Eli 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.Where did Eli sit when Hannah came to pray?
- A. By a post of the temple of the LORD ✓
- B. At the city gate
- C. At the door of his house
- D. On the high place
Answer: By a post of the temple of the LORD
Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.
Q2.What did Eli at first think of Hannah?
- A. That she was drunken ✓
- B. That she was a prophetess
- C. That she was mute
- D. That she was an enemy
Answer: That she was drunken
Therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
Q3.What did Eli say to Hannah after she explained?
- A. Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition ✓
- B. Depart from this place
- C. Pray no more
- D. Bring thy sacrifice
Answer: Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition
Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
Q4.What were the names of Eli's wicked sons?
- A. Hophni and Phinehas ✓
- B. Nadab and Abihu
- C. Cain and Abel
- D. Esau and Jacob
Answer: Hophni and Phinehas
Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
Q5.How did Eli teach Samuel to answer the LORD's voice?
- A. Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth ✓
- B. Behold, here am I
- C. Send me
- D. Lord, save me
Answer: Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth
Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth.
Q6.How did Eli respond to the LORD's word of judgment through Samuel?
- A. It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good ✓
- B. He wept and tore his clothes
- C. He refused to believe
- D. He fled
Answer: It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good
And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.
Q7.How old was Eli when the ark was captured?
- A. Ninety and eight years old ✓
- B. Seventy years old
- C. Fifty years old
- D. One hundred and twenty
Answer: Ninety and eight years old
Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
Q8.How did Eli die?
- A. He fell from off the seat backward and his neck brake ✓
- B. He was slain in battle
- C. He died of fever
- D. He was struck by lightning
Answer: He fell from off the seat backward and his neck brake
And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy.
Q9.How long had Eli judged Israel?
- A. Forty years ✓
- B. Twenty years
- C. Seventy years
- D. Ten years
Answer: Forty years
And he had judged Israel forty years.
Q10.What name was given to Phinehas's son born that day, meaning the glory is departed?
- A. Ichabod ✓
- B. Ahitub
- C. Samuel
- D. Saul
Answer: Ichabod
And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken.