42 reviewed questions with answers and explanations.
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The first generation of mankind was destroyed in the great flood of water because of
A: corruption and violence
Genesis 6:11-13 describes corruption and violence and gives these as the reason for the approaching destruction by the Flood.
AI-reviewed · source checkedWhich of the following is the sign of the covenant between God and Abraham?
D: Circumcision in the flesh of the foreskins.
Genesis 17:10-11 identifies circumcision as the sign of the covenant with Abraham. The Passover belongs to a later account.
AI-reviewed · source checkedGod appeared to Jacob in a dream and Jacob made a vow to
D: pay tithe to God.
Genesis 28:22 records Jacob promising to give a tenth of what God gives him. Paying a tithe is the vow represented in the options.
AI-reviewed · source checkedJoseph saw his sale by his brothers as God’s plan to enable him.
D: preserve life.
In Genesis 45:5, Joseph tells his brothers that God sent him ahead to preserve life. This is his explanation of the larger purpose of his coming to Egypt.
AI-reviewed · source checkedThe two Hebrew midwives instructed by Pharaoh to kill the Hebrew male babies at birth were
C: Shiphrah and Puah
Exodus 1:15 names the Hebrew midwives as Shiphrah and Puah. The following verse records Pharaoh’s instruction concerning male babies.
AI-reviewed · source checkedThe Egyptian magicians were able to reproduce the first three miracles done by Moses and Aaron, but the fourth which they were unable to perform was the plague of
A: gnat from the dust
The magicians reproduce the staff sign, blood and frogs, but cannot reproduce the gnats. Counting the staff sign explains why the question calls this the fourth miracle.
AI-reviewed · source checkedThe possibility of crossing the Red Sea was seen by Israel as
A: God’s active presence in their midst
Exodus 14:30-31 credits the LORD with saving Israel and records the people recognizing his great work. The crossing points to God’s active presence.
AI-reviewed · source checkedIn Exodus 17 and Numbers 20, similar incidents of lack of water for the congregation are recorded. A significant difference however, is that in Exodus 17, Moses is commanded to
A: strike the rock
Exodus 17:6 commands Moses to strike the rock. Numbers 20:8 instead instructs him to speak to it, which is the contrast the question asks about.
AI-reviewed · source checkedThe only commandment which has a promise attached to it concerns
A: respecting parents
Exodus 20:12 connects honouring parents with length of life in the land. Ephesians 6:2 also singles it out as a commandment with a promise.
AI-reviewed · source checked“What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” These words answered a riddle posed by whom?
C: Samson
Judges 14 records Samson posing a riddle about food from the eater and sweetness from the strong. The men answer him with the words about honey and a lion.
AI-reviewed · source checked‘Draw your sword and kill me, lest men say of me. “A woman killed him.” ’ The speaker was
C: Abimelech
Judges 9:54 identifies Abimelech as the man who tells his armour bearer to kill him after a woman drops a millstone on his head.
AI-reviewed · source checkedGideon was also called Jerubbaal because he
A: pulled down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah beside it
Judges 6:32 connects the name Jerubbaal with Gideon having torn down Baal’s altar. The name reflects the challenge that Baal should contend for himself.
AI-reviewed · source checkedJoshua was full of the spirit of wisdom because
B: Moses had laid his hand upon him
Deuteronomy 34:9 directly links Joshua’s being full of the spirit of wisdom with Moses having laid his hands on him.
AI-reviewed · source checked“My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins” means that in comparison with his father he would
C: be harsher
First Kings 12 explains the comparison through a heavier yoke and harsher punishment. Rehoboam is threatening more severity than his father.
AI-reviewed · source checkedWhat portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of jesse. To your tents, O Israel!…. This declaration marked the end of
B: united kingdom in Israel
First Kings 12 describes the northern tribes rejecting David’s dynasty and making Jeroboam king. The declaration marks the breakup of the united kingdom.
AI-reviewed · source checkedThe incident which inspired King Josiah to undertake a reform was the
C: discovery of the book of the law
Second Kings 22 records the discovery and reading of the book of the law. Josiah responds with inquiry and then a public renewal of the covenant.
AI-reviewed · source checked‘Seek good, and not evil that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said…’ Which prophet gave this advice?
B: Amos
Amos 5:14 contains this instruction to seek good rather than evil so that the people may live. Amos is the prophet associated with the quotation.
AI-reviewed · source checkedAnd at the time of the offering of the oblation, the prophet came near and said, ‘… O Lord, answer me, that this people may know that thou, O Lord, art God, and that thou had turned their hearts back.’ What happened after this prayer?
D: The fire of the Lord fell.
First Kings 18:38 records fire from the LORD consuming the offering immediately after Elijah’s prayer. The rain comes later in the chapter.
AI-reviewed · source checkedOne of the reasons why Sennacherib did not enter and conquer Jerusalem was that
B: thousands of his soldiers miraculously died overnight
Second Kings 19:35–36 reports that the LORD’s angel struck the Assyrian camp at night. Sennacherib then departed and returned to Nineveh.
AI-reviewed · source checkedWhen the Chaldean army captured King Zedekiah, they
C: bound him in fetters
Second Kings 25:7 says Zedekiah was bound in bronze fetters and taken to Babylon. It names his sons, rather than his wives, as those killed before him.
AI-reviewed · source checked‘All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.’ This messianic prophecy was made by
D: Isaiah
Isaiah 53:6 contains the comparison with wandering sheep and the statement about bearing iniquity. The quotation belongs to Isaiah.
AI-reviewed · source checkedThe vision of ‘dry bones’ teaches that
D: exiled Israel will be restored.
Ezekiel 37:11 identifies the bones as the whole house of Israel. The following promise concerns bringing the people back to their land.
AI-reviewed · source checkedGilgamesh Epic is the Babylonian equivalent of the biblical story of the
D: flood
The Gilgamesh epic contains a flood narrative, preserved on its eleventh tablet. The corresponding biblical narrative is the Flood in Genesis.
AI-reviewed · source checkedTo whom was the birth of Jesus announced with a sign?
B: The shepherds
Luke 2 addresses the shepherds and explicitly gives them a sign: a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.
AI-reviewed · source checkedThe central message of John the Baptist in the Jordan region was about a baptism.
D: of repentance
Luke 3:3 describes John preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. Repentance identifies the baptism’s central call.
AI-reviewed · source checkedJesus heard a voice saying: ‘Thou art my beloved son; with thee I am well pleased.’ Jesus heard this voice during His
A: baptism
Luke 3:21-22 places the voice addressing Jesus as beloved Son at his baptism. The wording addresses him directly.
AI-reviewed · source checked‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom he is pleased!’ is usually referred to as
A: The angels’ song
Luke 2:13 identifies the speakers as the heavenly host praising God. The words are therefore associated with the angels’ song.
AI-reviewed · source checked‘I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.’ This statement was made during the healing of the
D: centurion’s servant
Luke 7 places Jesus’ praise of this faith in the account of the centurion’s servant. The servant is found well at the end of the episode.
AI-reviewed · source checkedWhen they saw the man who had been possessed by demons in his right mind, the Gerasenes
B: asked Jesus to depart from them
Mark 5:15-17 describes the people seeing the healed man in his right mind and then asking Jesus to leave their region.
AI-reviewed · source checkedOne of the objectives, according to Mark, for which Jesus appointed the twelve, was for them to
C: cast out demons
Mark 3:14-15 says Jesus appointed the twelve to be with him, preach and have authority to cast out demons. Option C names one of these purposes.
AI-reviewed · source checked‘Get behind me, Satan! For you are not on the side of God, but of men.’ The reason for this sharp rebuke was that the addressee
B: wanted to dissuade Jesus from dying on the cross
Mark 8 places the rebuke after Peter challenges Jesus’ announcement of suffering and death. Peter is opposing the path Jesus has described.
AI-reviewed · source checkedAnd he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him. Jesus was led into the wilderness by
B: the Spirit
Mark 1:12 says the Spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness. Satan is the tempter there, not the one who leads him into it.
AI-reviewed · source checkedWhich of the following instructions was given only to the seventy and not to the twelve when Jesus sent His disciples on missions?
B: Salute no one on the road
Luke 10:4 tells the larger mission group to greet no one on the road. That instruction is not included in Luke 9’s mission of the twelve.
AI-reviewed · source checked“But new wine must be put into fresh wine-skins.” What issue was raised to which this statement was a response?
C: Fasting
Luke 5 begins this exchange with a question about fasting. Jesus’ comparison with new wine and wineskins is part of that response.
AI-reviewed · source checked“Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.” The above quotation teaches
B: Obedience to civil authority
Mark 12:17 directs the hearers to give Caesar his due while also giving God what belongs to God. Among these choices, it supports civil obligation.
AI-reviewed · source checkedWho requested for the body of Jesus after His death?
D: Joseph of Arimathea
Mark 15:43 names Joseph of Arimathea as the person who asks Pilate for Jesus’ body. Pilate subsequently grants it to him.
AI-reviewed · source checked“Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us…?” These words were spoken by
C: Cleopas and one other disciple
Luke 24 names Cleopas as one of the two travellers. After recognising Jesus, they recall how their hearts burned as he explained the Scriptures.
AI-reviewed · source checkedPaul was accused of apparently being a preacher of foreign divinities in Athens because he preached Jesus and the
C: Resurrection
Acts 17:18 explains that the accusation arose because Paul was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. Resurrection is the missing subject.
AI-reviewed · source checkedThe elders at Jerusalem advised Paul on his arrival in the city to
B: Purify himself along with men under vows
Acts 21:23-24 records the elders advising Paul to join four men under a vow and purify himself with them. Verse 26 describes his response.
AI-reviewed · source checked‘Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent; for I am with you, and no man shall attack you to harm you; for I have many people in this city.’ The city referred to was
A: Corinth
Acts 18 places Paul in Corinth when the Lord encourages him to keep speaking because there are many people in that city.
AI-reviewed · source checkedTo the question of the Philippian Jailer, ‘Men, what must I do to be saved? Paul replied,
B: believe in the Lord Jesus
Acts 16:31 answers the jailer’s question with the instruction to believe in the Lord Jesus. The answer does not prescribe almsgiving or release from prison.
AI-reviewed · source checkedDuring the voyage to Rome, some people thought that Paul was a god because
C: He was not harmed by a viper
Acts 28:6 says the islanders changed their minds and called Paul a god when they saw that the viper had not harmed him.
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