Quiz on the Prophet Jeremiah (10 Questions and Answers)

Category: Adults · 10 questions

Test your knowledge of Jeremiah: his call, the potter, the letter to the exiles and the new covenant.

1. Jeremiah was the son of which priest of Anathoth?
   Answer: Hilkiah
   The book opens with the words of Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth (Jeremiah 1:1).
2. What reason does Jeremiah give when God calls him?
   Answer: He is only a child
   Jeremiah answers that he does not know how to speak, for he is a child, but God promises to be with him (Jeremiah 1:6-8).
3. Where does God send Jeremiah to hear his words?
   Answer: To the potter's house
   God tells Jeremiah to go down to the potter's house, where he will hear his words (Jeremiah 18:2).
4. What does the potter do with the vessel that was spoiled?
   Answer: He makes it into another vessel
   The potter reworks it into another vessel, as seemed good to him: Israel is in God's hand (Jeremiah 18:4-6).
5. What are the exiles in Babylon told to do in Jeremiah's letter?
   Answer: Build houses and plant gardens
   God tells them to build houses, plant gardens and seek the welfare of the city (Jeremiah 29:5-7).
6. How many years was the exile in Babylon to last?
   Answer: Seventy years
   The letter to the exiles announces seventy years for Babylon before God brings them back (Jeremiah 29:10).
7. In the new covenant, where does God write his law?
   Answer: On their hearts
   God promises to put his law within them and write it on their hearts (Jeremiah 31:33).
8. Who weeps for her children at Ramah in Jeremiah's prophecy?
   Answer: Rachel
   A voice is heard in Ramah: Rachel weeping for her children, yet God announces their return (Jeremiah 31:15-17).
9. Into what do the officials throw Jeremiah?
   Answer: The cistern of Malchijah
   They throw him into the cistern of Malchijah, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in it (Jeremiah 38:6).
10. Which servant of the king steps in to rescue Jeremiah from the cistern?
    Answer: Ebed-melech the Ethiopian
    Ebed-melech the Ethiopian lowers ropes and rags, and Jeremiah is drawn up from the cistern (Jeremiah 38:7-13).