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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