Bible Bowl                             Genesis 26

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       1. Gen. 26:1 - When there was a famine in the land, Isaac went to

     which king in Gerar?

 

                       A) Abimelech king of the Hittites

                       B) Abimelech king of the Philistines

                       C) Melchizedek king of Salem

                       D) King Tut

     Correct answer B.

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       2. Gen. 26:2 - The Lord appeared to Isaac in Gerar and told him not

     to go to what land?

 

                     A) Goshen  B) Canaan  C) Egypt  D) Seir

     Correct answer C.

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       3. Gen. 26:3 - Who was Isaac's father?

 

                      A) Abraham  B) Esau  C) Cain  D) Jacob

     Correct answer A.

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       4. Gen. 26:4,5 - God said he would make Isaac's descendants as

     numerous as the stars in the sky and through his offspring all nations

     on earth would be blessed because his father Abraham kept God's

     requirements, commands, decrees, and what?

 

                    A) promises  B) secrets  C) gifts  D) laws

     Correct answer D.

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       5. Gen. 26:7 - When the men of Gerar asked Isaac about his wife

     Rebekah, he said she was his what?

 

                     A) servant  B) nurse  C) sister  D) bride

     Correct answer C.

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       6. Gen. 26:8-10 - Abimelech king of the Philistines asked Isaac why

     he said Rebekah was his sister.  Isaac answered that he thought he

     might lose his life on account of her.  What would have been brought

     upon Abimelech's people if one of the men had slept with Isaac's wife?

 

                       A) famine  B) fear  C) fire  D) guilt

     Correct answer D.

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       7. Gen. 26:12-15 - Isaac planted crops in the land of the

     Philistines.  The same year the Lord blessed him and he reaped a

     hundred-fold.  Isaac was so wealthy that the Philistines envied him and

     did what to the wells Abraham's servants had dug?

 

                        A) stopped them up with earth

                        B) poisoned them by witchcraft

                        C) emptied them

                        D) covered them with large stones

     Correct answer A.

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               Bible Bowl                             Genesis 26

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       8. Gen. 26:16,17 - Isaac became too powerful and had to move away

     from Abimelech and the Philistines.  Where did Isaac encamp and settle

     after this?

 

                             A) Valley of Siddim

                             B) Valley of Gerar

                             C) Valley of Shaveh

                             D) Ohio Valley College

     Correct answer B.

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       9. Gen. 26:18-22 - Isaac re-opened the wells the Philistines had

     stopped up.  His servants also dug new wells.  Which of the following

     was NOT one of the names of these new wells?

 

                     A) Retaw  B) Esek  C) Sitnah  D) Rehoboth

     Correct answer A.

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      10. Gen. 26:23-25 - Where was Isaac when he built an altar, called on

     the name of the Lord, pitched his tent, his servants dug a well, and

     the Lord appeared to him and blessed him?

 

                 A) Bethlehem  B) Bethel  C) Beersheba  D) Bethany

     Correct answer C.

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      11. Gen. 26:26 - Who was king Abimelech's personal advisor?

 

                     A) Elon  B) Beeri  C) Ahuzzath  D) Phicol

     Correct answer C.

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      12. Gen. 26:26 - Who was the commander of king Abimelech's forces?

 

                     A) Elon  B) Beeri  C) Ahuzzath  D) Phicol

     Correct answer D.

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      13. Gen. 26:26-31 - Abimelech, Ahuzzath, and Phicol swore an oath with

     Isaac and made what?

 

                  A) war  B) a treaty  C) sacrifices  D) trouble

     Correct answer B.

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      14. Gen. 26:32,33 - When Isaac's servants dug a well at Beersheba,

     they said, "We've found water!"  What did he call the well?

 

                    A) Shibah  B) Esek  C) Sitnah  D) Rehoboth

     Correct answer A.

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      15. Gen. 26:34 - How many years old was Esau when he married Judith

     daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the

     Hittite?

 

                            A) 20  B) 30  C) 40  D) 50

     Correct answer C.

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