Elisha 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 Elisha doing when Elijah found him?
- A. Praying in the temple
- B. Plowing with twelve yoke of oxen ✓
- C. Tending sheep
- D. Studying the law
Answer: Plowing with twelve yoke of oxen
So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him.
Q2.What did Elisha do to his oxen and equipment when he followed Elijah?
- A. Sold them
- B. Gave them to his father
- C. Slew the oxen, boiled the flesh with the instruments, and gave unto the people ✓
- D. Left them in the field
Answer: Slew the oxen, boiled the flesh with the instruments, and gave unto the people
And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah… and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat.
Q3.What did Elisha ask for from Elijah before his translation?
- A. A double portion of thy spirit ✓
- B. Wealth and honour
- C. A position of authority
- D. The mantle only
Answer: A double portion of thy spirit
And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
Q4.How did Elisha receive Elijah's spirit?
- A. Elijah laid hands on him
- B. He saw Elijah taken up, took up his mantle, and smote the waters ✓
- C. It fell upon him in a dream
- D. God spoke from heaven
Answer: He saw Elijah taken up, took up his mantle, and smote the waters
He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan; And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah?
Q5.What did the young lads call Elisha that brought a curse?
- A. Old man
- B. Bald head / Go up, thou bald head ✓
- C. False prophet
- D. Son of a harlot
Answer: Bald head / Go up, thou bald head
And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
Q6.What happened to the children who mocked Elisha?
- A. They were forgiven
- B. Two she bears came out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them ✓
- C. They were struck blind
- D. They were scattered by angels
Answer: Two she bears came out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them
And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
Q7.What did Elisha tell the widow to gather to pay her debt?
- A. Gold and silver
- B. Empty vessels, and pour the little oil she had into them ✓
- C. Grain from her neighbours
- D. Water from the well
Answer: Empty vessels, and pour the little oil she had into them
Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
Q8.What miracle did Elisha perform for the Shunammite woman's son?
- A. He healed his leprosy
- B. He raised him from the dead ✓
- C. He restored his sight
- D. He made him walk
Answer: He raised him from the dead
And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed… and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
Q9.What did Naaman the Syrian have to do to be cleansed of leprosy?
- A. Offer a sacrifice
- B. Dip seven times in the Jordan ✓
- C. Anoint himself with oil
- D. Eat special food
Answer: Dip seven times in the Jordan
Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
Q10.What did Gehazi, Elisha's servant, receive because of his greed?
- A. Wealth from Naaman
- B. The leprosy of Naaman ✓
- C. A position of honour
- D. The spirit of Elijah
Answer: The leprosy of Naaman
The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.