Zechariah Bible Quiz — Questions and Answers
All 10 questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the King James Version reference. Use this page as a study guide, an answer key, or a quick review sheet.
Q1.What was Zechariah's grandfather's name?
- A. Iddo
- B. Berechiah
- C. Iddo and Berechiah ✓
- D. Haggai
Answer: Iddo and Berechiah
Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet.
Q2.What did the four horns in the first vision represent?
- A. Four kingdoms
- B. Four winds
- C. Four Gentile powers that scattered Judah ✓
- D. Four altars
Answer: Four Gentile powers that scattered Judah
These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
Q3.Who stood before the angel of the LORD in the vision of chapter 3?
- A. Zechariah
- B. Joshua the high priest ✓
- C. Zerubbabel
- D. The Branch
Answer: Joshua the high priest
And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
Q4.What did the two olive trees in Zechariah 4 represent?
- A. The king and the priest
- B. The two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth ✓
- C. The law and the prophets
- D. Israel and Judah
Answer: The two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth
These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
Q5.What was Zechariah told about Zerubbabel finishing the temple?
- A. By might and by power
- B. Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts ✓
- C. By many hands
- D. By the king's command
Answer: Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts
This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
Q6.How is the coming King described in Zechariah 9:9?
- A. Riding upon a white horse
- B. Riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass ✓
- C. Riding in a chariot
- D. Walking in humility
Answer: Riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
Q7.What does the LORD say about the fasts in Zechariah 8?
- A. They shall be kept forever
- B. They shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts ✓
- C. They are abolished
- D. They are meaningless
Answer: They shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts
The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts.
Q8.What will happen to the one whom they have pierced, according to Zechariah 12:10?
- A. They will mourn for him ✓
- B. He will be forgotten
- C. He will be raised immediately
- D. He will be buried in dishonour
Answer: They will mourn for him
They shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son.
Q9.What is the name of the shepherd who is smitten and the sheep scattered?
- A. The Good Shepherd
- B. The chief Shepherd
- C. The LORD of hosts
- D. All of the above ✓
Answer: All of the above
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.
Q10.What will the LORD's feet stand upon in the day of battle?
- A. The plain of Megiddo
- B. The mount of Olives ✓
- C. Mount Sinai
- D. Mount Zion
Answer: The mount of Olives
Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives.