God Chooses a Family (5) - Unit 4

Question 1

Who made the golden calf?

Answer 1

Aaron

Question 2

Who stood with Moses on the LORD’s side and killed three thousand men?

Answer 2

The Levites

Question 3

Who pleaded with God to spare the Israelites?

Answer 3

Moses

Question 4

Who gave a good report of Canaan?

Answer 4

Caleb and Joshua

Question 5

Who buried Moses?

Answer 5

The LORD

Question 6

Who copied the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Answer 6

Qumran scribes

Question 7

Who found the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Answer 7

Arab shepherd boys

Question 8

Where was the tabernacle pitched in the Israelite camp?

Answer 8

It was pitched in the centre.

Question 9

Where in the tabernacle was the golden table, the candlestick, and the altar of incense?

Answer 9

They were in the holy place.

Question 10

Where was the ark of the covenant kept?

Answer 10

It was kept in the holy of holies.

Question 11

What did Moses do after the Israelites were all safely through the Red Sea? [Exodus 14:27]

Answer 11

Moses stretched out his hand over the sea.

Question 12

What happened to the first tables of stone? [Exodus 32:19]

Answer 12

Moses broke them.

Question 13

What Hebrew measure is equal to about five pints (a bit over 2 litres)?

Answer 13

An omer

Question 14

What did God ask the Israelites to offer for the building of the tabernacle? (Name at least four things.) [Exodus 25:3-7]

Answer 14

Gold; silver; brass; blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen; goats’ hair; rams’ skins dyed red; badgers’ skins; shittim wood; oil; spices; onyx stones; stones

Question 15

What is an ephod?

Answer 15

An ephod is an apronlike coat worn by the priests.

Question 16

What is a pomegranate?

Answer 16

It is the round, seedy fruit of a semi-tropical tree.

Question 17

Why did God not lead the Israelites through the land of the Philistines? [Exodus 13:17]

Answer 17

He was afraid they would want to return to Egypt if they saw war.

Question 18

Why did the Israelites call theh food God sent them manna? [Exodus 16:15]

Answer 18

They did not know what the food was, so they called it manna which means, “What is it?”

Question 19

Why did the people not want to hear God’s voice? [Exodus 20:18, 19]

Answer 19

They were afraid of God. (They were also afraid they would die.)

Question 20

Why were the ten spies afraid to enter Canaan? [Numbers 13:28, 33]

Answer 20

They were afraid of the strong people, walled cities, and giants that they saw in Canaan.

Question 21

How did God guide the Israelites through the wilderness? [Exodus 13:21]

Answer 21

He led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

Question 22

How long was Moses on the mountain with God? [Exodus 24:18]

Answer 22

He was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

Question 23

How had the Israelites gotten the gold they had with them? [Exodus 12:35, 36]

Answer 23

The Egyptians had given these things to the Israelites.

Question 24

How did the Israelites know that God was pleased with the tabernacle? [Exodus 40:34]

Answer 24

God’s glory filled the tabernacle.

Question 25

What are several ways that God spoke to men in Old Testament times? Give at least four ways.

Answer 25

Face to face, by prophets, by angels, in dreams, through His written Word.

Question 26

What did the Jews read in their synagogues every Sabbath Day? [Acts 12:14, 15; 15:21]

Answer 26

They read the Law and the Prophets (or the Scriptures).

Question 27

What did Moses say when the people saw the Egyptians coming? [Exodus 14:13]

Answer 27

“Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD.”

Question 28

What did the spies bring back with them? [Numbers 13:23, 27]

Answer 28

They brought fruit from Canaan.

Question 29

What did the Israelites wish for after the spies returned? [Numbers 14:2]

Answer 29

They wished they had died in Egypt or in the wilderness.

Question 30

What two commandments from the Old Testament did Jesus say are the greatest? [Mark 12:30, 31]

Answer 30

“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.” “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

Question 31

Why did God give His Word in written form rather than just speaking directly to men? Give three reasons.

Answer 31

We can remember it better, since we can reread His Word often. We can make copies of His Word to give to others. We can read it, even though we live many years after God gave His Word.

Question 32

Why did most of the Israelites have to die in the desert? [Numbers 14:22, 23]

Answer 32

When God wanted them to enter Canaan, they rebelled and wished they were back in Egypt.

Question 33

Why did Moses make a serpent of brass? [Numbers 21:7-9]

Answer 33

He made the serpent of brass so that those who looked at it could be saved from the serpent bites.

Question 34

How do the Dead Sea Scrolls show that the Old Testament was carefully preserved?

Answer 34

The Dead Sea Scrolls are very similar to Hebrew copies that were made about a thousand years later.

Question 35

What are the Ten Commandments?

Answer 35

1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy.
5. Honour thy father and thy mother.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness.
10. Thou shalt not covet.