Precious Stones

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1) The KJV describes Ezekiel’s chariot as being like the color of what stone?
a) sardonyx
b) ruby
c) amber
d) agate

2) Ezekiel describes the fallen cherub who had every precious stone as his covering. What 4 precious stones are included among them?
a) pearl, jasper, ruby, sapphire
b) topaz, onyx, jasper, beryl
c) emerald, jasper, crystal, beryl
d) topaz, pearl, emerald, onyx

3) John describes a rainbow surrounded throne in Revelation like what precious stone?
a) diamond
b) topaz
c) ruby
d) emerald

4) The prophet Jeremiah condemns the sin of Judah and says it is carved on the horns of the altar of God with the point of which gemstone?
a) diamond
b) topaz
c) emerald
d) ruby

5) Jesus relates a parable about an object of great price for which a man sold all he had to purchase it. What was this object?
a) diamond
b) pearl
c) ruby
d) crystal

6) Fill in the blank:
For wisdom is better than _____; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
a) beryls
b) pearls
c) emeralds
d) rubies

7) The value of the Proverbs 31 woman is far above which precious stone?
a) pearls
b) sapphires
c) rubies
d) emeralds

8) What stone was the foundation of the wall of New Jerusalem in Revelation?
a) jasper
b) onyx
c) chrysoprase
d) chalcedony

9) What was the precious gem that formed the twelve gates of New Jerusalem?
a) pearl
b) sardonyx
c) topaz
d) beryl

10) What stone is not found on the ephod Moses was told to create?
a) chalcedony
b) topaz
c) onyx
d) amethyst

11) The names of the 12 tribes of Israel are carved on two stones to be placed on the shoulders of the ephod Aaron and future high priests would wear. What is the name of that stone?
a) jasper
b) chrysoprase
c) onyx
d) chalcedony

12) Why are those stones and names placed on the shoulders of the ephod?
a) to help balance the weight of the ephod
b) to show allegiance to God
c) to remind the priests whom they serve
d) as a memorial

13) In the book of Job, the question is asked, where is wisdom found. The passage lists many stones including one from Ethiopia. What is the stone of Ethiopia?
a) ruby
b) diamond
c) topaz
d) emerald

14) The first river out of the Garden of Eden is called Pishon, which encompasses the land of Havilah and contains what common stone?
a) agate
b) onyx
c) chalcedony
d) garnet

Birth of Jesus Trivia

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1) Who was John the Baptist’s father?
a) Zacharias
b) Herod
c) Simeon
d) Zephaniah

2) Zacharias was a priest of what division?
a) Gamaliel
b) Abijah
c) Nazaren
d) Aaronic

3) Why did they have no children?
a) Their children were dead
b) They were old
c) Elizabeth was barren
d) Elizabeth was barren, and they were both advanced in years.

4) Where was Zacharias when the Angel appeared to him?
a) At his home
b) In the field
c) In the temple of the Lord
d) It doesn’t say

5) What was Zacharias going to do in the temple when the angel appeared to him?
a) Offer a sacrifice
b) Burn incense
c) Sabbath ceremony
d) Teach from the Torah

6) According to the angel, how would John the Baptist be like Elijah?
a) In the spirit and power of Elijah
b) The recreation of Elijah
c) A forerunner like Elijah
d) A prophet like Elijah

7) John the Baptist was to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children and the disobedient back to the righteous for what purpose?
a) To point to Jesus
b) To teach about baptism
c) To fulfill prophecy
d) To make ready a people prepared for the Lord

8) Who was the angel who spoke to Zacharias?
a) The angel is unnamed
b) Michael
c) Gabriel
d) Fred

9) What was the sign given to Zacharias?
a) That he would have dreams confirming the words
b) That the incense would not burn
c) That Elizabeth would not be able to speak until the day when these things take place
d) That he would be unable to speak until the day when these things take place

10) In what month was Gabriel sent to Mary?
a) Second
b) Third
c) Sixth
d) Eighth

11) What throne did Gabriel promise Mary would be given to Jesus?
a) The throne of God
b) The throne of David
c) The throne in heaven
d) The throne of Israel

12) What Gabriel say Jesus would be called?
a) Messiah
b) The Promised One
c) Son of the Most High
d) He didn’t mention anything

13) Whose house would Jesus reign over forever?
a) The house of Jacob
b) The house of Jesse
c) The house of David
d) The house of Abraham

14) What did Elizabeth’s baby do in the womb when Mary came to visit?
a) The baby settled down
b) The baby leaped
c) The baby rejoiced
d) The baby did nothing

15) What would generations do to Mary per her words at her cousin Elizabeths home?
a) Rejoice for her
b) Weep for her
c) Count her blessed
d) Nothing

16) How long did Mary stay with Elizabeth?
a) Three months
b) Four months
c) Six months
d) Doesn’t say

17) What did the people want to name Elizabeths baby instead of John?
a) Zephaniah
b) Joseph
c) Jacob
d) Zacharias

18) How did Zacharias tell them what to name the baby?
a) He signed
b) He spoke
c) He wrote on a tablet
d) He didn’t tell them

19) Where did John the Baptist live until the time came for his ministry?
a) In Bethlehem
b) In Jerusalem
c) In his house
d) In the desert

20) Who decreed a census to be taken?
a) Herod
b) Caesar Augustus
c) Aquinas
d) Caesar Salade

21) Who was governor of Syria?
a) Quirinius
b) Herod
c) Aquealus
d) Augustus

22) To what town did Mary and Joseph go to be counted in the census?
a) Jerusalem
b) Bethlehem
c) Capernaum
d) Nazareth

23) Why did Mary lay Him in a manger?
a) To fulfill prophecy
b) It was the best place for Him
c) No room for them at the inn
d) No room for them at the Holiday Inn

24) What were the shepherds doing when the angel appeared?
a) Sleeping
b) Tending their flocks
c) Eating
d) Shearing sheep

25) What was the sign to the Shepherds?
a) The star
b) A baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger
c) Angels singing
d) A glow of light around Jesus

26) After the angels left, what did the shepherds do?
a) Ate dinner
b) Praised God
c) They went to Bethlehem to find Jesus
d) Told others what the angel said

27) When the infant Jesus was brought to the temple, who was the righteous and devout man who looked for the consolation of Israel?
a) Simeon
b) Zacharias
c) Caiaphas
d) Nicodemus

28) Who was the prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher?
a) Anna
b) Elizabeth
c) Miriam
d) Mary

29) How did Anna serve in the temple?
a) She served the priests
b) She didn’t serve in the temple
c) With prayer and fasting
d) She donated to the coffers

30) How did Joseph learn about Jesus?
a) An angel told him
b) In a dream
c) In a vision
d) From Mary

31) Who spoke to him in that dream?
a) God
b) Jesus
c) An angel
d) A Voice

32) How many magi came to Jerusalem looking for Jesus?
a) Three
b) Four
c) A dozen
d) Unknown

33) When answering Herod, the priests told him where Jesus would be found based on what prophecy?
a) Isaiah 52:10
b) Isaiah 53:7
c) Micah 5:2
d) Zephaniah 10:12

34) How did the Magi find Jesus?
a) The star showed them
b) The priests told them
c) The prophecies told them
d) Herod told them

35) Where did they find Jesus?
a) In a manger
b) In Nazareth
c) In the Inn
d) In a house

36) How did the Magi know not to return to Herod?
a) They were warned in a dream
b) An angel warned them in person
c) Joseph told them
d) Prophecy told them

37) Where did Joseph take Mary and Jesus to escape Herod?
a) Egypt
b) Syria
c) Jerusalem
d) They stayed put

38) How did they know to leave?
a) An angel told them
b) God told them
c) In a dream
d) In a vision

39) Why did Herod want to find Jesus?
a) To worship Him
b) To see Him
c) To kill Him
d) To see if He was real

40) What did Herod do when he learned that the Magi had tricked him?
a) He killed all the male children younger than 2 yrs old
b) He outlawed Magi
c) He fined them
d) He imprisoned them

41) Which prophet said "A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not."?
a) Jeremiah
b) Isaiah
c) Ezekiel
d) Daniel

42) Why did Joseph leave Egypt?
a) He had no work there
b) Famine
c) Jesus said it was time to go
d) Herod died

43) How did he know Herod died?
a) God said so
b) An angel told him
c) From a dream
d) From a vision

44) Why did they go to Nazareth?
a) An angel said so
b) God warned them in a dream
c) To fulfill prophecy
d) Jesus told them

Samson

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1) What was not supposed to be cut on Samson?
a) His clothes
b) His hair
c) His foreskin
d) Nothing is in the bible about this

2) Why was Samson’s hair not supposed to be cut?
a) He was to look fierce
b) Men of the time were not permitted to cut their hair
c) He was to pretend to be a Philistine
d) He was to be a Nazarite

3) What nationality was Samson’s first wife?
a) Moabite
b) Philistine
c) Ishmaelite
d) Israelite

4) What did Samson kill as his parents headed towards the village of the woman he wanted as a wife?
a) A lion
b) A ram
c) A man
d) A donkey

5) What was later in the body of the dead animal?
a) A refuge from a battle
b) A swarm of bees and honey
c) His bride
d) A ram

6) What was the prize for answering the riddle at the marriage feast of Samson?
a) 30 pieces of silver
b) A herd of goats
c) 30 blouses and changes of garments
d) A flock of sheep

7) How did the wedding guests coerce the Samson’s wife to find out the answer to the riddle?
a) They threatened to burn down her father’s home
b) They bribed her
c) She was their sister
d) They threatened to kill her and Samson

8) Who ended up with Samson’s wife?
a) Her brothers
b) His father
c) His companion
d) She remained alone

9) How did Samson react to this?
a) He killed his wife and father
b) He destroyed the village
c) He tore down her father’s home
d) He set fire to their fields with 300 foxes

10) When the men of Judah bound Samson up to give him to the Philistines, how did he get free?
a) The Spirit of the Lord gave him strength to break his bonds.
b) He cut his bonds with a knife they gave him
c) The bonds were not tied tightly together
d) A servant untied him

11) How did the lords of the Philistines entice Delilah to find out the secret to Samson’s strength?
a) They threatened to burn her house down
b) They offered her 1100 pieces of silver each
c) They threatened to kill her
d) They offered her 30 pieces of silver

12) What was Samson’s first response to Delilah?
a) Bind him with his own hair
b) Bind him with new ropes
c) Bind him with scarlet ropes
d) Bind him with 7 green cords

13) What was Samson’s second response to Delilah?
a) Bind him with weighted ropes
b) Bind him with new ropes
c) Bind him with linen rags
d) Bind him with pigskin

14) What was Samson’s third response to Delilah?
a) Weave his hair into a web on the loom
b) Curl his hair
c) Braid his hair with goat hair
d) Shave his head

15) What was Samson’s fourth response to Delilah?
a) Cut his hair with silver shears
b) Cut his hair with sheep shears
c) Shave his head
d) He refused to tell her anything

16) What did the Philistines do with Samson when they captured him?
a) The blinded him and bound him with bronze fetters
b) They bound him to a donkey
c) They blinded him and cut off his hands
d) They bound him in a dark cellar

17) What was the name of the Philistine god?
a) Baal
b) Ashtaroth
c) Dagon
d) Molech

18) When the Philistines had a feast and made sport of Samson, what was his request to the boy leading him?
a) To show him the pillars so that he may lean against them
b) To let him sit down in the corner
c) To bring him water and bread
d) To let him face his captors

19) How did Samson and the Philistines die at that feast?
a) By the fire of the sacrifice to Dagon
b) By an earthquake which destroyed the home
c) When Israelites attacked the feast
d) When Samson pushed the pillars and collapsed the house

Judges

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1) Why did the Lord refuse to expel any nations Joshua left in the land?
a) The Israelites refused to fight
b) The Lord did not want the nations expelled
c) To test how strong Israel was militarily
d) To test Israel, to see if they were keeping the way of the Lord

2) Caleb offered his daughter, Achsah, to the man who captured Kirjath-sepher. Who was man who captured Kirjath-sepher?
a) Joshua
b) Othniel
c) Ehud
d) Simeon

3) How did Ehud get rid of the King of Moab?
a) Smothered him with a pillow
b) Trapped him in a cave
c) Stabbed him with a dagger
d) Drowned him in a river

4) How did Ehud let the Israelites know to attack the Moabites?
a) He blew a ram’s horn
b) He shouted at them
c) He lit a signal fire
d) He waved a banner

5) How did Shamgar kill the Philistines?
a) With an ox goad
b) With an axe
c) With a scythe
d) With a rock

6) How did Sisera die?
a) Barak killed him with a sword
b) His slave killed him with a dagger
c) He fell off his horse
d) A woman killed him with a tent peg

7) Who was the judge when Sisera was killed?
a) Gideon
b) Deborah
c) Barak
d) Samson

8) Who led the armies for Israel at that time?
a) Deborah
b) Gideon
c) Barak
d) Othniel

9) Where did the Gideon first encounter the Angel of the Lord?
a) By the Jordan River
b) Outside the town gate
c) By a winepress
d) On the road

10) Why did the men of the city where Gideon lived want to kill him?
a) Gideon tore down the altar of Baal.
b) Gideon owed them money
c) There was a reward for killing Gideon
d) Gideon killed their leader

11) Why did Gideon use a fleece?
a) It was cold outside
b) To find out if the Lord was using him to save Israel
c) As a sponge to mop up the blood of the King of the Philistines
d) To weave a new coat

12) What became a snare to Gideon and his house?
a) The Ashteroth pole in the yard
b) The gold taken from the Ishmaelites
c) All the wives he had
d) An ephod made from gold

13) Abimelech was a bad ruler over Israel. How did he die?
a) By a millstone
b) In his bed
c) By a sword
d) From a rockfall

14) Which two men were judges but about whom we know almost nothing?
a) Othniel and Gideon
b) Samson and Ehud
c) Ehud and Jephthah
d) Tola and Jair

15) Which 3 men are judges about whom we know very little?
a) Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon
b) Tola, Jair, and Ehud
c) Barak, Ehud, and Jair
d) Zebul, Gaal and Jotham

16) Jephthah made a foolish promise. What was it?
a) To surrender all his property to the one who defeated the Philistines
b) To give to the Lord and sacrifice whatever first came out of his house
c) To give his wife to another man
d) To set up an altar to Baal

17) What did he sacrifice?
a) All of his goats
b) His favorite horse
c) His daughter
d) His wife

18) What was the promise made to Manoah’s wife?
a) That she would bear many children
b) That her husband would return home safe
c) That she would live a long life
d) That she would have a son

19) Who told Manoah’s wife about the promise to her?
a) Three strangers on the road
b) A prophet of the Lord
c) The Angel of the Lord
d) A Levite priest

20) How many times did Manoah’s wife see this messenger?
a) one time
b) two times
c) four times
d) the bible does not say

Rivers of the Bible

Rivers of the bible

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1) Moses was placed in a basket of reeds and placed in which river?
a) Nile
b) Jordan
c) Tigris
d) Euphrates

2) Which river is one of the four branches of the river that watered the Garden of Eden?
a) Kishon
b) Euphrates
c) Jordan
d) Jabbok

3) The sons (tribes) of Gad and Reuben asked for their inheritance in Canaan to be on one side of which river?
a) Arnon
b) Jabbok
c) Tigris
d) Jordan

4) After the death of Moses, when the people of Israel prepared to enter the land of Canaan, the priests carried the Ark of the Covenant to the edge of which river so its waters would part?
a) Nile
b) Jordan
c) Chebar
d) Abana

5) The Lord told which judge to set aside the men who lapped water with their tongues at the river as the army to fight the Midianites.
a) Samson
b) Othniel
c) Gideon
d) Deborah

6) Which river did Moses turn into blood?
a) Jordan
b) Kishon
c) Nile
d) Tigris

7) Jesus was baptized in which river?
a) Jordan
b) Jabbok
c) Arnon
d) the bible does not say

8) Where did Elijah kill the prophets of Baal?
a) Sea of Galilee
b) Brook Kishon
c) Jabbok River
d) Jordan River

9) In Leviticus, the Lord tells the Israelites which items are acceptable as food and which items are not acceptable. What are items are not permitted to be eaten?
a) ducks
b) salmon
c) any living thing in the waters with fins and scales
d) any living thing in the waters that do not have fins or scales

10) Elisha told Naaman that he could wash away his leprosy in the River Jordan, but Naaman angrily replied that the Abana and Pharpar were superior to all the waters of Israel. Abana and Pharpar are referred to as the Rivers of which city?
a) Damascus
b) Midian
c) Hebron
d) Jerusalem

11) Jacob wrestled the man (God) besides which a ford of which stream?
a) Chebar
b) Kishon
c) Jabbok
d) Arnon

12) In Revelation, the sixth angel poured his vial out and dried up which river?
a) Euphrates
b) Tigris
c) Nile
d) Jordan

13) Ezekiel saw a vision in the thirtieth year among the captives along which river?
a) Kishon
b) Chebar
c) Jordan
d) Arnon

14) The Lord commanded Elijah hide himself by which brook where he would be fed by ravens?
a) Chebar
b) Jordan
c) Cherith
d) Kishon

15) Daniel saw a vision of a man with arms and legs like bronze whose voice was that of a multitude when he was mourning along the banks of which river?
a) Jordan
b) Euphrates
c) Nile
d) Tigris

16) In Revelation, a great star fell from heaven to poison the waters. What proportion of the waters of the earth were poisoned by wormwood?
a) a quarter
b) a third
c) a half
d) many

17) Jesus said that for he who believes on Him, rivers of what shall flow from his belly.
a) salt water
b) blood
c) living water
d) oil

18) Elijah and Elisha both did what to the waters of the Jordan River with Elijah’s mantle?
a) bathed in the waters
b) parted the waters
c) sailed across the waters
d) fished the waters

19) In Revelation, the third angel poured his vial out on the rivers and they turned to what?
a) poison
b) dust
c) oil
d) blood

Who Said It?

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1) Who said:
Am I my brother's keeper
a) Abel
b) Noah
c) Cain
d) Enoch

2) Who said:
Vanity of vanities! all is vanity
a) The Teacher
b) The Preacher
c) The King of Judah
d) The Prophet

3) Who said:
Here am I; send me
a) Ezekiel
b) Daniel
c) Jeremiah
d) Isaiah

4) Who said:
For where you go, I will go.
a) Ruth
b) Moses
c) Esther
d) Aaron

5) Who said:
My Lord and my God
a) Peter
b) Paul
c) Thomas
d) Mark

6) Who said:
Behold, I see Heaven opened and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
a) Stephen
b) Paul
c) Jesus
d) Peter

7) Who said:
The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they shall say to me, What is His name?
a) John the Baptist
b) Moses
c) Noah
d) Isaiah

8) Who said:
Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
a) Joseph
b) David
c) Joshua
d) Samson

9) Who said:
Am I a dog that you come to me with sticks?
a) Jezebel
b) Herod
c) Jesus
d) Goliath

10) Who said:
You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
a) Paul
b) Peter
c) Martha
d) John