I Have a Crush on You! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Eve

According to Genesis 2, God created a woman (Eve) for the man (Adam) because it wasn't right for him to be alone. The two were in fact married--many Christians would say that theirs was the first marriage and God's design for all marriages--and therefore represented more than just a crush, but Adam was probably quite smitten with her when God presented her to him, based upon the following verses.


Genesis 2:23-25, New King James Version:

"And Adam said:
'This is now bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
Because she was taken out of Man.' Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."

Although the Bible doesn't explicitly say this, I have heard it suggested that Adam sinned (ate the fruit) because he loved Eve more than he loved God. It's important to know that the serpent tricked Eve into thinking that the wrong choice was the right one, but the serpent didn't trick Adam. He knew exactly what he was doing when he took the fruit from his wife and disobeyed God. He knew that it was wrong. See Genesis 3 and 1 Timothy 2.

Answer: Sarah

Abimelech was the king of Gerar, who evidently found Sarah, Abraham's wife, to be very beautiful. He wanted her to be his wife. Abimelech kidnapped Sarah and added her to his harem, but God did NOT allow Abimelech to have sex with Sarah. God appeared to him in a dream and commanded him to return Sarah to her husband, Abraham.

Abraham knew that Abimelech would desire Sarah because she was attractive. Abraham feared for his life, which is why he lied and said that she wasn't his wife, but his sister only, and therefore Abraham gave the king the impression that Sarah was single.

When Sarah was in Abimelech's house, God caused all of the females in his family to be barren, including his wife and female servants, but after he restored Sarah to Abraham, then God re-opened the wombs of Abimelech's women.

Answer: Rachel

Jacob was, of course, in love with Laban's younger daughter, Rachel. Laban agreed to allow Jacob and Rachel marry each other, but he played a dirty trick when he secretly gave Leah, his older daughter, to Jacob. Laban said that it wasn't appropriate to have the younger daughter married before the elder. Genesis 29, verses 21-26 provide a humorous event in which Jacob thought that he was consummating his marriage to Rachel, when actually, ". . . behold, it was Leah" (verse 25, New King James Bible). Jacob later married Rachel for real, which made him (like many other Old Testament figures) a polygamist.

According to verse 20, Jacob loved Rachel so much that even though he worked seven years for her (and another seven after Laban tricked him) the years felt like only a few days.

Answer: Dinah

Dinah was Jacob's and Leah's daughter. Genesis 34:1-4, New King James Version, explain Shechem, a Canaanite, and his feelings for her. "Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her and lay with her, and violated her. His soul was strongly attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman and spoke kindly to the young woman. So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, 'Get me this young woman as a wife.'"

Most Bible translations say that he raped her, but despite this, there is debate as to whether he truly raped her. Some people believe that the two engaged in consensual fornication, which might explain why her brothers brought up the harlot/prostitute issue in verse 31. Any intimacy outside of wedlock was probably considered as bad as prostitution was. After the initial intercourse, Schechem kept saying that he "loved" Dinah and wanted to marry her, but there is absolutely nothing that indicates she felt the same way about him.

Simeon and Levi wouldn't put up with any of it. Schechem was a pagan, a Canaanite, not a believer in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He also made their sister unclean, either by rape or fornication. The livid Simeon and Levi rampaged Shechem's home, murdering him, his father, and other Hivite males.

I would like to clarify that I do NOT wish to promote rape as anything truly romantic. However, even though his actions were wrong, based upon the text, he had a crush on her--perhaps an unhealthy crush, but a crush nonetheless.

Answer: Ruth

The book of Ruth is probably the second most romantic book of the Bible (second to the Song of Solomon).

Ruth was a young, Moabite widow. Boaz became her kinsman reedemer and her second husband, after she forsook the pagan Moabite culture and embraced the LORD.

I think that is pretty clear that Boaz was smitten with Ruth when he first saw her because he was concerned about her and questioned a man who she was. He also commanded the young men to leave her alone; it was like love at first sight. Ruth 2:9-10: "'Have I not commanded the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink from what the young men have drawn.'
So she fell on her face, bowed down to the ground, and said to him, 'Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?'" (New King James Bible)

Answer: David

Michal was Saul's daughter, the first wife of David. David and Michal were young people at the time. Michal was in love with David (1 Samuel 18:20) and this is significant because this is the only time in the whole Bible, the Old and New Testaments, with the exception of the Song of Songs, where it directly states that a woman loved a man. It's possible that other Bible women loved men. For example, Genesis states that Isaac loved Rebekah, so maybe Rebekah loved Isaac too, but the fact is that Michal is the only woman who is directly stated as loving a man. This shows that her love and passion for David was strong. Sadly, however, David didn't seem to love Michal as much as she loved him. After Michal saved his life, David took another wife, then another wife, then another wife, etc. Meanwhile, because Michal and David were living separate lives, Saul gave his daughter to another husband (1 Samuel 25:44).

After a while, David commanded Abner and one of Michal's brothers, Ish-bosheth, to bring her back to him. However, it is hard to say whether he wanted her back because he loved her, or if he simply felt entitled to her (2 Samuel 3:13-17). According to 2 Samuel 3:15-16, when Abner took her from her husband, Palti, Palti cried and followed her, until Abner told him to go home. Palti's heartbreak when Michal was ripped from him suggests that he loved her. It is possible that Michal enjoyed her new life with Palti, but alas, she was forced to return to David, only to eventually hate the man who she once dearly loved (2 Samuel 6:16).

According to 2 Samuel 18, David spared the life of Mephibosheth, Jonathan's son, but he executed the sons of Adriel and Merab. Merab, Michal, and Jonathan were all siblings, being Saul's children. Michal was apparently raising Merab's sons because Merab had died or something, so Merab's sons were Michal's adoptive sons. In other words, when David agreed with the Gibeonites to execute Saul's descendants, David spared his friend's son, but he killed his first wife's nephews/adoptive sons. Yikes!

Answer: Bathsheba

David's and Bathsheba's story is pretty famous. She was originally married to Uriah and people seem to debate whether she was actually an adulteress (that is, a guilty party in David's sin) or if she was a victim of his sin. David saw her bathing one day. He lusted for her and eventually ordained for Uriah to be murdered.

In 2 Samuel 12, the prophet Nathan compared David's sin to a rich man stealing a poor man's lamb. There is no mention of the lamb willingly going with the rich man because she was sick of the poor man. No, the rich man stole her and ate her, whereas she had been the poor man's pet. I personally believe that Bathsheba was a victim because of these and similar other verses.

Although Bathsheba mourned for Uriah's murder (2 Samuel 11:26), she became the mother of four of David's children: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon (1 Chronicles 3:5).

Answer: Tamar

Amnon, the son of David and Ahinoam, was in love--or so he claimed--with his half-sister, Tamar, the daughter of David and Maacah (yes, Maacah, NOT Michal). He pretended to be sick so that Tamar would nurse him. After she gave him bread to eat, he raped her.

When Absalom, the son of David and Maacah, heard what happened to his sister, he hated Amnon. He eventually murdered him. This story, somewhat similar to the story of Dinah, Shechem, and Simeon and Levi, portrays how sin leads to more sin.

Answer: Hadassah

"Hadassah" was the original Hebrew name of the Jewish girl who became Queen Esther, the wife of Ahasuerus the king of Persia. Esther 2:17 of the New King James Version says, "The king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins; so he set the royal crown upon her head and made her queen instead of Vashti."

According to the book of Esther, that favor and love from the king helped Esther to save her people from Haman's plan of Jewish genocide. NO person, not even the king's own wife, was supposed to approach the king without being called first, but Esther did. When he saw her, he extended the golden scepter, which showed that it was okay for HER to approach him.

Answer: Solomon

The Song of Songs, also known as the Song of Solomon, is traditionally believed to be about Solomon and his bride, the young Shulamite woman. Actually, much of it is from her perspective and she refers to him as her "beloved."

Some Bible scholars believe that Abishag the Shunammite was the Shulamite. Abishag was the beautiful virgin who nursed David, Solomon's father, in his old age.

Song of Solomon 3:11 mentions Bathsheba, Solomon's mother, who gave him a crown on his wedding day.