Genesis-Deut Places

Question 1

Garden of Eden

Answer 1

1. The birth place of Man.
2. Contained the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life.
3. After the expulsion of Man, was guarded by Cherubim wielding a flaming sword to keep Man from the tree of life.

Question 2

Ur

Answer 2

1. The land of Haran’s birth
2. from which Terah and Abraham started to go into the land of Canaan.
3. Also known as the land of the Chaldeans.

Question 3

Haran

Answer 3

1. The city where Abram settled after leaving Ur of the Chaldeans and he stayed in this city until the death of his father Terah.

Question 4

Sodom

Answer 4

1. Destroyed by burning sulfur from heaven in the time of Abraham and Lot.
2. The chief Canaanite settlement amongst the five cities of Zoar, Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, in the Plain of Jordan.
3. The city in which Lot and his family dwelt after separating from Abram
4. from which they fled to Zoar to escape destruction with the city.

Question 5

Gomorrah

Answer 5

Destroyed by burning sulfur from Heaven in the time of Abraham and Lot for its impiety and wickedness.

Question 6

Zoar

Answer 6

A small town next to Sodom and Gomorrah to which Lot and his daughters fled.

Question 7

Mount Moriah

Answer 7

1. The mount upon which took place the sacrifice of Isaac

2. later becomes the site of the temple.

Question 8

Kiriath Arba (Hebron)

Answer 8

The burial of the patriarchs- Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Question 9

Bethel (Luz)

Answer 9

1. Place where: Jacob had a vision of angels ascending and descending on the ladder;
2. “House of God”.

Question 10

Midian

Answer 10

1. The land where: Moses refuged after murdering an Egyptian.
2. Where Moses received his commission to deliver Israel from bondage in Egypt.
3. The place Balak bribed Balaam.

Question 11

Mount Horeb

Answer 11

1. A general name for the whole mountain range of which Sinai was one of the summits.
2. From here Moses encountered the Burning Bush, and received special revelation including the 10 Commandments.

Question 12

Mount Sinai

Answer 12

A specific mountain peak within the Horeb mountain range where Moses encountered the Burning Bush and received special revelation including the 10 Commandments.

Question 13

Massah

Answer 13

1. The place where the Israelites, by their grumbling for want of water, provoked God’s anger.
2. It is here Moses first hits the rock with his rod and water gushes forth.

Question 14

Shittim

Answer 14

1. The place where the Israelites encamped after defeating Sihon and Og.
2. Also where Israel was seduced by the Moabites to intermarry and prostitute themselves.
3. This also was the last encampment before Israel crossed into Canaan.

Question 15

Mount Nebo

Answer 15

A mountain in the land of Moab from which Moses looked for the first and the last time on the Promised Land.