The Old Testament Test | The Bible

Answer: Hagar

Genesis 21:14-16: "Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the desert of Beersheba. When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she thought, 'I cannot watch the boy die.' And as she sat there nearby, she began to sob."

Hagar was the servant of Abraham's wife, Sarah. Sarah was displeased with her because of her son with Abraham.

Answer: Joseph

Genesis 37:17b, 19: "So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan... 'Here comes that dreamer,' they [his brothers] said to each other." Joseph had been having dreams that his brothers would bow down to him. Their father had sent Joseph to them.

Answer: Isaac

Genesis 21:3 "Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him." At age 100, God had promised Abraham a son. When Sarah, who was 90, heard this, she laughed. Isaac means laughter.

Answer: Nehemiah

Nehemiah 8:10 "Nehemiah said, 'Go enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is sacred to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.'" Nehemiah and the people had returned from captivity, and the prophet Ezra had just read God's law to the people. They were weeping because they had disobeyed.

Answer: Eli

1 Samuel 4:10a, 12, 17-18 "So the Philistines fought, and the Israelites were defeated and every man fled to his tent. That same day, a Benjamite ran from the battle line and went to Shiloh, his clothes torn and dust on his head. The man who had brought the news replied, 'Israel fled before the Philistines, and the army has suffered heavy losses. Also, your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.' When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backwards off his chair by the side of the gate.

His neck was broken and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had led Israel for forty years." This fulfilled a prophecy that the young Samuel had made.

Answer: Daniel

Daniel 8:3a, 5 "I looked up, and there before me was a ram with two horns, standing beside the canal, and the horns were long. As I was thinking about this, suddenly a goat with a prominent horn between his eyes came from the west, crossing the whole earth without touching the ground." In the vision, the ram took over the earth.

Then the goat came and defeated the ram. This symbolized Greece taking over the Medes and the Persians.

Answer: Elijah

2 Kings 2:11 "As they (Elijah and Elisha) were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind." Elijah was a prophet, and it was time for him to pass God's power down to Elisha.

Answer: Benjamin's

Genesis 44:12 "Then the steward proceeded to search, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack." Joseph's brothers has sold him as a slave, and he was testing them to see if they had changed. They had.

Answer: Sarai

Genesis 17:15 "God also said to Abraham, 'As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah." Shortly before this, Abram's name was changed to Abraham.

Answer: Moses

Exodus 4:10 "Moses said to the Lord, 'O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past, or since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.'" God had told Moses to save his people from the Egyptians, and Moses was thinking of lots of excuses not to do it.

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