Let's Take a Look at Cattle in the Bible Quiz

Answer: Esau

Genesis 32:13-15 tells of Jacob presenting forty cows and ten bulls as well as a large number of other animals to his brother Esau. The animals included two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, as well as twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

According to Genesis 32:1-21 and 33:1-17, Jacob was deeply perturbed when he saw Esau approaching him with four hundred men but the encounter ended up being a pleasurable affair with peace being the order of the day. The reason Jacob was perturbed when he saw Esau approaching is that he feared for his life. According to Genesis 27:41, Esau was plotting to kill Jacob to avenge the fact his younger brother tricked their father Isaac into blessing him while Esau was out hunting game to make a savory dish for Isaac. Scripture goes on to tell of Jacob fleeing to Haran in Padan Aram, also known as Mesopotamia, where his mother Rebekah came from. While in Haran, Jacob ended up marrying Leah and Rachel, two daughters of Laban, who was Rebekah's brother.

While Jacob was expecting the worst when he encountered Esau a number of years later, he had no cause to fear. In fact, it was a heart-warming reunion between the two brothers.

Answer: The Pharaoh

According to Genesis 41, the Pharaoh had two dreams, one of them involving cows, with both dreams interpreted by Joseph. In the first dream, the Pharaoh told Joseph he saw seven fat cows and seven emaciated cows. Then in the second dream, he said he saw seven good heads of grain and seven blighted heads. The Pharaoh was troubled because no one could apparently tell him what his dreams meant. The Pharaoh's chief butler had served time in prison with Joseph and told the Pharaoh Joseph had successfully interpreted a dream for him. As a result, Joseph was called upon to interpret the two dreams for the Pharaoh.

Joseph informed the Pharaoh that his dreams tell of seven years of a bountiful harvest followed by seven years of famine, as per Genesis 41:25-28. Scripture goes on to tell of Joseph advising the Pharaoh to collect one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven plentiful years with the food being kept in reserve for seven years of famine.

The Pharaoh responded by following Joseph's advice and promoting him to the second highest position in Egypt.

Answer: Aaron

Aaron, the bother of Moses, is the correct answer. Scripture states Moses was furious when he saw the Israelites worshipping a golden calf his brother made while he was on Mount Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments from God. According to Exodus 32:20, Moses took the golden calf and burned it in a fire and then ground the residue into a powder and then scattered the powder on the peoples' water supply. Then he ordered the people to drink the water laced with powder from the golden calf to teach them a lesson, Scripture states.

For more details, see Exodus 32:1-35.

Answer: Hannah, mother of Samuel

1 Samuel 1:24 tells of Hannah, the mother of Samuel, taking her son young son and taking him to stay with Eli who was both judge and high priest of Israel. The verse states she also presented Eli with three bulls, one ephah of flour and a skin of wine.

Going strictly by Scripture, Samuel was less than five years old, possibly about three, when he was taken to Eli. Verse 24 states Samuel was taken to the House of the LORD in Shiloh after he was weaned. According to notes in the NKJV Study Bible, weaning often didn't end until a child was three years old in Biblical times.

Hannah, who was barren at one time, made a vow that if she gave birth to a boy she would give him to the LORD "all the days of his life."

See 1 Samuel 24-27 for details about Hannah taking Samuel to live with Eli.

Answer: Solomon

Solomon is the correct answer, as per 1 Kings 8:63. His sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD was massive, consisting of twenty-two thousand bulls and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. According to Scripture, the offerings took place as part of the dedication of the house of the LORD. Construction of the house of the LORD was started and completed during the reign of Solomon.

Answer: True

True. 1 Samuel 6: 1-14 tells of two milk cows being used to transport the ark of the LORD by the Philistines when they returned it to the Israelites. Verses 10 to 14 tell of the Philistines hitching up two milk cows to return the sacred ark. The Philistines had previously captured the ark in a battle, but opted to return it after seven months.

According to Scripture, the Philistines were beset with "a deadly destruction" as "the hand of God was very heavy." Scripture also states that the Philistines who did not die were stricken with tumors.

Answer: Ezekiel

Ezekiel is the correct answer, with the words found in Chapter 4, Verse 15. Verses 16 and 17 go on to state Jerusalem would face a dreadful future: "Surely I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall drink water by measure and with dread, that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity."

Scripture states the LORD'S anger was raised against Jerusalem because of its idolatry and general iniquity. See Ezekiel 4:1-17 for details.

Answer: Proverbs

"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted calf with hatred," is from Proverbs 15:17. Much of the book was written by Solomon and it contains a large number of witty sayings, making it popular with Jews and Christians alike.

Three verses later is found this verse: "A wise son makes a father glad but a foolish man despises his mother."

And then, Verse 30 offers this gem: "He who disdains instruction despises his own soul, but he who heeds rebuke gets understanding."

Answer: Father of the Prodigal Son

Luke 15:11-32 is a parable by Jesus in which the father of the Prodigal Son prepared a fatted calf to welcome home his wayward son. The parable tells the story of a wayward son who moved to an unnamed foreign land and squandered his money on wild living. When a famine struck, the young man became so destitute he got a job feeding pigs with Scripture stating he longed to eat the pods the swine ate. For a Jew to even feed pigs would be sinking to an unimaginable low.

So the man opted to return home to his father, thinking he would be better off working for his father as a hired hand than to live in destitution. To the young man's pleasant surprise, his father welcomed him home with open arms. The parable tells of the man's father slaughtering a fatted calf and throwing a lavish feast to welcome home his son.

Answer: Hebrews

The verse is from Hebrews 10:4. The verse is part of a passage in which the writer of Hebrews states Jesus "offered one sacrifice for sins forever" and then "sat down at the right hand of God." In other words, Christ's death on the cross of Calvary was fulfilment of God's will.

No one knows for certain who wrote Hebrews. Some scholars believe Paul wrote the book but others strongly disagree with such a belief.