A few weeks ago I posted a short quiz on Bible related trivia. Since then I’ve been requested by a number of readers to do another. Today is the day and since I’m a big fan of the Old Testament that’s where we’ll begin. This is a quiz with questions relating to the rulers of the time: Kings, Pharoah’s, and other questionable miscreants. Eleven quick questions with the answers as always listed below.

• What king hosted a banquet where a phantom hand left a message on the palace wall?

• What king of Israel was murdered while he was drunk?

• What military man captured 31 kings?

• What king had a strange dream about an enormous, fruitful tree that was suddenly chopped down with only a dry stump left?

• Who is the only king in the Bible referred to as the “Mede”?

• What king of Israel consulted the god Baalzebub after falling from his palace balcony?

• What king called Elijah the worst troublemaker in Israel?

• What king wanted to see miracles when the arrested Jesus was sent to him?

• What saintly king had a fleet built to sail for gold, though the ships never sailed?

• Who slept on a stone pillow at Bethel and had a dream of a stairway to heaven?

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Here’s a king I really like. A royal song writer of sorts.

What much-married king was the author of the “Song of Songs”?

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Answers

Belshazzer (Daniel 5:1-9), Elah (1 Kings 16:8-10), Joshua (12:9-24), Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 4:10-18), Darius (Daniel 5:31), Ahaziah (2 Kings 1-2), Ahab (1 Kings 18:17), Herod (Luke 23:8), Jehoshaphat (1 Kings 22:48), Jacob (Genesis 28:10-15), My Fav: Solomon (Song of Solomon 1:1)

SPECIAL THANKS TO J. STEPHEN LANG

(I got three correct.)