Q 01/05

Which refrain of David's lament for Saul and Jonathan is now an everyday saying?

A) How the mighty have fallen

B) The Lord gives and takes away

C) Vanity of vanities

D) A time to weep and mourn

Answer · why

A) How the mighty have fallen

How the mighty have fallen opens, punctuates and closes the lament, which David ordered taught to Judah as 'the lament of the bow'. Its line 'Tell it ...

Q 02/05

With which blunt rebuke did Nathan turn his story of a rich man's stolen ewe back on King David?

A) Thou shalt not kill

B) You are the man

C) Go and sin no more

D) Get behind me, Satan

Answer · why

B) You are the man

'You are the man' landed seconds after David had raged against the thief in the story; Nathan then told the king the stolen ewe was Bathsheba and the ...

Q 03/05

What did Hanun of Ammon do to the envoys David sent to console him?

A) Threw them into a dry cistern

B) Cut off their right thumbs

C) Shaved off half their beards

D) Sent them home on donkeys

Answer · why

C) Shaved off half their beards

Hanun shaved off half their beards and cut their robes off at the buttocks, a humiliation David answered by telling the men to wait at Jericho until t...

Q 04/05

What did David do when he learned that the infant born to Bathsheba had died?

A) Tore his robe and fasted

B) Sent for Nathan the prophet

C) Washed, changed and ate

D) Ordered seven days of mourning

Answer · why

C) Washed, changed and ate

He washed, changed and ate after a week of fasting, baffling his servants, and explained: 'Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will n...

Q 05/05

Why was Jonathan's son Mephibosheth lame in both feet after news came of Saul's death?

A) Thrown by a bolting mule

B) His nurse dropped him fleeing

C) Wounded by a Philistine archer

D) Crushed by a chariot wheel

Answer · why

B) His nurse dropped him fleeing

His nurse dropped him fleeing when he was five, the day word came from Jezreel that Saul and Jonathan were dead, so the one grandson of Saul whom Davi...