1. Who was Adam?
Adam was the first man God created, and our first parent.
2. Who was Eve?
Eve was the first woman God created, and the mother of all living.
3. Who was Cain?
Cain was the first-born son of Adam, and he slew his brother, Abel.
4. Why did he slay him?
Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
5. Who was Enoch?
Enoch was a man who pleased God, and he was taken up to heaven without dying.
6. Who was Methuselah?
Methuselah was the oldest man; he lived 969 years before he died.
7. Who was Noah?
Noah was the man who was saved in the ark, with his wife and family, when the world was drowned.
8. Who were Shem, Ham, and Japheth?
They were the three sons of Noah, who, with their wives, were saved in the ark.
9. How many were saved altogether?
Eight(8) persons.
10. Who was Job?
Job was the most patient of men, and in the midst of his sufferings, blessed the name of the Lord.
11. Who was Abraham?
Abraham was the man who believed God’s promises to him, and it was counted to him for righteousness.
12. Who was Lot?
Lot was the man whom God saved, when Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by fire.
13. Who was Isaac?
Isaac was Abraham’s son, who was offered as a sacrifice, but not accepted.
14. Who was Jacob?
Jacob was the youngest son of Isaac, and he obtained his father’s blessing.
15. What name did God give to Jacob?
Jacob’s name was changed to Israel, because he prevailed with God to bless him.
16. How many sons had Jacob?
Jacob had twelve sons, from whom came the twelve tribes of Israel.
17. Who was Joseph?
Joseph was the beloved son of Jacob, and therefore hated of his brethren, who sold him into slavery.
18. What became of Joseph?
He became a great man in Egypt, and then sent for his father and brethren, and treated them well.
19. What became of his brethren?
They died, and their descendants afterwards became slaves in Egypt?
20. Who was Moses?
Moses was the man whom God sent to deliver Israel from slavery, and bring them out of Egypt, into the land he had promised their fathers.
21. What land was that?
The land of Canaan.
22. Did Moses bring them out of Egypt?
Yes; and brought them through the Red Sea, and led them forty years in the wilderness, till they came to Canaan.
23. What did God give to Moses?
God gave His Law to Moses and promised that whosoever kept it should live and never die.
24. Who was Aaron?
Aaron was the brother of Moses, and God gave the priesthood to him and his sons.
25. Who was Joshua?
Joshua succeeded Moses and led Israel into the Land of Canaan.
26. Who was Samson?
Samson was the strongest man that ever lived but lost his strength when he disobeyed God and let people cut his hair.
27. Who was Samuel?
Samuel was a prophet of God, chosen when a child.
28. What is a prophet?
A prophet is one to whom God reveals His Will and also events to come to pass.
29. Who was David?
David was a man whom God made King of Israel and who wrote the Book of Psalms.
30. Who was Goliath?
Goliath was a giant, who was killed by David with a sling and a stone.
31. Who was Solomon?
Solomon was the son of David, and reigned as king after him. He was the wisest of men, and wrote the Book of Proverbs and other books.
32. Who was Elijah?
Elijah was a man who attained to righteousness, and therefore never died. He was taken up to heaven bodily, in a chariot of fire.
33. Who was Jonah?
Jonah was the prophet who was in the whale’s belly three days and three nights, and came out alive.
34. Who were Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego?
They were three Jews who would not worship an idol, and were cast into a furnace of fire and not burned.
35. Who was Daniel?
Daniel was the prophet who would pray to God and was cast into a den of lions, but who did not hurt him.
36. Who were Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel?
They were prophets, who wrote some of the books of the Bible which speak much of the redemption of Israel.
37. Who was Malachi?
Malachi was the last of the prophets in the Old Testament who foretold the end of the world.