Q 01/05

Which animal, beaten three times by Balaam on the road to Moab, opened its mouth and spoke to him?

A) A donkey

B) A stallion

C) A camel

D) A mule

Answer · why

A) A donkey

A donkey saw the angel with the drawn sword that Balaam could not, and only after the third beating did it ask, 'What have I done to you?' Balaam then...

Q 02/05

What did Moses raise on a pole so the bitten could look and live, an object Hezekiah later smashed?

A) A golden bull calf

B) A bronze serpent

C) A carved cherub

D) A cedar staff

Answer · why

B) A bronze serpent

A bronze serpent on a pole healed anyone who looked at it, and Israel kept it for centuries until Hezekiah broke it up because people were burning inc...

Q 03/05

How many years was Israel sentenced to wander, one year for each day the spies had explored Canaan?

A) Seven

B) Ten

C) Twenty

D) Forty

Answer · why

D) Forty

Forty years meant everyone counted in the census aged twenty or over would die in the desert, and only the two spies who had dissented were spared to ...

Q 04/05

What did Moses' spies carry on a pole between two men from the Valley of Eshkol in Canaan?

A) A basket of olives

B) A jar of wild honey

C) A cluster of grapes

D) A sheaf of barley

Answer · why

C) A cluster of grapes

A cluster of grapes so heavy it took two men to carry gave the valley its name, Eshkol, 'cluster', and the scene of the spies hauling fruit home is th...

Q 05/05

What fate befell Dathan and Abiram, with their households, for defying Moses in Korah's revolt?

A) Swallowed by the earth

B) Consumed by fire

C) Struck by plague

D) Driven into the desert

Answer · why

A) Swallowed by the earth

Swallowed by the earth, they 'went down alive into the realm of the dead', yet Korah's own sons survived, and eleven psalms, Psalm 84 among them, are ...