Bouncing Through The Bible: 5th Edition Quiz

Answer: just outside of the city of Jerusalem

Although the exact spot remains unknown, Gethsemane is believed to be a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives that lies just outside the city walls of Jerusalem.

The name means "olive-press". The garden itself was located at the western foot of the Mount of Olives. It is believed to have faced the eastern wall and was a tiny plot of land, consisting of less than fifty-seven yards square.

Answer: Italy, Greece and Macedonia

Paul first visited Macedonia and Greece in Acts 16-18, and Italy in Acts 28. He travelled many other places as well, in Asia Minor, such as Turkey, Syria and other nations around the Mediterranean Sea. He even spoke of a desire to go to Spain, but the Bible is not clear if he ever actually went there.

Answer: Jericho

This town which lies about 45 miles east of Jerusalem, near the Dead Sea, was the locale that Jesus chose in his parable of the Good Samaritan. After Jerusalem itself, the city is one of the most excavated sites in the area.

(As of this posting in 2010, Jericho is under control of the Palestinian
Authority and is not considered a part of Israel.)


It is interesting to note that it was as Jesus was LEAVING Jericho, as He headed toward Jerusalem, that He encountered Bartimaeus, healing him on the spot, according to Mark 10:46-52.

Answer: to cities throughout Israel that He was going to visit later

"After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come." Luke 10:1-24 (King James Version)

Answer: Iraq and Iran

The remains of ancient Babylon are found in present-day Al Hillah in Babil Province, Iraq, about 55 miles south of Baghdad. The Babylonian Empire was much bigger than that country, however, with some of it covering modern-day Iran and other regions.

The Hebrew word, "bilbel", from which it is derived, means "confusion". The Biblical account of the languages of the earth being confused during the construction of the tower of Babel in Genesis 11:9, lends itself in this way to the name of "Babylon".

During much of the time of the prophets Daniel and Ezekiel, Nebuchadnezzar was the king of Babylon.

Answer: Ur - Iraq

Once Ur was a coastal city near the mouth of the Euphrates River on the Persian Gulf in southern Iraq and was a part of the ancient Sumerian lands.

Today, Ur is inland, however, and lies south of the Euphrates, about 19 miles from Nasiriyah, Iraq.

God commanded Abram (Abraham) to leave his land of origin and travel by faith to a land that God would give him. (Genesis 12: 1-3)

Answer: Assyria and Egypt

In the biblical account, at the end of Genesis, the sons of Jacob migrated to Egypt where one of them, Joseph, had become a leader, serving directly under Pharaoh. They remained there for 400 years, during which time they continued to multiply, becoming known as the 12 tribes of Israel. Their Egyptian taskmasters had made life harsh, and so under the leadership of Moses, they left Egypt behind (Exodus).

After King Solomon's death, the nation split in two, with the northern tribes called Israel, while the southern kingdom was known as Judah.

The Northern Kingdom of Israel, consisting of ten tribes of Israelite people, was conquered and taken captive by the Assyrian kings, Tiglath-Pileser III and Shalmaneser V (2 Kings 15-16).

Later, Sennacherib also invaded some parts of the southern kingdom of Judah, which consisted of two other tribes, Judah and Benjamin. Jerusalem found itself under siege, but it was not taken. The tribes exiled by Assyria became known later as the "Ten Lost Tribes".

Answer: Turkey

Saul, (or Paul), as he later became known, was from Tarsus (Acts 9:11), a city in south-central Turkey located along the Tarsus River, about 12 miles from the Mediterranean coast. It is an ancient city that lies on the plain of Cilicia.

Answer: Artaxerxes of Persia

Nehemiah, who was the cupbearer to the king of Persia (Iran), led the third and final phase of refugees leaving Babylon to return to their homeland of Israel.

Queen Esther was Artaxerxes' step-mother, since she married his father, Xerxes, and she may have been instrumental in Nehemiah's appointment as cupbearer.

The cupbearer's duties consisted of tasting the king's wine to ensure that it hadn't been poisoned by his enemies, and in this trusted position, Nehemiah had the king's attention much of the time. When the king noticed that Nehemiah was sad in the second chapter of Nehemiah, he inquired as to the nature of the sadness, and Nehemiah respectfully told him of his concerns for his homeland.

Answer: In the Aegean Sea, on Patmos

John had been banished to this island as a result of his "radical" teachings about Christianity. The Roman authorities banished all types of political offenders and criminals to various islands in the area. The island of Patmos is about thirteen square miles in area and consists of volcanic rock.

Hostility towards Christians in general had erupted into open persecution by the time that John wrote the book of Revelation, and while the date of John's release from the island isn't clear, it probably occurred sometime after the reign of Domitian.