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1 KINGS TRIVIA III

21) Which prophet encouraged Jeroboam to rebel against Solomon?


1 KINGS 11:29-33: About that time Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, and Ahijah the prophet of Shiloh met him on the way, wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone out in the country, 30and Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces. 31Then he said to Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 'See, I am going to tear the kingdom out of Solomon's hand and give you ten tribes. 32But for the sake of my servant David and the city of Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, he will have one tribe. 33I will do this because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Molek the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked in obedience to me, nor done what is right in my eyes, nor kept my decrees and laws as David, Solomon's father, did.

22) What king sheltered Jeroboam after Solomon tried to kill him?


1 KINGS 11:40: Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam fled to Egypt, to Shishak the king, and stayed there until Solomon's death.

23) Who succeeded Solomon as king?


1 KINGS 11:42-43: Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. 43Then he rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son succeeded him as king.

24) What did Rehoboam threaten to scourge the people of Israel with?


1 KINGS 12:13-14: The king answered the people harshly. Rejecting the advice given him by the elders, 14he followed the advice of the young men and said, "My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions."

25) From which tribe did Jeroboam appoint priests?


1 KINGS 12:31: Jeroboam built shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites.

26) What kind of animal killed the man of God who was sent to Jeroboam in Bethel?


1 KINGS 13:24: As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying on the road, with both the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

27) How long did Jeroboam reign over Israel?


1 KINGS 14:20: He reigned for twenty-two years and then rested with his ancestors. And Nadab his son succeeded him as king.

28) What country attacked Jerusalem while Rehoboam was king?


1 KINGS 14:25-26: In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem. 26He carried off the treasures of the temple of the Lord and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.

29) Which king of Judah deposed his own grandmother from her position as queen mother?


1 KINGS 15:11-13: Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done. 12He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made. 13He even deposed his grandmother Maakah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa cut it down and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

30) How long did Zimri reign as king of Israel?


1 KINGS 16:15: In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned in Tirzah seven days.

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