Thursday, June 5, 2008
A beautiful morning in the Twin Cities with great friends!
Do You Know Your Bible?
Answers to previous quiz.
1. Josiah (2 Chron. 35:22-24)
2. Ishmael (Jer. 41:6-7)
3. Herod (Matt. 2:16)
4. Haman (Esther 3:12-13)
5. Jehu (2 Kings 10:1-8)
6. David (2 Sam. 11:14-15)
7. Stephen (Acts 7:57-59)
8. Paul (Acts 21:30-32)
9. Samson (Judg. 16:25, 30)
10. Abishai (2 Sam. 23:18)
New Quiz: Languages
1. At what city did God "confound" the languages of its citizens and scattered them "upon the face of all the earth"?
2. Which leader, when he found children of Jews who had returned to Jerusalem speaking the Ashdod language, punished some of the parents by beating them and pulling out their hair?
3. Which king ordered the man in charge of his palace personnel, to select a few captive Jewish youths and teach them the Chaldean language?
4. Which prime minister sent letters, decreeing the death of Jews, to each province in the empire, addressing each in its own language and dialect?
5. Which governor pretended not to understand the language of his brothers, and spoke to them through an interpreter?
6. Which Jewish prisoner surprised the commander of a garrison by understanding the Greek language, and when given permission to address an angry mob spoke to them in the Hebrew language?
7. Which general, sent to besiege Jerusalem, was asked by a truce delegation to "Speak... in the Syrian language for we understand it; and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall"?
8. On the day of Pentecost which group had "cloven tongues like as of fire" settle on their heads and everyone was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in languages they didn't know?
9. Which three languages were used in the inscription on Jesus' cross?
10. Which prophet was assured by God that he would not be sent to "many people of a strange language.... whose words thou canst not understand"?
Answers and a new quiz will be posted next Thursday!