OT History Test 1

Question 1

Two Lines of Lots Daughters

Answer 1

Moab and Ammon

Question 2

What country is Ruth from?

Answer 2

Moab

Question 3

Name 3 of David’s wives

Answer 3

Michal, Abigail, Bathsheba

Question 4

What priest anointed Solomon?

Answer 4

Zadok

Question 5

What are the three Transjordan tribes?

Answer 5

Reuben, Gad, E. Manesseh

Question 6

What are the 12 sons of Israel?

Answer 6

1) Reuben 2) Simeon 3) Levi 4) Judah 5) Dan 6) Naphtali 7) Gad 8) Asher 9) Issachar 10) Zebulun 11) Joseph 12) Benjamin

Question 7

Who are Joseph’s two sons?

Answer 7

Manasseh and Ephraim

Question 8

Which of Joseph’s son receives Jacob’s blessing?

Answer 8

Ephraim (younger)

Question 9

What two cities of the Northern Kingdom built golden calves?

Answer 9

Dan and Bethel

Question 10

What judge made an ephod?

Answer 10

Gideon

Question 11

Nineveh was the capital of what empire?

Answer 11

Assyria

Question 12

What were the capitals of the northern kingdom?

Answer 12

1. Shechem, (Penuel), 2. Tirzah, 3. Samaria

Question 13

Who marries Jezebel?

Answer 13

Ahab

Question 14

Jezebel is the princess of…?

Answer 14

Phoenicia

Question 15

What tribe does not get land?

Answer 15

Levi

Question 16

Who divided the land among the tribes?

Answer 16

Joshua

Question 17

Who disobeyed the rule not to take anything from Jericho?

Answer 17

Achan, son of Carmi

Question 18

Who’s brother and son-in-law is the judge Othniel?

Answer 18

Caleb

Question 19

Name the king who Ehud killed

Answer 19

Eglon

Question 20

What did Shamgar kill 600 Philistines with?

Answer 20

ox goad

Question 21

______ gang-raped a _____ concubine.

Answer 21

Gibeahites; Judean (Levite husband)

Question 22

Who is the left-handed Benjamite?

Answer 22

Ehud

Question 23

Name Deborah’s associate.

Answer 23

Barak

Question 24

Who killed Sisera?

Answer 24

Jael

Question 25

How did Jael kill Sisera?

Answer 25

Gave him milk and then pounded a tent peg through his head when he was asleep.

Question 26

Longest Judge narrative?

Answer 26

Gideon

Question 27

What did Gideon destroy?

Answer 27

Baal altar and Asherah symbol (pole)

Question 28

What judge tried to become king?

Answer 28

Abimelech

Question 29

Abimelech is the son of...

Answer 29

Gideon

Question 30

What city did Abimelech reign over?

Answer 30

Shechem

Question 31

How did Abimelech die?

Answer 31

A woman at Thebez dropped a millstone on his head.

Question 32

What signs did Gideon ask from God?

Answer 32

To put a wool fleece on the ground and have the fleece be wet and the ground around it dry. Then have the fleece be dry and the ground wet.

Question 33

Jephthah is the son of...

Answer 33

Gilead

Question 34

What deal did Jephthah make with God?

Answer 34

He would sacrifice the first thing that greeted him if he had victory over the Ammonites.

Question 35

How did Samson destroy the Philistine wheat?

Answer 35

catching 300 foxes and attaching torches to their tails

Question 36

How did Samson kill 1000 Philistines?

Answer 36

with the jaw-bone of a donkey

Question 37

When does the Spirit of God leave Samson

Answer 37

When Delilah shaves his head.

Question 38

Samson is a...

Answer 38

Nazarite

Question 39

What priest did Samuel learn under?

Answer 39

Eli

Question 40

ABCD cycle of Judges

Answer 40

A: Apostasy - God sends a foreign force against unrepentant Israel B: Battering - Israel takes a licking C: Crying - Israel laments D: Deliverance - God sends a judge to deliver Israel Israel eventually returns to idolatrous ways and cycle repeats

Question 41

Who gave David 5 loaves of showbread when he was fled from Saul?

Answer 41

Ahimelech

Question 42

Name the 6 Major Judges

Answer 42

Othniel of Judah; Ehud of Benjamin; Deborah of Ephraim; Gideon of Manasseh; Jephthah of Gilead; Samson of Dan

Question 43

Mephibosheth

Answer 43

crippled son of Jonathon

Question 44

two lines from Esau

Answer 44

Edom and Amalakites

Question 45

modern day Aram

Answer 45

Syria

Question 46

modern day Hittite

Answer 46

Turkey

Question 47

Midianite ancestor

Answer 47

Keturah (Abraham's concubine, later wife)

Question 48

year of the Exodus

Answer 48

1446 BC

Question 49

David's first capitol

Answer 49

Hebron

Question 50

Where does Saul die?

Answer 50

Gilboa

Question 51

____ killed ____, his half-brother, because he raped ____, his sister.

Answer 51

Absalom, Amnon, Tamar

Question 52

David's general

Answer 52

Joab

Question 53

Saul's general (and cousin)

Answer 53

Abner

Question 54

Who reigns after Saul?

Answer 54

Ish-bosheth