Joel 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 the father of the prophet Joel?
- A. Pethuel ✓
- B. Amoz
- C. Beeri
- D. Barachias
Answer: Pethuel
The book begins by identifying Joel as the son of Pethuel.
Q2.What specific disaster does Joel describe as having laid waste to the vines and barked the fig trees?
- A. A great fire
- B. A mighty army of locusts ✓
- C. A severe drought
- D. A violent flood
Answer: A mighty army of locusts
Joel describes a series of locusts that have devoured the land.
Q3.What are the people commanded to do instead of rending their garments?
- A. Offer burnt sacrifices
- B. Fast for forty days
- C. Rend their heart ✓
- D. Wash in the Jordan
Answer: Rend their heart
The LORD calls them to 'rend your heart, and not your garments.'
Q4.Where does the LORD say he will pour out his spirit upon all flesh?
- A. In the wilderness
- B. Afterward ✓
- C. In the year of jubilee
- D. In the temple
Answer: Afterward
The prophecy states, 'And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit.'
Q5.According to Joel 2:31, what shall the sun be turned into before the great and terrible day of the LORD?
- A. Sackcloth
- B. Blood
- C. Darkness ✓
- D. Fire
Answer: Darkness
The scripture says 'The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood.'
Q6.In which valley will the LORD gather all nations to plead with them?
- A. Valley of Elah
- B. Valley of Jehoshaphat ✓
- C. Valley of Hinnom
- D. Valley of Berachah
Answer: Valley of Jehoshaphat
The LORD says He will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat.
Q7.What are the people told to beat their pruninghooks into?
- A. Spears ✓
- B. Swords
- C. Plowshares
- D. Shields
Answer: Spears
In a reversal of other prophecies, Joel says to beat 'your pruninghooks into spears.'
Q8.What should the weak say according to Joel 3:10?
- A. I am weary
- B. I am strong ✓
- C. I am forgiven
- D. I am delivered
Answer: I am strong
The text commands, 'let the weak say, I am strong.'
Q9.Where is the 'multitudes, multitudes' located in Joel's prophecy?
- A. The valley of decision ✓
- B. The gates of Zion
- C. The river Euphrates
- D. The mountains of Israel
Answer: The valley of decision
Joel 3:14 speaks of 'Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision.'
Q10.What will flow out of the house of the LORD in the final restoration?
- A. A river of fire
- B. A fountain ✓
- C. Oil and wine
- D. Honey
Answer: A fountain
The text says 'a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD.'