Isaac 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.Who were Isaac's parents?
- A. Abraham and Sarah ✓
- B. Isaac and Rebekah
- C. Jacob and Leah
- D. Adam and Eve
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.
Q2.What does Isaac's name mean?
- A. Father of many
- B. He laughs / laughter ✓
- C. Prince of God
- D. Beloved
Answer: He laughs / laughter
And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
Q3.On which mountain was Isaac to be offered?
- A. Mount Sinai
- B. Mount Moriah ✓
- C. Mount Zion
- D. Mount Carmel
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.
Q4.How old was Isaac when Abraham took him to be offered?
- A. A young child
- B. Old enough to carry the wood for the burnt offering ✓
- C. A newborn
- D. Thirty years old
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?
Q5.Who did Abraham's servant bring back as a wife for Isaac?
- A. Leah
- B. Rachel
- C. Rebekah the daughter of Bethuel ✓
- D. Sarah
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.
Q6.What did Isaac do during a famine in Gerar?
- A. He went down to Egypt
- B. He sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him ✓
- C. He sold his flocks
- D. He fought with the Philistines
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.
Q7.Why did the Philistines stop up Isaac's wells?
- A. Because they envied him ✓
- B. Because the water was poisoned
- C. Because he refused to pay
- D. Because of drought
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.
Q8.What did Isaac name the well that was not contended for?
- A. Esek
- B. Sitnah
- C. Rehoboth; for now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land ✓
- D. Beer-sheba
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.
Q9.Which son did Isaac mean to bless as the firstborn?
- A. Jacob
- B. Esau ✓
- C. Joseph
- D. Reuben
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.
Q10.How long did Isaac live?
- A. One hundred fourscore and fifteen years / 180 years ✓
- B. One hundred and twenty years
- C. Seventy years
- D. Two hundred years
Answer: One hundred fourscore and fifteen years / 180 years
And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.