of the clean animals and two of the unclean.
(Gen 7:2-3 NKJV) "You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female; [3] "also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth.

10. The Lord Jesus said that the lilies of the field are dressed better than this person ever was. Who was this person?
King David
King Solomon
King Herod
Caesar
 
Answer: King Solomon
(Mat 6:28-29 KJV) And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: [29] And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.


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