Judah 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 Judah's mother?
- A. Leah ✓
- B. Rachel
- C. Bilhah
- D. Zilpah
Answer: Leah
Genesis 29:35 (KJV) — 'And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah.'
Q2.Which brother did Judah suggest selling to the Ishmeelites?
- A. Reuben
- B. Joseph ✓
- C. Benjamin
- D. Simeon
Answer: Joseph
Genesis 37:26-27 (KJV) — Judah said, 'What profit is it if we slay our brother... Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites.'
Q3.Who was Judah's daughter-in-law who posed as a harlot to conceive by him?
- A. Rahab
- B. Tamar ✓
- C. Ruth
- D. Bathsheba
Answer: Tamar
Genesis 38:14-18 (KJV) — Tamar, widowed by Judah's sons Er and Onan, disguised herself to obtain the levirate duty Judah had withheld.
Q4.What did Judah send to Tamar as a pledge?
- A. A ring and a bracelet
- B. His signet, bracelets, and staff ✓
- C. A silver cup
- D. A coat of many colours
Answer: His signet, bracelets, and staff
Genesis 38:18 (KJV) — Judah gave her his signet, bracelets, and staff until he could send a kid from the flock.
Q5.When Joseph accused Benjamin of theft, what did Judah offer to do?
- A. Fight the Egyptians
- B. Become Joseph's servant in Benjamin's place ✓
- C. Pay double silver
- D. Return to Canaan alone
Answer: Become Joseph's servant in Benjamin's place
Genesis 44:33 (KJV) — Judah pleaded, 'Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord.'
Q6.In Jacob's blessing, what did he prophesy about Judah?
- A. He would be a shepherd
- B. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah ✓
- C. He would dwell in tents
- D. He would be a mighty hunter
Answer: The sceptre shall not depart from Judah
Genesis 49:10 (KJV) — 'The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come.'
Q7.Which of Judah's sons was an ancestor of King David?
- A. Perez ✓
- B. Shelah
- C. Er
- D. Onan
Answer: Perez
Genesis 38:29 (KJV) — Tamar bore twins, and Perez, who broke forth first, is in the lineage to David (Ruth 4:18-22).
Q8.Where did Judah and his brothers pasture their father's flocks when Joseph was sent to them?
- A. Shechem
- B. Dothan ✓
- C. Hebron
- D. Bethel
Answer: Dothan
Genesis 37:17 (KJV) — Joseph found them at Dothan after they had moved from Shechem.
Q9.How many sons did Judah have by his Canaanite wife?
- A. Two
- B. Three ✓
- C. Four
- D. Five
Answer: Three
Genesis 38:2-5 (KJV) — Judah took Shuah the daughter of a Canaanite, and she bare Er, Onan, and Shelah.
Q10.In Revelation, which tribe is sealed first among the 144,000?
- A. Reuben
- B. Judah ✓
- C. Levi
- D. Joseph
Answer: Judah
Revelation 7:5 (KJV) — 'Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand,' listed first, reflecting Judah's pre-eminence.