bce quiz prophets Flashcards
“Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt” is found in which book?
Select one:
a. Job
b. Lamentations
c. Daniel
d. Isaiah
Daniel
(Daniel 12:2)
In his sermon at the gate of the temple, Jeremiah says that the LORD will dwell in the temple if the people obey the commandments and stop oppressing the
Select one:
a. poor, orphan, and servant.
b. widow, poor, and alien.
c. orphan, widow, and servant.
d. alien, orphan, and widow.
alien, orphan, and widow.
(Jeremiah 7:1-10)
Which prophet’s ministry began during the reign of Josiah and continued until the captivity of Jerusalem.
Answer
a. Isaiah
b. Jeremiah
c. Amos
d. Ezekiel
Jeremiah
(Jeremiah 1:1-3)
In which book does this appear? “Why do you want the day of the LORD? It is darkness, not light.”
Select one:
a. Jeremiah
b. Obadiah
c. Isaiah
d. Amos
Amos
(Amos 5:18)
When the LORD relents from punishing Nineveh, Jonah is so angry he
Select one:
a. asks the LORD to take his life.
b. puts on sackcloth and cries out angrily.
c. refuses to speak to the LORD.
d. flees to Tarshish.
asks the LORD to take his life.
(Jonah 4:1-4)
Which is a major theme for the book of Haggai?
Select one:
a. God’s providence during the Exodus
b. the return from the exile in Babylon
c. the rebuilding of the temple
d. the punishment of Assyria
the rebuilding of the temple
(Haggai 1:1-4)
Which prophetic book opens with an oracle about the “day of the LORD,” saying: “I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth, says the LORD. I will sweep away human and animals; I will sweep away the birds of the air and the fish of the sea”?
Select one:
a. Isaiah
b. Joel
c. Ezekiel
d. Zephaniah
Zephaniah
(Zephaniah 1:2-3)
This prophet accused the people of Israel of robbing God by withholding tithes and offerings.
Answer
a. Obadiah
b. Malachi
c. Jeremiah
d. Daniel
Malachi
(Malachi 3:8)
Which prophetic book opens with the prophet seeing “visions of God” as he “was among the exiles by the river Chebar”?
Select one:
a. Ezekiel
b. Haggai
c. Daniel
d. Zechariah
Ezekiel
(Ezekiel 1:1)
God told Jonah to go to which city?
Answer
a. Hebron
b. Babylon
c. Nineveh
d. Tarshish
Nineveh
(Jonah 1:2 & 3:2)
In which book is the following quotation found: “Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed”?
Answer
a. Isaiah
b. Jeremiah
c. Hosea
d. Micah
Isaiah
(Isaiah 53:4-5)
Which prophet prophesied during the reign of King Hezekiah, that the Babylonians would conquer Jerusalem and take them into exile
Answer
a. Isaiah
b. Ezekiel
c. Joel
d. Malachi
Isaiah
(Isaiah 39:5-8)
What action did God command Ezekiel to perform in the sight of the exiles to illustrate the extent of the famine the inhabitants of Jerusalem would endure during the seige of the city?
Select one:
a. taking food from the sellers in the market
b. fasting for forty days and nights
c. burning stalks of grain, fruit, and vegetables
d. preparing and eating barley-cakes that he had baked over burning dung
preparing and eating barley-cakes that he had baked over burning dung
(Ezekiel 4:9-17)
Where is Israel referred to repeatedly as the servant of the Lord?
Select one:
a. Isaiah 40-55
b. Isaiah 56-66
c. Isaiah 13-23
d. Isaiah 1-12
Isaiah 40-55
(Isaiah 41:8; 43:10; 44:1-2,21; 49:3)
Which book ends with a story about a bush and a worm?
Answer
a. Malachi
b. Jonah
c. Ezekiel
d. Daniel
Jonah
(Jonah 4:6-11)
To which prophet did the LORD say, “Go, take for yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD.”
Select one:
a. Zephaniah
b. Jeremiah
c. Nahum
d. Hosea
Hosea
(Hosea 1:2)
