Jehoshaphat Bible Quiz

Answer key for Jehoshaphat Bible Quiz

1. Q1: Who was Jehoshaphat's father? Answer: Asa. Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign upon Judah. Reference: 1 Kings 15:24 (KJV).
2. Q2: How old was Jehoshaphat when he began to reign? Answer: Thirty-five years old. Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. Reference: 1 Kings 22:42 (KJV).
3. Q3: What did Jehoshaphat do in the third year of his reign? Answer: Sent his princes, Levites, and priests to teach the people the book of the law of the LORD. And in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah. And with them he sent Levites… and they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people. Reference: 2 Chronicles 17:7 (KJV).
4. Q4: What nations came against Jehoshaphat in battle? Answer: The children of Moab, Ammon, and mount Seir. It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle. Reference: 2 Chronicles 20:1 (KJV).
5. Q5: What did Jehoshaphat proclaim throughout Judah when they were threatened? Answer: A fast. And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. Reference: 2 Chronicles 20:3 (KJV).
6. Q6: What did Jehoshaphat say in his prayer? Answer: O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen?. O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? Reference: 2 Chronicles 20:6 (KJV).
7. Q7: Who prophesied to Jehoshaphat that the battle was God's? Answer: Jahaziel the son of Zechariah. Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah… came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation; And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's. Reference: 2 Chronicles 20:14 (KJV).
8. Q8: What did Jehoshaphat appoint to go before the army? Answer: Singers unto the LORD, praising the beauty of holiness. And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever. Reference: 2 Chronicles 20:21 (KJV).
9. Q9: What happened to the enemy when Judah began to sing and praise? Answer: The LORD set ambushments against them, and they were smitten. And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten. Reference: 2 Chronicles 20:22 (KJV).
10. Q10: What mistake did Jehoshaphat later make with Ahab? Answer: He allied himself in marriage and war with the wicked house of Ahab. Jehoshaphat joined affinity with Ahab by marrying his son to Ahab's daughter Athaliah, and later went to war with Ahab at Ramothgilead against God's warning. Reference: 2 Chronicles 18:1 (KJV).