Religion

Question 1

What does “prophet” mean in the Old Testament?

Answer 1

A person called by God to deliver God’s message

Question 2

What common message was given by all prophets to the people of Israel?

Answer 2

The prophets called people to correct their sinful ways and stay faithful to the covenant.

Question 3

Which prophet showed the power of the one true God by building an altar at Mount Carmel that was set ablaze by “fire from heaven”?

Answer 3

Elijah

Question 4

Ahab wanted Naboth’s vineyard because?

Answer 4

It was just what he needed to enlarge his own garden.

Question 5

Why didn’t Naboth want to sell his vineyard?

Answer 5

This land was given to his family by God as their inheritance.

Question 6

Why didn’t Naboth want to sell his vineyard?

Answer 6

This land was given to his family by God as their inheritance.

Question 7

King Ahab was content with Naboth’s refusal to sell the vineyard
True or False?

Answer 7

False.

Question 8

What King did Elijah have to confront to make the Lord send rain to end the three-year drought?

Answer 8

Ahab.

Question 9

Where did Elijah meet the prophets of Baal and Asherah?

Answer 9

Mt. Carmel.

Question 10

Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal and Asherah to?

Answer 10

Create a fire.

Question 11

What does Elijah in Hebrew mean?

Answer 11

“Yahweh is my God”.

Question 12

What was the name of Hosea’s wife?

Answer 12

Gomer.

Question 13

What name means “for you are not my people, and I will not be your God”?

Answer 13

Loammi.

Question 14

What name means “for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel”?

Answer 14

Loruhamah.

Question 15

What does Hosea’s difficult marriage to Gomer represent?

Answer 15

God who is faithful even when Israel is unfaithful.

Question 16

How many children did Gomer birth for Hosea

Answer 16

3.

Question 17

Who was Hosea’s father?

Answer 17

Beeri.

Question 18

What does Hosea’s life and message challenges us to do?

Answer 18

Understand God’s love for us in spite of our sinfulness.

Question 19

What amazing thing did the Lord ask Hosea to do when He first spoke to him?

Answer 19

Marry a prostitute and have children with her.

Question 20

What does Hosea in Hebrew mean?

Answer 20

Salvation.

Question 21

How did the Lord tell Hosea to love the adulteress woman?

Answer 21

According to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel.

Question 22

How was Jeremiah called to be a prophet?

Answer 22

Jeremiah was young and didn’t know how to speak so God touched his mouth and put words in to his mouth.

Question 23

Did Jeremiah compare a potter to God and the clay to Israel?

True or False?

Answer 23

True.

Question 24

Jeremiah was born only a few miles north of Jerusalem. Where?

Answer 24

Anathoth.

Question 25

Ezekiel means ______________.

Answer 25

God strengthens.

Question 26

God wanted His message to..

Answer 26

Because the people to turn to Him for life and salvation.

Question 27

According to Ezekiel, who were the people which Israelites blamed for the judgment?

Answer 27

Their forefathers.

Question 28

Who was the father of Jeremiah?

Answer 28

Hilkiah.

Question 29

Who was the king of Judah when Jeremiah started his ministry?

Answer 29

Josiah.

Question 30

Who was the king of Judah when his ministry ended?

Answer 30

Zedekiah.

Question 31

Where did prophet Jeremiah die?

Answer 31

Egypt.

Question 32

What was Jonah doing when the captain of the ship found him?

Answer 32

Sleeping.

Question 33

Why was Jonah angry at God?

Answer 33

Not judging Nineveh.

Question 34

Jonah wanted God to respond to his anger in which way?

Answer 34

Punishing Nineveh.

Question 35

Isaiah's book contains another possible Messianic prophecy about a shoot coming from a stump. Which Biblical figure did Isaiah state would be the stump from where the shoot would come?

Answer 35

David.

Question 36

According to Isaiah, how can the Israelites achieved holiness?

Answer 36

By always trying to be faithful to the covenant with God.

Question 37

Why was Jonah swallowed by a large fish and brought to Nineveh?

Answer 37

God intervened and was helping Jonah to accept and fulfill his mission.

Question 38

Why was Jonah swallowed by a large fish and brought to Nineveh?

Answer 38

God intervened and was helping Jonah to accept and fulfill his mission.

Question 39

When God called Jonah to preach to the Assyrians in Nineveh, what did Jonah decide to do?

Answer 39

He tried to run away by boarding a ship and going to another land.

Question 40

How long Jonah was in the belly of the fish?

Answer 40

Three days and Three nights.

Question 41

Isaiah in Hebrew means ____________________.

Answer 41

God saves.

Question 42

What does the name Jonah means?

Answer 42

Dove.