Bible Content Exam 2
All biblical quotations have been taken from the NRSV.
1. The laws in Leviticus were delivered to:
2. According to Leviticus, the Jubilee Year requires:
3. According to Leviticus, every one who curses his father or mother shall:
4. The sentence, "You shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy." is found in:
5. Jethro was a priest of:
6. "The Lord bless you and keep you: The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you: The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace." may be found in:
7. Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 both contain:
8. "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering . . . " was spoken by:
9. "I will not let you go, unless you bless me." was said by:
10. "The Lord watch between you and me, when we are absent one from the other." Was spoken by:
11. Jacob's youngest son, who was born in the promised land, was named:
12. To what subject are the first seven chapters of Leviticus devoted?
13. Who told Moses to choose "able men" to help ease the burden of his responsibilities?
14. Yahweh denied Moses permission to accompany the Israelites into the promised land because Moses had:
15. Which individual was allowed to enter the promised land?
16. Abraham purchased a field in Machpelah for use as:
17. From which book comes the saying, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself?"
18. The story of the Israelite defeat of Canaan is narrated in:
19. "No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you." was said by God to:
20. In the Book of Esther, Mordecai draws the wrath of whose fury?
21. "Sun, stand thou still at Gibeon." This was said by:
22. Which tribe of Israel received cities within the territories of others?
23. Joshua gathered the tribes of Israel to Shechem to:
24. " . . . choose this day whom you will serve . . . " was said by:
25. "And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals; and they forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers . . . " This comment is typical of:
26. She directed a battle fought by certain tribes against the Canaanites.
27. The Canaanite command defeated by Barak was
28. The duties of a next of kin figure strongly in what book?
29. Eli, Abiathar, and Zadok were all:
30. Why did David refuse to take Saul's life when he had a chance?
31. Hiram was most closely associated with:
32. "When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son." is a quotation from which book?
33. Which prophetic book develops its main themes around the imagery of marriage between God and Israel?
34. Which prophet spoke the words of promise cited in Acts 2, " . . . I will pour out my spirit on all flesh."?
35. Which prophet identified himself as from "among the shepherds"?
36. Who named his children "Not pitied" and "Not my people" at birth as signs of his message from God to Israel?
37. Which prophet justified his behavior by saying: " . . . I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repentest of evil."?
38. Which prophet declared: "Hear this, you who trample upon the needy, and bring the poor of the land to an end, saying, 'When will the new moon be over . . . that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the refuse of the wheat?'"?
39. Which two prophets proclaimed that in the future "the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains . . . and peoples shall flow to it, and many nations shall come...?
40. Which prophet said, "I will take my stand to watch, and station myself on the tower, and look forth to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint."?
41. When some of the people exiled to Babylon had returned to Jerusalem during the Persian period, who urged them to rebuild the temple?
42. Which prophetic book is, in its entirety, an oracle concerning Nineveh?
43. Which prophetic book envisions a future in which "your sons and daughters shall prophecy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions."?
44. The immanent approach of "the great day of the Lord" is a major theme in which prophetic book?
45. Ahaz's response to the Lord's demand to ask for a sign "deep as Sheol or high as heaven" in Isaiah 7 is:
46. Maher-shalal-hash-baz is:
47. As predicted to Hezekiah by Isaiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, died:
48. "Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations." is found in:
49. "For I know that my redeemer lives . . . " is found in:
50. "Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!" is found in:
51. "A good wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels." is found in:
- a. Psalms
- b. Ecclesiastes
- c. Job
- d. Proverbs
52. "I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys." is found in:
53. One of the themes of Psalm 91 is:
54. Psalm 51 begins as follows:
55. "Out of the depths have I cried to you, O Lord!" is found in:
56. Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar appear in the book of:
57. "Blessed is every one who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways!" is found in:
58. "By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept . . . " is followed in the Biblical text by what line:
59. "God is our refuge and strength . . . " is followed in the Biblical text by what line?
60. "Let the day perish wherein I was born and the night which said, 'A manchild is conceived.'" is found in:
61. "A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother." is found in:
62. The passerby forced to carry Jesus' cross was:
63. Jesus was arrested in the:
64. According to the Gospel of Matthew, when Jesus called him to be a disciple, Matthew was a:
65. The two who appeared talking with Jesus when he was transfigured were:
66. Jesus was baptized in the:
67. In the Gospel of Luke, who prayed, "God, I thank thee that I am not like other men!"?
68. In the Nazareth synagogue, Luke reports that Jesus read from the book of Isaiah:
69. According to the Gospel of Luke, the mother of John the Baptist was:
70. According to Matthew, Mark, and Luke, immediately after Jesus was baptized, he:
71. "Salt of the earth," "Light of the world," and "lilies of the field" occur in:
72. The parable of the sower is found in the gospel according to
73. The parables about the two sons and the lost coin are found in
74. Which of the following phrases correctly continues the story beginning with the words, "Behold a woman of the city, who was a sinner . . .
75. The closing verse of John's gospel declares:
76. In John 1, John the Baptist is introduced as:
77. The conversation of Jesus with the woman at the well took place in:
78. When in John 9 Jesus answered the questions concerning the blindness a man had known before Jesus healed him, Jesus declared the man had been blind:
79. The major theme of chapter 10 of the Gospel of John is about Jesus as the:
80. Which of the following is an essential theme of the First Letter of John?
81. Which event occurs earliest in the Book of Revelation?
82. "A Jew is one who is one inwardly, and real ___________ is a matter of the heart, spiritual and not literal." The missing word is:
83. Those who speak in a tongue should pray for:
84. Identify: "We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose."
85. Which saying is from Paul's letter to the Romans?
86. "If there is a physical body," Paul says, "there is also ___________."
87. Paul's counsel not to marry if one is not already married is from:
88. Paul besought the Lord three times to remove his thorn in the flesh; and received the response:
89. One of the key questions posed to Paul which he seeks to answer in I Thessalonians is:
90. That the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night is from Paul's letter to:
91. Paul said:
92. At their trial after they had healed a lame man, Peter and John defended themselves with the claim that the man was healed
93. Peter's accusation to Ananias and Sapphira (who sold property while keeping back some of the proceeds) was that they
94. Peter's visit to Cornelius in Caesarea concerned the
95. When the residents of Lystra thought Barnabas was Zeus and Paul was Hermes, Barnabas and Paul
96. The riot led by the silversmiths took place in
97. "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." is found in
98. The priest of the most high God was:
99. "If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself,' you do well . . . for whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of it all." is found in:
100. "Come unto him, to that living stone, rejected by men but in God's sight chosen and precious; and like living stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood . . . " is found in:
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Bible Exam 2
Answer Key
THE PENTATEUCH
HISTORICAL BOOKS
PROPHETS
PSALMS AND WISDOM LITERATURE
SYNOPTIC GOSPELS
JOHANNINE WRITINGS
ACTS AND PAULINE WRITINGS
REST OF NEW TESTAMENT
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