Tithing & Giving 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 first gave tithes in the Bible?
- A. Abram, to Melchizedek ✓
- B. Moses
- C. Aaron
- D. David
Answer: Abram, to Melchizedek
And he gave him tithes of all. (Genesis 14:20) — Abram gave tithes to Melchizedek, king of Salem.
Q2.What did Jacob vow at Bethel?
- A. Of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee ✓
- B. I will build a temple
- C. I will offer my son
- D. I will return to Haran
Answer: Of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee
And of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee. (Genesis 28:22)
Q3.What was the tithe according to the law of Moses?
- A. All the tithe of the land... is the Lord's ✓
- B. A free gift
- C. A burden too heavy
- D. Only of cattle
Answer: All the tithe of the land... is the Lord's
And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: it is holy unto the LORD. (Leviticus 27:30)
Q4.In Malachi, how were the people robbing God?
- A. In tithes and offerings ✓
- B. In sacrifices
- C. In prayers
- D. In feasts
Answer: In tithes and offerings
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. (Malachi 3:8)
Q5.What did God promise if they brought all the tithes into the storehouse?
- A. Open the windows of heaven, and pour out a blessing ✓
- B. Send rain only
- C. Quiet enemies
- D. Forgive every sin
Answer: Open the windows of heaven, and pour out a blessing
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse... and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. (Malachi 3:10)
Q6.What did Jesus say the Pharisees tithed?
- A. Mint and anise and cummin ✓
- B. Wine and oil
- C. Cattle only
- D. Money only
Answer: Mint and anise and cummin
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith. (Matthew 23:23)
Q7.How should a man purpose in his heart to give?
- A. Not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver ✓
- B. With reluctance
- C. Only when commanded
- D. In secret only
Answer: Not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. (2 Corinthians 9:7)
Q8.What is more blessed than receiving?
- A. To give ✓
- B. To keep
- C. To trade
- D. To save
Answer: To give
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. (Acts 20:35)
Q9.What did the widow cast into the treasury?
- A. Two mites, which make a farthing ✓
- B. Two pence
- C. A piece of silver
- D. A talent
Answer: Two mites, which make a farthing
And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. (Mark 12:42)
Q10.How does Jesus say we should give?
- A. When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth ✓
- B. With trumpet
- C. In public
- D. Only to the rich
Answer: When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth
But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. (Matthew 6:3)