Jehoshaphat 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 was Jehoshaphat's father?
- A. Solomon
- B. Asa ✓
- C. David
- D. Rehoboam
Answer: Asa
Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign upon Judah.
Q2.How old was Jehoshaphat when he began to reign?
- A. Twenty and five years old
- B. Thirty years old
- C. Thirty-five years old ✓
- D. Forty years old
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.
Q3.What did Jehoshaphat do in the third year of his reign?
- A. Went to war
- B. Sent his princes, Levites, and priests to teach the people the book of the law of the LORD ✓
- C. Built a palace
- D. Made alliances with Egypt
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.
Q4.What nations came against Jehoshaphat in battle?
- A. The Philistines and Arabians
- B. The children of Moab, Ammon, and mount Seir ✓
- C. Egypt and Assyria
- D. Babylon and Persia
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.
Q5.What did Jehoshaphat proclaim throughout Judah when they were threatened?
- A. A feast
- B. A fast ✓
- C. A day of war
- D. A celebration
Answer: A fast
And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
Q6.What did Jehoshaphat say in his prayer?
- A. O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? ✓
- B. We are strong enough to win
- C. Let us flee
- D. The enemy is too weak
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?
Q7.Who prophesied to Jehoshaphat that the battle was God's?
- A. Isaiah
- B. Jeremiah
- C. Jahaziel the son of Zechariah ✓
- D. Huldah
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.
Q8.What did Jehoshaphat appoint to go before the army?
- A. The chariots
- B. Singers unto the LORD, praising the beauty of holiness ✓
- C. The archers
- D. Messengers of peace
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.
Q9.What happened to the enemy when Judah began to sing and praise?
- A. They made peace
- B. The LORD set ambushments against them, and they were smitten ✓
- C. They fled immediately
- D. They surrendered
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.
Q10.What mistake did Jehoshaphat later make with Ahab?
- A. He allied himself in marriage and war with the wicked house of Ahab ✓
- B. He refused to help Ahab
- C. He killed Ahab
- D. He took Ahab's throne
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.