Bible Trivia Study

1. What Israelite leader selected his army by choosing men who drank water by lapping it up with their tongues like a dog.

Answer: Gideon

"So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink." (Judg 7:5 KJV)

2. What was the Ark of the Covenant (Testimony) housed in before Solomon housed it in the Temple of God?

Answer: Tents (Tabernacles)

"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation. And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the veil." (Exo 40:1-3 KJV)

3. How many soldiers guarded Peter during one of his prison stays?

Answer: 16

"And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people." (Acts 12:3-4 KJV)

"quaternions" - a group of four persons (see Webster's).

4. Jesus would NOT have taught the message below; change the order of these words to match a verse that reflects a correct teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ.

"curse your enemies, love those who bless you"

Answer: love your enemies, bless those who curse you

"But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you," (Mat 5:44 NKJV)

5. In the Book of Revelation, what city "spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt?"

Answer: Jerusalem

"And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified." (Rev 11:8 KJV)

6. Should we attempt to acquire ANY treasures at all!

Answer: Yes

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." (Mat 6:19-21 KJV)

7. Jesus compared lilies to whom?

Answer: Solomon

"And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." (Mat 6:28-29 KJV)

8. What wintertime substance often symbolizes whiteness and purity?

Answer: snow

"His countenance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow." (Mat 28:3 NKJV)

"His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire;" (Rev 1:14 NKJV)

"Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." (Psa 51:7 KJV)

"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." (Isa 1:18 KJV)

9. Who says in his heart, "There is no God."?

Answer: the fool

"To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good." Psa 14:1 KJV)

"To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good." (Psa 53:1 KJV)

10. This question is about the Bible as opposed to finding the answer in it. However, you should have no trouble with it, but if you do the answer is somewhere on the JoshuaNet site.

What leader of men said about the Bible (Old and New Testament), "This great book is the best gift God has given to man. But for it, we could not know right from wrong."

Pontius Pilate
Herod the Great
Nero
Abraham Lincoln

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy P. Basler, ed. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Union Press,1853), p. 542, September 7, 1864. Also see The Founding Fathers, What Did They Really Say!

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