Advanced Bible Quiz: The Return from Exile (10 Questions and Answers)

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Ten questions on the return from Babylon: Cyrus, Zerubbabel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai and Zechariah.

1. According to Ezra 1:1, the word of the Lord spoken by which prophet was fulfilled under Cyrus?
   Answer: Jeremiah
   In Cyrus's first year the Lord stirred the king's spirit so that the word spoken by Jeremiah would be fulfilled (Ezra 1:1).
2. According to Ezra 3:2, whose son was Zerubbabel?
   Answer: Shealtiel
   Jeshua son of Jozadak and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel built the altar of the God of Israel (Ezra 3:2).
3. In which year of Darius's reign was the house of God finished (Ezra 6:15)?
   Answer: The sixth year
   The house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of King Darius's reign (Ezra 6:15).
4. In which year of King Artaxerxes did Ezra arrive in Jerusalem (Ezra 7:7-8)?
   Answer: The seventh year
   Ezra came to Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year of King Artaxerxes (Ezra 7:8).
5. To whom does Nehemiah ask for a letter from the king to obtain timber (Nehemiah 2:8)?
   Answer: Asaph, keeper of the king's forest
   Nehemiah asks for a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king's forest, so that he will supply him with timber (Nehemiah 2:8).
6. How does Nehemiah 2:10 describe Tobiah?
   Answer: The Ammonite official
   Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official were greatly displeased (Nehemiah 2:10). Geshem is called the Arab (2:19).
7. In which plain or valley do Sanballat and Geshem propose a meeting with Nehemiah (Nehemiah 6:2)?
   Answer: The plain of Ono
   Sanballat and Geshem proposed a meeting in the villages of the plain of Ono, for they intended to harm him (Nehemiah 6:2).
8. In which square do the people gather for Ezra's reading of the law (Nehemiah 8:1)?
   Answer: Before the Water Gate
   All the people gathered as one in the square before the Water Gate and asked Ezra to bring the Book of the Law (Nehemiah 8:1).
9. What kind of houses does the Lord reproach the people for living in while his house lies in ruins (Haggai 1:4)?
   Answer: Paneled houses
   Is it time for you to live in your paneled houses while this house lies in ruins? asks the Lord (Haggai 1:4).
10. To whom is the word "Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit" addressed (Zechariah 4:6)?
    Answer: To Zerubbabel
    This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit (Zechariah 4:6).