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KINGS, PHARAOHS, AND OTHER RULERS  5/3/08 (part 1)

1. What king hosted a banquet where a phantom hand left a message on the palace wall?

2. What king of Israel was murdered while he was drunk?

3. What king of Salem was also a priest of the Most High God?

4. What king of Gerar took Sarah away from Abraham?

5. What Hebrew captive interpreted the dreams of the Egyptian pharaoh?

6. What three kings listened to the prophet Elisha as he prophesied to the accompaniment of a harp?

7. What king attacked the Israelites on their way into Canan, only to be completely destroyed later?

8. What king of Sidon gave his daughter Jezebel as a wife to Ahab?

9. What king of Bashan was famous for having an enormous iron bed?

10. Who was the last king of Judah?

11. What king of Hazor organized an alliance against Joshua?

12. What military man captured 31 kings?

13. What king of Moab sent the prophet Balaam to curse Israel?

14. What king of Mesopotamia was sent by God to conquer the faithless Israelites?

15. What Canaanite king of the time of the judges was noted for having nine hundred iron chariots?

16. What son of Gideon was proclaimed king in Shechem?

17. What king of the Amalekites was captured by Saul and cut into pieces by Samuel?

18. What much-married king is considered the author of the Song of Songs?

19. What Philistine king did David seek refuge with when he fled from Saul?

20. What shepherd boy, the youngest of eight sons, was anointed by Samuel in front of his brothers?

21. What king wanted to see miracles when the arrested Jesus was sent to him?

22. What king of Tyre sent cedar logs and craftsmen to King David?

23. What prophet had a vision of a time when the Lord would gather the kings of the earth together and put them all in a pit?

24. What man, David’s older son, tried to make himself king of Israel?

25. What wise king made and alliance with Egypt when he married the pharaoh’s daughter?

Answers to last months quiz

LAUGHERS AND DANCERS (4/2/08)

1. Whose entrance dance proved fatal for John the Baptist? A: The daughter of Herodias (Mtt 14:6-8)

2. Who Held a feast with dancing when his son returned? A: The father of the prodigal son (Luke 15:25)

3. Who laughed at Nehemiah’s plans to rebuild Jerusalem? A: Sanballat, Tobiah and Geshem (Neh 2;19)

4. Who danced with all his might when the ark of the covenant was brought yo Jerusalem? A: David (2 Sam 6:14)

5. Who laughed when she heard she would bear a son in her old age? A: Sarah (Gen 18:10-12)

6. Who was snickered at for claiming that a dead girl was only asleep? A: Jesus (Mtt 9:23-24)

7. What prophetess led the women of Israel in a victory dance? A: Miriam (Exo 15:20)

8. Whose ill-fated daughter came out dancing after his victory over the Ammorites? A: Jephthah’s (Judges 11:34)

9. Who had his decree for a Passover celebration laughed at by the men of Israel? A: Hezekiah (2 Chron 30:5,10)

10. What tribe took wives from among the dancers at Shiloh? A: Benjamin (Judges 21:20,23)

11. Who came out dancing after David killed Goliath? A: The women of Israel (1 Sam 18:6-7)

12. What is the only book in the Bible to mention God laughing? A: Psalms (2:4; 37:13; 59:8)

13. What epistle tells Christians to turn their laughter to mourning? A: James (4:9)

14. What old woman said, “God hath made me to laugh so that all who hear will laugh with me”? A: Sarah (Gen 21:6)

15. Who told Job that God would certainly fill a righteous man with laughter? A: Bildad (Job 8:21)

16. According to Psalm 126, what caused laughter among the Jews? A: Bringing the captives back to Jerusalem (Psa 126:2)

17. What old man laughed at God’s promise that he would father a child in his old age? A: Abraham (Gen 17:17)

18. What group of people were busy dancing and partying when David caught up with them? A: The Amalekites (1 Sam 30:16-18)

19. What graven image did the Israelites dance in front of? A: The golden calf made by Aaron (Exo 32:19)

20. What book says there is a time to weep and a time to laugh? A: Ecclesiastes (3:4)

21. Who, in the Beatitudes, does Jesus promise laughter to? A: Those who weep (Luke 6:21)

22. What book says that laughter is foolishness? A: Ecclesiastes (2:2)

23. What book says that even in laughter the heart is sorrowful? A: Proverbs (14:13)

24. Whom did Jesus speak of as dancing in the streets? A: Children (Luke 7:32)

25. Who danced around the altar of their false god? A: The priests of Baal (1 Kings 18:26)

26. Whose wife despised him for dancing in the streets? A: David’s wife, Michal (! Chron 15:29)

27. What instrument is usually associated with dance in the Bible? A: The timbrel, or tambourine (Exo 15:20; Judges 11:34; Job 21:12; Psa 150:4)

28. What book says, “Our dance is turned into mourning”? A: Lamentations (5:15)

29. According to Job, whose children dance around and make music? A: The children of the wicked (Job 21:7-12)

30. What Old Testament character’s name means “laughter”? A: Isaac (Gen 21:3-6)