1 Samuel 6 Quiz

This quiz is based on 1 Samuel 6 (NIV). All questions are compulsory and should be answered before submission. Select the correct answers from the options given.
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1. How long was the ark of God in Philistine territory?

Three months

One year

Forty days

Seven months

2. Why did the Philistines consult their priests and diviners?

So they would know how to defeat Israel in another battle.

So they would learn how to build a new temple for Dagon.

So they could decide which Philistine city should keep the ark.

So they would know what they must do to return the ark to Israel.

3. The Philistine priests and diviners told them that they could not send the ark without what?

A gift

A sacrifice

A priest

A peace treaty

4. What did the Philistine priests and diviners hope they would gain from returning the ark with a guilt offering?

Their armies would become stronger than Israel's.

Their crops would produce more than ever before.

The Philistines would be healed.

Their cities would become wealthier than before.

5. What did the priests and diviners advise the Philistines to send with the ark as a guilt offering?

Six gold tumors and six gold rats.

Five golden calves and five golden shields.

Five gold tumors and five gold rats.

Seven gold tumors and seven gold rats.

6. What was destroying the Philistine country?

A severe drought and famine.

The plague of rats.

Invading armies from neighboring nations.

Floods that ruined their cities.

7. Generally, what plague did God unleash upon the Philistines for capturing His ark?

A plague of locusts.

A plague of rats.

A plague of frogs

A plague of darkness.

A plague of tumors.

8. What did the Philistine priests and diviners tell the Philistines to do so that God would lift His hand from punishing them and their gods?

They should make gold models of the tumors and the rats as a guilt offering.

They should never wage war against Israel again.

They should give glory to the God of Israel.

They should offer grain sacrifices every day for a month.

They should destroy all the temples of Dagon.

9. The Philistine priests and diviners said the Philistines had hardened their hearts like whom?

The Canaanites and the Amorites.

The Egyptians and Pharaoh.

Saul and his soldiers.

The Moabites and Balak.

10. Which animals drew the cart that carried the ark back to Israel?

Two strong oxen that had often been yoked.

Two cows that had calved and had never been yoked.

Two young bulls from the royal herd.

Two donkeys that had never carried a burden.

11. Where did the Philistines place the chest containing the guilt offering?

Under the ark on the cart.

In front of the cows that pulled the cart.

Behind the ark inside the cart.

Beside the ark on the cart.

12. How would the Philistines know that the disasters had been caused by God's hand?

If the cows refused to pull the cart any farther.

If the ark remained in Philistine territory for another month.

If the cart went up to Israel's territory toward Beth Shemesh.

If the priests received another dream from God.

13. How would the Philistines know that the disasters that came upon them while they had the ark had happened by chance?

If the ark remained safely in Ekron.

If the cart did not go up to Israel's territory.

If the cows stopped before leaving Philistine territory.

If the cart returned to Ashdod by itself.

14. While returning the ark, the rulers of the Philistines followed the cart to where?

The city of Beth Shemesh.

The house of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.

The Jordan River.

The border of Beth Shemesh.

15. What were the people of Beth Shemesh doing when they saw the returning ark?

Gathering grapes from their vineyards.

Plowing their fields for the next season.

Harvesting their wheat.

Offering sacrifices at the altar.

16. What was the reaction of the people of Beth Shemesh when they saw the returning ark?

They were frightened and fled from it.

They stood silently and watched the cart arrive.

They immediately sent messengers to Shiloh.

They rejoiced.

17. Whose field did the cart carrying the ark enter before it stopped?

The field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.

The field of Samuel of Ramah.

The field of Eleazar of Kiriath Jearim.

The field of Boaz of Bethlehem.

18. Where did the cart carrying the ark stop?

At the entrance to Beth Shemesh beside a large tree.

In the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh beside a large rock.

Beside the city gate of Beth Shemesh.

Near the threshing floor of Beth Shemesh.

19. What did the people of Beth Shemesh do with the animals that drew the cart?

They returned them to the Philistines.

They sacrificed them as a burnt offering to the LORD.

They set them free to graze in the fields.

They kept them for future temple service.

20. What did the people of Beth Shemesh do with the cart that carried the ark?

They chopped up the wood of the cart.

They stored it beside the ark for future use.

They sent it back to the Philistines.

They used it to transport sacrifices.

21. Who took down the ark of the LORD and the chest containing the guilt offering from the cart?

The priests of Beth Shemesh.

The elders of Beth Shemesh.

The rulers of the Philistines.

The Levites.

22. Where were the ark and the chest placed after they were taken from the cart?

In the tabernacle at Shiloh.

At the city gate of Beth Shemesh.

On the large rock in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.

Inside the house of Joshua.

23. On the day the ark returned to Israel, what did the people of Beth Shemesh do?

They held a feast and crowned new leaders.

They offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the LORD.

They built another cart for the ark's journey.

They carried the ark immediately to Shiloh.

24. After watching the return of the ark, where did the five Philistine rulers go?

Ekron

Gath

Ashdod

Gaza

25. The number of the gold tumors represented the five Philistine cities. Which were they?

Ashdod, Joppa, Gaza, Gibeah, and Ekron.

Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.

Ashkelon, Aphek, Shiloh, Ekron, and Gaza.

Gath, Beth Shemesh, Gaza, Ramah, and Ashdod.

26. The number of gold rats was according to what?

The number of Philistine soldiers.

The number of temples dedicated to Dagon.

The number of Philistine families affected by the plague.

The number of Philistine towns belonging to the five rulers.

27. Why did God kill some of the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh?

They refused to offer sacrifices after receiving the ark.

They touched the ark without permission.

They looked into the ark of the LORD.

They attempted to keep the ark for themselves.

28. How many people of Beth Shemesh were killed by God?

70

100

50

120

29. Why did the people of Beth Shemesh mourn?

Because the Philistines had invaded their city.

Because the ark was taken away from them again.

Because the wheat harvest had been destroyed.

Because of the heavy blow the LORD had dealt them.

30. Whom did the people of Beth Shemesh ask to come and take the ark?

The people of Shiloh.

The people of Ramah.

The people of Kiriath Jearim.

The people of Mizpah.

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