About This Quiz
More than 400 years after its creation, the King James Version of the Bible is still *the* authoritative translation of the Bible for many believers. They consider it to be the most powerful and poetic of the Bible's translations, and would not trade it for any of the more modern, easily understood translations. Completed in 1611, after years of labor by scholars working for the king of England, the King James Bible was reprinted and used for centuries. So widely used, in fact, that people who were barely literate could nonetheless quote the Bible in rich, classic English, complete with "thee," "thou," "verily" and "whomsoever." However, the King James Bible is not without its pitfalls. It's useful to know, for example, that "cattle" means all animals in 17th-century English, not just cows and bulls. Or that "meat" is food overall, not just animal flesh. And that in the famous chapter on love, 1 Corinthians 13, the word for "love" is "charity."
Are you an aficionado of this classic translation of the Bible? Do you think you can navigate its peculiar rhythms and wrest meaning from its sometimes-archaic language? We've got a quiz in which you can try just that. Often you'll be asked to fill in a missing word or words from a Bible verse. But other times, to mix things up, you'll be asked to identify a speaker, or to name the book a particular verse is from.
Are you ready? Test your Bible knowledge now!
Q1. Mordecai was second only to whom after Haman died?
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Q2. The bride compared her husbands eyes to what in Song of Solomon ?
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Q3. _______ ten sons were hanged?
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Q4. Can you tell who is the most likely author of the book Song of Solomon?
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Q5. How did the bride finish this sentence in Song of Solomon?
'And his banner over me was __________'
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Q6. The name of Saul's wife was?
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Q7. Jonathan unwittingly break the oath the Israelites took at Bethaven, how?
By drinking from a stream
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Q8. __________ was the king of the Amalekites whose life Saul spared?
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Q9. 'Surely the bitterness of death is past', these are words of which foreign King?
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Q10. In _______ town did David live when Samuel anointed him?
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Q11. Fill in the blank:
"Then the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited _____ out onto dry land."
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Q12. "And God said unto them, __________, and replenish the earth and subdue it ..."
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Q13. Complete Adam's sentence,
'This is now bone of my bone, and ____________: she shall be called Woman, for she was taken out of man.' "
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Q14. Fill in the blank:
"Surely __________ shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall live in the house of the Lord forever."
my children and grandchildren
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Q15. Fill in the blank:
"And the earth was without form, and _____, and darkness was on the face of the deep."
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Q16. What is the name of the speaker?
"Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?"
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Q17. Fill in the blank:
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and ___________."
the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters
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Q18. Fill in the blank:
"And the Lord said unto Cain, 'Where is Abel thy brother?' And Cain said, 'I know not, ________________?' "
'My punishment is greater than I can bear.'
'Am I my brother's keeper?'
'Art Thou not God, and knowest all?'
'It is not good for man to be alone.'
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Q19. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
Who said this?
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Q20. "And the women ... said, 'Saul hath slain his thousands, and David ________.' "
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Q21. Fill in the blank:
"And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, for in it He ______ from all His Work, which God had created and made."
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Q22. Fill in the blank:
"When thou doest alms, let not thy ________ know what thy _______ is doing."
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Q23. Fill in the blank:
"And now abideth faith, ____ and charity, but the greatest of these is charity."
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Q24. Fill in the blank:
"And I looked, and behold, a _________, and his name that sat on him was Death ..."
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Q25. "A prudent man concealeth knowledge; but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness."
Can you identify the book from this verse?