Q 01/05

In which book of the Bible is the story of Samson told?

A) Judges

B) Kings

C) Genesis

D) Samuel

Answer · why

A) Judges

Judges. The book's judges were crisis leaders rather than courtroom figures, and Samson never leads an army, fighting only his own private feuds.

Q 02/05

What is the Hebrew name Samson usually taken to mean?

A) Gift of God

B) Man of the sun

C) Beloved of God

D) Son of my right hand

Answer · why

B) Man of the sun

Man of the sun. The name is probably built on shemesh, Hebrew for sun, which once led scholars to read Samson as a sun myth, a theory now largely set ...

Q 03/05

What was the name of Samson's father, an Israelite from Zorah?

A) Elkanah

B) Jesse

C) Manoah

D) Boaz

Answer · why

C) Manoah

Manoah. Having missed the angel's first visit to his wife, he prayed for the messenger to return and teach them how to raise the boy.

Q 04/05

From which tribe of Israel was Samson descended?

A) Judah

B) Benjamin

C) Levi

D) Dan

Answer · why

D) Dan

Dan. Part of the tribe later left its allotted land west of Jerusalem for the far north, where it took the city of Laish and renamed it after itself.

Q 05/05

Samson was dedicated from birth under which special vow?

A) Nazirite

B) Levitical

C) Priestly

D) Essene

Answer · why

A) Nazirite

Nazirite. The angel put Samson's mother under its rules too: while she carried him she was to drink no wine and eat nothing unclean.