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, 'no glory' or 'where is the glory?', echoes her words 'The Glory has departed from Israel', and the name lived on: Washington Irving gave it ...

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 hymn 'Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing...

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, mice in older translations, rode in a chest beside the ark on a new cart pulled by two cows that had never been yoked and lowed all the way to B...

Q 05/05

What did the medium at Endor see 'coming up' when Saul asked her for 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...