Red Sea Crossing 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.Whose army pursued Israel?
- A. The Amalekites
- B. Pharaoh's army ✓
- C. The Philistines
- D. The Edomites
Answer: Pharaoh's army
The Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh.
Q2.What did Moses say to the people?
- A. Fight
- B. Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD ✓
- C. Cross by faith
- D. Lift up the rod
Answer: Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD
Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD.
Q3.What did the LORD command Moses to do?
- A. Pray
- B. Stretch out thine hand over the sea ✓
- C. Strike the rock
- D. Blow a trumpet
Answer: Stretch out thine hand over the sea
Lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea.
Q4.What wind divided the waters?
- A. A strong east wind ✓
- B. A west wind
- C. A whirlwind
- D. A south wind
Answer: A strong east wind
The LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night.
Q5.What stood between Israel and the Egyptians?
- A. A fire
- B. The pillar of cloud ✓
- C. A river
- D. An angel only
Answer: The pillar of cloud
The pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them.
Q6.What were the waters like to Israel?
- A. A flood
- B. A wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left ✓
- C. A mist
- D. A storm
Answer: A wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left
The waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Q7.What did the LORD do to the chariot wheels?
- A. Broke them
- B. Took off their chariot wheels ✓
- C. Set them on fire
- D. Sank them in mire
Answer: Took off their chariot wheels
Took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily.
Q8.What happened to the Egyptians?
- A. They fled
- B. The sea returned, and covered them ✓
- C. They surrendered
- D. They were turned back to Egypt
Answer: The sea returned, and covered them
The waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen.
Q9.Who led the women in song with a timbrel?
- A. Deborah
- B. Miriam the prophetess ✓
- C. Zipporah
- D. Hannah
Answer: Miriam the prophetess
Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand.
Q10.How does the Song of Moses begin?
- A. Praise the LORD
- B. I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ✓
- C. Blessed is the man
- D. Hear, O Israel
Answer: I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously
I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously.