Unit 7 Exam

Question 1

Who was the father of Samuel

Answer 1

Elkanah

Question 2

Who were Elkanah’s two wives

Answer 2

Hannah and Peninnah

Question 3

What were circumstances like for Hannah before she bore Samuel?

Answer 3

She was ridiculed by Peninnah because she was barren. While praying to the Lord, Eli the priest thought she was drunk. When he approached on the matter, she told him of her sorrow. After the priest’s blessing, Hannah boar Samuel. After he was weaned, Hannah took him to the temple in Shiloh and dedicated him to the lord

Question 4

How were Eli’s sons wicked

Answer 4

When someone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come with a three-pronged fork and would thrust into the container. Whatever the fork brought up, the priest kept for himself

Question 5

What did Samuel wear while serving in the presence of the Lord

Answer 5

A linen ephod

Question 6

What were the names of Eli’s sons

Answer 6

Hophni and Phinehas

Question 7

How did Eli die

Answer 7

When Eli heard that the Ark of God had been captured, he fell backwards and broke his neck

Question 8

Who were the Israelites fighting

Answer 8

The Phillistines

Question 9

Name of the son of Eli’s daughter-in-law

Answer 9

Ichabod

Question 10

What happened when the Philistines brought the ark of God into the temple of Dagon

Answer 10

The statue of Dagon laid face down in front of the ark of God

Question 11

Why did the Philistines want to return the ark of the covenant

Answer 11

It was bringing sickness upon them

Question 12

Samuel’s sons

Answer 12

Joel and Abijah

Question 13

Did Samuel’s sons follow his example

Answer 13

No, the perverted justice

Question 14

What did Samuel warn the people a king would do

Answer 14

He will take away their daughters, sons, crops, slaves, livestock, and make them slaves

Question 15

Who did Samuel anoint as king

Answer 15

Saul

Question 16

Who is Saul’s father

Answer 16

Kish

Question 17

How did Saul meet Samuel

Answer 17

Kish sends Saul to go get back donkeys that escaped and Kish’s servant adivises Saul to seek wisdom from a man in Jerusalem

Question 18

How did Saul fall out of favor with the world

Answer 18

He sacrificed an offering that wasn’t supposed to be

Question 19

What was Saul’s oath

Answer 19

Don’t take food before evening

Question 20

How was Saul’s oath violated

Answer 20

Jonathan hadn’t heard that his father made the oath. He ate honey from a beehive

Question 21

Who did Samuel replace Saul with as king of Israel

Answer 21

David, youngest son of Jesse, born in Bethlehem. This child was almost overlooked because he was out working in the fields

Question 22

What are the two accounts of how Saul met David

Answer 22

David was a superior harpist that went into the service of Saul and accepted a challenge from one of the biggest men in the Philistine army, who he then killed with a rock to the forehead thrown out of a sling

Question 23

What is the name of the man David faced in the Philistine army

Answer 23

Goliath

Question 24

When Saul plots to kill David, who helps him escape

Answer 24

Jonathan, Saul’s son

Question 25

How does Saul’s life end

Answer 25

He commits suicide by falling on his own sword

Question 26

Why does Saul try to kill David

Answer 26

David is more popular than Saul

Question 27

Where did Samuel go after he escaped

Answer 27

Ramah

Question 28

How did Nathan’s prophecies of grief in David’s family come true

Answer 28

David’s son Absalom kills his half brother Amnon after he sleeps with his sister Tamar, Joan killer Absalom with three darts to the heart

Question 29

Who is the king Nathan tells David to appoint

Answer 29

Solomon

Question 30

Who is Solomon

Answer 30

The fourth son of King David and his wife Bathsheba

Question 31

Who was supposed to succeed David

Answer 31

His oldest son Adonijah

Question 32

What caused the disagreement between the two women and how did Solomon settle it

Answer 32

Two women that live in the same house had both born sons. However, one of the sons had died and the mother of the dead child stole the other mother’s baby and pretended it was hers. Solomon settles this dispute by telling the women to cut the baby in half so that it could be equal. The true mother thought it was better for the child to live with another mother than to not live at all.

Question 33

What are some other examples of Solomon’s wisdom

Answer 33

A queen that made artificial flowers that were said to be indistinguishable was debunked by Solomon when he opened a window and saw which flowers the bees visited. He also uttered 3,000 proverbs

Question 34

Who rules north Israel and who rules south Israel after Solomon’s death

Answer 34

Jeroboam took over the northern tribes and Rehoboam took over the tribes of Judah and Benjamin

Question 35

What were the tribes of Judah and Benjamin now called

Answer 35

The Kingdom of Judah

Question 36

Who is king Omri

Answer 36

A successful military campaigner

Question 37

What city did King Omri build

Answer 37

Samaria

Question 38

What happened at the end of Elijah’s life

Answer 38

Chariots and horses of fire on a whirlwind swept up Elijah and carried him into heaven

Question 39

Two examples of Elijah’s miracles

Answer 39

He purified the waters of Jericho with salt and when a widow told him of her debt, he saw she never ran out of oil and told her to fill jars with oil and sell them in the market to pay off her debt

Question 40

What does the book of Chronicles do

Answer 40

It sums up the long period of time between the death of Saul and the Jews being exiled by the Romans

Question 41

Three wives of David

Answer 41

Machael, Abigail, and Bathsheba