This Quiz: Shepherds and Sheep

1.) Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was...
       a builder of stone cities.
       a coppersmith.
       a fisherman.
       a tiller of the ground.

2.) What wages did Jacob ask from Laban?
       Every speckled and spotted cattle, all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled goats.
       Every sheep, every lamb and every goat.
       Every sheep, lamb and goat that was not dark colored, speckled, or spotted.
       Every speckled sheep, every speckled lamb and every speckled goat.

3.) When Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep," what did she do?
       Hid her father's household gods in her camel saddle.
       She took off her widow's clothes, covered herself with a veil, and went to Enaim to meet him.
       Loaded her donkeys with two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready for the shearers.
       Went softly to him and drove a tent-peg through his temple while he slept.

4.) What was the meaning of the bleating of the sheep in Samuel's ears and the lowing of the oxen which he heard?
       Saul had lost his sheep, and Samuel was sent to speak to him about where to find them.
       Samuel was sent to help with the shearing.
       Saul had slaughtered all Agag's sheep.
       Saul had spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD.

5.) Who was the King of Israel who had been a shepherd?
       Ahab
       Solomon
       Saul
       David

6.) God said, 'As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered...'
       in the dark and stormy night.
       in the cloudy and dark night.
       in the cloudy and dark day.
       in the dry and thirsty land.

7.) When Jesus saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep...
       who had been left with hirelings.
       having no shearer.
       who have wandered astray.
       having no shepherd.

8.) Jesus said, 'I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore...'
       watchful and prayerful.
       meek, and mild.
       wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
       ready to give an account before all men.

9.) What is the Lord going to 'separate one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats?'
       The righteous and the wicked.
       All nations.
       The children of Ishmael and the children of Isaac.
       The Jews and the Gentiles.

10.) Which prophet was Jesus quoting when he said, 'All of you shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.'
       Zechariah
       Amos
       Habakkuk
       Obadiah