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1 Kings — Group study guide
Part 1 of 2 · chapters 1–11
11 chapters · 77 questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
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1 Kings 1 — Study questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
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Read first: 1 Kings 1 (KJV)
1. What remedy did they find for King David's cold?
1 Kings 1:2
- A. They sought a young virgin to keep him warm
- B. They made him new wool garments
- C. They took him to live in Jericho
- D. They kept a fire burning day and night
2. What was that young virgin's name?
1 Kings 1:3
- A. Bathsheba
- B. Tamar
- C. Michal
- D. Abishag the Shunammite
3. What was Adonijah's sin?
1 Kings 1:5
- A. He killed his brother Amnon
- B. He worshipped Baal
- C. He exalted himself, saying: I will be king
- D. He robbed the temple treasury
4. Whom did Adonijah confer with in his rebellion?
1 Kings 1:7
- A. With Nathan and Zadok
- B. With Joab the son of Zeruiah and Abiathar the priest
- C. With Benaiah and Shimei
- D. With Hushai and Ahithophel
5. Whom did Nathan the prophet follow?
1 Kings 1:8
- A. King David
- B. Adonijah
- C. Joab
- D. Abiathar
6. Whom did Nathan send to King David to say, 'Why then doth Adonijah reign?'
1 Kings 1:11-13
- A. Abishag the Shunammite
- B. Zadok the priest
- C. Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
- D. Bathsheba the mother of Solomon
7. Who came in to see the king while Bathsheba was speaking with him?
1 Kings 1:22
- A. Adonijah
- B. Joab
- C. Nathan
- D. Solomon
8. Whom did King David order to be anointed king in his place?
1 Kings 1:33-34
- A. Adonijah
- B. Solomon
- C. Nathan
- D. Absalom
9. Being afraid of Solomon, what did Adonijah take hold of?
1 Kings 1:50
- A. The horns of the altar
- B. Nathan's mantle
- C. The ark of the covenant
- D. A pillar of the temple
10. What did King Solomon do with Adonijah?
1 Kings 1:53
- A. He had him put to death
- B. He imprisoned him
- C. He banished him to Egypt
- D. He told him to go to his house
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1 Kings 2 — Study questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
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Read first: 1 Kings 2 (KJV)
1. What did David tell Solomon about Joab's gray head?
1 Kings 2:6
- A. To honor it in his old age
- B. To let him die in peace
- C. To make him captain of the army
- D. Not to let it go down to the grave in peace
2. Shimei was the one who cursed King David. What did David ask Solomon to do to him?
1 Kings 2:9
- A. To forgive him forever
- B. To give him land in Bahurim
- C. To bring his hoar head down to the grave with blood
- D. To make him his counselor
3. What favor did Adonijah ask of Bathsheba, Solomon's mother?
1 Kings 2:17
- A. To ask for part of the kingdom
- B. To ask the king for Abishag the Shunammite to be his wife
- C. To intercede for Joab
- D. To give back his house
4. What did King Solomon do with Adonijah after his request?
1 Kings 2:24-25
- A. He had him put to death
- B. He granted the request
- C. He banished him
- D. He made him a governor
5. Why did Solomon not put Abiathar to death?
1 Kings 2:26
- A. Because he was his uncle
- B. Because Nathan pleaded for him
- C. Because he fled to Egypt
- D. Because he had borne the ark of the LORD before David
6. Where did Joab die?
1 Kings 2:28-34
- A. At his house in the wilderness
- B. In the battle against Edom
- C. In the tabernacle, by the altar
- D. In the prison in Jerusalem
7. On what condition did Solomon spare Shimei?
1 Kings 2:36-37
- A. That he pay a hundred shekels of silver
- B. That he not leave Jerusalem and pass over the brook Kidron
- C. That he serve in the temple
- D. That he hand over his sons
8. Why did Shimei disobey Solomon's order?
1 Kings 2:39-40
- A. Two of his servants ran away to Achish and he went to look for them
- B. He went to visit his family in Bahurim
- C. He wanted to sacrifice at Gibeon
- D. He fled from a sickness
9. Did Shimei reap what he sowed?
1 Kings 2:44
- Yes
- No
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1 Kings 3 — Study questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
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Read first: 1 Kings 3 (KJV)
1. With what foreigner did Solomon make affinity?
1 Kings 3:1
- A. With Hiram king of Tyre
- B. With the queen of Sheba
- C. With Hadad the Edomite
- D. With Pharaoh king of Egypt
2. The LORD appeared to Solomon in Gibeon one night. What did He say to him?
1 Kings 3:5
- A. Build me a house
- B. Keep my commandments
- C. Ask what I shall give thee
- D. Fear not, I am with thee
3. And what did Solomon ask for?
1 Kings 3:9
- A. Riches and honour
- B. An understanding heart to judge the people
- C. Long life
- D. The life of his enemies
4. What did Solomon not ask for, yet God gave it to him?
1 Kings 3:13
- A. Riches and honour
- B. A son
- C. Victory over Egypt
- D. A temple of gold
5. How did Solomon know who the real mother was of the child he ordered divided in two?
1 Kings 3:26
- A. She was the one who wept loudest
- B. She was the one who brought witnesses
- C. She was the one who knew the child's name
- D. She was the one who asked that he not be slain but given to the other
6. Why did Israel fear Solomon?
1 Kings 3:28
- A. Because he killed Adonijah
- B. Because he had a great army
- C. Because they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment
- D. Because he was very rich
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1 Kings 4 — Study questions
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Read first: 1 Kings 4 (KJV)
1. How many officers did Solomon have over all Israel?
1 Kings 4:7
- A. Ten
- B. Seven
- C. Twelve
- D. Twenty
2. What was the job of those officers?
1 Kings 4:7
- A. To collect tribute from the Philistines
- B. To provide victuals for the king and his household
- C. To care for the temple
- D. To judge the tribes
3. Who was Taphath?
1 Kings 4:11
- A. A daughter of Solomon
- B. A wife of Solomon
- C. A daughter of Pharaoh
- D. A concubine of David
4. And who was Basmath?
1 Kings 4:15
- A. The queen of Sheba
- B. Rehoboam's mother
- C. A daughter of Hiram
- D. Also a daughter of Solomon
5. How many horses and how many horsemen did King Solomon have?
1 Kings 4:26
- A. A thousand horses and a thousand horsemen
- B. Four thousand horses and four thousand horsemen
- C. Forty thousand stalls of horses and twelve thousand horsemen
- D. Twelve thousand horses and forty thousand horsemen
6. God gave King Solomon wisdom and largeness of heart, like what?
1 Kings 4:29
- A. Like the stars of heaven
- B. Like the sand that is on the sea shore
- C. Like the cedars of Lebanon
- D. Like the river Euphrates
7. Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of whom?
1 Kings 4:30
- A. Of all the children of the east country and of Egypt
- B. Of the priests and Levites
- C. Of the Philistines and Phoenicians
- D. Of the prophets of Israel
8. How many proverbs did Solomon speak?
1 Kings 4:32
- A. A thousand and five
- B. Seven hundred
- C. Ten thousand
- D. Three thousand
Notes
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1 Kings 5 — Study questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
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Read first: 1 Kings 5 (KJV)
1. What did Hiram king of Tyre do when he heard Solomon had been anointed king?
1 Kings 5:1
- A. He declared war on him
- B. He sent him his daughter
- C. He closed the ports of Tyre
- D. He sent his servants to Solomon
2. Why could David not build a house for the LORD?
1 Kings 5:3
- A. For lack of timber
- B. Because he was sick
- C. Because of the wars
- D. Because he had no gold
3. Who were the most skilled at hewing cedar timber?
1 Kings 5:6
- A. The Egyptians
- B. The Sidonians
- C. The Philistines
- D. The Edomites
4. How many men did Solomon send to Lebanon each month, according to the levy?
1 Kings 5:14
- A. Ten thousand
- B. Thirty thousand
- C. A thousand
- D. Seventy thousand
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1 Kings 6 — Study questions
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Read first: 1 Kings 6 (KJV)
1. How many years after Israel came out of Egypt did the building of the temple begin?
1 Kings 6:1
- A. Four hundred and eighty years
- B. Four hundred and thirty years
- C. Forty years
- D. Three hundred years
2. Was the noise of hammers heard while the house of God was being built?
1 Kings 6:7
- Yes
- No
3. What kind of wood were the two cherubim made of?
1 Kings 6:23
- A. Cedar wood
- B. Acacia wood
- C. Olive wood
- D. Fir wood
4. What is Bul?
1 Kings 6:38
- A. A river in Lebanon
- B. The eighth month
- C. An idol of the Sidonians
- D. A gate of the temple
5. How many years did it take to build the house of God?
1 Kings 6:38
- A. Seven years
- B. Thirteen years
- C. Twenty years
- D. Three years
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1 Kings 7 — Study questions
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Read first: 1 Kings 7 (KJV)
1. How long did Solomon take to build his own house?
1 Kings 7:1
- A. Thirteen years
- B. Seven years
- C. Twenty years
- D. Forty years
2. On how many oxen did the molten sea stand?
1 Kings 7:25
- A. Seven
- B. Four
- C. Ten
- D. Twelve
3. How many baths did the sea contain?
1 Kings 7:26
- A. A thousand baths
- B. Three thousand baths
- C. Two thousand baths
- D. Ten thousand baths
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1 Kings 8 — Study questions
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Read first: 1 Kings 8 (KJV)
1. What was the city of David called?
1 Kings 8:1
- A. Hebron
- B. Bethlehem
- C. Zion
- D. Shechem
2. Over what did the cherubim spread forth their wings?
1 Kings 8:7
- A. Over the altar
- B. Over the ark
- C. Over the temple door
- D. Over the molten sea
3. What happened when the priests came out of the holy place?
1 Kings 8:10
- A. The cloud filled the house of the LORD
- B. Fire came down from heaven
- C. The earth shook
- D. A voice was heard from heaven
4. What is it that the heavens cannot contain?
1 Kings 8:27
- A. Solomon's wisdom
- B. The molten sea
- C. The glory of Israel
- D. The presence of God
5. What shuts up heaven so that there is no rain?
1 Kings 8:35
- A. War
- B. The pride of kings
- C. Sin
- D. The east wind
6. Who is the man that does not sin?
1 Kings 8:46
- A. The priest
- B. There is no man that sinneth not
- C. The anointed king
- D. The prophet
7. When God brought Israel out of Egypt, how was Egypt described?
1 Kings 8:51
- A. As the furnace of iron
- B. As the house of bondage
- C. As a land of darkness
- D. As a valley of tears
8. How many sheep did Solomon offer as peace offerings?
1 Kings 8:63
- A. Twenty-two thousand
- B. A thousand
- C. Seventy thousand
- D. A hundred and twenty thousand
9. How many days did Solomon hold the feast when dedicating the temple?
1 Kings 8:65
- A. Seven days
- B. Forty days
- C. Fourteen days
- D. Three days
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1 Kings 9 — Study questions
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Read first: 1 Kings 9 (KJV)
1. Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities. What did Hiram think of them?
1 Kings 9:12
- A. He loved them
- B. He sold them
- C. They pleased him not
- D. He gave them back to Egypt
2. How many times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar?
1 Kings 9:25
- A. Once a year
- B. Three times a year
- C. Every month
- D. Seven times a year
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1 Kings 10 — Study questions
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Read first: 1 Kings 10 (KJV)
1. Who heard of Solomon's fame and came to visit him?
1 Kings 10:1
- A. Hiram king of Tyre
- B. The queen of Sheba
- C. Pharaoh king of Egypt
- D. The king of Syria
2. And how did she prove him?
1 Kings 10:1
- A. With hard questions
- B. With a chariot race
- C. With poisoned gifts
- D. With a riddle of numbers
3. What did King Solomon give the queen of Sheba?
1 Kings 10:13
- A. One of his cities
- B. Half of his gold
- C. A daughter for a wife
- D. All her desire, whatsoever she asked
4. How much gold came to Solomon each year?
1 Kings 10:14
- A. A hundred and twenty talents
- B. Four hundred and twenty talents
- C. Six hundred threescore and six talents
- D. A thousand talents
5. What kind of throne did King Solomon make?
1 Kings 10:18
- A. A throne of cedar
- B. A great throne of ivory
- C. A throne of silver
- D. A throne of stone
6. What stood beside the arms (stays) of that throne?
1 Kings 10:19
- A. Two lions
- B. Two cherubim
- C. Two eagles
- D. Two pillars
7. In what other kingdom was a throne like Solomon's made?
1 Kings 10:20
- A. In Egypt
- B. In Tyre
- C. In Sheba
- D. In no other kingdom
8. What was silver worth in the days of Solomon?
1 Kings 10:21
- A. It was worth more than gold
- B. It was the temple's currency
- C. It was nothing accounted of
- D. Only kings used it
9. In Solomon's time, what did all the earth seek?
1 Kings 10:24
- A. To trade with Tyre
- B. To see Solomon's face and hear his wisdom
- C. To conquer Jerusalem
- D. To learn the law of Moses
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1 Kings 11 — Study questions
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Read first: 1 Kings 11 (KJV)
1. How many strange women did Solomon love?
1 Kings 11:1
- A. None
- B. Many
- C. Only one
- D. Two
2. How many women did Solomon have in all?
1 Kings 11:3
- A. A thousand
- B. A hundred
- C. Three hundred
- D. Seven hundred
3. When King Solomon was old, what did his wives do to him?
1 Kings 11:4
- A. They abandoned him
- B. They nursed him in his sickness
- C. They conspired against Rehoboam
- D. They turned away his heart after other gods
4. Why was the LORD angry with Solomon?
1 Kings 11:9
- A. Because he did not finish the temple
- B. Because he made a league with Hiram
- C. Because his heart was turned from the LORD
- D. Because he killed Joab
5. What was God's punishment on Solomon?
1 Kings 11:11
- A. To take his life
- B. To rend the kingdom and give it to his servant
- C. To send him a plague
- D. To burn the temple
6. How did Hadad end up in Egypt?
1 Kings 11:15-17
- A. He was taken captive by Solomon
- B. He was sent as an ambassador
- C. He was sold as a slave
- D. He fled from Joab, who stayed in Edom killing every male
7. What did Hadad want to do when he heard King David was dead?
1 Kings 11:21
- A. Marry Pharaoh's daughter
- B. Make a league with Solomon
- C. Go back to his own country
- D. Stay in Egypt
8. To whom were ten tribes of Israel given to rule?
1 Kings 11:31
- A. Rehoboam
- B. Jeroboam
- C. Hadad
- D. Rezon
9. Why did the LORD keep Solomon as king all the days of his life?
1 Kings 11:34
- A. For David's sake
- B. For Solomon's wisdom
- C. For the temple he built
- D. For Nathan's prayer
10. Why did Jeroboam flee to Egypt?
1 Kings 11:40
- A. Because Ahijah banished him
- B. Because there was a famine
- C. To find a wife
- D. Because Solomon sought to kill him
11. How many years did Solomon reign in Jerusalem?
1 Kings 11:42
- A. Thirty years
- B. Fifty years
- C. Forty years
- D. Twenty years
12. Who reigned in Solomon's place?
1 Kings 11:43
- A. Jeroboam
- B. His son Rehoboam
- C. Adonijah
- D. Abijah