Joshua 9 Quiz - SalvationCall

1. The inhabitants of Gibeon were .

Amorites

Moabites

Hivites

Amonites

2. What smart thing did the inhabitants of Gibeon do?

They pretended to be strangers in the land so that they could ally with the Israelites.

They built an unbreakable wall around their city.

They gathered many goods and gave them to the Israelites as gifts.

They taught the Israelites how to fight and defeat the Canaanites.

3. The Gibeonites pretended to have come a long way to reach the Israelites .

because of famine

because of war

because of scarcity of water

to seek the Lord

4. Who was the king of Heshbon whom Israel killed?

Agag

Sihon

Adoni-Bezek

5. Who was the king of Bashan whom Israel killed?

Ben-Ami

Sihon

Adoni-Bezek

6. The people of Heshbon and Bashan were .

Perizzites

Amorites

Ammonites

Hittites

7. What did the Gibeonites show to convince the Israelites that they were travelers?

Old provisions

New provisions

Items of war

Rusty shackles and chains

8. What did the Israelites do when they were convinced that the Gibeonites were strangers in the land?

They accepted them as brothers.

The Israeli leaders made a peace treaty with them.

They taught them the law of God.

They made them join Israel.

9. When did the Israelites know that the Gibeonites were inhabitants of the land and not strangers as they pretended to be?

10 days after making a peace treaty with them

5 days after making a peace treaty with them

7 days after making a peace treaty with them

3 days after making a peace treaty with them

10. What were the cities of the Gibeonites?

Gibeon

Gilgal

Sheckem

Kirjathjearim

Chephirah

Bethel

Beeroth

Jerusalem

11. Why didn't the Israelites kill the Gibeonites when they found out that they were inhabitants of the land?

It is because the Israeli leaders had made peace with them and sworn to spare their lives.

It is because the Gibeonites were also sons of Abraham.

It is because they took pity on the Gibeonites.

It is because the Gibeonites were not inhabitants of the Promised Land.

12. Why did the Israelites murmur against their leaders?

It is because they do not care about their welfare.

It is because they were thirsty and the rivers around them had dried up.

It is because there was no food for them to eat.

It is because the Israeli leaders had sworn to spare the lives of the Gibeonites.

13. Israelites feared that if they killed the Gibeonites .

the inhabitants of the land would unite to fight them

they would break their oath and God's wrath would come upon them

the gods of the land would punish them

the land would slip into anarchy and bloody warfare

14. What were the Gibeonites subjugated to do when the Israelites spared them their lives?

They were to hunt game for Israel.

They were to fight wars for Israel.

They were to work the fields for the people of Israel.

They were to became cutters of wood and drawers of water for the Israelites.

15. Why did the Gibeonites lie to Joshua and the Israelites that they were strangers who had come to the Promised Land from a distant place?

They did that because they had no where to go.

They did that because they feared that the Israelites would destroy them and take their land.

They did that because they wanted to be a thorn in the flesh of the Israelites.

They did that to test the wisdom of the Israelites.

16. Realizing that the Gibeonites had deceived them, what did Joshua do?

Joshua called them for interrogation.

Joshua killed their leaders.

Joshua exiled them from the Promised Land.

Joshua fought against them and destroyed their cities.

17. According to Joshua 9, where did the Israelites camp?

Beeroth

Chephirah

Gilgal

Kirjathjearim

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