Bible Content Exam 4
All biblical quotations have been taken from the NRSV.
1. Who thought Israel would easily be able to overcome the Canaanites?
2. According to the book of Deuteronomy, with what will God bless Israel?
3. Which book contains the following statement, "If a man commits adultery with
the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put
to death"?
4. In a conversation between which characters does this statement occur, "you
will be like God, knowing good and evil"?
5. According to the book of Leviticus, which group is to purify themselves and
make sacrifices on certain occasions?
6. By what means were the Israelites guided through the wilderness after they
left Egypt?
7. To whom were the laws in Leviticus delivered?
8. In the book of Deuteronomy, which statement follows, "Hear, O Israel: the
Lord our God is one Lord"?
9. With what event are the "scapegoat," "Aaron," and "sin offering" connected?
10. Which statement accurately describes Melchizedek?
11. Who said: "As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for
good . . ?"
12. Who was made a leper but then healed after seven days?
13. Who "went away from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod,
east of Eden"?
14. What group was supposed to care for the tent of meeting?
15. Who told Moses to choose "able men" to help ease the burden of his
responsibilities?
16. According to Numbers 3:6, what was to be the western boundary of the
promised land?
17. Where was the passover instituted?
18. Who are the three main characters in 1 Samuel?
19. In the book of Esther, at whom is Mordecai angry?
20. Over what empire did Artaxerxes rule?
21. In which books does the prophet Elijah appear?
22. Who killed Sisera, commander of a Canaanite army?
23. According to Joshua 4, what did the stones carried across the Jordan River
represent?
24. In the story involving what main character do "Bethlehem," "Naomi," and
"barley harvest" all play a role?
25. Under whose leadership were the walls of Jerusalem rebuilt?
26. According to 1 Chronicles, what is David not allowed to build?
27. What were Shamgar, Gideon, and Jephthah?
28. According to Joshua 2, what did Rahab do?
29. In the story involving what main character do "the four-hundred prophets of
Asherah," "Mount Carmel," and "Ahab" appear?
30. What king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar,
but the ark of God dwells in a tent"?
31. What was the name of Jeremiah's scribe?
32. During whose reign did Haggai appear as a prophet?
33. In which book does the following quotation appear: "He has showed you, O
man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice,
and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God"?
34. Who declared, "I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son . . ."?
35. In which book does the following quotation appear: "How lonely sits the
city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she that was
great among the nations! She that was a princess among the cities has
become a vassal"?
36. What statement describes what Isaiah says about the wolf and lamb, leopard
and kid, calf and lion?
37. Who brought Jeremiah from the dungeon to ask him, "Is there any word from
the Lord"?
38. Which book contains many passages concerning "my servant"?
39. Which prophet was directed by God to name his children "Jezreel," "Not
pitied," and "Not my people"?
40. How were the words, which Daniel interpreted ("MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN"),
conveyed?
41. Of whom is it reported, ". . . the men knew that he was fleeing from the
presence of the Lord . . ."?
42. In which book does the following statement occur: "And he said to me, 'Son
of man, stand upon your feet, and I will speak with you . . . I send you to
the people of Israel, to a nation of rebels, who have rebelled against
me . . .'"?
43. In which book do the following quotations occur: "The righteous shall live
by his faith," "The earth will be filled with the knowledge of he glory of
the Lord," and "In wrath remember mercy"?
44. For an example of the story of the call of a prophet, to which book would
one turn?
45. In which book do these lines appear: "Before I formed you in the womb I
knew you"; "Cursed be the day on which I was born!"; "Is there no balm in
Gilead?"?
46. Which book contains the following lines, "In the wilderness prepare the way
of the Lord," "He will feed his flock like a shepherd"?
47. Which passage appears in the book of Joel?
48. In what book does the following quotation appear: "There was a day when the
sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came
among them"?
49. Which statement does Proverbs 31 not include as a description of "a good
wife"?
50. In what book does the following quotation occur, "But behold, this also was
vanity"?
51. What book concludes with the following verse, "Make haste, my beloved, and
be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of spices"?
52. Which statement of theme characterizes Psalm 91?
53. In which book does the following quotation appear, "Shall a faultfinder
contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it"?
54. In the book of Job, who says, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse
God, and die"?
55. With what phrase does the following proverb conclude, "Train up a child in
the way he should go, and when he is old he will not . . ."?
56. With what lines does Psalm 51 begin?
57. What is the first line in Psalm 1?
58. According to Matthew, Mark and Luke, why did Herod arrest John the Baptist?
59. In which book or books is the story of the shepherds "keeping . . . their flock
by night" found?
60. According to Matthew, what does the name of child, "Emmanuel," born to
Mary mean?
61. According to Mark, what does the angel tell the women at the empty tomb?
62. Which gospel or gospels open with a genealogy?
63. About whom, and on what occasion, was it said, "Certainly you are one of
them; for you are a Galilean"?
64. According to Luke, at which moment did the disciples who journeyed to Emmaus
recognize Jesus?
65. In which synoptic gospel or gospels are the beatitudes found?
66. According to both the gospels of Mark and Matthew, what did Jesus say from
the cross?
67. About whom did Jesus say that their action should be remembered wherever the
gospel is preached?
68. What did the angel promise Zechariah, when he was praying in the temple?
69. How does Jesus answer the question, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"
70. What did the householder say when many excused themselves from the
householder's great banquet?
71. Which statement is not characteristic of the Gospel of John?
72. How is this phrase in John 1 completed, "And the Word became flesh and . . .?
73. According to the Gospel of John, why was the Gospel written?
74. Which of the following is an important theme of the First Letter of John?
75. According to the Book of Revelation, where was John when he heard "a loud
voice like a trumpet"?
76. What does the Book of Revelation not include?
77. Who was Onesimus?
78. Why does Paul refer to Abraham in his letter to the Romans?
79. On what does Paul base his order to the church of the Thessalonians: "If
anyone will not work, let him not eat"?
80. According to the book of Ephesians, what is God's ultimate plan for "the
fullness of time"?
81. In 2 Corinthians, how is Paul's statement, "Therefore, if any one is in
Christ . . .," completed?
82. In what context within 1 Corinthians does Paul write about "the body of
Christ"?
83. In Galatians, what does Paul claim is the source of his gospel?
84. What should those who speak "in a tongue" pray for?
85. for whom did Paul take up "a contribution"?
86. What is one of the central concerns of 1 Timothy?
87. Who addressed the men of Judea at Pentecost?
88. To which church did Paul write a letter before visiting them?
89. Which statement best summarizes Paul's argument in Romans that there is no
difference between Jew and Greek?
90. What is Paul's situation at the end of Acts?
91. According to Acts, from what city did Saul come?
92. What is Paul's situation when he writes those in Philippi?
93. Who said, and in what situation, "I have no silver and gold, but I give you
what I have . . ."?
94. In which book does this quotation appear, "And convince some, who doubt;
save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with
fear . . ."?
95. In which book does the following quotation appear, "If a brother or sister
is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, 'Go in
peace, be warmed and filled,' without giving them the things needed for the
body, what does it profit"?
96. According to 1 Peter, what should be the Christian attitude toward every
human institution?
97. Which book refers to the early Christian practice of praying over the sick
and anointing them with oil?
98. In what way does the Letter to the Hebrews describe faith?
99. With what issue is the following quotation from 2 Peter concerned: "With
the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day"?
100. Why does the author of Hebrews think Melchizedek is important?
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Bible Exam 4
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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