Find the Incorrect Answer (Old Testament) #4 Quiz

Answer: His son Mephibosheth was lame in both feet.

Yes, Mephibosheth was lame in both feet, but he wasn't Saul's son. He was actually Saul's grandson. Saul's son Jonathan was the father of Mephibosheth, as per 2 Samuel 4:4.

1 Samuel 9:2 in the NKJV describes Saul as being tall and good looking. "There was not a more handsome person than he among the children of Israel," the verse states. "From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people."

1 Samuel 10:17-27 tells of Saul being proclaimed the first king of Israel.

Meanwhile, 1 Samuel 18:27 tells of Saul's daughter becoming the wife of David. As a result, he was a father-in-law of David.

Answer: He commited adultery with Bathsheba and Abigail.

David committed adultery with Bathsheba, not Abigail. For the record, Abigail became David's wife after the death of her husband Nabal. David's adulterous affair with Bathsheba is recorded in 2 Samuel 11:4 and his marriage to Abigail in 1 Samuel 25:42.

Shammah was one of David's seven brothers, according to 1 Samuel 17:13.

Scripture states David had a mother-in-law and a wife who shared the same name -- Ahinoam. According to 1 Samuel 14:49, Ahinoam was the wife of Saul and the mother of Michal who became David's first wife. 1 Samuel 25:43 states David's wife Ahinoam was from Jezreel.

1 Samuel 18 tells of the deep friendship between David and Jonathan.

Answer: He was replaced as king by Ahab.

Solomon was replaced by his son Rehoboam as king, not by Ahab. The selection of Rehoboam as king is recorded in 1 Kings 11:43.

1 Kings 11:3 states Solomon had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines.

The admiration the Queen of Sheba had for Solomon is recorded in 1 Kings 10:1-13.

Although David is believed to have written many of the Psalms, his son Solomon is credited with writing at least two -- Psalm 72 and Psalm 127.

Answer: He was replaced as king by his son Jeroboam.

Rehoboam was replaced as king by his son, but his name wasn't Jeroboam. According to 1 Kings 14:29, Rehoboam's son who replaced him was called Abijam, also known as Abijah.

According to 1 Kings 14:21, Rehoboam was the son of Solomon and Namaah.

Scripture reports he got off to a bad start when he ignored the advice of his father's advisers and followed the advice of young men he had grown up with, as per 1 Kings 12.

And from there things got worse. The ten northern tribes broke away and before long Rehoboam was left ruling over a much smaller domain than his father Solomon and his grandfather David. According to 1 Kings 14:21, Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became king and he reigned for 17 turbulent years.

There is no disputing the fact Rehoboam was despised. In fact, according to 1 Kings 12:18, his subjects were so infuriated they almost stoned him to death. The passage, in the NIV, states: "King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram, who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem."

Answer: He had fifty wives and fifty concubines.

Abijah did not have fifty wives and fifty concubines, although Scripture says he married fourteen times. 2 Chronicles 13:21 states, "Abijah grew mighty, married fourteen wives, and begot twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters."

According to 2 Chronicles 13:4-5, he made an unsuccessful effort to bring the northern ten tribes back into the fold, which would have united Israel and Judah. However, his plea was soundly rejected with Judah and Israel ending up in a bloody battle.

2 Chronicles 13:17-18 tells of Abijah's resounding victory: "Then Abijah and his people struck them with a great slaughter; so five hundred thousand choice men of Israel fell slain. Thus the children of Israel were subdued at that time; and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on the LORD God of their fathers."

1 Chronicles 13:2 states Abijah's mother was Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah, and he reigned over Judah for three years. His father was Rehoboam, as per 1 Chronicles 12:16.

Answer: He reigned for only nine months.

Jehoshaphat reigned for twenty-five years, not nine months, as per 1 Kings 22:42.

According to 1 Kings 22:43, Jehoshaphat did "what was right in the eyes of the Lord."

Nevertheless, he entered into an agreement with Ahab, the despised king of Israel and the husband of Jezebel, generally seen as the most wicked woman in the Bible. Details of the unlikely alliance are recorded in 1 Kings 22:1-40.

After his death, Jehoshaphat was replaced as king by his son Jehoram, as per 1 Kings 22:50.

Answer: His wife Rizpah was a prophetess.

He was the fourteenth king of Judah, according to Wikipedia. The prophet Isaiah told Hezekiah to get his house in order "for you shall die, and not live," as per 2 Kings 20:1.

Hezekiah then poured out his heart to the Lord immediately after Isaiah left and Scripture reports the prophet promptly received a message from the LORD. 2 King 20:4-5, in the NKJV Bible, states in part: "'Return and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: 'I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD. And I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake, and for the sake of My servant David.'"

Scripture goes on to report fifteen more years were added to Hezekiah's life.

However, there is no indication in Scripture he had a wife named Rizpah, let alone the fact she was a prophetess. The only woman in the Hebrew Bible, or the Old Testament, who was called Rizpah was a concubine of Saul. Incidentally, only two women who are named are described as being a prophetess in the Old Testament. They were Miriam and Deborah.

Answer: He was a grandson of Solomon.

Manasseh became king at the tender age of 12 and, according to Scripture, ruled until he was 67. Scripture states Manasseh was extremely brutal.

2 Kings 21:16, in the NKJV Bible, states Manasseh "shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another." Scripture also reports he worshiped false gods and rebuilt high places his father Hezekiah had destroyed. According to Wikipedia, the name Manasseh means "causing to forget."

According to 2 Kings 21:1, Manasseh was the son of Hezekiah, who was the son of Asa, as per 2 Kings 18:1. In other words, Manasseh was the grandson of Asa, not the grandson of Solomon.

Answer: She was killed when she was pushed off a balcony and trampled by horses.

The sordid story of Queen Athaliah is found in the 11th chapter of 2 Kings as well as the 22nd and 23rd chapters of 2 Chronicles. She was the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel (2 Kings 8:18) and she was the original 'queen of mean'. In fact, she makes Leona Helmsley look like a Girl Guide.

When her son Ahaziah died, she was unstoppable in her blood-thirsty mission to have herself instilled as queen. To this end, she killed all Ahaziah's children except Joash, the youngest, as per 2 Kings 11:1-2. (The only reason she didn't kill Joash is the fact he was placed in hiding.) In other words, she killed her own grandchildren to cement her hold on power.

Athaliah reigned for six years and was killed in an insurrection. 2 Kings 11:20 states "all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was calm" when the news was announced Athaliah had been killed with a sword at the palace.

In other words, she didn't die by being pushed off a balcony and being trampled by horses. Such a fate was suffered by her notorious mother, Jezebel (2 Kings 9:7-37.)

Answer: During his reign the armies of Shishak of Egypt raided the land and stole vast quantities of gold.

Ahab was one of the most despised kings in the Old Testament with his death reported in 2 Chronicles 18:28-33. According to Scripture Ahab and Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, entered battle against the king of Aram at Ramoth Gilead. Apparently, word had leaked that the king of Aram had ordered his chariot commanders not to fight against anyone else but Ahab, the king of Israel. So Ahab entered the battle in disguise while Jehoshaphat wore his royal robes. 2 Chronicles 18:31-34, in the NIV Bible, tells what happened next: "When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they thought, 'This is the king of Israel.' So they turned to attack him, but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him. God drew them away from him, for when the chariot commanders saw that he was not the king of Israel, they stopped pursuing him. But someone drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between the breastplate and the scale armor. The king told the chariot driver, 'Wheel around and get me out of the fighting. I've been wounded.' All day long the battle raged, and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot facing the Arameans until evening. Then at sunset he died."

1 Kings 18 tells of Ahab and his wife Jezebel killing a number of the prophets of God.

However, Shishak of Egypt raided Judea during the reign of Rehoboam and stole vast quantities of gold, as per 1 Kings 14:25-27.