Elisha's Miracles 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.What did Elijah ask Elisha before being taken to heaven?
- A. Go back to your family
- B. Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee ✓
- C. Build an altar
- D. Find a successor
Answer: Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee
Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee.
Q2.What did Elisha request?
- A. A prophet's mantle
- B. A double portion of Elijah's spirit ✓
- C. Wealth
- D. Kingship
Answer: A double portion of Elijah's spirit
Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
Q3.How did Elisha part the Jordan?
- A. By striking it with Elijah's mantle ✓
- B. By prayer alone
- C. By walking through
- D. By a command
Answer: By striking it with Elijah's mantle
Elisha… took the mantle of Elijah… and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither.
Q4.What happened when Elisha threw salt into the bad water at Jericho?
- A. It became sweet ✓
- B. It turned to blood
- C. It dried up
- D. It became oil
Answer: It became sweet
Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
Q5.What did the sons of the prophets lose in the Jordan?
- A. A scroll
- B. An axe head ✓
- C. A staff
- D. A stone
Answer: An axe head
The axe head fell into the water… the iron did swim.
Q6.What did Elisha tell the widow to borrow?
- A. Gold from neighbours
- B. Vessels, not a few ✓
- C. Oil from the temple
- D. Water from the well
Answer: Vessels, not a few
Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
Q7.What disease did Naaman the Syrian have?
- A. Blindness
- B. Leprosy ✓
- C. Paralysis
- D. Deafness
Answer: Leprosy
Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man… but he was a leper.
Q8.How many times was Naaman told to wash in the Jordan?
- A. Once
- B. Three times
- C. Seven times ✓
- D. Twelve times
Answer: Seven times
Go and wash in Jordan seven times… and thou shalt be clean.
Q9.What did the Shunammite woman's son do before Elisha raised him?
- A. Fell from a roof
- B. Sneezed seven times
- C. He sneezed
- D. He fell sick and died ✓
Answer: He fell sick and died
The child grew, and it fell on a day, that he went out to his father… and he said unto his father, My head, my head… and the child sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
Q10.How did Elisha raise the Shunammite's son?
- A. Laid himself upon the child ✓
- B. Prayed and anointed him
- C. Commanded him to rise
- D. Struck the child
Answer: Laid himself upon the child
Elisha… went up, and lay upon the child… and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.