Bible Knowledge

Question 1

On what day of creation did God create water?

Answer 1

The first day

Question 2

On what day of creation did God create light?

Answer 2

The first day

Question 3

On what day of creation did God create day and night?

Answer 3

The first day

Question 4

On what day of creation did God create the sky?

Answer 4

The second day

Question 5

On what day of creation did God create dry ground?

Answer 5

The third day

Question 6

On what day of creation did God create plants and vegetation?

Answer 6

The third day

Question 7

On what day of creation did God create the sun, moon, and stars?

Answer 7

The fourth day

Question 8

On what day of creation did God create birds and fish?

Answer 8

The fifth day

Question 9

On what day of creation did God create land animals?

Answer 9

The sixth day

Question 10

On what day of creation did God create humans?

Answer 10

The sixth day

Question 11

What did God do on the seventh day?

Answer 11

He rested

Question 12

What is the theological significance of Adam & Eve being naked in the garden of Eden?

Answer 12

They had perfect relationship with God and nothing that needed to be hidden, nothing to be ashamed of. When they sinned against God, they tried to hide their own shame, but it is impossible to hide from God. Instead, God demonstrates through his making of clothes from animal skins that he himself will cover their shame through the death of another in their place.

Question 13

What were humans made out of?

Answer 13

Adam, the man was made from dust and Eve, the woman, was made from Adam’s rib.

Question 14

What four rivers are said to flow out of the Garden of Eden?

Answer 14

1. Pishon
2. Gihon
3. Tigris
4. Euphrates

Question 15

What curses resulted from Adam & Eve’s sin?

Answer 15

Upon humanity:

1. Severe pains in childbirth
2. The ground would require painful toil to produce food
3. The land would produce thorns & thistles

Upon the serpent:

1. He will crawl on his belly and eat dust
2. The offspring of the woman will crush his head

Question 16

What chapter highlights the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah?

Answer 16

Genesis 19

Question 17

Who pleaded with God to spare Sodom & Gomorrah for the sake of ten righteous people?

Answer 17

Abraham

Question 18

What was God’s response to Abraham’s plea to spare Sodom & Gomorrah for the sake of ten righteous people?

Answer 18

God agreed to the request, but did not find even ten righteous people in the cities so the cities were destroyed and only Lot and his daughters were spared.

Question 19

True or false: Lot gave his daughters to the wicked men of Sodom & Gomorrah so that they could have sex with them.

Answer 19

False: Lot offered his daughters in an attempt to protect his guests, but God struck the men of the city with blindness before Lot fulfilled his offer.

Question 20

Why was Lot’s wife not spared in the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah?

Answer 20

She disobeyed God’s command and looked back.

Question 21

Why were Lot’s sons in law (some translations may say they were only pledged to be married and not married yet) not spared in the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah?

Answer 21

They did not believe the warning and thought it was only a joke (Genesis 19:14).

Question 22

What were the names of Jacob’s 12 sons (from which the 12 tribes of Israel would come) and which of Jacob’s wives did they come from?

Answer 22

From Leah:

1. Reuben
2. Simeon
3. Levi
4. Judah

From Bilhah (Rachel’s servant):

5. Dan
6. Naphtali

From Zippah (Leah’s servant):

7. Gad
8. Asher

From Leah (again):

9. Issachar
10. Zebulun

From Rachel:

11. Joseph
12. Benjamin

Question 23

What does the creation story tell us about who God is?

Answer 23

God is the source of life and all creation owes our worship back to him.

Question 24

What does the story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah tell us about who God is?

Answer 24

God is a just judge who will not leave evil unpunished forever, but his willingness to spare the cities if ten righteous people can be found also show his immense grace and patience in hoping that all would come to repentance (see 2 Peter 3:9).

Question 25

Who said, “Let’s get away from the Israelites! The LORD is fighting for them” and what is the context of this quote?

Answer 25

The Egyptians (Exodus 14:25) - The Egyptians had pursued the Israelites into the parted Red Sea, but God jammed their chariots’ wheels so that they had difficulty driving.

Question 26

Who said “Listen you rebels” to the Israelites and what was the irony of this statement?

Answer 26

Moses said these words to the rebellious Israelites just before he himself rebelled against God’s instruction and hit the rock that God had commanded him to speak to.

Question 27

What was the significance of Moses hitting the rock instead of speaking to it?

Answer 27

Stories in the Old Testament are often pictures of New Testament realities. God wanted to paint a picture for us that because the first rock (which represents Christ, see 1 Corinthians 10:4) was struck, we can have God’s living water simply by asking. Moses did not cooperate with this picture.

After Moses’ disobedience God says that Moses “did not trust [him] enough to honor [him] as holy” (Numbers 20:12). The word “holy” means different or set apart as sacred. In other words, God’s ways are higher than our ways (see Isaiah 55:8-9). So, in other words, Moses did not trust God enough to believe that God’s way was better than his own, which is ultimately the root issue behind all sin. We sin because we want to do things our way instead of God’s way.

Question 28

Who said, “Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the LORD promised on oath to your ancestors” and what was the context of this quote?

Answer 28

Moses (Deuteronomy 8:1) - The name Deuteronomy means “a second law”. The book of Deuteronomy was a book written to the next generation of Israelites after the first generation that left Egypt had not trusted God and had wandered in the desert for 40 years. These words were reminders to this next generation of the laws of God as they prepared to enter into the promised land.

Question 29

Who said, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God” and what was the context of this quote.

Answer 29

Ruth (Ruth 1:16) - Ruth said these words to Naomi when Naomi encouraged her to go back to Moab after her husband had died. Ruth refused to go back, but chose to turn away from her old life in Moab and all her Moabite gods and instead put her faith in the God of Israel, the true God. The story of Ruth takes place during the time of the judges (see Ruth:1), a time when many of the Israelites were turning away from God to other gods.

Question 30

Who read the Book of the Law to King Josiah and what was the significance of this event?

Answer 30

Shaphan, the king’s secretary (2 Kings 22:8) - Hilkiah, the high priest, told Shaphan that he had found the book of the law in the temple and Shaphan took it and read it to the king. King Josiah was a righteous king who did right in the eyes of the Lord (2 Kings 22:2) in contrast to the evil kings who had preceded him. The fact that Hilkiah is said to have found the book of the law in the temple (a place where it should never be lost) suggests that it had been neglected and forgotten during the reign of the previous kings. When found, King Josiah listened intently and came to understand the plans and purposes of God. For revival to happen, this story reminds us that we need a personal commitment to worship, a prioritizing of the word of God, and a repentant plea for God’s grace and mercy.

Question 31

Who said, “The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah” and what was the context of this quote?

Answer 31

King Cyrus of Persia (Ezra 1:1-2) - 150 years before the events described in the book of Ezra, Isaiah had prophesied that Cyrus would rebuild Jerusalem and its temple. This event was the beginning of the end of 70 years of captivity.

Question 32

Who said, “Why should my face not look sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?” and who was this said to?

Answer 32

Nehemiah (Nehemiah 2:3) - speaking to King Artaxerxes of Persia

Question 33

Who wrote the book of Esther?

Answer 33

While the book does not specify an author, the most popular belief is that the book was written by Mordecai. Other common beliefs are wthat the book could have been written by Ezra or Nehemiah who lived around the same time period and would have been familiar with Persian customs.

Question 34

Who said, “For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this”?

Who was this quote directed towards and what was the meaning?

Answer 34

Mordecai, a Jewish man living in Persia said these words to his cousin Esther after she had been chosen to be queen of Persia (Esther 4:14).

While God is not directly mentioned in this quote (or anywhere in the book), Mordecai appears to be suggesting that God had put her into her place to deliver the Israelites from Haman’s plot to destroy the Jews.

The fact that God is not mentioned may be intentional. It may be intended to communicate that even in times when God appears absent from the story, he is still at work behind the scenes.