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, 'not just a few', were filled from her one small jar of olive oil until the last was full, and the oil stopped flowing the moment there wa...

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 and opened his eyes: the boy had collapsed among the reapers crying 'My head! My head!', and his mother rode to Mount Carmel to fe...

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, freshly cut, went into the water and 'made the iron float'; the workman's panic was that the axe was borrowed, and the company of prophets we...

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, 'he driveth furiously' in the King James — and that one verse made 'jehu' a dated Engl...

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...