OLD TESTAMENT: Key Events

Question 1

Creation

Answer 1

Genesis 1&2

Question 2

Fall

Answer 2

Genesis 3

Question 3

Flood

Answer 3

Genesis 6-9

Question 4

Rainbow

Answer 4

Genesis 9

Question 5

Babel

Answer 5

Genesis 11

Question 6

Promise to Abraham

Answer 6

Genesis 15 (1900 B.C.)

Question 7

Sign of Abrahamic Covenant

Answer 7

Genesis 17

Question 8

Isaac’s Marriage w/ Rebekah

Answer 8

Genesis 24

Question 9

Jacob’s Ladder

Answer 9

Genesis 28 (“Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.” 28:15

Question 10

Jacob’s marriage with Leah/Rachel

Answer 10

Genesis 29

Question 11

Jacob prospers with flocks by peeling rods of poplar and almond and plane trees

Answer 11

Genesis 30

Question 12

Jacob leaves secretly for Canaan from Laban - covenant of Mizpah

Answer 12

Genesis 31

Question 13

Jacob wrestling with the angel

Answer 13

Genesis 32 (Peniel)

Question 14

Esau’s reconciliation with Jacob

Answer 14

Genesis 33

Question 15

Shechem violates Dinah - Simeon and Levi kill every male

Answer 15

Genesis 34

Question 16

The Exodus

Answer 16

Exodus 5-15; particularly 12-14 (last plague/Passover and the crossing of the Red Sea) (c. 1450 B.C.)

Question 17

Fall of Jericho

Answer 17

Joshua 6

Question 18

The annointing of David

Answer 18

1 Samuel 16 (1050 B.C.)

Question 19

Davidic Covenant

Answer 19

2 Samuel 7; Psalm 89

Question 20

Dedication of the temple

Answer 20

1 Kings 8 (2 Chr. 6) (1000 B.C.)

Question 21

Division of the kingdom

Answer 21

1 Kings 12 (2 Chr. 10) (950 B.C.)

Question 22

The Exile

Answer 22

Deportations: 2 Kings 24; Fall of Jerusalem: 2 Kings 25 (2 Chr. 36) (586 B.C.)

Question 23

The Return from the Exile

Answer 23

Ezra 1 (535 B.C.)

Question 24

Crossing of the Red Sea

Answer 24

Exodus 14

Question 25

David and Goliath

Answer 25

1 Samuel 17

Question 26

Raising of the serpent in the wilderness

Answer 26

Numbers 21

Question 27

Phineas’ zeal and the sin of Baal Peor

Answer 27

Numbers 25

Question 28

Elijah and the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel

Answer 28

1 Kings 18

Question 29

Dry Bones

Answer 29

Ezekiel 37

Question 30

Moses victory over the Amalekites

Answer 30

Exodus 17

Question 31

Manna

Answer 31

Exodus 16 (Manna, Murmuring, and Meet)

Question 32

The Fleece

Answer 32

Judges 6

Question 33

At what even did the moon and sun stand still?

Answer 33

Joshua 10, the five Ammorite kings come up against Gibeon

Question 34

When did the sun dial go back ten degrees?

Answer 34

As a sign from God to Hezekiah that he would recovere and have 15 more years of life. Isaiah 38:7-18: “And this is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing which He has spoken: “Behold, I will bring the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward.” So the sun returned ten degrees on the dial by which it had gone down.”

Question 35

Gideon visited by an angel

Answer 35

Judges 6

Question 36

Fiery Furnace

Answer 36

Daniel 3

Question 37

Dream of nations crushed by another kingdom

Answer 37

Daniel 2

Question 38

Daniel’s prayer

Answer 38

Daniel 9

Question 39

Daniel and the lion

Answer 39

Daniel 6

Question 40

Hezekiah and Sennacharib

Answer 40

Isaiah 36 ff.

Question 41

Elijah and the woman

Answer 41

1 Kings 17

Question 42

Naaman the leper

Answer 42

2 Kings 2

Question 43

Jehoshophat’s prayer

Answer 43

2 Chronicles 20

Question 44

Man’s eyes opened to see chariots of angels

Answer 44

2 Kings 6 (w/ Elisha)

Question 45

Melchizedek

Answer 45

Genesis 14; Psalm 110; Hebrews 5, 6, 7