Q 01/05

According to Isaiah 2:4, nations that stop learning war will beat their swords into which farming tools?

A) Sickles

B) Millstones

C) Plowshares

D) Ox yokes

Answer · why

C) Plowshares

Plowshares gave the verse a long afterlife: a bronze statue in the United Nations garden, a gift from the Soviet Union, shows a man hammering a sword ...

Q 02/05

Often misquoted as the lion, which predator does Isaiah 11:6 actually picture living with the lamb?

A) The wolf

B) The bear

C) The jackal

D) The leopard

Answer · why

A) The wolf

The wolf dwells with the lamb, while the lion turns up later in the verse beside a calf, with a little child leading them all.

Q 03/05

Which name does Isaiah 7:14 give the child promised as a sign to King Ahaz, a verse Matthew later quotes?

A) Ichabod

B) Immanuel

C) Jedidiah

D) Shiloh

Answer · why

B) Immanuel

Immanuel means God with us, and Matthew 1:23 quotes the verse when it tells of the birth of Jesus.

Q 04/05

Which Persian king does Isaiah 45:1 call the Lord's anointed, a title usually kept for Israel's own kings?

A) Darius

B) Xerxes

C) Artaxerxes

D) Cyrus

Answer · why

D) Cyrus

Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539 BC and let the Jewish exiles go home, and Isaiah 44:28 also calls him God's shepherd who will see the temple rebuilt.

Q 05/05

According to Isaiah 40:31, those who wait on the Lord will rise up on wings like which birds?

A) Doves

B) Eagles

C) Ravens

D) Storks

Answer · why

B) Eagles

Eagles are the image, and the verse adds that such people will run without growing weary and walk without fainting.