2 Samuel General Exam

2 Samuel 1:25

“How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! _____ was slain in your high places.”

Answer explanation

2 Samuel 1:25

“How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan was slain in your high places.

2 Samuel 2:7

Now therefore, let your hands be strengthened, and be valiant; for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of _____ has anointed me king over them.”

Answer explanation

2 Samuel 2:7

Now therefore, let your hands be strengthened, and be valiant; for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.”

2 Samuel 5:4

“David was _____ years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.” (hint: the same (possible) age of Jesus when He started ministry)

Answer explanation

2 Samuel 5:4

David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

2 Samuel 9:11

...“As for _____,” said the king, “he shall eat at my table like one of the king’s sons.”

• Jehoshapat

• Jonathan

• Mephibosheth

• Micha

Answer explanation

2 Samuel 9:11

...“As for Mephibosheth,” said the king, “he shall eat at my table like one of the king’s sons.”

2 Samuel 10:5

...And the king said, “Wait at Jericho until your _____ have grown, and then return.”

• children

• beards

• young

• men

Answer explanation

2 Samuel 10:5

...And the king said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”

Who was Bathsheba’s husband before she became David’s wife?

• Jesse

• Obed

• Joab

• Uriah

Answer explanation

2 Samuel 11:3

So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”

TRUE OR FALSE - Ziba is Mephibosheth’s servant.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

TRUE

2 Samuel 16:1-4

Mephibosheth’s Servant

16 When David was a little past the top of the mountain, there was Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth, who met him with a couple of saddled donkeys, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, one hundred clusters of raisins, one hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine. ² And the king said to Ziba, “What do you mean to do with these?”

So Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on, the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for those who are faint in the wilderness to drink.”

³ Then the king said, “And where is your master’s son?”

And Ziba said to the king, “Indeed he is staying in Jerusalem, for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore the kingdom of my father to me.’ ”

⁴ So the king said to Ziba, “Here, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours.”

And Ziba said, “I humbly bow before you, that I may find favor in your sight, my lord, O king!”

TRUE OR FALSE - David mourned for Absalom, saying, “O my son Absalom – my son, my son Absalom

– if only I had died in your place! O Absalom my son, my son!”

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

TRUE

2 Samuel 18:33

David’s Mourning for Absalom

³³ Then the king was deeply moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept. And as he went, he said thus: “O my son Absalom—my son, my son Absalom—if only I had died in your place! O Absalom my son, my son!”