Quiz 17

Question 1

Which Old Testament king said to his official Haman, “Keep the money, and do with the people as you please”?

Answer 1

King Xerxes

Question 2

In the book of Judges, who asked each of the Israelites to give him an earring from their plunder after the defeat of the Midianites?

Answer 2

Gideon

Question 3

Moses and Eleazar the priest led the Israelites into battle, after which the commanders offered to the Lord all the gold they had plundered. Against whom did they battle?

Answer 3

The Midianites

Question 4

In the Old Testament which prophet bought his wife for fifteen shekels of silver and some barley?

Answer 4

Hosea

Question 5

True or false? After all the trials that Job went through, God made him more prosperous that he had been before.

Answer 5

True (Job 1:1-3; 42:12-15)

Question 6

In the book of Joel the nations are condemned for selling the people of Judea and Israel to whom?

Answer 6

Greeks

Question 7

Who, according to Jesus, had to depend on the generosity of the people in the towns and villages that they passed through?

Answer 7

The apostles

Question 8

True or false? Jesus overturned the moneychanger’s tables in the temple because he disagreed with paying the temple tax.

Answer 8

False. He is recorded as paying the temple tax willingly (Matthew 17:27)

Question 9

Who told Jacob to leave Laban’s household when arguments about his wealth and wages began to surface?

Answer 9

God

Question 10

What is the “work” referred to in the following passage, “The expenses of these men are to be fully paid out of the royal treasury, from the revenues of Trans-Euphrates, so that the work will not stop”?

Answer 10

The rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem

Question 11

In the New Testament, why is it said that God and Money cannot be served at the same time?

Answer 11

Because you cannot serve two masters. You will hate one and love the other .

Question 12

In the Old Testament, who paid who to nurse her own child?

Answer 12

Pharaoh’s daughter paid Moses’ mother

Question 13

In Malachi, on the Day of Judgment who will testify against those who defraud laborers of their wages?

Answer 13

The Lord

Question 14

Where did Jeremiah store his deeds of purchase for the field he had acquired from his cousin?

Answer 14

In a clay jar

Question 15

How did the gold that Gideon requested from the Israelites become a snare to him and his family?

Answer 15

He had the gold made into an ephod, which the Israelites worshiped