Book of Jeremiah
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50 free Book of Jeremiah trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Jeremiah is one of the longest and most personal books in the Bible. Its prophet argues with God, acts out his messages with everyday objects, is beaten, jailed and left for dead, and still keeps warning Jerusalem that Babylon is coming. Along the way the book gives the Bible some of its best-loved verses of hope. This quiz covers the whole book. Early questions deal with Jeremiah's call and first visions, his symbolic acts and the lines people know by memory. Later ones follow the story through the siege and fall of Jerusalem, with plenty from chapters 30 to 50: the promises of restoration, the kings and officials who opposed him, the flight of the survivors and the oracles against the nations. A few look at how the book was put together and how later readers used it. It suits Bible study groups working chapter by chapter, Sunday school and youth quiz nights, and anyone reading Jeremiah who wants to check what has stuck. Every question comes with a short explanation that points back to the text.
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Q 01Which animal cannot change its markings, according to a saying that comes from Jeremiah 13:23?
A leopard
A leopard cannot change its spots, the verse says, any more than people long practised in evil can suddenly start doing good.
Q 02Which part of a person does Jeremiah 17:9 call 'deceitful above all things' and exceedingly corrupt?
The heart
The heart is so deceitful that no one can fully know it, the verse adds, and God replies in the next line that he searches and tests it.
Q 03Which phrase from Jeremiah's temple sermon did Jesus quote when he drove the money changers out?
A den of robbers
A den of robbers was Jeremiah's charge against worshippers who stole and murdered, then stood in the temple and declared themselves safe.
Q 04What did King Jehoiakim do with the scroll of Jeremiah's prophecies as it was read aloud to him?
Cut and burned it
Cut and burned it, a few columns at a time, with a penknife and a winter brazier; Jeremiah simply dictated the whole scroll again and added more.
Q 05Jeremiah 29:11 says God's plans for the exiles are to give them hope and what else?
A future
A future was promised in a letter Jeremiah sent to captives in Babylon, telling them to settle in because the wait would be long.
Q 06Jeremiah 8:22 asks whether there is no balm in which region, a line echoed in an African American spiritual?
Gilead
Gilead was the source of a healing balm, and the spiritual 'There Is a Balm in Gilead' turns the prophet's despairing question into a yes.
Q 07What happened to Jeremiah when officials lowered him by ropes into Malchijah's waterless dungeon pit?
He sank in mud
He sank in mud at the bottom and was left to starve until a palace official persuaded the king to have him hauled out.
Q 08Whose workshop did God send Jeremiah to visit in chapter 18, to learn how Israel could be remade?
A potter
A potter was reworking a spoiled lump of clay into a new vessel, and God said he could reshape a nation just as freely.
Q 09The English word 'jeremiad', taken from Jeremiah's name, describes a long work that bitterly bewails what?
The state of society
The state of society and its morals is a jeremiad's target, and the form usually closes by predicting that society's downfall.
Q 10What reason did Jeremiah give for not knowing how to speak when God first called him as a prophet?
He was only a child
He was only a child, Jeremiah protested, and God told him not to say so: he would go wherever he was sent and say whatever he was told.
Q 11After Jeremiah objected to his call in chapter 1, what did God reach out a hand and touch?
His mouth
His mouth was touched as God said 'I have put my words' there, setting him over nations to uproot and tear down, to build and to plant.
Q 12In Jeremiah's first vision he sees a rod of which tree, whose Hebrew name sounds like the word for watching?
Almond
Almond in Hebrew is shaqed and watching is shoqed, so the vision carries God's promise that he is watching over his word to carry it out.
Q 13What did Jeremiah see tipping away from the north in his second vision, a sign of coming invasion?
A boiling cauldron
A boiling cauldron tilting southward meant that disaster would pour out of the north on everyone living in the land.
Q 21According to Jeremiah 25, for how long would Judah and the surrounding nations serve the king of Babylon?
Seventy years
Seventy years was the figure, and the book of Daniel shows Daniel reading this very prophecy in exile and praying for Jerusalem.
Q 22Which foreign king does God call 'my servant' in Jeremiah, even though his army destroys Jerusalem?
Nebuchadnezzar
Nebuchadnezzar gets the title 'my servant' because Jeremiah presents Babylon's ruler as God's instrument, to whom every nation must submit.
Q 23What did Jeremiah wear on his neck as a sign that Judah and its neighbours should submit to Babylon?
A wooden yoke
Q 14Jeremiah's call came in the thirteenth year of which reforming king of Judah, later killed at Megiddo?
Josiah
Josiah was on the throne when Jeremiah began, and the prophet kept speaking for some forty years, until after Jerusalem fell.
Q 15Jeremiah came from a family of priests in which village in Benjamin, whose men later plotted to kill him?
Anathoth
Anathoth's men warned Jeremiah to stop prophesying in God's name or die at their hands, and God promised to punish them for it.
Q 16What did Jeremiah wear, then hide in a rock crevice by a river until it was ruined, in chapter 13?
A linen belt
A linen belt, bought new and never washed, came back rotten and useless, a picture of how the pride of Judah and Jerusalem would be ruined.
Q 17As a sign of the disaster coming on Judah, what did God forbid Jeremiah to do in chapter 16?
Take a wife
Take a wife was the forbidden step: Jeremiah was to have no sons or daughters, because children born in that place would die unburied.
Q 18What did the priest Pashhur do to Jeremiah at the temple gate after hearing him prophesy disaster?
Put him in the stocks
Put him in the stocks after striking him, and on his release the next day Jeremiah told Pashhur he would become a terror to himself and his friends.
Q 19Jeremiah 20:9 says God's word became like a fire shut up where, when he tried to stop speaking it?
In his bones
In his bones, Jeremiah says, and he grew so weary of holding the message in that he could not keep quiet.
Q 20In Jeremiah 24, two baskets of which fruit, one fine and one rotten, stand for two groups of Judeans?
Figs
Figs set before the temple made the point: the good ones were the exiles already carried off, the inedible ones the king and those who remained.
A wooden yoke made the point, and when a rival prophet snapped it, God replied that the nations would now wear one of iron.
Q 24Which rival of Jeremiah promised Babylon's grip would break within two years, then died that same year?
Hananiah
Hananiah made the promise in the temple before priests and people; Jeremiah told him he would die for preaching rebellion, and two months later he was dead.
Q 25Jeremiah's letter told the deported Judeans to build houses, raise families and plant what in Babylon?
Gardens
Gardens, whose produce they were to eat, were part of settling in: the same letter told them to pray for the city, since its peace would be theirs.
Q 26What name does Jeremiah 30:7 give a day of distress so great that none is like it?
Jacob's trouble
Jacob's trouble is followed at once by a promise that he will be saved out of it, and that strangers will no longer be his masters.
Q 27In Jeremiah 31:3, God tells Israel that he has loved the nation with a love of what kind?
Everlasting
Everlasting love is the reason God gives for drawing Israel back with kindness, in a chapter that promises the scattered nation will be rebuilt.
Q 28Which matriarch does Jeremiah 31 picture mourning in Ramah for her lost children, a verse Matthew quotes?
Rachel
Rachel refuses to be comforted, and Matthew's Gospel applies the verse to the killing of Bethlehem's infants under Herod.
Q 29Jeremiah 31 retires a proverb in which parents eat what, and their children's teeth are set on edge?
Sour grapes
Sour grapes would no longer be an excuse: Jeremiah says each person will die for their own wrongdoing, not for what their parents did.
Q 30Which promise in Jeremiah 31, quoted in Hebrews, replaces what Israel broke after the Exodus?
A new covenant
A new covenant would be written within people rather than imposed from outside, with God promising to forgive their wrongs and forget their sins.