Quiz 2 Flashcards
In Genesis 15, God promised to give Abraham and his descendants the land from the river of Egypt to the great river. What is the name of the great river?
The Euphrates
Which large body of water did the Israelites cross after leaving Egypt on the exodus?
The Red Sea (the Sea of Reeds)
At the foot of which mountain did the Israelites sin by worshiping a golden calf?
Mount Sinai (Mount Horeb)
How did Moses make the bitter water of Marah sweet?
God showed Moses a piece of wood which he threw into the water
What did Moses see for the first time from Mount Nebo?
The Promised Land
What kind of people did Moses send into the Promised Land, from the wilderness at Kadesh?
Spies
True or false? Moses was buried in Jerusalem.
False. He was buried in the valley opposite Beth Peor. (Deuteronomy 34:6)
Which tribes of Israel did not settle in the Promised Land west of the Jordan River?
The Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh
On what plains did Moses deliver his final speech to the Israelites before his death?
The plains of Moab
Supply the missing word from the Song of Miriam: “The horse and its rider he has hurled into the ___ .”
sea
To whom were these words spoken: “Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain… to water… a desert with no-one in it”?
To Job
Who said that in the day of the Lord’s judgment, “The whole land will rise like the Nile; it will be stirred up and then sink”?
Amos
In Luke’s Gospel, who did people try to hurl down a cliff?
Jesus
In what valley did Goliath and David meet while the armies faced each other from opposite hills?
The Valley of Elah
On the last night before his arrest, what valley did Jesus and the disciples cross over?
The Kidron Valley
