Old Testament Oddities

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1. Samson ate some honey and gave some to his parents to eat. Where did he get the honey? From the cleft in a rock From a hive under the Red Sea From a Samaritan traveling along the way From the carcass of a dead animal

2. The Lord told Hosea to take a wife. What were his specific instructions? Make sure she had six goats To take an adulterous wife That his wife must have three sisters To marry his cousin

3. When Balaam beat his donkey three times for disobeying him, what did the donkey do? Bit Balaam on the right foot Asked Balaam why he was beating her Kicked him twice in the face Turned into a butterfly and flew away

4. When David was attracted to Bathsheba, how did he deal with her husband? David asked Uriah to divorce Bathsheba. David poisoned Uriah's food at a royal dinner. David had the priest annul Bathsheba's first marriage. David had him sent to the battle to die.

5. Which word was used as a password for crossing the Jordan river in Judges 12? Barabbas Jezreel Jarub-Baal Shibboleth

6. What happened to the people who looked at the bronze snake Moses hung on a pole? They turned to stone. They lived. They turned into pillars of salt. They became vipers.

7. When King Saul's daughter, Michal, was in love with David, what bride price did Saul ask David to pay? One hundred pregnant cows One hundred Philistine foreskins One hundred pieces of silver All of these

8. During Ezekiel's vision, he saw four living creatures with four faces. What was beside each creature? A cloud of smoke full of howling demons A pregnant woman holding a ram A sparkling wheel with eyes on the rims A dragon with four eyes and four horns

9. In the book of Job, God asks Satan where he has come from. What is Satan's reply? "From the heavens and the earths; from the deepest reaches of the sea." "From the evil reaches of the earth I have climbed to meet you." "From the secret heart of men have I ascended." "From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it."

10. Who pretended to be insane when in the presence of Achish, king of Gath? Gideon Jacob Samson David