Digging Deeper | 6 Questions Most Christians Get Wrong | Bible Trivia Quiz

Day 1

Question 1. Which book of the Bible has numerous chapters that begin with some form of “the word of the LORD came unto me”?

Answer: Ezekiel.

Context & Exhortation: Nearly forty times in the book of Ezekiel, the prophet opens a new oracle with the formula “the word of the LORD came unto me, saying” (see Ezekiel 6:1, 7:1, 12:1, 18:1, and dozens more). No other prophet repeats it with this density. It is Ezekiel’s signature, and it tells us something about the man before we ever read what he said: he did not consider himself the source of his message. He was a mouthpiece, not a mind. Ezekiel ministered to exiles in Babylon who had lost the temple, the land, and every visible sign that God was still with them, and into that silence God kept speaking — chapter after chapter, oracle after oracle. The repetition is itself a sermon. It says that God does not grow tired of communicating with His people, even in exile, even when it feels like heaven has gone quiet. If you are in a season where God feels distant, let Ezekiel remind you that His silence is never permanent and that He is still in the business of coming to ordinary, faithful people with a word for the moment they’re in. The question is whether we, like Ezekiel, are willing to simply receive it and pass it on.

Question 2. Which Psalm opens with the exhortation to “bless the LORD at all times”?

Answer: Psalm 34.

Context & Exhortation: Psalm 34:1 reads, “I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.” What makes this verse remarkable is not the sentiment but the setting. Look at the superscription: David wrote this psalm after he feigned madness before Abimelech to escape with his life — one of the lowest, most humiliating moments of his fugitive years, recorded back in 1 Samuel 21. This is not a psalm written from a mountaintop. It is a psalm written from a cave, by a man who had just drooled on his own beard to save his skin. And his response to that indignity was not silence or self-pity — it was praise, and a resolution to keep praising no matter the circumstance. “At all times” is the operative phrase. Not just when the sanctuary is full and the harp is in tune, but in the cave, in the ambush, in the aftermath of embarrassment. David is teaching us that blessing the Lord is not a mood; it’s a discipline. If your praise depends entirely on your circumstances, it will be as unstable as your circumstances are. Let this psalm challenge you to bless the Lord today — not because everything is fine, but because He is still worthy regardless of what today looks like.

Question 3. There is a Bible character whose name is easily confused with Nebuchadnezzar. Who is he, and where is he found?

Answer: Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, found in 2 Kings 25 and Jeremiah 39–52.

Context & Exhortation: Nebuzaradan was not the king of Babylon — that was Nebuchadnezzar — but his captain of the guard, the officer who actually carried out the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC. 2 Kings 25:8–20 records him burning the temple, breaking down the city walls, and carrying the people into captivity. Yet Jeremiah 39:11–12 records something surprising: Nebuchadnezzar himself gave Nebuzaradan specific orders to treat the prophet Jeremiah well, to release him and let him choose where he wanted to live. The very officer who executed the judgment of a nation was also the one instructed to show mercy to a single faithful man in the middle of it. It is a picture worth sitting with. Even inside the worst national catastrophe Judah ever faced, God was not blind to the individual who had stayed faithful. Nebuzaradan’s name sounds like Nebuchadnezzar’s because they served the same empire, but their roles remind us that judgment and mercy can move through the same moment in history, even the same hand. When everything around you looks like collapse, know that God still sees you individually, and He is still capable of directing even hostile circumstances toward your good.

Question 4. Which scriptures speak about usury, and what does the term mean?

Answer: Exodus 22:25, Leviticus 25:36–37, Deuteronomy 23:19–20, Nehemiah 5:1–11, Psalm 15:5, Proverbs 28:8, and Ezekiel 18:8–17, among others. Usury means charging interest on a loan, particularly to a fellow Israelite in need.

Context & Exhortation: “If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury” (Exodus 22:25). In the ancient world, usury did not necessarily mean an illegally high rate the way the word is sometimes used today — it meant any interest at all charged to a vulnerable neighbor who had borrowed simply to survive. Nehemiah 5 shows what happens when this law is ignored: wealthy Jews were charging their own poor countrymen interest so severe that people were selling their children into servitude to pay it off, and Nehemiah publicly rebuked the nobles for it (Nehemiah 5:7). God’s concern was never with commerce in general — it was with protecting the vulnerable from being exploited by the very people who should have been showing them covenant kindness. That principle has not expired. It still asks us a pointed question: are we willing to profit from someone else’s desperation, or do we treat the financially vulnerable people around us — family, coworkers, neighbors — the way God asked Israel to treat theirs? Generosity toward the poor is not an Old Testament footnote; it is a recurring test of whether our faith has actually reached our wallet.

Question 5. Besides Exodus 20, where else in the Bible are the Ten Commandments recorded in full?

Answer: Deuteronomy 5:6–21.

Context & Exhortation: Exodus 20 gives the Ten Commandments as they were first delivered at Sinai to the generation that came out of Egypt. Deuteronomy 5 gives them again, forty years later, delivered by Moses to the next generation standing on the plains of Moab, about to cross into the Promised Land. The wording is nearly identical, with a few meaningful differences — most notably, the reason given for keeping the Sabbath. Exodus 20:11 grounds it in creation: “for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth.” Deuteronomy 5:15 grounds it in redemption: “remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt… therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.” Same command, two reasons, because both are true at once. Why does Moses repeat the whole law to a brand-new generation? Because their parents’ obedience did not automatically transfer to them. Every generation has to hear the commandments for itself and choose to receive them as its own covenant, not merely as ancestral history. That is still true in your household. Faith is not inherited like eye color; it is taught, modeled, and personally embraced generation after generation. Don’t assume the next generation in your life will simply absorb what you know — like Moses, take the time to say it again.

Question 6. What is the shortest verse in the Bible, and where is it found?

Answer: John 11:35 — “Jesus wept.”

Context & Exhortation: Two words, and yet they may be among the most theologically loaded words in all of Scripture. This is not Jesus weeping over His own suffering — He weeps at the tomb of Lazarus, a man He is about to raise from the dead in the very next verses. He already knows the ending. He knows in moments He will call Lazarus back out into the light. And He weeps anyway. Why? Because grief was not canceled by knowing the outcome. Jesus wept with Mary and Martha because their pain was real in that moment, even though it would not have the final word. This should completely reshape how we think about faith and emotion. Some believers feel that grieving is somehow a failure of trust — that if you really believed God would work it out, you wouldn’t cry. John 11:35 says otherwise. The Son of God, who held resurrection power in His own hands, still wept at a grave. Faith does not require you to fake composure. It permits you to feel the full weight of loss while still holding onto the promise that it isn’t the end of the story. If you are grieving something right now, you are in good company — Jesus wept too, and He wept as an act of love, not weakness.

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