1 Kings 18 Quiz — Elijah on Mount Carmel — 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.How long had the famine lasted when the word of the LORD came to Elijah?
- A. One year
- B. Two years
- C. Three years ✓
- D. Seven years
Answer: Three years
And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year. (1 Kings 18:1)
Q2.Who was the king of Israel at this time?
- A. Jehoshaphat
- B. Ahaziah
- C. Ahab ✓
- D. Jehoram
Answer: Ahab
Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth. (1 Kings 18:1)
Q3.Who was the governor of Ahab's house?
- A. Obadiah ✓
- B. Jehoshaphat
- C. Benaiah
- D. Zadok
Answer: Obadiah
And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (1 Kings 18:3)
Q4.What had Obadiah done for the LORD's prophets?
- A. Built them altars
- B. Fed them bread and water
- C. Hidden fifty prophets in a cave ✓
- D. Preached in their place
Answer: Hidden fifty prophets in a cave
Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water. (1 Kings 18:4)
Q5.How many prophets of Baal were gathered to Mount Carmel?
- A. Four hundred
- B. Four hundred and fifty ✓
- C. Five hundred
- D. Eight hundred and fifty
Answer: Four hundred and fifty
Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty. (1 Kings 18:19)
Q6.How many prophets of the groves ate at Jezebel's table?
- A. Two hundred
- B. Three hundred
- C. Four hundred
- D. Four hundred and fifty ✓
Answer: Four hundred and fifty
And the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table. (1 Kings 18:19)
Q7.What did Elijah pour on the altar and sacrifice?
- A. Oil
- B. Water ✓
- C. Wine
- D. Blood
Answer: Water
And he filled the trench also with water. (1 Kings 18:35) — Elijah had water poured three times over the offering.
Q8.What did Elijah ask God to do to show He is the LORD?
- A. Send an earthquake
- B. Let fire fall from heaven ✓
- C. Open the earth
- D. Send a flood
Answer: Let fire fall from heaven
Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God... Then the fire of the LORD fell. (1 Kings 18:37-38)
Q9.What did the fire of the LORD consume?
- A. Only the sacrifice
- B. The wood, stones, dust, and licked up the water ✓
- C. The altar only
- D. The prophets of Baal
Answer: The wood, stones, dust, and licked up the water
Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. (1 Kings 18:38)
Q10.Where did Elijah slay the prophets of Baal?
- A. At the brook Kishon ✓
- B. At the Jordan
- C. At Mount Carmel
- D. In the wilderness
Answer: At the brook Kishon
And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there. (1 Kings 18:40)