Father Father
My father was a sheep owner who lived in Bethlehem. He was the grandson of an Israelite man and a Moabite woman. He had eight sons and I was one of them. I became a fugitive before I became a King.
a. Jesse
b. Saul
c. Shimei
d. Nathan
a. Jesse - Father of David
1Samuel 16:10-11 ” 10 So Jesʹse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to Jesʹse: “Jehovah has not chosen any of these. 11 Finally Samuel said to Jesʹse: “Are these all of your boys?” To this he said: “The youngest+ has been left out until now; he is pasturing the sheep.”+ Then Samuel said to Jesʹse: “Send for him, because we will not sit down for the meal until he comes here.”
It was like "love at first sight" when my father met my mother. It took 19 years before she became pregnant of me and my twin bother who struggled inside her womb. My mother was wise and brave, she was well aware of what Jehovah had told her about her twins that "the older would serve the younger", so she took immediate steps to secure the desired blessing of birthright for me. She helped me secure my father’s blessing, and the outcome was in harmony with Jehovah’s purpose. Who was my mother?
a. Ruth
b. Rebekah
c. Rahab
d. Rachel
b. Rebekah - Mother of Jacob
Gen 24: 66-67 :"And the servant told Isaac all the things he had done. 67 After that Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother. Thus he took Re·bekʹah as his wife; and he fell in love with her, and Isaac found comfort after the loss of his mother."
By Jehovah's command, my son was prepared as a burnt offering, but spared just in time. Who was he?
a. Ishmael
b. Isaac
c. Jacob
d. Esau
b. Isaac - Son of Abraham
Gen. 22: 2 Then he said: “Take, please, your son, your only son whom you so love, Isaac, and travel to the land of Mo·riʹah and offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I will designate to you.”
Her Hebrew name was Hadassah (meaning “Myrtle”). She was a Jewish orphan girl, the daughter of my uncle. I became her guardian, her older cousin, and I took her as my own daughter. Who was she?
a. Vasti
b. Esther
c. Candice
d. Dinah
b. Esther - the cousin and daughter of Mordecai
Esther 2:7 He was the guardian of Ha·dasʹsah, that is, Esther, the daughter of his father’s brother, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman was beautifully formed and attractive in appearance, and at the death of her father and her mother, Morʹde·cai took her as his daughter.
My grandpa was the son of a Moabite widow who did not want to go back to her mother town. She told her mother-in-law: Wherever you go I go. Your people will be my people, and your God my God." She and her new husband later bore my grandpa. Who was He?
a. Jesse
b. Obed
c. David
d. Boaz
Father of Jesse, King David’s father. Obed was the son of Boaz by his wife Ruth and was an ancestor of Jesus Christ.
b. Obed the Grandfather of David
Mat. 1:5-6 :" Salʹmon became father to Boʹaz by Raʹhab; Boʹaz became father to Oʹbed by Ruth; Oʹbed became father to Jesʹse; 6 Jesʹse became father to David the king."
It was my father's practice to take his family to go to Shiloh every year to worship and to sacrifice to Jehovah. He had two wives, and one of them is my Mom. Although my mother was barren, my father loved her and tried to console her for being barren. Later, in answer to my mother's prayer, Jehovah blessed them with the birth of a son - that's me. Who was my father?
a. Samuel
b. Manoah
c. Jesse
d. Elkanah
d. Elkanah - Father of Samuel
1 Samuel 1:18 But her husband El·kaʹnah said to her: “Hanʹnah, why do you weep, and why do you not eat, and why are you so sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
My mother was the cousin and beloved wife of my father. My father served my grandfather 14 years before he could marry my mother who was the love of his life. She was barren for a long time until Jehovah blessed her and became pregnant of me. My mother died when she gave birth to my brother Benjamin.
a. Ruth
b. Reba
c. Rahab
d. Rachel
d. Rachel - Mother of Joseph
Gen. 30: 22-24 : "Finally God remembered Rachel, and God heard and answered her by enabling her to become pregnant. 23 And she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Then she said: “God has taken away my reproach!” 24 So she named him Joseph,saying: “Jehovah is adding another son to me.”
My young son was tending sheep when the Priest came to anoint him as King. Who was he?
a. Samson
b. Josiah
c. Solomon
d. David
d. David
My daughter was in love with David, so I offered David my daughter for a wife, if he would fight valiantly for me. David accepted the challenge and won the battle and was given a wife- my daughter. Who was she?
a. Merab
b. Mirriam
c. Michal
d. Adriel
c. Michal - The daughter of King Saul
1 Samuel 18: 20 Now Saul’s daughter Miʹchal was in love with David, and it was reported to Saul, and this pleased him. 21 So Saul said: “I will give her to him to serve as a snare to him, so that the hand of the Phi·lisʹtines may come upon him.” Saul then said to David a second time: “You will form a marriage alliance with me today.”
An Apostle indicated that my Grandmother was a Christian woman having ‘faith without hypocrisy.’ Although my father was not a Christian, She together with my mother both taught me the holy writings from infancy. Who was my grandmother?
a. Ruth
b. Eunice
c. Naomi
d. Lois
Louis
(2Ti 1:5) 5 For I recall your unhypocritical faith,+ which dwelled first in your grandmother Loʹis and your mother Euʹnice, but which I am confident is also in you.
My father love me more than all of my other brothers. I was his son in his old age and the son of his most beloved wife, I became the special object of his affection. My father gave me a long striped garment like the ones worn by persons of rank. As a result, I was hated by my half brothers, and they sold me to the merchants. This made my father grieved so much believing that I was dead. Who was my father?
a. Joseph
b. Jacob
c. Isaac
d. Judah
b. Jacob - Father of Joseph
Gen. 37:3-4 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other sons+ because he was the son of his old age, and he had a special robe made for him. 4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they began to hate him, and they could not speak peaceably to him.
I was born when my father was 86 years old. Twice my mother was driven out by the woman she's serving and everytime an angel found her and strenghtened her. The angel told my mother that Jehovah would greatly multiply her seed thru me, and I will a be wild donkey of a man. Who was my mother?
a. Leah
b. Hannah
c. Hagar
d. Sarah
c. Hagar - Mother of Ishmael
Gen. 16:11-12 Jehovah’s angel added: “Here you are pregnant, and you will give birth to a son, and you must name him Ishʹma·el, for Jehovah has heard your affliction. 12 He will be a wild donkey of a man. His hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand will be against him, and he will dwell opposite all his brothers.”
My son once caught 300 foxes, tied them together in pairs with firebrands on their tails, and loosed them into his enemies cornfields to set their crops on fire! Who was he?
a. Abner
b. Gideon
c. Samson
d. Gilead
c. Samson - the Son of Manoah
They were my three daughters born after my great test. My daughters were the most beautiful women in all the land, and I gave them an inheritance in among their seven brothers. What were their names?
a. Adriel, Merab & Michal
b. Je·miʹmah, Ke·ziʹah, and Kerʹen-hapʹpuch
c. Shiphrah, Puah and Mirriam
d. Martha, Mary & Magdalene
b. Je·miʹmah, Ke·ziʹah, and Kerʹen-hapʹpuch - the daughters of Job
Job 42:14-15: He named the first daughter Je·miʹmah, the second Ke·ziʹah, and the third Kerʹen-hapʹpuch. 15 No women in all the land were as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.
My grandfather was a very very bad King. “He did on a large scale what was bad in Jehovah’s eyes, to offend him.” But her later on repented. “He softened the face of Jehovah his God and kept humbling himself greatly .....and he kept praying to Him, so that He let himself be entreated by him and He heard his request for favor and restored him to Jerusalem to his kingship.” Who was my grandfather?
a. Josiah
b. Manasseh
c. Hezekiah
d. Amon
Manasseh
Mat. 1: 10 Hez·e·kiʹah became father to Ma·nasʹseh; Ma·nasʹseh became father to Aʹmon;Aʹmon became father to Jo·siʹah;
My father was anointed King, which made me an heir to the throne. However, that was not Jehovah's arrangement and I did not became jealous but I highly respected Jehovah's choice of the King. The next King after my father was my best friend. Who was my father?
a. David
b. Solomon
c. Saul
d. Rehoboam
d. Saul - the father of Jonathan.
My mother lived in Jericho, she hid 2 spies and she helped them escape through her window. She believed and developed faith in Jehovah and blessed to be the great great grand mother of the Messiah. Who was my mother?
a. Jezebel
b. Esther
c. Rahab
d. Jael
c. Rahab - Mother of Boaz
Mat. 1:5 " Salʹmon became father to Boʹaz by Raʹhab; Boʹaz became father to Oʹbed by Ruth.."
My young son was sold into slavery by his brothers. Who was he?
a. Jonathan
b. Joseph
c. Jacob
d. Joshua
b. Joseph -the Son of Jacob
She was my daughter. She became friendly with the Canaanites, and later due to bad associations, she was violated by a Canaanite man. My sons, her brothers were so angry and they committed a crime that resulted in tragedy for my daughter and my whole family. Who was she?
a. Damaris
b. Dorcas
c. Deborah
d. Dinah
d. Dinah - the Daughter of Jacob
Gen. 34: 1- 4 Now Diʹnah, Jacob’s daughter by Leʹah, used to go out to spend time with the young women of the land. 2 When Sheʹchem, the son of Haʹmor the Hiʹvite, a chieftain of the land, saw her, he took her and lay down with her and violated her. 3 And he became very attached to Diʹnah, the daughter of Jacob, and he fell in love with the young woman and spoke persuasively to her. 4 Finally Sheʹchem said to Haʹmor his father: “Get me this young woman to be my wife.”
My grandfather was the son of a Judah's chieftain Nahshon. He married a former prostitute woman from Jericho, and they had a son who married a Moabite woman. He was a link in the genealogical line leading to David and Jesus. Who was my grandfather?
a. Boaz
b. Salmon
c. Caaleb
d. Obed
The son of Judah’s chieftain Nahshon, likely born during the 40-year wilderness trek. Salmon married Rahab of Jericho, by whom he fathered Boaz. He was, therefore, a link in the genealogical line leading to David and Jesus.
Salmon - grandfather of Obed
Ruth 4:20-22 Am·minʹa·dab became father to Nahʹshon; Nahʹshon became father to Salʹmon; 21 Salʹmon became father to Boʹaz; Boʹaz became father to Oʹbed; 22 Oʹbed became father to Jesʹse; and Jesʹse became father to David.
My father was a devout worshiper of Jehovah. One day an angel appeared to my barren mother, announcing that she would give birth to a son who would be a Nazirite of God. When my father heard about this, he supplicated Jehovah, asking him to send the messenger again in order to instruct them on raising the child. Jehovah answered the prayer. I was a Nazirite and “take the lead in saving Israel out of the hand of the Philistines." Who was my father?
a. Manoah
b. Manasseh
b. Moises
d. Ephraim
a. Manoah - Father of Samson
Jg 13:8 Ma·noʹah pleaded with Jehovah and said: “Pardon me, Jehovah. Please let the man of the true God whom you just sent come again to instruct us about what we should do with the child who will be born.”
She was a prophetess and she was commissioned by Jehovah to provide encouragement to us who were in terror and panic due to the domination of our enemy. Terror reigned for 20 years, until Jehovah has a change of heart to save us-his people with the help of this woman, whose song had a line that says: “Until I rose up and I arose as a mother in Israel.” She was our figurative mother who provided us motherly protection. Who was she?
a. Damaris
b. Jael
c. Deborah
d. Esther
c. Deborah - Mother in Israel
Jdg. 5:7 The villagers in Israel were no more; They were no more until I, Debʹo·rah, rose up, Until I arose as a mother in Israel.
My son was 13 years old when he was circumcised, who was he?
a. Isaac
b. Ishmael
c. Jacob
d. Joseph
b. Ishmael - the Son of Abraham
Gen. 27: 23 Abraham then took Ishʹma·el his son and all the men born in his house and everyone he had purchased with money, every male in the household of Abraham, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins on that very day, just as God had spoken with him.
I said to my widowed daughter : "Sit here, my daughter, until you learn how the matter will turn out, for the man will not rest until he settles the matter today.” Who was my daughter?
a. Dinah
b. Michal
c. Orphah
d. Ruth
d. Ruth - the daghter of Naomi
Ruth 3:17,18 She added: “He gave me these six measures of barley and said to me, ‘Do not go empty-handed to your mother-in-law.’” 18 At that she said: “Sit here, my daughter, until you learn how the matter will turn out, for the man will not rest until he settles the matter today.”
My grandfather was a King at 25 years of age. He had a zeal for true worship. His first act was to reopen and repair the temple. His wicked enemy sent threats and taunted Jehovah the God of Israel. I was never like my grandfather because when I began to rule at the age of 22, I followed the idolatrous course of my father’s earlier years. Who was my grandfather?
a. Hezekiah
b. Manasseh
c. Josiah
d. Amon
Hezekiah
Mat. 1: 10 Hez·e·kiʹah became father to Ma·nasʹseh; Ma·nasʹseh became father to Aʹmon;Aʹmon became father to Jo·siʹah;