Q 01/05

What name did Eli's dying daughter-in-law give her newborn son on hearing the ark had been captured?

A) Abinadab

B) Ahitub

C) Ichabod

D) Eleazar

Answer · why

C) Ichabod

Ichabod means 'the Glory has departed', and the name lived on: Washington Irving gave it to Ichabod Crane, the schoolmaster of 'The Legend of Sleepy H...

Q 02/05

Which Philistine god's statue was found face down before the ark at Ashdod, its head and hands snapped off?

A) Baal

B) Dagon

C) Molek

D) Chemosh

Answer · why

B) Dagon

Dagon was long pictured as a fish-god, from the Hebrew dag, but the name more likely meant grain, and it was in Dagon's temple at Gaza that Samson pul...

Q 03/05

What did Samuel name the stone he set up after the LORD's thunder routed the Philistines near Mizpah?

A) Peniel

B) Galeed

C) Beth Aven

D) Ebenezer

Answer · why

D) Ebenezer

Ebenezer means 'stone of help', and Samuel's words 'Thus far the LORD has helped us' are why Robert Robinson's 1758 hymn 'Come Thou Fount of Every Ble...

Q 04/05

What gold animals, five of them like the five tumors, did the Philistines send back with the ark?

A) Rats

B) Frogs

C) Locusts

D) Flies

Answer · why

A) Rats

Rats, one for each of the five Philistine rulers, travelled in a chest beside the ark on a new cart pulled by two cows that had never been yoked and l...

Q 05/05

What did the medium at Endor see 'coming up' when a disguised Saul asked her to raise the dead Samuel?

A) A warrior in armor

B) An old man in a robe

C) A boy in a linen ephod

D) A priest with a censer

Answer · why

B) An old man in a robe

An old man in a robe was enough for Saul to know it was Samuel, who asked 'Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?' and told him 'tomorrow you an...