Rahab 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.In which city did Rahab live?
- A. Ai
- B. Jericho ✓
- C. Bethel
- D. Gibeon
Answer: Jericho
And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
Q2.What was Rahab's profession before she believed?
- A. A weaver
- B. A harlot ✓
- C. A priestess
- D. A merchant
Answer: A harlot
And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
Q3.What did Rahab hide on her roof?
- A. The spies of Israel ✓
- B. Her family
- C. Her idols
- D. Grain
Answer: The spies of Israel
But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax.
Q4.What sign did Rahab hang from her window for protection?
- A. A white cloth
- B. A scarlet thread / cord ✓
- C. A lamb's blood
- D. An olive branch
Answer: A scarlet thread / cord
Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by.
Q5.What did Rahab confess about the LORD God of Israel?
- A. He is a local god
- B. The LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath ✓
- C. He is one of many gods
- D. He is weaker than the gods of Jericho
Answer: The LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath
For the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
Q6.Who was spared when Jericho fell?
- A. Rahab and her father's household, and all that she had ✓
- B. Only Rahab
- C. The whole city
- D. None
Answer: Rahab and her father's household, and all that she had
And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day.
Q7.In which New Testament chapter is Rahab praised for her faith?
- A. Romans 4
- B. Hebrews 11
- C. James 2
- D. Both Hebrews 11 and James 2 ✓
Answer: Both Hebrews 11 and James 2
By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace. (Hebrews 11:31) …Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? (James 2:25)
Q8.Rahab became the mother of whom in the genealogy of Christ?
- A. Boaz ✓
- B. Jesse
- C. Obed
- D. David
Answer: Boaz
And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse.
Q9.What did Rahab ask the spies to show her?
- A. Wealth
- B. Kindness to her father's house, and save alive my father, my mother, my brethren, and my sisters ✓
- C. Victory over Jericho
- D. Safe passage to Israel
Answer: Kindness to her father's house, and save alive my father, my mother, my brethren, and my sisters
Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token.
Q10.What does Rahab's story demonstrate?
- A. God's grace can save anyone who believes ✓
- B. Only the righteous are saved
- C. Jericho was too strong
- D. The spies were cowards
Answer: God's grace can save anyone who believes
Rahab, a Gentile and a harlot, was saved by faith and became an ancestor of Jesus Christ.