BIBLE QUIZ

• The priest who supported Adonijah when he declared he had the right to succeed David was Abiathar
• The leader of a revolt against King Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, was Jeroboam
• King Shalmaneser conquered the northern kingdom of Israel and deported the people to Assyria
• The inhabitants of Judah were exiled to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar
• The layman appointed by King Artaxerxes of Persia to lead the Jewish exiles in Babylon to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the city and the temple was Ezra
• In the Book of Nehemiah (chapter 8), Ezra read the Law and instructed them how to celebrate the feast of Tabernacles
• The angel who accompanied Tobiah to Ecbatana and rescued him from the demon Asmodeus was Raphael
• The psalm that contains the famous phrase "The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I lack" is Psalm 23
• The composer of the Miserere psalm (Psalm 51) which begins "Have mercy on me, God, in your goodness; in your abundant compassion blot out my offense" was David
• The psalm that sings of the Jews' lament of their exile in Babylon and starts with "By the rivers of Babylon we sat mourning and weeping when we remembered Zion" is Psalm 137
• The Old Testament book that contains the famous passage "There is an appointed time for everything… A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant" is Ecclesiastes
• The oracles on the Ebed YHWH or the Servant of the Lord are found in Isaiah 40-55
• The prophetic book that contains the famous passage "Can a mother forget her infant… Even should she forget, I will never forget you" is Isaiah
• Jeremiah prophesied that God would send back Elijah the Prophet before the Day of the Lord comes, to turn the heart of fathers to their children
• The last book of the Old Testament in the Catholic canon is Malachi
• Joseph is not an ancient ancestor of Jesus, the Messiah
• Matthew does not list Rahab among the ancestresses of Jesus
• After the exile in Egypt, Joseph did not bring Mary and Jesus back to Bethlehem because he was afraid of Herod the Great
• The Gospel of Matthew contains five Great Discourses of Jesus
• The third/last temptation of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew happened on top of a high mountain
• In Matthew 10:16, Jesus commands: "See, I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents"
• The parable that contains the expression "Whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me" is the Parable of the Good Samaritan
• Pilate washing his hands during the Passion is mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew
• The Jewish group that says there is no resurrection, nor angels, nor spirits is the Sadducees
• The town where Jesus was anointed in the house of Simon the leper is Bethany
• The ruler of Galilee during Jesus' public ministry was Herod Antipas
• The genealogy of Jesus traced up to Adam is found in the Gospel of Luke
• The animal that attacked and withered the bush under which Jonah prayed was a worm
• The Messianic prophecy "But you, Bethlehem-Ephrathah, too small to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel" is found in Micah
• The first to follow Jesus in the Gospel of John was Andrew
• The conversation with the Samaritan woman happened at the well in Sychar
• The discourse on the Bread of Life by Jesus happened in Capernaum
• Jesus said to the Jews that their father is the devil
• The famous remark "It is better for you that one man should die instead of the people, so that the whole nation may not perish" was said by Caiaphas
• Because many people were deserting them and were believing in Jesus, the Jewish authorities also wanted to kill Lazarus
• The crowd welcoming Jesus in Jerusalem with palm branches is mentioned in the Gospel of John
• The Gospel that does not have Jesus' "agony in the garden" is the Gospel of John
• In John's Gospel, Pontius Pilate interrogated Jesus, after his arrest, about his disciples and his teachings
• The meaning of the Hebrew word Hosanna is "Save us!"
• Mary of Magdala is not known in the Gospels as standing beneath the cross of Jesus