Bible Trivia Quiz: More Difficult

1. Two vices take away the heart. What are they?

Answer: whoredom and wine

"Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart." (Hosea 4:11 KJV)

2. Who despised her husband in her heart because he was danced merrily in the streets and exposed a too much flesh?

Answer: Michal

"And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart." (2 Sam 6:16 KJV)

"Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!" (2 Sam 6:20 KJV)

3.Re-order the following words to match a familiar verse (in NIV).

are Christ living of Son the God the the you

Answer: see below

"Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."" (Mat 16:16 NIV)

4. What word, common in Bible place names (and TV commercials), means "well" in Hebrew?

Answer: Beer - meaning "well"

"And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water." (Num 21:16 KJV)

Examples: Beersheba and Beerlahairoi

"Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered." (Gen 16:14 KJV)

"And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well. Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them." (Gen 21:30-31 KJV)

5. Why are peacemakers considered blessed?

Answer: they shall be called the children of God

"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." (Mat 5:9 KJV)

6. Who had the only known case of halitosis in the Bible?

Answer: Job, his wife found his breath offensive (or strange)

"My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am repulsive to the children of my own body." (Job 19:17 NKJV)

7. What "optical" phrase found three times in the Bible, is a common phrase meaning "something dear and precious?"

Answer: Apple of the eye

"He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye." (Deu 32:10 KJV)

"Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings," (Psa 17:8 KJV)

"Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye." (Prov 7:2 KJV)

8. What did King David's rebellious son Absalom have an abundance of?

Answer: hair

"And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight." (2 Sam 14:26 KJV)

9. What prophet was a herdsman two years before an earthquake?

Answer: Amos

"The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake." (Amos 1:1 KJV)

10. What is "tasteless salt" good for?

Answer: "Nothing" and/or "but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men"

"Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men." (Mat 5:13 KJV)

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