Can I 'Run' this Bible Quiz by You? -- #2

Answer: Laban

Laban, the father of Rachel and Leah, is the correct answer. According to Genesis 24, a lot of running was taking place. Verse 17 tells of Abraham's servant spotting Rebekah by a well and he was so apparently so impressed with her beauty he ran to meet her. After meeting Rebekah, Verse 22 tells
of the servant presenting her with a golden nose ring and two golden bracelets.

Verse 28 then tells of Rebekah running to tell her mother's household about her meeting with Abraham's servant.

Verses 29-30, in the NKJV, tell of Laban then running to meet Abraham's servant at the well: "Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban, and Laban ran out to the man by the well. So it came to pass, when he saw the nose ring, and the bracelets on his sister's wrists, and when he heard the words of his sister Rebekah, saying, 'Thus the man spoke to me,' that he went to the man. And there he stood by the camels at the well. And he said, 'Come in, O blessed of the Lord! Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels.'"

There is no smoking gun, but it is believed the servant assigned to find a wife for Isaac was Eliezer, mentioned in Genesis 15:2.

Answer: Joseph

Joseph is the correct answer. According to Genesis 39:6-7, Joseph was "handsome in form and appearance" and Potiphar's wife cast "longing eyes" on him.

Scripture goes on to tell of the woman unsuccessfully trying to seduce Joseph. Genesis 39:11-12, in the NKJV, states: "But it happened about this time, when Joseph went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the house was inside, that she caught him by his garment, saying, 'Lie with me.' But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran outside."

Potiphar's wife then accused Joseph of attempted rape and he was tossed into prison, according to Scripture.

Answer: Aaron

Aaron is the correct answer. It's a long story, but the LORD turned dramatically against the Israelites who stubbornly refused to follow Moses' leadership. In fact, Korah and his co-harts were swallowed up by the ground.

Numbers 16:31-34, in the NKJV Bible, tells what happened: "...the ground split apart under them, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men with Korah, with all their goods. So they and all those with them went down alive into the pit; the earth closed over them, and they perished from among the assembly. Then all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, 'Lest the earth swallow us up also!'"

Verse 35 goes on to state that 250 men who were offering incense were consumed when fire came out from the LORD. By the time you read down to verse 49, no less than 14,700 people had died from a plague "in the Korah incident."

Numbers 16:46-50 tells of peace being restored to the Israelite camp after Aaron followed Moses' orders to run into the midst of an assembly with a censer with fire on it to make atonement for the people. The passage sates: "So Moses said to Aaron, 'Take a censer and put fire in it from the altar, put incense on it, and take it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from the LORD. The plague has begun.' Then Aaron took it as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and already the plague had begun among the people. So he put in the incense and made atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living; so the plague was stopped. Now those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the Korah incident. So Aaron returned to Moses at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, for the plague had stopped."

Answer: Achan

Achan is probably the most notorious thief in the Hebrew Bible, or the Old Testament of the English Bible. On top of this, he is the first stoning victim in Scripture.

According to the seventh chapter of Joshua, after Achan stole a large amount of booty in the capture of Jericho, the LORD turned against the Israelites and they were defeated in battle at Ai. It's one of those long stories, but the Israelites invaded Jericho and were attempting to conquer Ai as it had been allocated to them as 'The Promised Land.'

Joshua 7:21, in the NKJV, tells of Achan making his confession of guilt to Joshua: "When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. And there they are, hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent, with the silver under it."

After Achan made his confession, his fate was sealed.

Joshua 7:22-26 states: "So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and there it was, hidden in his tent, with the silver under it. And they took them from the midst of the tent, brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD. Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the garment, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had, and they brought them to the Valley of Achor. And Joshua said, 'Why have you troubled us? The LORD will trouble you this day.' So all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones. Then they raised over him a great heap of stones, still there to this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Achor to this day."

The Web site Christiananswers.net reports Achan means "one who troubles."

Answer: Samuel

The answer is Samuel who trained under the high priest Eli. According to 1 Samuel 3:8, Eli perceived it was the LORD who was calling Samuel after the third time he was approached by Samuel.

In Verse 9, Eli gives Samuel this advice: "Go, lie down; and it shall be, if He calls you, that you must say, 'Speak, LORD, for Your servant hears.'"

Samuel, after following the instructions, then received a message from the LORD pertaining to divine retribution against Eli's house.

Verse 7 gives this explanation for Samuel's initial confusion: "Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, nor was the word of the LORD yet revealed to him."

Answer: Eli

Eli is the correct answer. Eli's sons Hophni and Phinehas were out of control and simply refused to listen to him. According to 1 Samuel 2:12, his sons were "corrupt" in the NKJV and "scoundrels" in the NIV.

The chapter goes on to tell of an unnamed man of God telling Eli his two sons would be killed through divine retribution.

The fourth chapter of 1 Samuel tells of the Philistines capturing the ark of God and Hophni and Phinehas being killed in battle with Eli dying shortly afterwards. According to 1 Samuel 4:12-18, Eli died after the news was broken to him when "a man of Benjamin ran from the battle line the same day, and came to Shiloh with his clothes torn and dirt on his head."

Scripture states, "Eli fell off the seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy."

Answer: David

David is the correct answer. The same statement from David also appears in Psalm 18:29. In fact, Psalm 18 and 2 Samuel 22 are much the same, with some minor variations, in the NKJV.

According to 2 Samuel 22:1, David uttered the words "on the day when the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul."

Saul had spent the major part of his latter days attempting to kill David, simply because he was extremely jealous of him, Scripture states.

Answer: True

True. The sixth chapter of Mark tells of large crowds of people running to see Jesus.

Mark 6:33, in the NKJV, states: "But the multitudes saw them departing, and many knew Him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to Him." Meanwhile, Mark 6:54-55 states: "And when they came out of the boat, immediately the people recognized Him, ran through that whole surrounding region, and began to carry about on beds those who were sick to wherever they heard He was."

Mark 6:33 pertains to a multitude of people running to see Jesus with the account ending in details about five thousand men being fed with five loaves of bread and two small fish.

Mark 6:54-55 pertains to Jesus arriving in Gennesaret on the heels of calming a storm on the Sea of Galilee. The calming of the storm took place just after Jesus fed the multitude with a pittance of food.

Answer: Rhoda

Rhoda is the correct answer. She will be always remembered as the highly excitable girl who let her mind wander from the task at hand. It's a good thing Peter was not being chased by would-be captors, as he would have been chopped liver having to stand at the door of the house trying to get in while Rhoda was busy telling everyone else the latest news. The story in Acts 12:12-16 almost smacks of a scene from a Hollywood sitcom.

Acts 12:14 states Rhoda, after hearing Peter's voice, ran to tell the other believers in the house Peter was outside. Even though the believers had been fervently praying for Peter's release from prison, they refused to believe Rhoda's claim. In Verse 15, in the NKJV they state "you are beside yourself." In other words, they claimed Rhoda was crazy. (In the NIV, the believers are quoted as telling her "you're out of your mind.")

However, things changed dramatically in Verse 18 when the door was finally opened and Peter was found standing there. Rhoda was no longer perceived as being crazy and the believers realized their prayer had indeed been answered.

Answer: No name is given

No name is given for the man. He is simply known as the Philippian jailer. According to Acts 16, Paul and Silas had been severely beaten and were tossed into a prison in Philippi and were praying and singing hymns at midnight when a "great earthquake" struck.

According to Scripture, "the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were loosed."

Scripture goes on to tell of the jailer, "seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled," was about to kill himself.

Acts 16:28-29, in the NKJV, states what happened next: "But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, 'Do yourself no harm, for we are all here.' Then he [the jailer] called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas."

The chapter goes on to tell of Paul and Silas using the occasion to convert the jailer, and his household, to Christianity.