Cities

Question 1

Home town of King Saul

Answer 1

Gibeah (Bejamin)

Question 2

King David’s wife, Ahinoam, was from here. This is also where the Philistines attacked while Ahinoam (and many others) were taken from Ziklag.

Answer 2

Jezreel (Issachar)

Question 3

There are six cities of refuge. What are they?

Answer 3

Bezer (Reuben)
Ramoth-gilead (Gad)
Golan (Manasseh)
Hebron (Judah)
Shechem (Ephraim)
Kedesh (Naphtali)
Joshua 20

Question 4

Where was the Levite’s concubine raped to death?

Answer 4

Gibeah (Bejamin)

Question 5

Home town of Samuel

Answer 5

Ramah (Ephraim)

Question 6

Where did Gideon fight against Midian?

Answer 6

Jezreel (Issachar)

Question 7

Home town of Jephthah

Answer 7

Mizpah (Benjamin)

Question 8

In which city does David rule Judah for 7 years and 7 months?

Answer 8

Hebron (Judah)

Question 9

In which city were Abraham, Isaac and Jacob buried?

Answer 9

Hebron (Judah)

Question 10

From where did the remnant of Benjamin obtain wives in Judges 21?

Answer 10

Jabesh-Gilead (Gad)

Shiloh (Ephraim)

Question 11

The inhabitants of which city retrieved the body of Saul from the Philistines? Where was his body hung?

Answer 11

Jabesh-Gilead (Gad)

Hung: Beth-shan (Menassh/Issachar) very close to Jabesh-Gilead

Question 12

Absalom fled here after murdering his brother Amnon. And why would he choose this location?

Answer 12

Geshur (in Manasseh but a foreign city). He chose this location because the king was his grandfather (his mother’s father.) (2 Sa 3:3). He was there three years.

Question 13

While David was in Israel fornicating with Bathsheba, which city was Israel fighting against?

Answer 13

Rabah (Amon)

Question 14

Sheba tried to take the throne but was pursued by Joab to this city where a wise woman, in order to save the city, convinced the people to hand Sheba over by cutting off his head and throwing it over the wall to Joab.

Answer 14

Abel or Abel-beth-maacah (Naphtali)

Question 15

In Solomon’s time, where was the “great high place”, the center of worship before the temple was built?

Answer 15

Gibeon (Benjamin / Levitical).

Question 16

Early on, this city appears to have been the kingdom’s center, or at least an important political city. Rehoboam was crowned here, and Jeroboam seems to have made this his capital when he took the throne.

Answer 16

Shechem (Ephraim)

Question 17

Which cities were Jeroboam’s oxen erected?

Answer 17

Dan (Danite city, but possibly outside of Israel) and Bethel (Benjamin), the (roughly) most northern and southern cities of the northern empire.

Question 18

After Shechem, which city appears to have next been used as the Northern Kingdom’s capital?

Answer 18

Tirzah (Manasseh)

Question 19

While Israel was beseiging this city, Baasha assassinated the king. 26 years later (it would seem), Israel are beseiging the city yet again (or still?), and this time they leave the seige to fight against Zimri.

Answer 19

The city was Gibbethon (Philistine)

Question 20

Which king established Samaria as the royal city of the Northern Kingdom, and what city was the royal city before this?

Answer 20

King Omri bought the site from Shemer and called it Samaria. Previously the royal city was Tirzah (Manasseh).

Question 21

During whose reign was Jericho rebuilt, and who rebuilt it?

Answer 21

Jericho (Benjamin) was rebuilt during the reign of Ahab, and it was Hiel of Bethel who built it, at the cost of his children according to the prophecy of Joshua.

Question 22

Elijah stayed with a widow. Where was this?

Answer 22

Zarephath (Sidon)

Question 23

To which city did Ban-hadad, king of Syria, flee from Ahab?

Answer 23

Aphek (Ephraim)

Question 24

Where was Naboth’s vineyard that Ahab wanted so badly?

Answer 24

Jezreel (Issachar), adjacent to Ahab’s home in Samaria (Manasseh). (How they were so close is yet to be determined, unless the “valley of Jezreel” went all the way from Jezreel to Samariah?)

Question 25

In which city did the youths mock Elisha, saying “Go up, baldy! Go up, baldy!”

Answer 25

Bethel (Benjamin)

Question 26

In which place did Elisha help the widow during the famine whereby she filled as many bowls of oil as she had collected?

Answer 26

Shunem (Issachar)

Question 27

Where did Elisha stop with his fellow prophets, and they gathered wild gourds that Elisha made edible with flour? This was also the prophet’s HQ.

Answer 27

Gilgal (Manasseh)

Question 28

Elisha would inform the king of Israel about the plans of the king of Syria (Ben-Hadad). The king of Syria then tried to apprehend Elisha in which city? And what happened instead?

Answer 28

Dothan (Manasseh I think). But Elisha revealed to his servant the army of God surrounding them, and caused the Syrian soldiers to go blind and led them to Samaria, where the king asked Elisha if he sould execute them. But Elisha said “No” because he had not faught against them.

Question 29

Where did Elisha send his servant to anoint Jehu as king of Israel?

Answer 29

Ramoth-Gilead (Gad)

Question 30

Where did Amaziah (Judah) fight against Jehoash (Israel)?

Answer 30

Beth-Shemesh (Judah). Amaziah lost and Jehoash looted the temple.

Question 31

After Judah fell to Bablyon, Nebuchadnezar set up a governor over Judah. Who was he, where did he govern from, and how did he die?

Answer 31

His name was Gedaliah, his HQ was in Mizpah (Benjamin), and he was assassinated.