Isaac Bible Quiz

Answer key for Isaac Bible Quiz

1. Q1: Who were Isaac's parents? Answer: Abraham and Sarah. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. Reference: Genesis 21:2 (KJV).
2. Q2: What does Isaac's name mean? Answer: He laughs / laughter. And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me. Reference: Genesis 21:6 (KJV).
3. Q3: On which mountain was Isaac to be offered? Answer: Mount Moriah. And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together… And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order. Reference: Genesis 22:8 (KJV).
4. Q4: How old was Isaac when Abraham took him to be offered? Answer: Old enough to carry the wood for the burnt offering. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son… Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? Reference: Genesis 22:6 (KJV).
5. Q5: Who did Abraham's servant bring back as a wife for Isaac? Answer: Rebekah the daughter of Bethuel. And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. Reference: Genesis 24:67 (KJV).
6. Q6: What did Isaac do during a famine in Gerar? Answer: He sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. Reference: Genesis 26:12 (KJV).
7. Q7: Why did the Philistines stop up Isaac's wells? Answer: Because they envied him. For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him. For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. Reference: Genesis 26:14 (KJV).
8. Q8: What did Isaac name the well that was not contended for? Answer: Rehoboth; for now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. Reference: Genesis 26:22 (KJV).
9. Q9: Which son did Isaac mean to bless as the firstborn? Answer: Esau. And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son… My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I. And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death. Reference: Genesis 27:1 (KJV).
10. Q10: How long did Isaac live? Answer: One hundred fourscore and fifteen years / 180 years. And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. Reference: Genesis 35:28 (KJV).