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Quiz about A Lineage of Grace Rahab
Quiz about A Lineage of Grace Rahab

A Lineage of Grace: Rahab Trivia Quiz


Only five women are specifically mentioned in Jesus' family tree. Rahab is the second of them. "A Lineage of Grace" is the title of Francine River's book about these five women. The NIV Life Application Study Bible was used in preparing the quiz. Enjoy!

A multiple-choice quiz by PeggyLouisa. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
PeggyLouisa
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
322,957
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
8 / 10
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652
Awards
Top 10% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 151 (10/10), Guest 122 (9/10), Guest 24 (10/10).
Question 1 of 10
1. What was the name of the city in which Rahab lived? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What was Rahab's occupation? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What did Rahab tell the king's men when they came looking for the Israelite spies? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Where had Rahab hidden the spies? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What did Rahab ask the spies to do for her? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. How did Rahab help the spies to escape? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. What did the spies tell Rahab to put in her window as a sign of their promise to her? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Where did Rahab and her family go immediately after they were brought out of the city? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Whom did Rahab marry? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. What was the name of Rahab's son, who appears in Jesus' family tree? Hint



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1. What was the name of the city in which Rahab lived?

Answer: Jericho

Jericho is situated on the plain of the Jordan Valley at the foot of the Judean Mountains. It is about 800ft (244m) below sea level so has a tropical climate which at times can be very hot. Although only a few inches of rainfall are recorded each year, Jericho is an oasis known as "the city of palms" (Judges 3:13). There have been three different Jerichos throughout the city's history. The Old Testament Jericho in which Rahab lived was situated close to the present-day village of er-Riha which is modern Jericho, about 17 miles (27km) north east of Jerusalem.

Information taken from Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Dictionary.
2. What was Rahab's occupation?

Answer: Prostitute

Rahab indeed practised the "oldest profession" (Joshua 2:1). Going to a prostitute's house was possibly not the spies' (who one imagines would have been good "men of God") idea of a good place to be! However Rahab's house would have been a place where all kinds of men would come and go, so the spies would have looked less suspicious.
3. What did Rahab tell the king's men when they came looking for the Israelite spies?

Answer: That the men had left the city at dusk

Rahab was astute enough to realise that the Israelites would invade and triumph over Jericho (Joshua 2:8-11) so she set out to protect the spies in whatever way she could. Her lie that the men had left the city was obviously convincing enough for the king's men not to search the house. If they hadn't believed her, though, and had searched and found the spies, Rahab would surely have been facing death for treason.

It must have taken her some courage to hide the spies!
4. Where had Rahab hidden the spies?

Answer: On the roof

Rahab had taken the spies up on to the roof of her house and hidden them under some flax stalks which she had drying there (Joshua 2:6). She would have been drying the flax to make into yarn to weave into linen cloth.
5. What did Rahab ask the spies to do for her?

Answer: To spare her family's lives

Rahab had probably not helped the spies out of the goodness of her heart, but because she was afraid of the Israelites and recognised that they had a powerful God (Joshua 2:9-11). In Joshua 2:12-13, she asked the spies to save her life and the lives of her family members in return for the protection that she had given to the spies.

The spies promised that, if she kept their visit a secret, they would indeed spare Rahab and her family when Israel finally invaded Jericho.
6. How did Rahab help the spies to escape?

Answer: Lowered them out of the window with a rope

Rahab's house was in the walls of the city, so lowering the spies out of the window was presumably the best option for them to escape. They left under cover of darkness after the city gates had been closed. (Joshua 2:15).
7. What did the spies tell Rahab to put in her window as a sign of their promise to her?

Answer: A scarlet rope

The spies asked Rahab to use the scarlet rope with which she was to lower them out of the window as a sign of the agreement which she and they had made with each other. If the rope wasn't in the window when the Israelites came to conquer Jericho, the spies would know that Rahab had reneged on her promise and she and her family would die with the rest of the city's inhabitants. (Joshua 2:17-18).
8. Where did Rahab and her family go immediately after they were brought out of the city?

Answer: To a location outside the Israelite camp

Rahab and her entire family were saved from destruction because of her courageous actions and the promise of the spies. As the family weren't Israelites, they wouldn't have been following the Jewish laws of cleanliness and purity so would not be permitted to enter the Jewish camp until they had been purified.

They were therefore taken to a place outside the main Jewish camp (Joshua 6:23).
9. Whom did Rahab marry?

Answer: Salmon

We learn from the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew chapter 1 that Salmon was Rahab's husband (verse 5).
10. What was the name of Rahab's son, who appears in Jesus' family tree?

Answer: Boaz

The son that Rahab and Salmon had was Boaz, who later went on to marry Ruth. Rahab was therefore Ruth's second mother-in-law, although we don't know if Rahab was still alive by the time Ruth came to Bethlehem.
Source: Author PeggyLouisa

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