This Quiz: Famous Prayers - OT

1.) This man said to God, "Ah, Sovereign LORD, why did you ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us?" And the Lord said to him, "Stand up! What are you doing down on your face?"
       Abraham
       Moses
       Joshua
       Caleb

2.) Who said, "Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?"
       Abram
       Isaac
       Jacob
       Joseph

3.) This man saw an angel of the Lord and thought he was going to die. That night the Lord told him to throw down his father's altar of Baal and cut down his father's grove.
       Gad
       Gideon
       Gesham
       Goliath

4.) This man prayed, "I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes."
       Sennacherib
       Samuel
       Sanballat
       Samson

5.) David said unto the LORD, "I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly." What had he just done?
       Slept with Uriah's wife.
       Had Joab kill his son Absalom.
       Killed Nabal's household.
       Numbered the people.

6.) This man prayed for wisdom and knowledge, and God replied, "...wisdom and knowledge will be given you. And I will also give you wealth, riches and honor, such as no king who was before you ever had and none after you will have."
       Sennacherib
       Solomon
       Sanballat
       Samuel

7.) This man "set his face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes," after he had read from the prophet Jeremiah, and realized that the Babylonian captivity was nearly finished: Who was he?
       Daniel
       Belshazzar
       Nebuchadnezzar
       Abednego

8.) This man prayed and then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. Who was he?
       Moses
       Elisha
       Elijah
       Joshua

9.) King Hezekiah prayed before the LORD concerning Sennacherib, king of Assyria, and a prophet sent a message to him to respond to his prayer. Who was the prophet?
       Obadiah
       Isaiah
       Jeremiah
       Ezekiel

10.) This man prayed so earnestly that it changed his countenance. The king for whom he was the cupbearer noticed and enquired about why he was so sad. Who was this man?
       Nimrod
       Nabal
       Nadab
       Nehemiah

11.) Who prayed: "But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand..."
       Isaiah
       Jeremiah
       King David
       King Saul

12.) Who prayed: "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."
       Isaiah
       Jeremiah
       King David
       King Saul

13.) Who prayed: "O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing."
       Isaiah
       Jeremiah
       King David
       King Saul

14.) Which prophet wrote: "Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?"
       Amos
       Joel
       Malachi
       Habakkuk

15.) This man was cast into the sea after the people that he was traveling with had prayed that they would not perish for taking his life.
       Jonah
       Jeremiah
       Jonathan
       Jehu

16.) In which book did the prophet pray: "O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!"
       Amos
       Joel
       Malachi
       Habakkuk