Prophets Flashcards
In response to what crisis did Isaiah
say, “Therefore the Lord himself will
give you a sign. Look, the young
woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel”?
a) The conquest of Israel by Assyria
b) The anticipated invasion of Judah by Egypt
c) The threat of invasion by the kings of Ephraim and Aram
d) The siege of Jerusalem by the Babylonians
c) The threat of invasion by the kings of Ephraim and Aram
To which king did Isaiah say,
“Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel”?
a) Ahaz
b) Uzziah
c) Jotham
d) Hezekiah
a) Ahaz
From which prophetic book is the
following quotation taken: “The wolf shall live with the lamb, the lepoard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.”
a) Isaiah
b) Ezekiel
c) Amos
d) Micah
a) Isaiah
The following quotation is found in
which book: “Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has served her term, that her penalty is paid, that she has received from the LORD’S hand double for all her sins”?
a) Isaiah
b) Jeremiah
c) Hosea
d) Micah
a) Isaiah
Which Prophet, when comparing the nations to God, describes them as being “like a drop from a bucket or accounted as dust on the scales.”
a) Isaiah
b) Obadiah
c) Nahum
d) Zephaniah
a) Isaiah
In Isaiah 45, who is called the
anointed one of the Lord?
a) an unspecified servant
b) Jesus
c) Zerubbabel
d) Cyrus
d) Cyrus
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”?
a) Isaiah
b) Jeremiah
c) Hosea
d) Micah
a) Isaiah
In Isaiah 56, what does the Lord
promise “the eunuchs who keep my
sabbaths, who choose the things that please me, and hold fast my
covenant”?
a) “A monument and a name better than sons or daughters”
b) “These I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful
in my house of prayer”
c) “I will turn their mourning into joy, I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow”
d) “I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a
heart of flesh”
a) “A monument and a name better than sons or daughters”
Which prophet’s ministry began
during the reign of Josiah and
continued until the captivity of
Jerusalem.
a) Amos
b) Jeremiah
c) Ezekiel
d) Isaiah
b) Jeremiah
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
a) orphan, widow, and servant.
b) alien, orphan, and widow.
c) poor, orphan, and servant.
d) widow, poor, and alien.
b) alien, orphan, and widow.
Which of the following are the “deceptive words” that Jeremiah quotes in his condemnation of the people of Judah as he stands in the gate to the LORD’s house?
a) “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.”
b) “Thus says the LORD of hosts the God of Israel: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
c) “This is the temple of the LORD x3 . . . We are safe!”
d) “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
c) “This is the temple of the LORD x3 . . . We are safe!”
In which prophetic book is the
following quotation found: “O that
my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night for the slain of my poor people!”?
a) Isaiah
b) Jeremiah
c) Hosea
d) Obadiah
Jeremiah
Which prophet “bought the field at
Anathoth” and preserved the deed as a sign that “Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land”?
a) Jeremiah
b) Ezekiel
c) Zechariah
d) Zephaniah
a) Jeremiah
Which prophet dictated his message to a scribe who read the prophet’s words in the house of the LORD?
a) Ezekiel
b) Zechariah
c) Jeremiah
d) Zephaniah
c) Jeremiah
Which prophet prophesied in Egypt?
a) Isaiah
b) Jeremiah
c) Ezekiel
d) Malachi
b) Jeremiah
A central theme of which book is
expressed in the verse, “Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her”?
a) Ezekiel
b) Lamentations
c) Obadiah
d) Haggai
b) Lamentations
Which book ends with the words,
“…unless you have utterly rejected us, and are angry with us beyond
measure”?
a) 2 Chronicles
b) Ezekiel
c) Ezra
d) Lamentations
d) Lamentations
Which prophet recounts being lifted “by a lock of my head; and the spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem”?
a) Zephaniah
b) Haggai
c) Daniel
d) Ezekiel
d) Ezekiel
Which prophet has a vision of the
glory of the LORD leaving the Temple?
a) Isaiah
b) Jeremiah
c) Ezekiel
d) Zechariah
c) Ezekiel
Which prophet has a vision in which
“the cherubim lifted up their wings,
with the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was above them. And the glory of the LORD ascended from the middle of the city, and stopped on the mountain east of the city.”
a) Isaiah
b) Ezekiel
c) Daniel
d) Zechariah
b) Ezekiel
Which prophet has a vision of the
glory of the God of Israel returning to the Temple?
a) Daniel
b) Jeremiah
c) Ezekiel
d) Haggai
c) Ezekiel
Who interpreted a vision of a statue
with feet made of iron and clay?
a) Daniel
b) Isaiah
c) Joseph
d) Zechariah
a) Daniel
Daniel’s companions, Shadrach, Mesach, and Abednego, were sentenced to the fiery furnace by King Nebuchadnezzar. What was their offense?
a) They refused to eat from the royal rations of food and wine.
b) They prayed three times a day before an open window to Israel’s God.
c) They refused to fall down and worship a golden statue of the king.
d) They drank wine from the vessels of gold and silver looted from the Jerusalem Temple
c) They refused to fall down and worship a golden statue of the
king.
According to Daniel’s interpretation
of the inscription “MENE, MENE,
TEKEL, and PARSIN” that appeared on the wall of King Belshazzar’s palace:
a) the king was to allow the exiles to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple.
b) the people of Judah were to remain in exile for another 70 years.
c) the Babylonian kingdom would be divided and given to the Medes and the Persians.
d) all earthly rulers would ultimately be replaced by one like a human being who would be given dominion by the Ancient One.
c) the Babylonian kingdom would be divided and given to the Medes and the Persians.
Which prophet says to King Belshazzar, “you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting”?
a) Daniel
b) Malachi
c) Ezekiel
d) Joel
a) Daniel
As a result of a conspiracy by his
rivals, Daniel was condemned to
spend a night in a den of lions by
which king?
a) Nebuchadnezzar
b) Darius
c) Cyrus
d) Belshazzar
b) Darius
Who related a vision involving seventy weeks and an “abomination that desolates”?
a) Joseph
b) Ezekiel
c) Daniel
d) Zechariah
c) Daniel
Which of the following was NOT one of the names Hosea was directed to give to his children?
a) Jezreel
b) Lo-ruhamah
c) Lo-ammi
d) Ephraim
d) Ephraim
In the writings of which prophet does God declare, “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son”?
a) Hosea
b) Amos
c) Obadiah
d) Joel
a) Hosea
Which prophet prophesied “concerning Israel in the days of king Uzziah of Judah and in the days of King Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel, two years before the earthquake”?
a) Joel
b) Amos
c) Haggai
d) Malachi
b) Amos
In which book does this appear?
“Why do you want the day of the
LORD? It is darkness, not light.”
a) Isaiah
b) Obadiah
c) Jeremiah
d) Amos
d) Amos
Which prophet had visions of a
plumb line and summer fruit?
a) Ezekiel
b) Amos
c) Zechariah
d) Nahum
b) Amos
Which prophetic book is directed entirely against Edom?
a) Joel
b) Nahum
c) Obadiah
d) Malachi
c) Obadiah
In “the vision of Obadiah,” the people of Edom are identified with which mountain?
a) Mount Zion
b) Mount Esau
c) Mount Gerizim
d) Mount Hermon
b) Mount Esau
In the book of Jonah, who expresses a possibility of hope by saying, “Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.”
a) Jonah
b) the sailors on the boat with Jonah
c) the king of Nineveh
d) the people of Tarshish
c) the king of Nineveh
Which book contains the following:
“They shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into
pruning hooks”?
a) Daniel
b) Hosea
c) Jonah
d) Micah
d) Micah
Which prophetic book contains the
following oracle: “But you, O
Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule Israel”?
a) Jeremiah
b) Hosea
c) Jonah
d) Micah
d) Micah
Nahum encourages Judah to
celebrate festivals because
a) Babylon has been defeated.
b) the LORD has condemned Nineveh.
c) the exile has ended.
d) the temple has been rebuilt.
b) the LORD has condemned Nineveh.
Which prophet challenged God’s use of empires to bring judgment against Judah, saying, “So the law becomes slack and justice never prevails. The wicked surround the righteous– therefore judgment comes forth perverted”?
a) Ezekiel
b) Nahum
c) Habakkuk
d) Jonah
c) Habakkuk
From which prophetic book is the
following quotation taken: “I will
stand at my watchpost, and station
myself on the rampart; I will keep
watch to see what he will say to me,
and what he will answer concering
my complaint. Then the LORD
answered me and said: Write the
vision; make it plain on tablets, so
that a runner may read it.
a) Nahum
b) Obadiah
c) Habakkuk
d) Joel
c) Habakkuk
To which prophet does God say,
“Look at the proud! Their spirit is not right in them, but the righteous live by their faith.”
a) Micah
b) Amos
c) Jeremiah
d) Habakkuk
d) Habakkuk
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”?
a) Joel
b) Ezekiel
c) Zephaniah
d) Isaiah
c) Zephaniah
To which prophet does the LORD say, “On that day, says the LORD of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, son of Shealtiel, says the LORD, and make you like a signet ring; for I have chosen you”?
a) Haggai
b) Malachi
c) Isaiah
d) Zephaniah
a) Haggai
Which minor prophet’s book
contains a series of eight visions?
a) Zechariah
b) Amos
c) Obadiah
d) Nahum
a) Zechariah
Who prophesied after the return from Babylonian exile?
a) Amos
b) Ezekiel
c) Jeremiah
d) Zechariah
d) Zechariah
Which prophet relates a vision of
horsemen patrolling the earth that is accompanied by a message of comfort for Jerusalem.
a) Habakkuk
b) Zephaniah
c) Malachi
d) Zechariah
d) Zechariah
Which prophet relates a vision of a
lampstand and two olive trees in
which the branches of the olive trees are called “the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth”?
a) Isaiah
b) Amos
c) Daniel
d) Zechariah
d) Zechariah
Which prophet calls on the people of Jerusalem to rejoice because of a
coming period of “peace to the
nations” established by a king who
comes “triumphant and victorious, … humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey”?
a) Haggai
b) Zechariah
c) Malachi
d) Nahum
b) Zechariah
In which book are the people accused of having robbed God by the withholding of their tithes and
offerings?
a) Haggai
b) Malachi
c) Zephaniah
d) Zechariah
b) Malachi
Which of the following books
contains the statement, “Lo, I will
send you the prophet Elijah before
the great and terrible day of the LORD comes”?
a) Habakkuk
b) Zephaniah
c) Zechariah
d) Malachi
d) Malachi
Which prophetic book states: “See,
the day is coming, burning like an
oven, when all the arrogant and all
evildoers will be stubble . . . But for
you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings”?
a) Ezekiel
b) Malachi
c) Haggai
d) Zechariah
b) Malachi
Which prophet wrote: “Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so there may be food in my house, and thus put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts; see if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you an overflowing blessing.”
a) Malachi
b) Haggai
c) Obadiah
d) Daniel
a) Malachi
