Book of Ezekiel
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50 free Book of Ezekiel trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Ezekiel is the strangest of the Bible's great prophets. Carried into exile with the first wave of captives from Judah, he sees the heavens open over a foreign plain, acts out the coming siege of Jerusalem with props and his own body, and ends with a detailed tour of a temple that had not yet been built. In between come some of scripture's most vivid images: creatures with four faces, wheels within wheels, a valley where the dead stand up, and an invasion from the far north. This quiz covers the whole book. Early questions deal with the opening vision and the prophet's call, then come the acted-out warnings of chapters 4 to 24, the oracles against neighbouring nations, the promises of a new heart and a reunited people, and the closing chapters on the restored temple, river and land. A handful look at how Ezekiel has echoed since, in Jewish mysticism, in painting, in a modern city's name and even at the cinema. Every answer comes with an explanation that points back to the text. It suits Bible study groups working through the major prophets, Sunday school and youth leaders looking for a ready-made Ezekiel quiz, and anyone who wants to test how much of this demanding book has stuck.
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Q 01Which Tarantino film has a hitman recite a passage he calls Ezekiel 25:17, though most of it is invented?
Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction's version is mostly stitched together from stray biblical phrases; only its ending resembles the real verse, which closes an oracle against the Philistines.
Q 02Which modern Israeli city is named after the exiles' settlement where Ezekiel sat overwhelmed for seven days?
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv took its name from the Hebrew title given to Theodor Herzl's novel Altneuland; older English Bibles spell the exiles' village Tel Abib.
Q 03In Ezekiel's opening vision, each living creature has the face of a man, a lion, an ox and which bird?
An eagle
An eagle is the fourth face; each creature also had four wings with human hands beneath them, and moved straight ahead without ever turning.
Q 04What covered the high rims of the wheels beside the living creatures in Ezekiel's first vision, all the way around?
Eyes
Eyes filled the rims all around, and each wheel looked like one wheel set inside another, able to roll in any of four directions without turning.
Q 05What did the scroll taste like in Ezekiel's mouth when he obeyed the command to eat it?
Honey
Honey was the taste in his mouth, though the scroll handed to him was written on both sides with lamentations and he was told to fill his stomach with it.
Q 06In Ezekiel 37, what filled the valley where the prophet watched a vast army rise to life at his word?
Dry bones
Dry bones rattled together, grew sinews, flesh and skin, then stood up once breath entered them; God calls them the whole house of Israel.
Q 07In Ezekiel 36, God promises Israel a new spirit and a heart of flesh in place of a heart of what?
Stone
Stone is the image: the stony heart is taken out, and the next verse adds that God's own Spirit will move the people to keep his laws.
Q 08By which three-word title does God address Ezekiel more than ninety times in the book?
Son of man
Son of man is how God speaks to him 93 times, a reminder that the prophet is a mere mortal before the blazing glory he has just seen.
Q 09In the proverb God bans in Ezekiel 18, what have the fathers eaten that sets their children's teeth on edge?
Sour grapes
Sour grapes summed up the people's complaint that they were paying for their parents' sins; God answers that each person dies only for their own.
Q 10Which invader leads a vast alliance from the far north against Israel in Ezekiel 38 and 39?
Gog
Gog is styled prince of Meshech and Tubal; after his defeat, Israel needs seven months to bury his dead and seven years to burn the weapons.
Q 11Ezekiel 4:9's mix of wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt gave its name to a sprouted-grain kind of what?
Bread
Bread is what the verse says to make from the six ingredients, though for Ezekiel it was siege food, weighed out at twenty shekels a day.
Q 12When Ezekiel protested at baking his barley cakes over human excrement, which fuel did God allow him to use instead?
Cow dung
Cow dung was the concession after the prophet pleaded that nothing unclean had passed his lips since his youth.
Q 13What did God tell Ezekiel to use as a barber's razor on his own head and beard in chapter 5?
A sharp sword
A sharp sword did the shaving; he then weighed the hair into thirds to burn, strike and scatter, picturing the fates awaiting Jerusalem's people.
Q 21In Ezekiel 8, women sit at the northern entrance of the temple weeping for which Mesopotamian god?
Tammuz
Tammuz's death was mourned by women across Mesopotamia each midsummer, and a month of the Jewish calendar still carries his name.
Q 22In Ezekiel 8, about twenty-five men turn their backs on the temple of the LORD to bow down to what?
The sun
The sun was the last of four scenes of idolatry Ezekiel was shown in the temple courts, each introduced as a greater abomination than the one before.
Q 23In Ezekiel 9, where does a man with a writing kit mark those who grieve over Jerusalem's sins so they are spared?
On their foreheads
Q 14Whose sudden death was Ezekiel forbidden to mourn in public, as a sign of the coming loss of Jerusalem's sanctuary?
His wife
His wife died in the evening, just as God had warned; the next morning he carried on without tears, as the exiles would when the temple fell.
Q 15Which ability did Ezekiel regain on the day a fugitive reached the exiles with news that Jerusalem had fallen?
His speech
His speech returned the evening before the survivor arrived; years earlier God had made his tongue stick to the roof of his mouth, so that he spoke only when given an oracle.
Q 16In Ezekiel 33, who answers for a city's dead if he sees an army coming and fails to blow the trumpet?
The watchman
The watchman is the role God gives Ezekiel himself: if he warns the wicked and they ignore him, their blood is on their own heads rather than his.
Q 17Besides prophet, which office do the opening verses of the Book of Ezekiel say Ezekiel held?
Priest
Priest is how the opening verses introduce him, and his final nine chapters read like a blueprint for a rebuilt sanctuary, its altar and its sacrifices.
Q 18Beside which waterway in Babylonia was Ezekiel living among the exiles when the heavens opened in his first vision?
The Chebar
The Chebar is thought to have been an irrigation canal near the city of Nippur, part of a network that carried water and boats across the plain.
Q 19Ezekiel is the third of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, following Isaiah and which prophet of Jerusalem's fall?
Jeremiah
Jeremiah comes second, and one rabbinic tradition even made Ezekiel his son, reading the name of Ezekiel's father as a nickname for the older prophet.
Q 20Which New Testament book borrows most from Ezekiel, reusing his living creatures, eaten scroll and new holy city?
Revelation
Revelation leans on Ezekiel more than any other New Testament writing, ending as he does with a tour of a perfect city where God lives among his people.
On their foreheads the linen-clothed scribe set a mark, and the six armed men who followed him were told to touch no one who carried it.
Q 24Which heavenly beings does Ezekiel 10 reveal the four living creatures seen beside the river in chapter 1 to be?
Cherubim
Cherubim is the name he gives them once he sees them at the temple, where God's glory leaves the threshold and comes to rest above them.
Q 25Which temple entrance must stay shut in Ezekiel 44 because the LORD, the God of Israel, has come in by it?
The east gate
The east gate is the one God's glory used to return to the temple in the previous chapter; only the prince may sit inside it to eat.
Q 26Ezekiel 14 says that even Noah, Job and which third righteous man could save only themselves from a doomed land?
Daniel
Daniel is named between Noah and Job, and the chapter insists again and again that the three could not rescue even their own sons or daughters.
Q 27Which city does Ezekiel 16 call Jerusalem's younger sister, guilty of pride, plenty and neglect of the poor and needy?
Sodom
Sodom is the comparison, and the prophet shocks his hearers by adding that Jerusalem has behaved so much worse that her sisters look righteous.
Q 28In the allegory of Ezekiel 23, Oholibah is Jerusalem; which northern capital is her elder sister Oholah?
Samaria
Samaria is Oholah, who doted on Assyrian officers dressed in blue and was handed over to them; her sister then outdid her.
Q 29At a fork in the road in Ezekiel 21, the king of Babylon shakes arrows, consults idols and examines what?
A liver
A liver was inspected for omens as the king chose between two roads; the lot in his right hand marked Jerusalem for battering rams and siege mounds.
Q 30In Ezekiel 13, what do false prophets smear over a flimsy wall before rain, hail and wind bring it crashing down?
Whitewash
Whitewash stands for their soothing promises of peace when there was no peace, a coat that hid the cracks without mending them.