This week’s promotional discount is on my 2007 fun quiz book Ask Me Another. Suitable for
all ages, it offers a great way not only of testing your Bible knowledge but also of learning
more about the people, places, stories and events recorded in Scripture. Normally retailing at
£15.99, this week, until 25 September, you can purchase it at a 10 per cent discount – a
saving of £1.60 – using the code ASK10 when ordering the book from the Kevin Mayhew
website. Just type the code into the relevant box at the checkout between the dates given.
Meanwhile, here, first, are the answers to yesterday’s quiz, followed by another, taken from
the book, to run alongside this promotion.
Answers to Kings and queens quiz
- Ahab was king at the time of Elijah (1 Kings 16:28).
- Saul was the first king of Israel (1 Samuel 9:15, 16).
- Nehemiah asked Artaxerxes for permission to help rebuild Jerusalem Nehemiah 2:1-5).
- Rehoboam was the son of Solomon who presided over the split between Israel and Judah (1 Kings 12 and 14).
- Josiah was the young king who instigated reform (2 Kings 22:1-6).
- The Queen of Sheba is associated with Solomon (1 Kings 10:1).
- Nebuchadnezzar had Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego thrown into the furnace (Daniel 3).
- Jeroboam was the first king of Israel after the split with Judah (1 Kings 12:20).
- Cyrus was the Persian king seen by Isaiah as God’s agent in ending the Judeans’ exile in Babylon (Isaiah 44:28).
- Esther effectively took the place of Vashti (Esther 2).
- King Darius had Daniel thrown into the lion’s den (Daniel 6).
- Jehoiakim was king of Judah when it fell to the Babylonians (Daniel 1:1, 2).
- The Ethiopian eunuch served Queen Candace (Acts 8:27).
- Balaam was hired by King Balak of Moab (Numbers 22).
- Hezekiah was the reforming son of Ahaz (2 Kings 18; Isaiah 39:5-8).
Who said that?
Can you identify which biblical characters uttered the following lines?
- O my Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor even now that you have spoken to your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.
- With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men.
- Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them, and be clean?
- … for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples …
- Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.
- Now if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.
- Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?
- Last of all, as to someone untimely born, he appeared also to me.
- Cry aloud! Surely he is a god; either he is meditating, or he has wandered away, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.
- I did not call; lie down again.
- Why did I not die at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?
- Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!
- They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.
- Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you!
- Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.