This Quiz: Goats in the Bible

1.) Rebekah told Jacob to take two good kids to her from the flock of goats, so that she could make a savory meat meal for Jacob's father. What had Jacob's father just asked Esau to bring to him?
       a mutton stew
       venison
       horse meat
       camel meat

2.) Joseph's brothers took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood; And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no. What did Joseph do when he thought that his son had been killed by a beast?
       Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on, and mourned for his son for many days.
       Jacob sent his servants out to comb the desert looking for Joseph's remains.
       Jacob said, "The Lord gives and the Lord takes away - blessed be the name of the Lord."
       Jacob sent his servants out to kill all the wild beasts that they could find, to avenge the blood of his son.

3.) David's wife, Michal, took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth - and when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. Why did she do this?
       She wanted David to be able to stay home from the battle.
       It was April Fools' Day, and she thought it was an excellent joke to have with her father.
       She was saving David from Saul, who wanted to kill him.
       David was sick, but he did not want to be disturbed by visitors.

4.) In first Samuel there is a story about a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. His name was Nabal. What was his wife's name?
       Athaliah
       Ahinoam
       Abigail
       Ahibaal

5.) In second Chronicles, the priests killed seven of each of these animals, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel. What animals were they?
       goats, bullocks, rams, and lambs
       goats, bullocks, rams
       goats, and bullocks
       goats

6.) The psalmist spoke of something that the Lord finds more pleasing than the flesh of bulls, or the blood of goats. What is it?
       repentance
       faithful service
       honest weights and measures
       thanksgiving

7.) Proverbs tells us, "The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are..."
       for sackcloth
       the price of the field
       for cheese
       for hire

8.) The prophet Isaiah outlined God's complaint against Israel, "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats..." What did he say that the people should do?
       try harder
       be more solemn in their assemblies
       include more singing in their worship
       stop bringing vain oblations to Him, and cease burning incense

9.) The Lord Jesus described the separation of the righteous and the wicked as the separation of sheep and goats. What will happen to the "goats?"
       They will disappear like a vapor and the place where they were will not know them anymore.
       They will be sent to the everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.
       They will be sent to earth to try again.
       They will be sent to oblivion.

10.) Of whom did the writer of Hebrews say, "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us."
       Jesus Christ.
       The archangel.
       John the Baptist.
       The writer himself, (who was not identified).