Q 01/05

What did Elisha tell a prophet's widow, whose creditor was coming for her two sons, to borrow from her neighbours?

A) Oil lamps

B) Empty jars

C) Silver coins

D) Grain sacks

Answer · why

B) Empty jars

Empty jars, and not just a few, all filled from her one small jar of olive oil, which stopped flowing when no jar was left; Elisha told her to sell th...

Q 02/05

What did the Shunammite woman's dead son do seven times as Elisha lay stretched out over him in the rooftop room?

A) Coughed

B) Laughed

C) Wept

D) Sneezed

Answer · why

D) Sneezed

Sneezed seven times, then opened his eyes: the boy had cried 'My head! My head!' in the fields and died on his mother's lap, and she rode to Mount Car...

Q 03/05

What did Elisha throw into the Jordan so that a borrowed iron axe head would float up from where it sank?

A) A stone

B) A stick

C) His cloak

D) His staff

Answer · why

B) A stick

A stick, cut and thrown where the axe head sank, 'made the iron float'; the prophets were by the Jordan cutting poles because their old place had grow...

Q 04/05

How did a watchman on the tower of Jezreel recognise Jehu's approaching chariot while it was still far off?

A) By his reckless driving

B) By its white horses

C) By his scarlet royal banner

D) By his trumpet calls

Answer · why

A) By his reckless driving

By his reckless driving: 'he drives like a maniac' in the NIV and 'he driveth furiously' in the King James, a verse that made 'jehu' an English word f...

Q 05/05

What did Queen Athaliah cry out on finding the seven-year-old Joash crowned in the temple as the trumpets sounded?

A) Long live the king

B) Seize the boy

C) Treason, treason

D) Kill the priest

Answer · why

C) Treason, treason

Treason, treason was the cry of the usurper who had murdered the royal family six years earlier; Jehoiada the priest had her dragged out and killed wh...