Test1.WhoAmI2

Question 1

Abraham tricked this king by telling him that his wife was his sister.

Answer 1

Abimelech

Question 2

After his father’s death God called _______ to go to the land where he would make of him a great nation. He went to Canaan with his wife Sarah and nephew Lot. As he and Sarah grew older they had no children, so he fathered a son, Ishmael, through Sarah’s servant Hagar.

Answer 2

Abraham

Question 3

_______, was the twelfth and youngest son of Jacob. His mother was Rachel, Jacob’s wife. He was born during the journey that Jacob and his family took from Padan Aram to Canaan. His mother died during his birth.

Answer 3

Benjamin

Question 4

Where Jacob had the dream about God, that made him take the stone he was laying on, poured oil on it, and turned it into a place of worship. (Jacob’s ladder)

Answer 4

Bethel

Question 5

When Rachel marries Jacob, her father Laban gives her a maid, named __________, whom she gives to Jacob as a wife when she finds herself barren. Rachel did not have to do this for Jacob’s sake, for Jacob already had children to be his heirs by his other wife, Leah; rather, she is said to do this so that Jacob could fulfill her demand to give her children.

Answer 5

Bilhah

Question 6

The only daughter of Jacob, who is raped by Shechem while she is out to meet the women of the city she lives near, also named Shechem.

Answer 6

Dinah

Question 7

Name which means Double fruitfulness (“for God had made him fruitful in the land of his affliction”). He was the second son of Joseph, born in Egypt. The first incident recorded regarding him is his being placed, along with his brother Manasseh, before their grandfather, Jacob, that he might bless them. The intention of Joseph was that the right hand of the aged patriarch should be placed on the head of the elder of the two; but Jacob set him, the younger before his brother, “guiding his hands wittingly.”

Answer 7

Ephraim

Question 8

_______ was the first of twin brothers to be born, with Jacob following, holding his heel. He was much loved by his father, and was of course his heir, but was induced into selling his birthright to Jacob, and lost his blessing from his father to Jacob as well.

Answer 8

Esau

Question 9

The Land of ________ is named in the Bible as the place in Egypt given to the Hebrews by the pharaoh of Joseph, and the land from which they later left Egypt at the time of the Exodus. It was located in the eastern Delta of the Nile.

Answer 9

Goshen

Question 10

_______ was an Egyptian handmaid of Sarai, who gave her to Abram “to wife” to bear a child. The product of the union was Abram’s firstborn, Ishmael.

Answer 10

Hagar

Question 11

_____ is born to the elderly Abraham and his wife Sarah and chosen over half-brother Ishmael to bear the Hebrew lineage. God tests Abraham in a strange near-sacrifice of __________, halted only at the last second after Abraham proves his willingness to obey God. Later, with a wife chosen for him (Rebekah), _____ dutifully leads a generation as a nomadic chieftain in what is now southern Israel, Gaza and the West Bank – quarreling at times with the native Philistines over wells dug in a dry land. He is nearly blind and on his deathbed when Jacob, wearing goat skins, swindles him out of a blessing intended for his elder son.

Answer 11

Isaac

Question 12

The first son of Abraham, born to Hagar because his wife was barren. He loses his position as heir years later when Sarah finally gets pregnant and gives birth to his younger brother, Isaac.

Answer 12

Ishmael

Question 13

Son of Isaac and Rebekah, and the younger twin brother of Eseau. He bought the birthright from his brother Esau, and afterward acquired the blessing intended for Esau as well. On his way to mesopatamia, to flee from his angry brother, he had a dream where God appears to him and promises him His protection, and declared His purpose relative to his descendants’ possessing the land of Canaan, and the descent of the Messiah through him. Works for 14 years for Laban to marry his daughters. Later becomes the father of 11 sons and 1 daughter with those two wives and two concubines. Dinah was his only daughter, and Joseph was his favorite son, who he makes a fancy coat for.

Answer 13

Jacob

Question 14

The younger son of Jacob, ______ was known to his older brothers as their father’s favorite. His father makes him a fancy coat and his brothers become extremely jealous. For this reason his 10 older brothers conspired against him and sold him to slave traders, while telling their father the boy had been mauled by an animal. Sold into Egypt to Potiphar, He prospered and was soon set over Potiphar’s house, and “all he had he gave into his hand;” but incurring the anger of Potiphar’s wife, he was falsely accused and thrown into prison, where he remained at least two years, interpreting during this time the dreams of the cupbearer and the baker. Finally Pharaoh himself dreamed two prophetic dreams. _____, being sent for, interpreted them in the name of God, foretelling the seven years of plenty and the seven years of famine. Pharaoh at once appointed ____ not merely governor of Egypt, but second only to the sovereign, and in charge of preparing for the famine.

Answer 14

Joseph

Question 15

One of the sons of Jacob and Leah, he played a role in saving the life of his brother Joseph. When Joseph’s brothers had plotted to leave Joseph in a pit to die, he convinced his brothers to sell Joseph to Ishmaelites, rather than letting him die.

Answer 15

Judah

Question 16

Gives his sister Rebekah in marriage to the only son of his rich uncle, Abraham. Later, makes Jacob work for many years to get his two daughters, Leah and Rachel’s hands in marriage.

Answer 16

Laban

Question 17

Two men who were really angels appeared in Sodom where _______ lived with his family. The wicked men of the city surrounded his house seeking to have homosexual relations with the angels. He begged the men of the city not to do this evil thing, and he offered up his two virgin daughters to them instead. Afterwards, _____ and his daughters had fled Sodom just before its destruction. His wife was destroyed for her disobedience during the journey, and he and his two daughters fled to live in a cave in a mountain. Afraid they would never have husbands or children in their hideout, his daughters plotted to make their father drunk so they could sleep with him and thereby assure that they would have children.

Answer 17

Lot

Question 18

Was adopted by his grandfather, Jacob, while Jacob was dying. This was, in effect, promoting them from grandsons to sons - thereafter equal to their father Joseph as tribal patriarchs, while remaining themselves in the tribe of “Joseph

Answer 18

Manasseh

Question 19

7 skinny cows eat 7 fat cows = 7 years of plenty will be followed by 7 years of nothing.

Answer 19

Pharaoh’s Dream (and meaning)

Question 20

A high officer of Pharaoh, who purchased Joseph, and made him master of his house, but afterwards imprisoned him on a false charge (accused of raping his wife).

Answer 20

Potipher

Question 21

The favorite of Jacob’s two wives as well as the mother of Joseph and Benjamin. She died during the birth of Benjamin.

Answer 21

Rachel

Question 22

____ appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. Helped her youngest son, Jacob, trick Isaac into giving him a blessing meant for his older brother.

Answer 22

Rebekah

Question 23

_____ was the first child of Jacob and Leah. He lost the privileges that traditionally were given to first-born sons because he had an affair with Bilhah, who was his father’s concubine. He intervened with his brothers to spare Joseph’s life, telling them to throw him into the pit instead of killing him.

Answer 23

Reuben

Question 24

While in Egypt, pretends to be the sister of her husband, Abraham and is married to Ablimilech. Abimelech never touched her because God immediately intervened with dreams. God acts to protect her by afflicting “Pharaoh and his house with great plagues” until he realizes the problem and sends her away. Later, she offered her slave Hagar as surrogate mother to her husband Abraham, because she was barren. The plan goes awry when the pregnant Hagar no longer acknowledges her superiority, and she becomes very jealous and angry. God comes to the rescue again, and blesses her by announcing the birth of Isaac. Still threatened by the presence of Hagar and her son Ishmael, se had them expelled into the desert, where without God’s intervention they would have died of thirst.

Answer 24

Sarah

Question 25

When God makes a covenant with Abraham, promising that he will be the father of many nations, what is the sign of the covenant that God instructs him and every male descendant to do?

Answer 25

They should all be circumcised.

Question 26

The lord wanted to destroy the city of ________ and Gomorrah because their sin was so great. God decided on it after sending two angels went to visit the city, staying with Lot, and all the men of the city came to the house trying to rape the angels. The angels blinded all of the men in this city, and urged lot to flee with his family. “the LORD rained down burning sulfur on ____ and Gomorrah”

Answer 26

Sodom

Question 27

________ was confined in the same prison as Joseph, and Joseph interpreted his dream.
“I too had a dream: On my head were three baskets of bread. In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”
This is what it means,” Joseph said. “The three baskets are three days. Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale your body on a pole. And the birds will eat away your flesh.”

Answer 27

The Baker

Question 28

_________ was confined in the same prison as Joseph, and Joseph interpreted his dream.
“In my dream I saw a vine in front of me, and on the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters ripened into grapes. Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup and put the cup in his hand.”
“This is what it means,” Joseph said to him. “The three branches are three days. Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.
Later, this person tells the pharaoh about Josephs ability to interpret dreams, getting him out of prison.

Answer 28

the cupbearer

Question 29

What item did Joseph put in Benjamin’s sack in order to accuse him of stealing?

Answer 29

the silver cup

Question 30

Leah’s handmade, who she gives to Jacob as a concubine.

Answer 30

Ziplah