Genesis
What is the Pentateuch (or Torah)?
The first five books of the Old Testament authored by Moses.
What is the order of creation?*
First Day - darkness and light
Second Day - dividing of the waters on earth and above (Heaven)
Third Day - dividing of the dry land from the seas and the creation of plant life
Fourth Day - creation of the sun, moon and stars
Fifth Day - creation of sea life and birds
Sixth Day - creation of animals and man
Seventh Day - a day of rest
Who were the first man and women placed in the Garden of Eden?
Adam and Eve.
What create was used by Satan to entice Eve into eating the forbidden fruit?
Serpent.
Along with the expulsion from the Garden and the curse of original sin came the promise of what?
A future Redeemer who would restore man’s right to heaven.
Which son of Adam and Eve killed his brother Abel?
Cain.
When the world became sinful, whom did God choose to build an ark to preserve land-dwelling creatures before he flooded the earth?
Noah.
After the flood, at what place did God divide the languages of prideful man?
Tower of Babel.
What man did God call to leave Ur of the Chaldees and make a new home in Canaan?
Abraham.
What priest of God blessed Abraham with bread and wine after the battle with four kings?
Melchisedech.
What was the sign of the covenant wherein God promised to make Abraham a ‘father of many nations.?
Circumcision.
What sin was a primary cause of the destruction of Sodom by fire after Lot’s family left?
Homosexuality.
How did God test Abraham’s faith in Him?
God told Abraham to sacrifice is son Isaac.
Which son of Isaac obtained his father’s blessing by trickery and was later blessed with twelve sons?
Jacob.
Which son of Jacob, noted for his dreams, was sold by his brothers as a slave?
Joseph.
Joseph’s divinely inspired interpretation of Pharaoh’s dreams saved Egypt and Israel from what tragedy?
Three years of famine.
Exodus
Whom did God speak to from a burning bush and make the deliverer of the enslaved Israelites in Egypt?
Moses.
What did God used to force Pharaoh to free the Israelites?
Ten plagues.
What even commemorates the sparing of Israel’s first born through the sacrifice of a lamb?
Pasch or Passover.
What did God give to Moses on Mount Sinai?
The Ten Commandments and other laws.
Leviticus
In additional to many laws, what did God promise the Israelites by covenant if they would obey Him?
Blessings and protection.
Numbers
How was Moses punished for his ‘unbelief’ in ability of the Israelites to fulfill God’s plan?
He was not allowed to lead Israel into the promised land.
What two spies trusted that God would give them victory in Canaan while the others doubted?
Joshua and Caleb.
Deuteronomy
What did the dying Moses tell the Israelites to do with their whole heart, soul and strength?
Love God.
Josue (Joshua)
What river miraculously stopped flowing so that the Israelites would invade Canaan?
Jordan.
The walls of what city miraculously collapsed at the sound of trumpets after the Israelites marched around if for seven days?
Jericho.
What does God command Joshua to do after the conquest of the land?
Divide it among the twelve tribes of Israel.
Judges
In those days there was no king in Israel, but every one did that...
which seemed right to himself (17:6).
God raised up judges to deliver Israel from oppression after the Israelites did what?
Repented of idolatry.
What judge saw his army reduced to 300 by God in order to show His power?
Gideon.
What judge make a rash vow that resulted in his daughter’s consecration as a virgin to God?
Jepthe (Jepthah).
What ungodly judge temporarily lost his great strength through the cutting of his hair?
Samson.
Ruth
What makes Ruth, who returned with her mother-in-law to Bethlehem, a unique ancestor of Jesus?
She was a gentile.
Who saw Ruth gleaning in the fields and eventually married her?
Booz (Boaz).
1 Kings (1 Samuel)
What was the name of child that Anna (Hannah) obtained by making a vow to God?
Samuel.
Who awakened the child Samuel by calling him repeated in the night to reveal a prophecy?
God.
Who did Samuel anoint as Israel’s first king to satisfy the demands of the people?
Saul.
Because of Saul’s disobedience, what shepherd boy did the Lord have Samuel anoint king?
David.
Who was the Philistine giant that David killed with a sling and stone?
Goliath.
After repeatedly trying to kill David, what happens to Saul and his son Jonathan?
Saul and Jonathan are killed in battle by the Philistines.
2 Kings (2 Samuel)
Commander of King David’s army who is loyal but viciously self-serving at the same time.
Joab.
The woman who David seduced, arranged for her husband’s death, and who bore him Solomon.
Bathsheba (Bathsabee).
David’s son who rebelled against him and was slain (against David’s orders) by Joab.
Absalom.
3 Kings (1 Kings)
When God gave David’s son a choice of blessings as the new king, what did he choose?
Wisdom.
Solomon’s marriage to many pagan women and his tolerance of their religions led to what?
Solomon falling into idolatry (indfferentism).
How did God punish Solomon for his idolatry?
Rebellions against him and the promise to divide the Israel after his death.
What foolish son of Solomon promised harsh treatment of the people, leaving him king of Judah and Benjamin only?
Rehoboam (Roboam).
What did Israeli king Jeroboam do to incite God’s anger and punishment?
Jeroboam established a false religion of golden calf worship in Dan and Bethel.
What prophet caused a three year drought to punish Israel and was fed by ravens in the wilderness?
Elijah (Elias).
How did Elijah destroy the false priests of Baal?
Elijah called down fire from heaven.
What wicked Israeli queen persecuted Elijah and was ultimately thrown to the ground and eaten by dogs?
Jezabel.
4 Kings (2 Kings)
Who received Elijah’s mantle and a double portion of his miracle-working spirit after he ascended to heaven in a chariot of fire?
Elisha (Elisius).
What disease did Elisha cure Namaan the Syrian of through the power of God?
Leprosy.
What king did God use to destroy the wicked kings of Israel, Judah and the followers of Baal?
Jehu.
What happened to Israel during the reign of wicked king Osee (Hoshea)?
Israel is carried into captivity by Assyria.
What prophet told king Ezechias of Judah that God would deliver them from the Assyrians?
Isaiah (Isaias).
What king of Judah repaired the Temple, finding the lost book of the Law?
Josiah (Josias).
What nation eventually carried Judah into 70 years of captivity?
Babylon.
1 Paralipomenon (1 Chronicles)
What does this book (and 2 Chronicles) contain?
Additional historical material ‘left out’ of Kings 1-4.
What was King David’s role in the building of the Temple?
He gathered the materials to build it and urged the people to give generously.
2 Paralipomenon (2 Chronicles)
When Solomon dedicated the Temple, how did God show is power?
God sent fire from heaven to consume the sacrifices and His Presence filled the Temple.
What famous queen came to see Solomon’s kingdom?
Queen of Sheba.
This book is primarily a supplemental history of what nation?
Judah.
What king of Judah turned Israel to idolatry, was carried into exile and then restored the worship of God upon his return?
Manasseh (Manasses).
1 Esdras (Ezra)
What king of Persian allowed the Israelites to return to Jerusalem to build the Temple?
Cyrus.
What group opposed the rebuilding of the Temple and temporarily halted its construction?
Samaritans (descendants of peoples imported into ‘Israel’ by the Assyrians).
What was the religion of the Samaritans?
A mixture of the Jewish religion with pagan beliefs.
What scribe returned to Jerusalem to teach and purify the Israelites from their marriages to pagan women?
Ezra.
2 Esdras(Nehemiah)
What did Nehemiah return to Jerusalem to do?
To rebuild the walls around the city for protection.
Tobit (Tobias)
Who became the guide for the young Tobias who journeyed to collect a debt for his father?
The angel Raphael.
How does the medicine that Raphael help young Tobias make help the elder Tobias?
His sight is restored.
Judith
What does Judith do for the Kingdom of Judah?
She delivers Judah, with God’s help, from the Assyrians.
How did she defeat the Assyrians?
Judith got the general Holofernes drunk and cut off his head.
Esther
Because of her beauty, Esther is raised to what position?
Queen of Persia.
Why does Esther endanger her life by coming before the king without being summoned?
To ask him to spare her people, the Jews, who the wicked Haman wanted to exterminate.
What Jew refused to betray his faith and urged his cousin Esther to plead for her people?
Mordecai (Mardochai).
Job
Why does God allow Satan to afflict the righteous Job?
To test Job’s faith in God.
What do Job’s friends think is the cause of his many misfortunes?
Sins that Job has committed.
Job’s former blessings are restored in greater measure after he acknowledges what?
That God is wiser than he can comprehend (“things that above measure exceeded by knowledge”).