Hard questions from the Bible

        Challenging questions from the Bible:

Let's begin:

1. Question: When Saul conquered the Amalekites, what person did he keep as a prisoner instead of killing like God said to?

Answer: The king, Agag.

2. Question: Which books of the Bible record all the kings?

Answer: 1st and 2nd Kings, 1st and 2nd Chronicles

3. Question: Which books of the Bible did Solomon write?

Answer: Song of Solomon and Proverbs and some Psalms

4. Question: How many kings of Judah were there?

Answer: 20

5. Question: How many kings of Israel were there?

Answer: 19.

6. Question: Who conquered Judah and took Daniel to their country?

Answer: The Babylonians.

7. Question: Who was the last king Daniel served under in the Bible?

Answer: King Nebuchadnezzar’s.

8. Question: What happened to the kingdom after Solomon’s rule?

Answer: Darius

9. Question: What were Daniel’s three friends (Babylonian names)?

Answer: Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego.

10. Question: When they refused to bow to an idol, where were they thrown?

Answer: Into a fiery furnace.

11. Question: Who returned to Israel to build up the walls of Jerusalem?

Answer: Nehemiah

12. Question: What Israelite saved her people from being murdered and was a wife of the king?

Answer: Esther

13. Question: How did Esther get to talk to the king?

Answer: Went in to talk without being summoned first.

14. Question: Who let the Israelites return to their homeland?

Answer: Cyrus.

15. Question: True or False: John the Baptist wore clothes made of goat hair.

Answer: False. It was camel hair.

16. Question: True or False: At first, Jesus’ family tried to stop his ministry and said he was crazy.

Answer: True.

17. Question: True or False: Jesus said his true family was anyone who obeys God.

Answer: True.

18. Question: Which member of the Jewish ruling council came to ask Jesus questions at night?

Answer: Nicodemus

19. Question: What was Matthew before he followed Jesus?

Answer: A tax collector.

20. Question: True or False: Jesus would sometimes “spit” as part of his healing miracles.

Answer: True. The Bible describes him spitting three times.

21.Question: How many days was Lazarus dead before Jesus came to visit?

Answer: Four days.

22. Question: Who helped pay the bills for Jesus and the disciples ministry?

Answer: Several women who Jesus had healed.

23. Question: Name the demon Jesus cast out in the region of the Gerasenes?

Answer: Legion.

24. Question: True or False: While on Earth, Jesus had the power to raise dead people back to life?

Answer: True.

25. Question: What was Peter and Andrew doing when Jesus called them to follow him?

Answer: Fishing.

26. Question: Name the two Old Testament people who appeared when Jesus was transfigured?

Answer: Elijah and Moses

27. Question: What problem did Bartimaeus have that Jesus fixed?

Answer: He was blind.

28. Question: True or False: When Jesus went to the Temple, he always used his inside voice.

Answer: False. Jesus yelled at money chargers to drive them out.

29. Question: True or False: Jesus said only big money offerings were important to God.

Answer: False.

30. Question: What garden did Jesus go to when he prayed after the Last Supper?

Answer: Garden of Gethsemane.

31. Question: True or False: The Jewish leaders tried to set Jesus free.

Answer: False. They wanted him to be crucified.

32. Question: Who gave Jesus a crown made of thorns?

Answer: A Roman soldier.

33. Question: Name the Roman Governor who sat over Jesus trial?

Answer: Pilate.

34. Question: What did Pilate do to “cleanse himself” of the crucifixion?

Answer: Washed his hands.

35. Question: Who cut off a soldier’s ear when Jesus was being arrested?

Answer: Peter.

36. Question: How many people saw Jesus after he came back from the dead?

Answer: More than 500.

37. Question: What was another name for the Apostle Paul?

Answer: Saul of Tarsus

38. Question: Who preached at Pentecost?

Answer: Peter.

39. Question: Who was Saul?

Answer: He persecuted Christians.

40. Question: What happened when he was on the road to Damascus?

Answer: He had a changing experience with Jesus.

41. Question: What was his name changed to?

Answer: Paul.

42. Question: Who was exiled to an island?

Answer: John.

43. Question: True or False: Ananias and Sapphira died after lying to the Apostles about their offering.

Answer: True

44. Question: How many deacons were chosen to help the apostles to distribute food to widows?

Answer: Seven.

45. Question: Which Apostle took the Gospel to the city of Samaria?

Answer: Philip.

46. Question: Which Apostle shared the Gospel with an Ethiopian official on the road to Gaza?

Answer: Philip.

47. Question: True or False: Peter raised a woman named Dorcas from the dead.

Answer: True.

48. Question: Where did Peter stay during his ministry in the city of Joppa?

Answer: In the house of Simon the tanner.

49. Question: What did Peter’s vision about the unclean animals mean?

Answer: That all people can be made clean through Jesus.

50. Question: : In what city were Jesus’ followers first called “Christians”?

Answer: Antioch.

51. Question: True or False: Peter was rescued from prison by an angel.

Answer: True.

52. Question: Who went with Paul on his early mission trips?

Answer: Barnabas

53. Question: True or False: Paul had a vision of a man calling him to come over to Carthage.

Answer: False. The man was from Macedonia.

54. Question: True or False: God sent an earthquake to rescue Paul and Silas from prison in Philippi.

Answer: True. They didn’t escape but stayed in jail to share the good news

55. Question: What did the Philippian jailer say to Paul after he heard the Gospel?

Answer: “What must I do to be saved?”

56. Question: How did Paul and Silas respond?

Answer: “ Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.”

57. Question: What was Paul’s goal in his missionary journey?

Answer: To take the gospel everywhere and finally to preach in the capitol Rome

58. Question: Where can you find the 10 commandments in the Bible?

Answer: Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5.

59. Question: What is the introduction to the Commandments?

Answer: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt.

60. Question: Where is the Fruit of the Spirit found in the Bible?

Answer: Galatians 5

More contents below:


1. Question: True or False: David wrote the entire book of Psalms.

Answer: False: The Psalms are a collection by many writers, but David contributed the most.

2. Question: What is the shortest book in the Bible?

Answer: 3 John.

3. Question: How many books are in the Bible?

Answer: 66.

4. Question: How many books in the Old Testament?

Answer: 39.

5. Question: How many books in the New Testament?

Answer: 27.

6. Question: Which New Testament book has Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount?

Answer: Matthew

7. Question: Who was David’s son that became king?

Answer: Solomon.

8. Question: In what language was most of the Old Testament given?

Answer: Hebrew.

9. Question: In what language was most of the New Testament given?

Answer: Greek.

10. Question: Which human author wrote the most books?

Answer: Paul wrote 13 books.

11. Question: Which human author wrote the most words in the Bible?

Answer: Moses wrote 125,139 words.

12. Question: What was most likely the first Gospel written?

Answer: Mark.

13. Question: What was most likely the last Gospel written?

 Answer: John.

14. Question: What was most likely the first of Paul’s letters written?

Answer: 1 Thessalonians.

15. Question: What was most likely the last New Testament book written?

Answer: Revelation.

16. Question: Who were Noah’s three sons?

Answer: Shem, Ham, Japheth.

17. Question: How many people were saved on the ark?

Answer: 8

18. Question: How did God make people spread out across the earth?

Answer: Confused their languages.

19. Question: Who did God call out of Ur to move to Canaan?

Answer: Abram.

20. Question: Who was Abram’s wife?

Answer: Sarai.

21. Question: Even though Abram and Sarah were too old, what did God promise them?

Answer: A son.

22. Question: When God showed Abram the stars in the sky, what did he promise?

Answer: That Abram would have more descendants than the number of stars.

 23. Question: Who was Abram’s handmaid?

Answer: Hagar.

24. Question: What was Sarai’s idea for Abram to have a child?

Answer: For Abram to have a child with Hagar.

25. Question: Who was the first son Abram had?

Answer: Ishmael.

26. Question: What was Abram’s name changed to?

Answer: Abraham.

27. Question: What was Sarai’s name changed to?

Answer: Sarah.

28. Question: What was the second son Abraham had?

Answer: Issac.

29. Question: Who did Abraham have his second son with?

Answer: Sarah.

30. Question: Where did Hagar and her son go after they left Abraham’s?

Answer: Into the desert.

31. Question: Who did Abraham send to find Isaac a wife?

Answer: His oldest servant.

32. Question: Who did the servant choose?

Answer: Rebekah.

33. Question: What were Isaac’s sons’ names?

Answer: Jacob and Esau

34. Question: Who was born first?

Answer: Esau came first, with Jacob grabbing his heel.

35. Question: How did Esau provide food for the family?

Answer: He hunted

36. Question: Who did Isaac favor of his two sons?

Answer: Esau

37. Question: What did Jacob do most of the time?

Answer: Stay at home with his mother.

38. Question: What did Esau receive in exchange for his birthright?

Answer: Stew

39. Question: As Isaac was dying and blind, who suggested that Jacob should steal Esau’s birthright?

Answer: Rebekah.

40. Question: How did Esau respond when his birthright was taken?

Answer: Threatened to kill Jacob.

41. Question: When Jacob met Laban, which daughter did he want to marry?

Answer: Rachel.

42. Question: Who did Laban trick Jacob into marrying?

Answer: Leah.

43. Question: What did Laban make Jacob do to finally marry Rachel?

Answer: Work another 7 years.

44. Question: Who was the first son Jacob had with Rachel?

Answer: Joseph.

45. Question: What did God change Jacob’s name to before his meeting with Esau?

Answer: Israel.

46. Question: What did Moses do after he killed an Egyptian?

Answer: Fled into the desert.

47. Question: When Moses confronted the Pharaoh, what did his staff turn into when he threw it on the ground?

Answer: A snake

48. Question: How did Moses’ mother save him from the Egyptian soldiers?

Answer: Put him in a basket in the river.

49. Question: What did God send to feed the Israelites in the desert?

Answer: Quail and manna.

50. Question: What did the spies sent into Canaan see that made them scared?

Answer: Giants in the land.


More:

1. "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night”. Which is the greater light that rules the day?

Answer: Sun.

 

2. According to the Genesis creation narrative, what was created by God to separate the “waters above” the earth from the “waters below” the earth?

Answer: Sky.

 

3. Who is the son of Anah?

Answer: Dishon.

 

4. Who found water in the wilderness when pastured the donkeys?

Answer: Anah.

 

5. Which is the city of Bela Edom?

Answer: Dinhabah.

 

6. On the fourth day of creation, which was the lesser light created by the God to rule the night?

Answer: Moon.

 

7. Who was reigned the country of Dinhabah after Bela?

Answer: Jobab.

 

8. In Genesis 1:27, God created what in his own image?

Answer: Man.

 

9. To whom sold Joseph by Midianites?

Answer: To Potiphar (He is the guard of Pharaoh).

 

10. According to Genesis, God has made _ for food for all.

Answer: Herbs.

 

11. The wife of Judah?

Answer: Daughter of Shua, a Canaanite.

 

12. On which day God ended his work and he rested from all his work which he had made.

Answer: 7th day.

 

13. Who was the Bible character birth with the scarlet thread on his hand?

Answer: Zerah.

 

14. Name the first partition of the river which went out of Eden to water the garden

Answer: Pishon.

 

15. Who was the mother of Zerah?

Answer: Tamar.

 

16. Which region was surrounded by the river Pishon?

Answer: The land of Havilah

 

17. Who was the Twins brother of Zerah?

Answer: Perez.

 

18. Name the second river from Eden which passes through Cush land.

Answer: Gihon.

 

19. Who was interpreted the dream, dreamed by Pharaoh in Egypt?

Answer: Joseph.

 

20. Which land mass is encompasses by Euphrates and Tigris rivers?

Answer: East of Assyria.

 

21. What was the name Pharaoh called to Joseph?

Answer: Zaphnath-paaneah.

 

22. The Bible says “she shall be called Woman” and why?

Answer: Because she was taken out of Man.

 

23. What was the name given by Joseph to his second son saying “God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction?

Answer: Ephraim.

 

24. As in the Bible, How did God make the woman?

Answer: God took one rib from the man and created a woman with it.

 

25. The land act still today existing in Egypt which was made by Joseph?

Answer: Pharaoh should have one-fifth of crop except for the land of the priests.
 

26. Which creature was subtle than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made?

Answer: Serpent.

 

27. Which are the supply cities built by Egyptians to Pharaoh?

Answer: Pithom, Rameses.

 

28. According to the Bible, for what reason the fate of man is to become dust at the end.

Answer: Because of the curse given by God to Adam.

 

29. Who is the child of Israel received from the Nile River?

Answer: Moses.

 

30. How got the name, Moses?

Answer: As drew him out of the water.

 

31. When man ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge, what did he gain?

Answer: Ability to know good and evils.

 

32. What was the guilt done by Adam and Eve which made them to abandon Eden Garden

Answer: The command of God denied and ate prohibited fruit.

 

33) Who is the wife of Moses?

Answer: Zipporah.

 

34. What is the name of the first child of Adam and Eve?

Answer: Cain.

 

35. Who is the son of Moses?

Answer: Gershom.

 

36. What is the name of Adam and Eve’s second child?

Answer: Abel.

 

37. Why named Moses son Gershom?

Answer: He has been a stranger in a foreign land in a short period.

 

38. According to the Bible, the occupation of Abel was _

Answer: Sheep keeper.

 

39. Who was the priest of Midian?

Answer: Jethro.

 

40. According to the Bible, what was Cain’s occupation?

Answer: Agriculture.

 

41. Where did God appear to Moses?

Answer: Mount Sinai.

 

42. Abel was killed by _

Answer: Cain.

 

43. Who was the father-in-law of Moses?

Answer: Jethro.

 

44. After Abel’s murder, Cain went to _

Answer: Land of Nod.

 

45. Who is the Bible character who is prophet and sister of Aaron?

Answer: Miriam.

 

46. What was the name of Cain’s son?

Answer: Enoch.

 

47. How got the name as Marah?

Answer: Waters of Marah were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.

 

48. A city was built for Enoch by Cain. What was its name?

Answer: Enoch.

 

49. What does ‘Marah’ mean?

Answer: Bitter.

 

50. Enoch had a son. What was his name?

Answer: Irad.
 

51. Where is Sin desert situated?

Answer: Between Elim and Sinai.

 

52. What was the name of Mehujael’s father?

Answer: Irad.

 

53. What food God has given like small white coriander seed and taste of it was like wafers made with honey?

Answer: Manna.

 

54. What was the name of Methuselah’s father?

Answer: Mehujael.

 

55. Another name of Massah City?

Answer: Meribah.

 

56. Lamech’s wives were _ and _

Answer: Adah and Zillah.

 

57. Which is the birthplace of Moses?

Answer: Israel.

 

58. Jubal’s mother was _

Answer: Adah.

 

59. When did Moses reach of Sinai desert?

Answer: In the third New moon day.

 

60. Jabal had a sibling. What was his name?

Answer: Jubal.

 

61. God called; to make Ephod with which materials?

Answer: Gold and blue purple and scarlet thread and weaved fine linen.

 

62. Name “the father of those who dwells in tents and have livestock” or ‘forefather of shepherds ‘, according to Bible

Answer: Jabal.

 

63. What does Sabbath intent?

Answer: Symbol of God’s resting of the seventh day after involving in six days work of creation.

 

64. According to the Bible, who was the forefather of all musicians or “father of harp and flute players?

Answer: Jabal.

 

65. What all things did the Lord order to put in the breastplate of judgment?

Answer: Urim and Thummim.

 

66. Name Cain’s wife whose son was Jubal

Answer: Zillah.

 

67. What should be the colour of Ephod’s robe?

Answer: Blue.

 

68. Name Cain’s daughter and Jubal’s sister

Answer: Naamah.

 

69. God requested, what engrave shall be on Aaron’s forehead?

Answer: Pure engravement to God.

 

70. Name the third son of Cain?

Answer: Seth.

 

71. Why did God order engravement shall always be on Aaron’s forehead?

Answer: For accepting the offerings of Israel people by God.

 

72. Seth had a son. Who was he?

Answer: Enosh.

 

73. To whom God deputed to consecrate Aaron and his sons?

Answer: Moses.

 

74. At what age Adam died?

Answer: 930 years.

 

75. To whom God deputed to design artistic work?

Answer: Bezalel.



76) At what age Seth took his last breath?

Answer: 912 years.

 

77. Who is Bezalel?

Answer: The son of Uri.

 

78. At the age of 90, Enosh had a son. What was his name?

Answer: Cainan.

 

79. To whom appointed God as a helper of Bezalel who is the design artist?

Answer: Oholiab.

 

80. _ was the life span of Cainan.

Answer: 910 years.

 

81. Oholiab belongs to which tribe?

Answer: Dan.

 

82. Jared became a father after 162 years. What was his name?

Answer: Enoch.

 

83. What punishment did God order to those who work on Sabbath day?

Answer: Put to death.

 

84. Noah’s father’s name is _

Answer: Lamech.

 

85. As Lord’s call who wrote ten commandments in tablets of stone?

Answer: Moses.

 

86.Name the three sons of Noah

Answer: Shen, Han, and Japheth.

 

87. Who were the sons of Aaron?

Answer: Nadabe, Abihu Kohen, Eleazar, Ithamar.

 

88. In Genesis, some men were portrayed as mighty men or fallen men or Giants. Which was the term used to denote them?

Answer: Nephilim.

 

89. To whom did God give the duty to take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel’s?

Answer: Moses.

 

90. Who found favor with God for he alone was righteous among the people of his day according to the Bible?

Answer: Noah.

 

91. Where did Moses number the congregation of the children of Israel?

Answer: Sinai desert.

 

92. Which tree’s trunk was used to make Noah’s Ark?

Answer: Gopher.

 

93. How many are in the Reuben tribe?

Answer: Forty-six thousand and five hundred.

 

94. What was the duration of rain and flood after Noah entered into the Ark?

Answer: Forty days and nights.

 

95. The total number of Judah tribe:

Answer: Seventy-four thousand and six hundred.


96. Name the person who planted wine yard for the first time on earth?

Answer: Noah.

 

97. A biblical figure who was a mighty hunter before the Lord is _

Answer: Nimrod.

 

98. Japheth had 7 sons. Name them.

Answer: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek, Tiras.

 

99. How many members are in the tribe of Simeon?

Answer: Fifty-nine thousand and three hundred.

 
 

100. How many members are in the tribe of Gad?

Answer: Forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.

 



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