Dogs, Foxes and Wolves in the Bible Quiz

Answer: Benjamin

Benjamin is the correct answer. Genesis 49 tells of Jacob on his deathbed, sharing his last words with his twelve sons. Benjamin, his youngest son, was the last one to be addressed and Jacob's comments are captured in Verse 27: "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil."

Answer: Isaiah

Details about wolves and lambs living together in peace can be found in Isaiah 11:6. The verse in the NKJV states, "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them."

Chapter 11 of Isaiah is about the reign of Jesse's offspring and many Christians believe it is a direct reference to the coming of Jesus Christ.

Isaiah was the son of Amoz and he prophesied during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Answer: Foxes

Judges 15:4-5 tells of Samson catching three hundred foxes and attaching torches to the tails of the animals before setting them loose in the grain fields of the Philistines. Scripture states that not only were grainfields consumed by fire, but also vineyards and olive groves.

Verse 6 goes on to tell of the Philistines getting revenge by killing Samson's former wife and her father. The chapter goes on to tell of an infuriated Samson taking the jawbone of a donkey and killing one thousand Philistines.

Answer: Gideon

According to the seventh chapter of Judges, Gideon led the handful of soldiers who lapped water like a dog to victory over a gigantic number of men battling for the Midianites. Judges 7:1-7 tells of Gideon having 32,000 soldiers and the number being reduced to 10,000 when 22,000 of them were excused for being fearful of fighting the Midianites. Then the LORD instructed Gideon to lead the remaining 10,000 men to water where they were apparently told to drink.

Scripture states the men who drank by lapping the water from their cupped hands like a dog were selected for battle, while those who knelt down to drink were rejected. Only three hundred men lapped water like a dog, yet those were the ones the LORD told Gideon to take into battle. Sure enough, the chapter ends with an account of an amazing victory by Gideon's three hundred men over their opposition.

According to Judges 6:12 in the NIV Bible, Gideon means "Mighty Warrior."

Answer: Ezekiel

The statement was made by Ezekiel in Ezekiel 13:4. It is part of a passage in which the prophet of God expresses woe to foolish prophets of the day.

To put the verse in context, here's how Ezekiel 13:3-5 reads in the NKJV: "Thus says the LORD God: 'Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing! O Israel, your prophets are like foxes in the deserts. You have not gone up into the gaps to build a wall for the house of Israel to stand in battle on the day of the LORD."

For a fox to be in a desert would be foolhardy, according to notes in the NKJV Study Bible. In other words, the foxes were like prophets of the day who confused their own words with the words of God.

Ezekiel prophesied to the Israelites while they were in exile in Babylon, from 593 to 571 BC.

Answer: Goliath

Goliath made the statement to David as the two entered into battle, as per 1 Samuel 17:43. Scripture goes on to state Goliath cursed David by his gods and proclaimed, "Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!"

A few moments later, Goliath would topple to the ground after David hit him in the head with a stone fired from slingshot.

After Goliath fell to the ground, Scripture states, David took a sword and cut off Goliath's head. When the opposing Philistine soldiers saw that Goliath was dead they fled, with the Israelites pursuing them.

Answer: Lazarus

The correct answer is Lazarus, a man featured in a parable of Christ known as the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus. The parable appears in only the Gospel of Luke with the account appearing in chapter 16, verses 19-31. According to the parable, Lazarus lived outside the door of a rich man and he was so helpless the dogs would come to lick his sores. While the rich man was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day, Lazarus longed to eat the crumbs that fell from his plate.

Scripture tells of Lazarus and the rich man dying, with Lazarus ending up by the side of Abraham and the rich man in a place of torment. When the rich man requests that Lazarus come and dip the tip of his finger in water and cool his tongue, Abraham tells him this is not possible because there is a "great chasm" and no one can cross over it.

There is another Lazarus, of course, who is mentioned in the Gospels. He was the brother of Mary and Martha and was raised from the dead by Jesus at Bethany, as per John 11:1-44.

Answer: Jesus

Jesus, of course, is the correct answer. The verse is part of a passage in which Jesus issues a warning about false prophets, adding people will be able to identify them by their fruits. The passage is part of Christ's Sermon on the Mount, featured prominently in the Gospel of Matthew.

Answer: Matthew and Luke

The statement by Jesus that, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head," appears in Matthew 8:20 and Luke 9:58. According to the account in Matthew, Jesus made the statement to a scribe who stated, "Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go."

One of Christ's favorite descriptions of Himself was 'Son of Man'. Notes in the NKJV Study Bible state the Messianic title comes from Daniel 7:13-14 and Jesus uses it more than eighty times to refer to Himself.

Answer: Herod

Jesus referred to Herod, the Roman king Judea, as a fox. Details can be found in Luke 13:30-31. According to the verses, the Pharisees warned Jesus to "get out and depart from here, for Herod wants to kill You." Jesus responded by telling the Pharisees: "Go, tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected'."

In His statement about being perfected on third day, Christ is making reference to His resurrection from the dead.

Incidentally, notes in the NKJV Study Bible state the Pharisees were not really doing Jesus a favor when they said Herod wanted to kill Him. Rather it was a case they wanted Him to move on and to get out of their hair.