"Weather"ing through the Bible Quiz

Answer: Rainbow

God's promise to Noah of no more flooding was the first recorded rainbow in the Bible. God not only sent Noah this promise, but he also sent it to the rest of the land to show that he would not destroy the Earth with rains anymore. The story of Noah and the flood begins in the sixth chapter of Genesis.

Answer: Lightning

Ezekiel's vision took most of the first chapter of Ezekiel. In his vision, Ezekiel saw a storm brewing in the north. Inside the storm were four creatures that looked like humans. Each human had four heads, four wings, and animal hooves. The storm Ezekiel saw also shot lightning from inside it.

Answer: Dew on a fleece

In Judges 6:37, Gideon asked God to give him a sign if He wanted Gideon to save Israel. The sign Gideon wanted was dew on a piece of fleece and only on the fleece. When Gideon woke the next morning and found dew on just the piece of fleece he left out overnight, he asked God again for another sign just to make sure he understood.

The sign he asked for the second time was for dew on the ground and not on the fleece. The next morning when Gideon woke up he found dew on the ground and not on the fleece. Gideon then knew that God wanted him to save Israel.

Answer: Hail

God sent ten plagues on the people of Egypt as a sign to make Pharaoh release the Israelites. The seventh plague was hailstones so large that they killed animals and people. The story of the ten plagues of Egypt starts in Exodus 7:14 and ends in Exodus 11:1.

Answer: Mighty wind

In the first chapter of Job, his children and grandchildren were eating dinner at the home of Job's oldest son when a mighty wind blew the house down on top of them, killing them all. A servant of Job's came to tell him this after three other servants came to tell him of his animals and other servants being killed in his fields.

Answer: Frost

In Genesis 31:40, the drought bothered Jacob during the day and the frost bothered him at night. This occurred while he was waiting for Laban to give him permission to marry his daughter Rachel. When Jacob finished his seven years working for Laban so he could marry Rachel, Laban gave him her sister Leah to marry and made him work seven more years for Rachel.

Answer: True

The Amorites were leaving Israel and going to Bethhoran. It was during this journey that God sent a horrific hailstorm that killed more Amorites than the children of Israel did when they fought them with swords. This can be found in Joshua 10:11.

Answer: Snowing

In 2 Samuel 23:20, Benaiah was the son of Jehoiada and a general in David's army. He was known as a vigorous man who had already killed two men. One snowy day while in a pit, Benaiah killed a lion.

Answer: The sea

Jesus had just come from Capernaum when a storm arose on the sea of Galilee. The people on the boat were so upset they grabbed Jesus from inside the boat and brought him to the top. Jesus calmed the storm and then went back to sleep.

Answer: Matthew

Matthew 16:2-4 has Jesus, asked by the Pharisees and Sadducees for a sign from Heaven, telling them that the morning will be fair the sky is red the night before, and the day will be bad if the sky is red in the early morning hours.