Love and Hate and War and Peace Quiz

Answer: Obed

Obed, Ruth's son, is father of Jesse, father of David. Ruth is one of two biblical women to have her own book (Esther is the other), and her loyalty to Naomi arguably led to the lineage and existence of the great King David in the biblical account.

Answer: Joseph

Joseph, the son of Jacob and Rachel, was favored of his father and had prophetic dreams that showed him exalted above the rest of his family. His brothers were jealous of him and thought to kill him, but Reuben, the oldest of them, changed course and instead led Joseph to enslavement in Egypt under master Potiphar. All of the events took place in Genesis.

Answer: Jonathan

Jonathan is Saul's son, and his close relationship with David causes much tension in the royal house. Both Jonathan and Saul fall in the war with the Philistines, which allows David to return and be Israel's hero and future king.

Answer: Queen of Sheba

The Queen of Sheba had heard of Solomon's wisdom and wealth, and was duly impressed when she actually arrived at court (in 1 Kings), which lived up to report. She expressed an admiration for Solomon and his god.

Answer: Michal

Michal was the daughter of Saul and David's first wife and reigning Queen. Her love for him (just like her brother Jonathan's) was a major point of contention in her family. Soon after her marriage, she heard that her father was aiming to kill the young hero or otherwise dissolve the marriage, and she helped David escape the threat.

She is the only woman in the Bible stated to have loved a man, but David is not stated to have loved her. This incident comes to us from the book of Samuel.

Answer: Uncovering himself before female servants

Queen Michal confronted David about his unkingly activities in 2 Samuel, saying that he uncovered himself in front of female servants during his dancing. David's dance was to celebrate the return of the Ark from Judah, and his rejoinder to Michal was simply to state that God had favored him over her house (the House of Saul), and it may be implied that he and Michal did not have a physical relationship after this time, since it simply states that due to this confrontation Michal "had no children to the day of her death" (2 Samuel 6:23).

Answer: Lamentations

Lamentations, once attributed to Jeremiah, is a book responding to the destruction of Jerusalem. Now the book is often attributed to a collection of people as the response to the destruction is so widespread.

Answer: The Tree of Knowledge

The Tree of Knowledge is of course the famous tree that God forbids Adam and Eve to eat from in Genesis. This is a piece of a larger painting that shows many episodes of the story, and this particular piece has two - Eve accepting the fruit from the serpent, and Adam accepting the fruit from Eve.

Answer: Lot

Lot is Abraham's nephew who later on in Genesis ended up at Sodom. Abraham bargained with God to keep the city's good citizens alive rather than destroy the entire populace. God only found Lot's family among the good and the rest were killed in the destruction.

Answer: Haman

Haman, the cruel courtier of Ahasuerus (Xerxes), is enraged at Mordecai's failure to bow to him. This leads to him demanding the deaths of all Jews, but Ahasuerus' wife is actually Mordecai's cousin and a fellow Jew. The book ends with Haman being discovered as a cruel, wrongheaded conniver, and Esther wins the day. The events in this book are celebrated with the Jewish holiday Purim.