Joshua 8 Quiz

This quiz is based on Joshua chapter 8. All questions are compulsory and should be answered before submission. Select the correct answers from the options given.
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1. Who called for a second attack on Ai?

God

Joshua

Achan

Caleb

2. What were the Israelites told to do about the spoils and the livestock they would take from Ai?

They were to offer them as a sacrifice to the Lord.

They were to take them for themselves.

They were to bury them in the ground because they were defiled.

They were to give them as a gift to the poor.

3. Why did the Israelites use ambush as a strategy to defeat Ai?

Caleb deviced that plan.

Joshua devised that plan.

God told them to do so.

A prophet told them to do so.

4. How many men did Joshua take to attack Ai the second time?

5000

2000

3000

30000

5. If the ambush took Ai, what were they to do to show that they had taken it?

They were to lock its gates to prevent any one from fleeing.

They were to break all of its walls.

They were to sack it immediately.

They were to set it on fire.

6. When did Joshua and his men leave to encamp against Ai?

Evening

Night

Morning

Dawn

7. The Israelites set an ambush for Ai. Where did the ambush lie in wait?

Between Bethel and Ai

Behind Ai

On the east of Ai

On the mountains close to Ai

8. Bethel was at                       .

the east side of Ai

the west side of Ai

the south of Ai

the north of Ai

9. Where did Joshua and his army camp for battle?

East side of Ai

Directly infrom of Ai

South side of Ai

North side of Ai

10. The Israeli ambush constituted how many men?

5000

10000

30000

3000

11. Joshua took a small part of this army to set an ambush. Where were the majority of Joshua's forces?

They were on the south of the city.

They were on the east of the city.

They were on the north side of the city.

They were in the caves around the city.

12. Which time of the day did the second battle between Ai and Israel begin?

In the afternoon

Early in the morning

In the evening

At noon

13. What were the king and people of Ai ignorant of?

They did not know that the Israelites outnumber them.

They did not know that the God of Israel was far mightier than theirs.

They did not know that Joshua was led by God.

They did not know that the Israelites had set an ambush for them.

14. What pretense did the Israelites put up during the battle?

They pretended to have won the battle.

They pretended to be tired.

They pretended to have been beaten and took flight.

They pretended to be weak.

15. What did the Israelites do to draw away all the warriors of Ai from the city?

They hid in the caves around Ai so the warriors of Ai came there to attack them.

They hid in the mountains, drawing the warriors of Ai to come and attack them there.

They scared the warriors of Ai to ran away from the city.

They fled during the battle and the warriors of Ai pursued them.

16. What did God have Joshua do as a sign of Ai's defeat?

Joshua stretched out his spear toward Ai.

He gave a prolonged shout.

He brew a horn loudly.

The stretched out his spear toward Israel.

17. At what point did the ambush rise to take the city of Ai?

At noon

As soon as Joshua stretched out his hand

When the king of Ai was retreating

When Joshua defeated Ai on the battle field

18. Which direction did the Israelites go when they fled in battle before the warriors of Ai?

They fled toward the wilderness.

They fled toward the desert.

They fled homeward.

They fled seaward.

19. What threw the warriors of Ai into confusion, not knowing where to flee to?

They realized that they had lost their way.

They realized that the Israelites were stronger than them.

They saw that the Israelites had outnumbered them.

They saw behind them that their city was taken.

20. All the warriors of Ai                             .

were captured

fled from the battle field

were killed on the battlefield

were spared

21. What was the death toll of both men and women from Ai?

5000

12000

30000

3000

22. When did Joshua draw back his hand after stretching it during the battle?

He drew his hand back after the battle was won on the field.

He drew his hand back in the night.

He drew his hand back in evening.

He drew his hand back after Israel had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

23. What became of Ai after it fell to Israel?

The Israelites killed all the inhabitant of Ai but left the city standing.

Israel burnt Ai, making it a heap of rubbles and a desolation forever.

Israel destroyed the walls of Ai to make it defenseless.

Israel burnt that gates of Ai and destroyed the palace of its king.

24. How was the king of Ai executed?

He was stabbed.

He was drawned in River Jordan.

He was beheaded.

He was hanged on a tree.

25. When was the king of Ai's body taken for burial?

Evening

Night

Morning

Afternoon

26. Where was the king of Ai's body buried?

Between Ai and Bethel

In the wilderness

The entrance of Ai's gate

Behind the city of Ai

27. How was the king of Ai's body buried?

The Israelites threw him into a pit.

The Israelites raised a great heap of stones on him.

The Israelites covered him with a great mound of soil.

The Israelites buried him deep underground.

28. Where did Joshua build an altar after the defeat of Ai?

On the mountains of Ai

At the gate of Ai

On Mount. Horeb

On Mount. Ebal

29. While Joshua was reading the law to the people of Israel, half of them were standing in front of                          .

Mount. Gerizim

The gate of Ai

Mount. Horeb

Bethel

30. While Joshua was reading the law to the Israelites, another half of the Israelites were standing                        .

around Ai

around the great oak of Ai

in front of Mount Ararat

in front of Mount. Ebal

31. While Joshua was reading the law, the priests who bore the ark were standing                      .

in front of the people of Israel

between the two groups of Israelites

behind the people of Israel

around the people of Israel

32. What did Joshua use to build the altar?

He used wood to build the altar.

He used carved stones to build the altar.

He used uncut stones to build the altar.

He used gold and silver to build it.

33. Which category of Israelites were not allowed to the gathering where Joshua read the law?

The women

The children

The strangers among them

None of them

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