Comprehensive Quiz on Israelite History: From Abraham to 70 A.D.

Here is a quiz covering the history of the Israelites from the call of Abraham to the destruction of Jerusalem.

📜 The Patriarchal Era

1. Where did the first call from heaven come to Abraham before he moved to Haran?

A) Babylon

B) Ur of the Chaldees

C) Sodom

D) Damascus

Answer: B Genesis 11:28PP 127.1.

2. Who accompanied Abraham and Sarah when they first set out from Mesopotamia to Canaan?

A) Ishmael

B) Lot

C) Isaac

D) Hagar

Answer: B Genesis 11:31PP 127.1.

3. What city did Lot choose to reside in despite its moral corruption?

A) Bethlehem

B) Mizpah

C) Sodom

D) Hebron

Answer: C Genesis 13:121MCP 339.1.

4. According to the allegory in Galatians, which woman represents the "covenant from Mount Sinai"?

A) Sarah

B) Rebekah

C) Hagar

D) Keturah

Answer: C Galatians 4:24LBG 70.2.

5. How old was Abraham when the promise of a son was confirmed to him and Sarah at their tent door?

A) 75 years

B) 100 years

C) 90 years

D) 120 years

Answer: B Genesis 18:13LTJMB2 101.1.

6. What was the name of the child Hagar was bidden to name, meaning "God shall hear"?

A) Isaac

B) Jacob

C) Ishmael

D) Esau

Answer: CPP 145.3.

7. Which mountain is traditionally associated by Samaritans with Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac?

A) Mount Sinai

B) Mount Gerizim

C) Mount Carmel

D) Mount Nebo

Answer: BSBD Gerizim.2.

8. Whom did Abraham send his servant to choose a wife for Isaac?

A) Keturah

B) Zipporah

C) Rebekah

D) Leah

Answer: CPP 175.2.

9. In the allegory of the two covenants, what does the "Jerusalem which is above" represent?

A) Bondage

B) The Old Covenant

C) The Mother of us all/Freedom

D) The Jewish Sanhedrim

Answer: C Galatians 4:26LBG 70.2.

10. What happened to Lot’s wife when she looked back during the destruction of Sodom?

A) She was struck by lightning

B) She became a pillar of salt

C) She was lost in the desert

D) She returned to the city

Answer: B1888 1551.2+1.

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🌊 From Egypt to the Promised Land

11. Who led the women of Israel in a song of praise after crossing the Red Sea?

A) Sarah

B) Zipporah

C) Miriam

D) Deborah

Answer: C Exodus 15:20VSS 444.4.

12. How long did God cause Israel to sojourn in the wilderness while identifying the seventh-day Sabbath?

A) 7 years

B) 40 years

C) 120 years

D) 10 years

Answer: B Acts 13:18STSG 12.2.

13. Moses married Zipporah, the daughter of the priest of which nation?

A) Moab

B) Midian

C) Edom

D) Egypt

Answer: B Exodus 2:16BHOTV2 34.1.

14. What was the "sign" between God and the children of Israel throughout their generations to know He is the Lord who sanctifies them?

A) The Ark

B) The Temple

C) The Sabbath

D) Circumcision

Answer: C Exodus 31:13AMS September 23, 1897, page 581.3.

15. Which son of Abraham was born "after the flesh" and represented the bondage of Egypt?

A) Isaac

B) Midian

C) Ishmael

D) Zimran

Answer: C Galatians 4:23STSG 42.2.

16. How many people were slain in one day after the feast of Baalpeor due to licentiousness?

A) 3,000

B) 10,000

C) 23,000

D) 50,000

Answer: CAA 315.3.

17. What did the children of Israel make to worship while Moses was receiving the law?

A) A bronze serpent

B) A golden calf

C) An altar of stone

D) A wooden idol

Answer: BAA 315.3.

18. Who gave a final charge to Israel, recounting God's works, before he died at 110 years old?

A) Moses

B) Caleb

C) Joshua

D) Eleazar

Answer: C Judges 2:8YI June 20, 1901, par. 2.

19. What did the sacrificial offerings in the patriarchal and Mosaic systems point toward?

A) The wealth of Israel

B) The coming of a Saviour

C) The power of the priests

D) The history of Egypt

Answer: BPK 684.4.

20. According to the New Testament, who is the "Seed" promised to Abraham in whom all nations are blessed?

A) David

B) Solomon

C) Christ

D) Israel as a nation

Answer: C Galatians 3:16HBS 333.1.

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🛡️ The Period of the Judges and the Kingdom

21. Which Moabitess woman chose to follow her mother-in-law to Bethlehem and became an ancestor of David?

A) Orpah

B) Ruth

C) Rahab

D) Athaliah

Answer: BBHOTV3 158.1.

22. How many years did the Lord raise up judges to deliver Israel?

A) 100 years

B) 450 years

C) 70 years

D) 250 years

Answer: B Acts 13:20.

23. Who was the first king God gave to Israel, a man from the tribe of Benjamin?

A) David

B) Solomon

C) Saul

D) Rehoboam

Answer: C Acts 13:21.

24. Which king collected vast stores of treasure to build the first temple?

A) Saul

B) David

C) Solomon

D) Hezekiah

Answer: B 1 Chronicles 28:12GC88 23.2.

25. Who was the wisest of Israel’s monarchs who completed the construction of the magnificent first temple?

A) Josiah

B) David

C) Solomon

D) Joash

Answer: CGC88 23.2.

26. What caused the Davidic kingdom to be rent into two rival states?

A) Foreign invasion

B) Solomon’s unfaithfulness and tribal tensions

C) A great earthquake

D) The death of David

Answer: BBHOTV5 3.1.

27. Which queen seized the Jewish crown and met a miserable end after the death of Ahaziah?

A) Jezebel

B) Athaliah

C) Maachah

D) Esther

Answer: BBHOTV7 9.2.

28. Through which prophetess did the Lord send word to King Josiah that Jerusalem's ruin could not be averted?

A) Miriam

B) Deborah

C) Huldah

D) Anna

Answer: C 2 Kings 22:14-16RH July 29, 1915, par. 1.

29. What was the name of the Jewish noble who was made governor by Nebuchadnezzar after the first destruction of Jerusalem?

A) Ishmael

B) Gedaliah

C) Zechariah

D) Jeremiah

Answer: B 2 Kings 25:22ETI Gedaliah.2.

30. Which city was the capital of the kingdom of David and the site of the Temple?

A) Samaria

B) Shiloh

C) Jerusalem

D) Jericho

Answer: CSBD Gerizim.2.

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🕊️ The Life and Ministry of Christ

31. In the incident of the tribute money, whom did Jesus say the Jews recognized as their ruler?

A) David

B) Caesar

C) Herod

D) The High Priest

Answer: B Matthew 22:15-21AMS February 21, 1895, page 59.2.

32. What did Jesus declare about His kingdom when refusing a temporal throne?

A) It was the most powerful on earth

B) It was not of this world

C) It would be established in Rome

D) It was inherited from David only

Answer: BAMS February 21, 1895, page 59.2.

33. Christ was born of the seed of Abraham and of whose line?

A) Saul

B) Moses

C) David

D) Aaron

Answer: C Romans 1:3DA 44.1.

34. Who was the "Lamb of God" that takes away the sin of the world?

A) John the Baptist

B) Moses

C) Jesus Christ

D) Isaac

Answer: C John 1:29SITI July 30, 1896, page 469.8.

35. Which group clung to the delusion that they were God's representatives in both civil and religious affairs?

A) The Romans

B) The Sanhedrim

C) The Samaritans

D) The Essenes

Answer: BAMS February 21, 1895, page 59.2.

36. To whom did Jesus address the lesson of the "green tree" and the "dry tree"?

A) The disciples at the Last Supper

B) The inhabitants of Jerusalem during His walk to Calvary

C) The Pharisees in the Temple

D) The woman at the well

Answer: BDA 743.2.

37. Which apostle appealed to Caesar, disdaining the civil authority of the Jews?

A) Peter

B) John

C) Paul

D) James

Answer: CAMS February 21, 1895, page 59.2.

38. What was the "Desire of all nations" that was predicted to fill the second temple with glory?

A) Gold and silver

B) The Messiah (Christ)

C) The Ark of the Covenant

D) Roman protection

Answer: B Haggai 2:7GC88 23.2.

39. Jesus said that if the Jews were truly Abraham’s children, they would do what?

A) Offer more sacrifices

B) Do the works of Abraham

C) Destroy the Romans

D) Rebuild the wall

Answer: B John 8:39RH January 14, 1873, par. 7.

40. What was the " accusation" written over Jesus' head at His crucifixion?

A) The Son of God

B) This is Jesus the King of the Jews

C) A Prophet of Nazareth

D) The Seed of Abraham

Answer: B Matthew 27:37HBS 240.1.

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⚠️ Prophecies of Jerusalem's Destruction

41. In what year did the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans occur?

A) 31 A.D.

B) 70 A.D.

C) 96 A.D.

D) 100 A.D.

Answer: BARSH November 17, 1863, page 194.11.

42. Which chapter in the Gospel of Matthew contains Christ’s rehearsal of judgments preceding His coming and the fall of Jerusalem?

A) Matthew 5

B) Matthew 13

C) Matthew 24

D) Matthew 28

Answer: C Matthew 24:1-31LDE 18.2.

43. What specific sign did Jesus give His disciples to know when the desolation of Jerusalem was near?

A) A solar eclipse

B) Seeing Jerusalem compassed with armies

C) A great famine

D) The death of the High Priest

Answer: B Luke 21:20ARSH September 2, 1851, page 17.11.

44. What did Jesus tell His disciples to pray for regarding their flight from Jerusalem?

A) That it wouldn't be in the morning

B) That it be not in winter or on the Sabbath day

C) That they could take their possessions

D) That the Romans would show mercy

Answer: B Matthew 24:20ARSH September 2, 1851, page 17.11.

45. How many people perished during the whole siege of Jerusalem according to Josephus?

A) 100,000

B) 500,000

C) 1,100,000

D) 97,000

Answer: CSBBS 263.2.

46. What was the explanation given for the destruction of Jerusalem and the dispersion of the Jews?

A) Lack of military strategy

B) Neglect to practice the principles given by Christ to His church in the wilderness

C) The death of Herod

D) A natural disaster

Answer: B14LtMs, Ms 92, 1899, par. 19.

47. According to Christ, the destruction of Jerusalem was a "type" or "symbol" of what future event?

A) The building of the third temple

B) The final destruction of the world

C) The restoration of the earthly kingdom

D) The end of the Roman Empire

Answer: B3BC 1133.10+1.

48. Who was the Roman commander (later Caesar) who gave orders to demolish the entire city and temple?

A) Nero

B) Cestius

C) Caesar (Titus)

D) Claudius

Answer: CSBBS 263.5.

49. What was left standing in Jerusalem to show "how well fortified" the city had been?

A) The Holy of Holies

B) Three towers and part of the west wall

C) The outer court of the Gentiles

D) The gate of the city

Answer: BSBBS 263.5.

50. What did the most "eminent of the Jews" do when the Roman army temporarily withdrew under Cestius?

A) They attacked the Romans

B) They fled the city like from a sinking ship

C) They celebrated a feast

D) They surrendered immediately

Answer: BARSH November 17, 1863, page 194.11+1.

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🧐 Theological & Historical Insights

51. Who is considered a "Jew inwardly" in the gospel sense?

A) Anyone born in Jerusalem

B) Those who have been circumcised in the flesh

C) Those who are Christ’s and have circumcision of the heart

D) Any descendant of Benjamin

Answer: C Romans 2:28-29SLH 108.2.

52. What does the "Good Olive Tree" represent in the family of Abraham?

A) The Roman Empire

B) The family of Abraham as adopted by God

C) The tree in the Garden of Eden

D) The city of Sodom

Answer: B Romans 11:17-24SOSL 74.3.

53. After the destruction of Jerusalem, where did the "spiritual supremacy of Palestine" pass to?

A) Rome

B) Alexandria

C) Babylonia

D) Antioch

Answer: CLTJMB1 14.2.

54. What was the title of the chief religious rulers of the Jews in Asia after the destruction of Jerusalem?

A) Pharisee

B) Patriarch

C) Rabbi

D) Zealot

Answer: BSBD Patriarch.2.

55. Which book of the Bible was written approximately 26 years after the destruction of Jerusalem?

A) Matthew

B) Romans

C) Revelation

D) Acts

Answer: CARSH November 17, 1863, page 194.11.

56. What happened to the "middle wall of partition" through Christ's death?

A) It was reinforced

B) It was broken down

C) It was moved to the Temple

D) It was rebuilt by the Sanhedrim

Answer: B Ephesians 2:14ARSH February 28, 1856, page 176.18.

57. The "added law" was to last until what occurred?

A) The end of the world

B) The destruction of the temple

C) The Seed (Christ) should come

D) The Romans took power

Answer: C Galatians 3:19LBG 58.1.

58. According to the New Covenant, where does God put His laws?

A) On stone tablets

B) In the mind and on the heart

C) In the city of Jerusalem

D) In the hands of the king

Answer: B Hebrews 8:10SC2 112.1.

59. What did the Jewish people depend on for salvation, misapplying the words of Jeremiah?

A) Their own wealth

B) Being called the "children of Abraham"

C) Their military power

D) Their knowledge of Greek

Answer: BRH January 14, 1873, par. 7.

60. What is the "Mother of us all" for those who are children of the promise?

A) Old Jerusalem

B) The New Jerusalem (Jerusalem above)

C) Sarah

D) The Church in Rome

Answer: B Galatians 4:26LBG 70.2.

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🌍 Geography and Names

61. Where was the "land of Haran’s nativity"?

A) Canaan

B) Ur of the Chaldees

C) Egypt

D) Damascus

Answer: B Genesis 11:28SBD Ur.2.

62. What city was identified with the "beautiful spring Callirrhoe"?

A) Jerusalem

B) Orfah (Edessa)

C) Sodom

D) Bethlehem

Answer: BSBD Ur.2.

63. What mountain stands 2855 feet high in Ephraim, near Shechem?

A) Mount Ebal

B) Mount Gerizim

C) Mount Sinai

D) Mount Moriah

Answer: BSBD Gerizim.2.

64. Who was the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, left to govern the country as tributary to Nebuchadnezzar?

A) Ishmael

B) Zechariah

C) Gedaliah

D) Zephaniah

Answer: C 2 Kings 25:22ETI Gedaliah.2.

65. Which place refers to a person, a tribe, a collection of ten tribes, and a city in various Bible verses?

A) Judah

B) Ephraim

C) Dan

D) Benjamin

Answer: BARSH November 12, 1861, page 186.7.

66. Which city was the land of Abraham's fathers, from which he departed never to return?

A) Haran

B) Mesopotamia/Ur

C) Egypt

D) Sodom

Answer: BPP 127.1.

67. What is the limestone mountain from which blessings were read to the Israelites on entering Canaan?

A) Gerizim

B) Sinai

C) Carmel

D) Hor

Answer: ASBD Gerizim.2.

68. Mizpah was the location where which ruler was slain?

A) Zedekiah

B) Josiah

C) Gedaliah

D) Herod

Answer: C Jeremiah 41:2ETI Gedaliah.2.

69. Where did the "little remnant of the Jews" flee after Gedaliah was murdered?

A) Babylon

B) Rome

C) Egypt

D) Ammon

Answer: CETI Gedaliah.2.

70. The "plain of Jordan" was compared to what garden before its destruction?

A) The garden of Gethsemane

B) The garden of the Lord (Eden)

C) The garden of Cyrus

D) The garden of Lebanon

Answer: B Genesis 13:10PK 229.1.

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⚖️ The Law and the Covenants

71. Hagar represents which covenant?

A) The New Covenant

B) The Covenant of Liberty

C) The Old Covenant (from Mount Sinai)

D) The Covenant of Grace

Answer: C Galatians 4:24LBG 70.2.

72. What "gendereth to bondage" according to the Apostle Paul?

A) The New Jerusalem

B) The Covenant from Mount Sinai

C) The promise to Abraham

D) The Gospel

Answer: B Galatians 4:24LBG 70.2.

73. What was the token or pledge of the covenant that the descendants of Abraham failed to keep?

A) The Sabbath

B) Circumcision

C) The Ark

D) The Temple

Answer: BARSH February 27, 1900, page 137.9.

74. The " righteousness of the law" is fulfilled in those who walk how?

A) After the flesh

B) After the Spirit

C) According to Roman law

D) By human tradition

Answer: B Romans 8:4SOSL 100.1.

75. What was the purpose of the "added law"?

A) To replace the Gospel

B) To last until the Seed (Christ) should come

C) To save the Jews from the Romans

D) To make the first covenant permanent

Answer: BLBG 58.1.

76. Where is the "Ark of God" found under the New Covenant?

A) In a cave in Jerusalem

B) In the sanctuary in Heaven

C) In the city of Rome

D) It was destroyed by fire

Answer: B Revelation 11:19SOSL 100.1.

77. What does the "New Covenant" write in the hearts of believers?

A) The laws of Caesar

B) The law of God

C) The history of Israel

D) The names of the apostles

Answer: B Hebrews 8:10SOSL 100.1.

78. Was the bondage of old Jerusalem caused by the law of God?

A) Yes, the law was too hard

B) No, it was caused by sin

C) Yes, because of Mount Sinai

D) No, it was caused by the Romans only

Answer: B John 8:34SOSL 100.1.

79. What is the relationship between the first and new covenants regarding the law?

A) The new covenant abolishes the law

B) The new covenant is designed to write the law in the heart

C) The first covenant had no law

D) The law was only for the Gentiles

Answer: BSOSL 100.1.

80. Who are the "children of the promise" like Isaac?

A) Those born of Sarah's literal line only

B) Those who have come under the New Covenant through faith

C) Those who live in Bethlehem

D) All descendants of Ishmael

Answer: B Galatians 4:28LBG 70.2.

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⏳ Signs and Final Events

81. Which signs were to follow the "tribulation of those days" before Christ's second coming?

A) The building of a new wall

B) The darkening of the sun and moon, and falling of stars

C) A great world peace

D) The end of the Roman Empire

Answer: B Matthew 24:29ARSH November 17, 1863, page 194.11.

82. In what day is the "destruction of the world" typified?

A) The Flood

B) The destruction of Jerusalem

C) The fall of Babylon

D) The death of Moses

Answer: B3BC 1133.10.

83. When Christ referred to the destruction of Jerusalem, His words reached beyond that event to what?

A) The building of the second temple

B) The final conflagration/judgment of the world

C) The reign of David

D) The flight of Lot

Answer: B12LtMs, Ms 78, 1897, par. 34.

84. Why will the manifestation of God's glory be a "consuming fire" to the wicked?

A) Because God is angry

B) Because their natures have become debased and out of harmony with God

C) Because of the sun's heat

D) Because of the Roman fire

Answer: BGC88 37.2.

85. As God warned the disciples of Jerusalem's ruin, what has He given the world to warn of final destruction?

A) No warning is given

B) Tokens and harbingers of His approach

C) A secret message

D) Only the historical books

Answer: BGC88 37.2.

86. What did the "false prophets" do during the decades preceding Jerusalem's fall?

A) They led people to the temple

B) They deceived many and led them into the desert

C) They fought the Romans

D) They preached the Gospel

Answer: B Matthew 24:11LDE 20.2.

87. Is the second coming of Christ identical to the destruction of Jerusalem?

A) Yes, they are the same

B) No, the Bible cannot be tortured to support that claim

C) Only according to the Pharisees

D) Yes, in a figurative sense

Answer: BPROLI 120.3.

88. "Watch therefore" was given as an admonition because the day of the Lord comes how?

A) With a loud announcement to all

B) As a thief in the night

C) At a known hour

D) Only to the Jews

Answer: B 1 Thessalonians 5:2GC88 37.2.

89. What was the "shortening of the days" for the elect's sake?

A) Shortening the travel to Egypt

B) Limiting the period of intense persecution

C) Reducing the hours of the day

D) Ending the war early

Answer: B Matthew 24:22DA 630.5.

90. What will all the "tribes of the earth" do when they see the Son of man coming?

A) Rejoice and feast

B) Mourn

C) Hide in the temple

D) Go to Jerusalem

Answer: B Matthew 24:30PROLI 120.3.

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💡 General Knowledge

91. Who was the "Sin-bearer" that took the seed of Abraham?

A) Aaron

B) Jesus Christ

C) David

D) Isaac

Answer: B Hebrews 2:16ST December 9, 1897, par. 6.

92. The "middle wall of partition" was between which two groups?

A) Men and women

B) Jews and Gentiles

C) Romans and Greeks

D) Pharisees and Sadducees

Answer: B Ephesians 2:14SLH 108.2.

93. Who are "Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise"?

A) All people living in the Middle East

B) Those who are Christ’s

C) Only the tribe of Judah

D) The followers of Ishmael

Answer: B Galatians 3:29SITI July 30, 1896, page 469.8.

94. What was the condition of the Jewish people when they turned against the truth of Christ's first advent?

A) They became more holy

B) They developed into a worldly church and faced judgments

C) They became the rulers of the world

D) They lost all their wealth immediately

Answer: BRCASDA 68.1.

95. Who was the "deliverer" who would turn away ungodliness from Jacob?

A) Joshua

B) The Deliverer out of Zion (Christ)

C) Gideon

D) Samson

Answer: B Romans 11:26SITI July 30, 1896, page 469.8.

96. What did the high priest Caiaphas prophesy regarding Jesus?

A) That He would become King of Rome

B) That He should die for that nation and gather the children of God

C) That He would rebuild the temple

D) That He would live forever on earth

Answer: B John 11:51-52SITI July 30, 1896, page 469.8.

97. "He is not a Jew which is one ________."

A) Inwardly

B) Outwardly

C) In heart

D) Through faith

Answer: B Romans 2:28ARSH February 28, 1856, page 176.18.

98. The knowledge of God was preserved in whose family after the world fell into idolatry?

A) Pharaoh's

B) Abraham's

C) Caesar's

D) Nebuchadnezzar's

Answer: BHSFD 158.

99. What day is Saturday in the Bible's weekly count for Israel?

A) The first day

B) The seventh day

C) The preparation day

D) The fourth day

Answer: BSTSG 12.2.

100. Who will inherit the earth and delight themselves in the abundance of peace?

A) The rich

B) The proud

C) The meek

D) The mighty

Answer: C Psalms 37:11BEST September 21, 1903, page 456.4.