Q 01/05

Zephaniah 2:9 swears that a nation which taunted Judah will become like which city, a place of weeds and salt pits?

A) Jericho

B) Sodom

C) Shiloh

D) Samaria

Answer · why

B) Sodom

Sodom was the city Lot escaped, and in Genesis the two nations cursed in this oath descend from Lot's own daughters.

Q 02/05

Zephaniah 2:13 foretells that which great city will become a desolation, as dry as a desert?

A) Damascus

B) Tyre

C) Memphis

D) Nineveh

Answer · why

D) Nineveh

Nineveh was the largest city in the world until it was sacked in 612 BC; the book has it boasting that there was none besides it.

Q 03/05

Zephaniah 3:17, which calls God mighty to save, pictures him rejoicing over his people with gladness and with what?

A) Singing

B) Dancing

C) Trumpets

D) Feasting

Answer · why

A) Singing

Singing closes a verse that also promises God will quiet his people with his love.

Q 04/05

Which empire besieged and destroyed Jerusalem a few decades after Zephaniah warned the city of coming judgment?

A) Persia

B) Egypt

C) Babylon

D) Assyria

Answer · why

C) Babylon

Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar II took Jerusalem after a long siege, then razed the city and Solomon's Temple.

Q 05/05

Zephaniah 1:1 dates the prophet's message to the reign of which reforming king of Judah, the son of Amon?

A) Rehoboam

B) Josiah

C) Jehoiakim

D) Zedekiah

Answer · why

B) Josiah

Josiah became king at age eight and later reformed Judah's worship after a book of the law was discovered in the Temple.