Friday, May 23, 2008

Random Quiz - 14

1. The prophet Isaiah told King ____________ that the Babylonians would eventually carry off all the wealth stored up by his fathers.

2. Saul's death was ultimately caused by intentionally ________ on his own ______.

3. "The report I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom is true. But I did not believe what they said, until I came and saw with my own eyes". Who said this to whom?

4. According to Genesis Ch 7, how long did the flood waters cover the earth?

5. What 2 birds did Noah use to measure the flood waters?
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Answers:1-5

1. Hezekiah (2 Kings 20:16-18)
Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD : 17 The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your fathers have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD. 18 And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, that will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon."

2. falling, sword (1 Chronicles 10:4)

3. the Queen of Sheba said to the King Solomon (2 Chron 9:5-6)
She said to the king, "The report I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom is true. 6 But I did not believe what they said until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half the greatness of your wisdom was told me; you have far exceeded the report I heard.

4. 150 days. (7:24)
The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

5. Gen 8:6-12
After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. 10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
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6. How old was Noah when the flood ended?

7. What did God tell Noah, the would be sign of His covenant to never flood the earth again.?

8. Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the ___________ ____ ____ ________." - Matt 13:35

9. What 2 missing words did Jesus' disciples utter when they asked each other, "Who is this? Even the _____and the ______ obey him!"?

10. After Jesus spoke about His impending death for the second time, the disciples began arguing among themselves. What was the gist of their dispute?
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Answers:6-10

6. 601 years (Gen 8:13)
By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.

7. A rainbow (Gen 9:8-17)
Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."
17 So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth."

8. creation of the world. (Refer Psalm 78:2 I will open my mouth in parables,
I will utter hidden things, things from of old-)

9. wind, waves (Mark 4:40-41)
He said to his disciples, "Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?"
41They were terrified and asked each other, "Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!"

10. They came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them, "What were you arguing about on the road?" 34But they kept quiet because on the way they had argued about who was the greatest. (Mark 9:33-34)
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11. Jesus, the creator and Son of God, describes Himself as what to His quibbling disciples?

12. What are the qualities, according to the prophet Isaiah, the one whom God esteems possesses?

13. When Hannah prayed to the Lord for a son, what did she promise Him?

14. True or False: Once Eli discovered the petition of Hannah's prayer, he told her to go in peace.

15. Hannah named her son Samuel because of what?
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Answers:11-15

11. A servant (Lk 22:27)
Also a dispute arose among them as to which of them was considered to be greatest. 25Jesus said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors. 26But you are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves. 27For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves?

12. Humility. (Isai 66:2)
Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?" declares the LORD. "This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.

13. In bitterness of soul Hannah wept much and prayed to the LORD. 11 And she made a vow, saying, "O LORD Almighty, if you will only look upon your servant's misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the LORD for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head."
(1 Sam 1:11)
Note: This meant he would be a Nazarite. But Samuel is nowhere in the Old Testament called a Nazarite.(Heb. form is Nazirite).
The name of Israelites took on them the vow prescribed in Num. 6:2-21. The word denotes generally one who is separated from others and consecrated to God. Although there is no mention of any Nazarite before Samson, yet it is evident that they existed before the time of Moses.

The vow of a Nazarite involved these three things, (1) abstinence from wine and strong drink, (2) refraining from cutting the hair off the head during the whole period of the continuance of the vow, and (3) the avoidance of contact with the dead.

When the period of the continuance of the vow came to an end, the Nazarite had to present himself at the door of the sanctuary with (1) a he lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering, (2) a ewe lamb of the first year for a sin-offering, and (3) a ram for a peace-offering. After these sacrifices were offered by the priest, the Nazarite cut off his hair at the door and threw it into the fire under the peace-offering.

For some reason, probably in the midst of his work at Corinth, Paul took on himself the Nazarite vow. This could only be terminated by his going up to Jerusalem to offer up the hair which till then was to be left uncut. But it seems to have been allowable for persons at a distance to cut the hair, which was to be brought up to Jerusalem, where the ceremony was completed. This Paul did at Cenchrea just before setting out on his voyage into Syria (Acts 18:18).

14. True (1 Samuel 1:17)
Eli answered, "Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him."

15. So in the course of time Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, "Because I asked the LORD for him." (1 Samuel 1:20).
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16. What was Eve's first covering made?

17. Which of David's wife is mentioned in Matthew?

18. Who was Silas?

19. The phrase "his enemies shall lick the dust" is found in a psalm for:
a)Asaph; b)David; c)Solomon; d)sons of Korah

20. The 78th Psalm is a:
a)lamentation; b)prophecy; c)recapitulation; d)denial
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Answers:16-20

16. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves- (Gen 3:7)

17. Uriah's wife (Bathsheba).
David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah's wife.

18. Paul's travelling companion - Acts 19:29

19. Solomon - psalm 72:9 & refer Title of the psalm

20. c (recapitulation = a concise summary)

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Random Quiz - 13

1. "Come to me, all you who are weary and ________, and I will give you rest?

2. Name all 3 disciples who were on the Mount of Transfiguration with Jesus?

3. Name the village that was known as the "city of David"?

4. Jesus told the disciples to be shrewd as ________ and innocent as _______ ?

5. Who was the evangelist Luke?
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Answers:1-5

1. "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matt. 11:28

2. Peter, James, and John. Matt 17:1

3. Bethlehem. Luke 2:4

4. I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. Matt 10:16

5. A Greek physician, said to have been born in Antioch, Syria. He was a great friend of Apostle Paul, He is the author of Gospel Luke and Acts. Luke is the only Gospel which describes the infancy of Jesus.
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6. Why is our Lord called "The Word"?

7. What proofs of our Lord's divinity are there in John 1:1-3?

8. What is referred to in John 1:14?

9. In which psalm, the phrase "we went through fire and water" found:

10. The phrase, "May God be gracious to us and bless us, and make his face shine upon us" is found in psalm:
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Answers:6-10

6. Because he is the revelation of God and His Word which expresses him and his character.

7. He is stated to be God and to have been "in the beginning" and to have "made all things". Verses 1-3 are given below.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

8. The incarnation. God in human form, living on this earth, among men.

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

9. 66:12

10. 67:1
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11. "The beginning of knowledge" is what? Proverbs 1:7

12. Wisdom is ________; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you _______, get understanding?

13. For the lips of an __________ drip honey, and her speech is smoother than ____?

14. When Joshua sent spies to scout Jericho, they were aided by a prostitute named ____________.

15. Then the word of the LORD came to Samuel: 11 "I am grieved that I have made _______ king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions." Samuel was troubled, and he cried out to the LORD all that ______.
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Answers:11-15

11. 'The fear of the LORD' is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

12. Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding. Prov 4:7

13. For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil. Prov 5:3

14. Rahab - Josh 2:1. Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. "Go, look over the land," he said, "especially Jericho." So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.

15. Then the word of the LORD came to Samuel: 11 "I am grieved that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions." Samuel was troubled, and he cried out to the LORD all that night. 1 Sam 15:10-11.
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16. After David's sins of adultery and murder, the prophet ________ came to tell David of God's impending judgement.

17. When King David was dying, he told Solomon, "do not let his gray head go down to the grave in peace". Who he was refering to?

18. What are God's curses for Adam and Eve's disobedience?

19. Why did God put a mark on Cain?

20. Genesis alluded to a race of giants which existed before the Great Flood. What were they called?
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Answers:16-20

16. Then Nathan said to David, "You are the man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. 8 I gave your master's house to you, and your master's wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more. 9 Why did you despise the word of the LORD by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.' 2 Sam 12:1-10

17. "Now you yourself know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to the two commanders of Israel's armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. He killed them, shedding their blood in peacetime as if in battle, and with that blood stained the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet. 6 Deal with him according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to the grave in peace. 1 Ki 2:5-6

18. a)Pain in childbirth; b)man will rule over woman; c)the cursing of the ground and painful toiling to eat all the days of life; d)physical death; e)banished them from the garden of Eden. Gen 3:14-19.
16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." 17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return." 22 And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." 23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side [e] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

19. To protect him from injury by others. Gen 4:13-15
Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me." 15 But the LORD said to him, "Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.

20. heroes of old, men of renown. Gen 6:1-4
1 When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
(Note:Nephilim (= giants), the Hebrew word left untranslated, the name of one of the Canaanitish tribes.)

Friday, May 2, 2008

Inspirational Quizzes - 1

1. "When you saw only one set of footprints, it was then I carried you" who wrote this?


Answers:
1. These are the last two lines of the world famous poem "Footprints" by Margaret Fishback Powers. She wrote this to her husband Paul in 1964.
The poem begins:
One night I dreamed a dream.
I was walking along the beach with my Lord......

Random Quiz - 12

1. What do we know about the beginning of the world?

2.According to Genesis, What was the first thing God said?

3. What was the first thing in creation God saw as "good"?

4. On what day of creation did bring about humans?

5. What did God say would happen to the man if he ate from the forbidden tree?
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Answers: 1-5

1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth -Gen 1:1
2. Let there be light -Gen 1:3
3. light -Gen 1:3
4. sixth day -Gen 1:26-31
5. He would die -Gen 2:17
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6. What Adam do just prior to God's creation of Eve?

7. What is the difference between 'created' and 'made'?

8. Where in the Bible takes place the story of Hannah?

9. When Hannah discovered she was barren, what did Peninnah, Elkanah's 2nd wife do?

10. True or False? Elkanah's love for Hannah withered as her barrenness continued.
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Answers:5-10

6. Adam named the animals -Gen2:20
7. Created=made out of nothing. Made=formed or developed out of something already existing.
8. 1 Samuel
9. made fun of Hannah (1 Sam 1:6)
And because the LORD had closed her womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her.
10. False. "But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, and the LORD had closed her womb".
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11. When Eli, the priest, saw Hannah was praying, he thought she was __________.

12. Who and When composed the 51st psalm?

13. According to Psalm 51:17, "The sacrifices of God are
a)a burnt offering"; b)truth in the inward being"; c)a broken spirit";
d)to teach transgressors your ways".

14. God created the world by what power?

15. Was Jesus Christ with God in creation?
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Answers:11-15

11. As she kept on praying to the LORD, Eli observed her mouth. 13 Hannah was praying in her heart, and her lips were moving but her voice was not heard. Eli thought she was drunk 14 and said to her, "How long will you keep on getting drunk? Get rid of your wine."
12. By David, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
13. c). The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart,
O God, you will not despise.
14. By His word.
Heb 1:3 The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.
2 Pet 3:5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water.
15. Bible says so.
John 1;1-3. 1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.
3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

Col 1:15-16.The Supremacy of Christ.
15He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.
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16. David sang, "Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and _______".
a)bring peace
b)be at rest
c)soar upward
d)make music

17. Deliver me from my enemies, O God; David sang when
a)the Philistines seized him in Gath
b)he fled from Saul in the cave
c)Saul had sent men to watch David's house in order to kill him.
d)he was making love with Saul's daughter

18. David said in psalm 60:8, Moab is my _______________ .

19. Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a _______. Prov 16:18

20. Follow me and I will make you ______ ___ _____. Matt 4:19
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Answers:16-20

16. b. Psalm 55:6
17. c. Psalm 59 Title.
When Saul had sent men to watch David's house in order to kill him.
18. Moab is my washbasin
19. fall
20. fishers of men

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Random Quiz - 11

1. Paul says you should "put on the new self", which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of whom?

2. Daniel refers to Jesus as the "Ancient of _________" ?

3. In the Book of Revelation John describes Jesus as having hair and eyes of what colors?

4. Who are the foundations of "God's household", according to Paul, and who is its chief cornerstone?

5. When the Israelites grew tired of waiting for Moses to return from Mt. Sinai, they melted their gold earrings into an idol in the form of a _________.
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Answers:1-5

1. its Creator (=Jesus Christ) Colo 3:10.
2. "In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. Daniel 7:13
3. His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. Rev 1:14
4. Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. Ephe 2:19-20
5. Calf Ex 32:4
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6. Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, were died for making an improper offering of __________.

7. When the Israelites complained about not having meat, God eventually sent _______ (along with a severe plague).

8. God commanded Moses to drive out all the 7 _______ in the promised land.

9. Paul says, "God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he ________".

10. Who said to whom, "They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves"?
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Answers:6-10

6. fire Lev 10:1-2 1
Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to his command. 2 So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.
7. quail. Num 11:31-34
Now a wind went out from the LORD and drove quail in from the sea. It brought them down all around the camp to about three feet above the ground, as far as a day's walk in any direction.
32 All that day and night and all the next day the people went out and gathered quail. No one gathered less than ten homers. Then they spread them out all around the camp. 33 But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague. 34 Therefore the place was named Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.
8. nations (Deu 7:1)
When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you-
9. sows -Gal 6:7
Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
10. Jesus admonishes his followers in the sermon on the mount. Matt 7:15
"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. Read Matt 5-7.
Jesus was relying on an oldest metaphors of the ancient world. Ancients believed that wolves would strip off of dead sheep and use it as a covering to sneak into a flock.
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11-20, Mark True or False on the following prophetic statements.

In the last days:
11. the temple will be rebuilt

12. Israel will again reject the messiah

13. the wolf will dwell with the lamb

14. the peoples will not call on the name of the LORD

15. no one will be afraid

16. Jerusalem will be destroyed and the word of the LORD will not come from Jerusalem.

17. people will live a 100 years

18. wars will increase

19. Israel will be regathered

20. David will reign again
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11. True -Zech 6:12
Tell him this is what the LORD Almighty says: 'Here is the man whose name is the Branch, and he will branch out from his place and build the temple of the LORD.
12. False -Isa 25:9. In that day they will say, "Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the LORD, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation."
13. True -Isa 11:6
14. False -Zeph 3:9
"Then will I purify the lips of the peoples, that all of them may call on the name of the LORD and serve him shoulder to shoulder.
15. True -Mic 4:4
Every man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, and no one will make them afraid, for the LORD Almighty has spoken.
16. False -Isa 2:3
Many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths." The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
17. True -Isa 65:20
"Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; he who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere youth; he who fails to reach [a] a hundred will be considered accursed.
18. False -Isa 32:17
The fruit of righteousness will be peace; the effect of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever.
19. True -Isa 43:5-6
Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west. I will say to the north, 'Give them up!' and to the south, 'Do not hold them back.' Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth-
20. True -Hos 3:5
Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to his blessings in the last days.