Bible Study Quiz

Answers to February 1999 Study
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The verses from Scripture are given with the answer. You can click on the verse hyperlink [e.g., (Jhn 3:16 KJV) ] to read the indicated verse within the context of its entire chapter.
  1. Who is the sixth relative of Paul mentioned in Romans?

    Answer: Sosipater
    (Rom 16:7 KJV) Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

    (Rom 16:11 KJV) Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.

    (Rom 16:21 KJV) Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

     

  2. In what Biblical chapter do we hear of five people refusing to sell fuel to five others?

    Answer: Matthew 25 - the story of the ten bridesmaids.

     

  3. What proverb did Jesus challenge His listeners to quote to Him?

    Answer: "Physician, heal thyself"
    (Luke 4:23 KJV) And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.

     

  4. When was the first recorded prayer of Jesus after his birth?

    Answer: At His baptism
    (Luke 3:21 KJV) Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,

     

  5. This person wrote some advice indicating that it is not good to curse a king for little birds will tell on you if you do?

    Answer: Solomon (writer of Ecclesiastes)
    (Eccl 10:20 KJV) Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

     

  6. What was the name of the commander who sent Paul from Jerusalem to Caesarea?

    Answer: Claudius Lysias
    (Acts 23:22-26 KJV) So the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged him, See thou tell no man that thou hast showed these things to me. And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night; And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor. And he wrote a letter after this manner: Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting.

     

  7. What was notable about the people who discovered that the Syrians (Arameans) had fled from Samaria after a siege?

    Answer: They had leprosy
    (2 Ki 7:3-6 KJV) And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die. And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there. For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

     

  8. This person said, "Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well." (Assuming he spoke King James English)

    Answer: Samson
    (Judg 14:3 KJV) Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.

     

  9. During the fourth plague upon Egypt, what area was not affected?

    Answer: Goshen, the land in which God's people dwell.
    (Exo 8:22 KJV) And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.

     

  10. What form of physical punishment was meted out to Zedekiah when the City of Jerusalem was destroyed?

    Answer: His eyes were put out.
    (2 Ki 25:7 KJV) And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

     

     

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