Biblical Numbers -- 61 to 70 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Peter

Peter is the correct answer. According to Scripture, Jesus predicted Peter would deny even knowing Him three times and after the third denial, a rooster would crow. And sure enough, this is exactly how things happened, according to Scripture.

In John 13:37, Peter defiantly told Christ he would never deny Him, adding "I will lay down my life for Your sake."

Jesus answered Peter by saying, "will you lay down your life for My sake? Most assuredly, I say to you, the rooster shall not crow till you have denied Me three times." And sure enough it came to pass.

Here's how Luke 20:60-62 in the NKJV tells of Peter's third denial to a person who accused him of being a follower of Jesus: "But Peter said, 'Man, I do not know what you are saying!' Immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed. And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, 'Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.' So Peter went out and wept bitterly."

Answer: Darius

The correct answer is Darius. He replaced Belshazzar shortly after he saw a disembodied hand write on a wall and asked Daniel to interpret things for him.

(The NIV says "And Darius the Mede took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two," while the KJV says "And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.")

According to the fifth chapter of Daniel, the fingers on a disembodied hand started writing a message on a wall after King Belshazzar hosted a lavish banquet in which he, his wives and his concubines drank from goblets taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem. Scripture states the king's gathering drank the wine from the sacred goblets and "praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone."

When the king brought in the prophet Daniel to interpret the writing on the wall, no punches were pulled. Daniel told the king "God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end". The chapter concludes with these two verses from the NKJV Bible: "That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain. And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old."

As result, the term 'to see the handwriting on the wall' refers to a situation in which one can envision their misfortune or fall.

Answer: Solomon

Solomon, the son of David, was responsible for constructing the house of the LORD. The dedication of the building by Solomon and the people of Israel is told in 1 Kings 8:62-66. The actual construction of the house of the LORD as well as Solomon's house is recounted in 1 Kings, Chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8.

According to Scripture, Solomon spared no expense in constructing the house of the LORD. Notes in the NKJV Study Bible state the building was constructed with the most precious of building materials, many of them imported: cedar (1 Kings 5:6), quarried stones (5:15-18), gold (6:20), olive wood (6:23-28, 31-33), cypress (6:34), and bronze (7:13-47).

"The project employed 30,000 laborers (5:13), 150,000 stonemasons and haulers (5:15) and 23,300 supervisors (5:16)," the study notes state.

Answer: Genesis

The verse is found in Genesis, the first book in the Hebrew Bible as well as the Old Testament of the Protestant Bible. Isaac was the son of Abraham and Sarah and he took Rebekah (also called Rebecca in some translations) as his wife. Verse sixty-four of Genesis 24 tells of Rebekah and Isaac seeing each other for the first time.

Isaac and Rebekah were the parents of the first documented twins in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament of the Bible -- Esau and Jacob. According to Scripture, Isaac favored Esau while Rebekah favored Jacob.

Answer: Isaiah

The verse is from Isaiah 7:8. Out of the four options given, Isaiah is the only book that is considered part of the major prophets. Amos is classified as one of the Twelve Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and one of the Minor Prophets in the Old Testament of the Protestant Bible. The books of Job and Ruth are not about prophecy.

To put Isaiah 7:8 in context, here's how Isaiah 7:3-9 reads in the NKJV: "Then the LORD said to Isaiah, 'Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller's Field, and say to him: 'Take heed, and be quiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah. Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil against you, saying, 'Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of Tabel' -- thus says the LORD God:
'It shall not stand,
Nor shall it come to pass.
For the head of Syria is Damascus,
And the head of Damascus is Rezin.
Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken,
So that it will not be a people.
The head of Ephraim is Samaria,
And the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son.
If you will not believe,
Surely you shall not be established'."

Answer: Jacob

Jacob is the correct answer. Genesis 46:26, in the NKJV, states, "All the persons who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came from his body, besides Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six persons in all."

According to Scripture, Jacob had two wives (Leah and Rachel) and two concubines (Bilhap and Zilpah). He was the father of twelve sons (Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin) and one daughter (Dinah).

Jacob and his family moved to Egypt in a time of famine to join Joseph who had been sold into slavery and ascended to become the second most powerful man in the north African country.

Answer: Nehemiah

The verse in question is from Nehemiah 7:72. The seventh chapter of Nehemiah tells of the Israelites returning from Babylon to Jerusalem to build a wall around their beloved city.

To give the verse context, here's how Nehemiah 7:66-72 appears in the NKJV:
"Altogether the whole assembly was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, besides their male and female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five men and women singers. Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five, their camels four hundred and thirty-five, and donkeys six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

"And some of the heads of the fathers' houses gave to the work. The governor[s] gave to the treasury one thousand gold drachmas, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priestly garments. Some of the heads of the fathers' houses gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand gold drachmas, and two thousand two hundred silver minas. And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand gold drachmas, two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priestly garments."

Answer: True

Obed-Edom had sixty-eight brethren who served as gatekeepers at the ark of the covenant of the LORD, according to 1 Chronicles 16:38. (In the NKJV and NIV, he's known as Obed-Edom, but in the KJV, his name appears as Obededom.) Verses 37 to 43 tell of people given various responsibilities by King David in regard to the ark of the covenant. Verses 37 and 38, in the NKJV, states: "So he [David] left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD to minister before the ark regularly, as every day's work required; and Obed-Edom with his sixty-eight brethren, including Obed-Edom the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah, to be gatekeepers."

Notes in the NKJV Study Bible have this explanation as to why the name Obed-Edom appears twice in the same sentence: "There are two men in this name in this verse. The first is Obed-Edom whose house sheltered the ark for three months (13:14) and who was a chief doorkeeper (15:24). The second, also a gatekeeper, was the son of Jeduthun."

Answer: up to my neck

The four missing words are 'up to my neck'. (In the KJV, Psalm 69:1 reads: "Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.") The Psalm, similar to many others, was written by David during a time of great distress.

Here is Psalm 69 in its entirety as per the NKJV:

"Save me, O God!
For the waters have come up to my neck.
I sink in deep mire,
Where there is no standing;
I have come into deep waters,
Where the floods overflow me.
I am weary with my crying;
My throat is dry;
My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Those who hate me without a cause
Are more than the hairs of my head;
They are mighty who would destroy me,
Being my enemies wrongfully;
Though I have stolen nothing,
I still must restore it.
O God, You know my foolishness;
And my sins are not hidden from You.
Let not those who wait for You, O LORD GOD of hosts, be ashamed because of me;
Let not those who seek You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel.
Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;
Shame has covered my face.
I have become a stranger to my brothers,
And an alien to my mother's children;
Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up,
And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting,
That became my reproach.
I also made sackcloth my garment;
I became a byword to them.
Those who sit in the gate speak against me,
And I am the song of the drunkards.
But as for me, my prayer is to You,
O LORD, in the acceptable time;
O God, in the multitude of Your mercy,
Hear me in the truth of Your salvation.
Deliver me out of the mire,
And let me not sink;
Let me be delivered from those who hate me,
And out of the deep waters.
Let not the floodwater overflow me,
Nor let the deep swallow me up;
And let not the pit shut its mouth on me.
Hear me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is good;
Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.
And do not hide Your face from Your servant,
For I am in trouble;
Hear me speedily.
Draw near to my soul, and redeem it;
Deliver me because of my enemies.
You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor;
My adversaries are all before You.
Reproach has broken my heart,
And I am full of heaviness;
I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none;
And for comforters, but I found none.
They also gave me gall for my food,
And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Let their table become a snare before them,
And their well-being a trap.
Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see;
And make their loins shake continually.
Pour out Your indignation upon them,
And let Your wrathful anger take hold of them.
Let their dwelling place be desolate;
Let no one live in their tents.
For they persecute the ones You have struck,
And talk of the grief of those You have wounded.
Add iniquity to their iniquity,
And let them not come into Your righteousness.
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,
And not be written with the righteous.
But I am poor and sorrowful;
Let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
I will praise the name of God with a song,
And will magnify Him with thanksgiving.
This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bull,
Which has horns and hooves.
The humble shall see this and be glad;
And you who seek God, your hearts shall live.
For the LORD hears the poor,
And does not despise His prisoners.
Let heaven and earth praise Him,
The seas and everything that moves in them.
For God will save Zion
And build the cities of Judah,
That they may dwell there and possess it.
Also, the descendants of His servants shall inherit it,
And those who love His name shall dwell in it."

No one knows for certain, but it is believed David wrote more than 70 of the Psalms. It's impossible to come up with an exact total as a number of the Psalms do not have any credit lines. The numbers vary, with different Websites giving a different total for David's contributions. However, the consensus appears to be that David wrote more than 70 Psalms at the very least. According to notes in the NKJV Study Bible, some of the other Palmists include Ethan, Heman and Asaph as well as Solomon, who is credited with writing two of the Psalms -- Numbers 72 and 127. Moses is credited with writing Psalm 90.

Answer: Peter

Peter is the correct answer. After telling Peter about the need to forgive others freely and often, Jesus proceeded to tell a parable about an unforgiving servant. Here's how Matthew 18:21-35 appears in the NKJV:

"Then Peter came to Him and said, 'Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?'

"Jesus said to him, 'I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. And when he had begun to settle accounts, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. But as he was not able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and that payment be made. The servant therefore fell down before him, saying, 'Master, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.' Then the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.

"'But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!' So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.' And he would not, but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt. So when his fellow servants saw what had been done, they were very grieved, and came and told their master all that had been done. Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?' And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him.

"'My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses'."