Hezekiah 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.How old was Hezekiah when he began to reign?
- A. Twelve years old
- B. Twenty and five years old ✓
- C. Thirty years old
- D. Eight years old
Answer: Twenty and five years old
Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign.
Q2.What did Hezekiah do in the first year of his reign?
- A. Built a palace
- B. Opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them ✓
- C. Made an alliance with Egypt
- D. Went to war immediately
Answer: Opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
Q3.What did Hezekiah remove from Judah?
- A. Only the foreign armies
- B. The high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves ✓
- C. The temple priests
- D. The law of Moses
Answer: The high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made.
Q4.What did the king of Assyria send to mock Hezekiah and the LORD?
- A. Gifts
- B. A threatening letter and blasphemous words ✓
- C. An army of peace
- D. Gold and silver
Answer: A threatening letter and blasphemous words
And the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah… And Rabshakeh… sent letters to Hezekiah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee.
Q5.Where did Hezekiah go with the letter from Assyria?
- A. To the king of Egypt
- B. Into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD ✓
- C. To Isaiah the prophet
- D. To the battlefield
Answer: Into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD
And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
Q6.How many Assyrians were slain by the angel of the LORD?
- A. Ten thousand
- B. A hundred and fourscore and five thousand ✓
- C. A thousand
- D. Five thousand
Answer: A hundred and fourscore and five thousand
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand.
Q7.What sickness did Hezekiah have?
- A. Leprosy
- B. He was sick unto death ✓
- C. Blindness
- D. Lameness
Answer: He was sick unto death
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
Q8.What did Hezekiah do when Isaiah told him he would die?
- A. He accepted it silently
- B. He turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD ✓
- C. He consulted physicians
- D. He called his advisors
Answer: He turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD
Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying, I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart.
Q9.How many years did God add to Hezekiah's life?
- A. Five years
- B. Ten years
- C. Fifteen years ✓
- D. Twenty years
Answer: Fifteen years
And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
Q10.What sign did God give Hezekiah about his healing?
- A. The shadow on the dial of Ahaz went backward ten degrees ✓
- B. A rainbow appeared
- C. Fire from heaven
- D. An earthquake
Answer: The shadow on the dial of Ahaz went backward ten degrees
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.