Quiz

According to Genesis 32, what experience helped prepare Jacob to meet Esau after years of hostile separation?

According to the lesson, when Moses wrote the story of Jacob, he wanted to emphasize God’s past, present, and future ________, so that Israel would see that they also needed the same thing.

What future events were suggested by the fact that Esau was red at birth? Mark each correct answer.

What are the four major themes from the life of Jacob that are explained in the lesson? Mark each correct answer.

What name is used for a literary structure in which sections before and after a centerpiece parallel or balance each other?

What new name did the angel give Jacob after wrestling with him?

What does the struggle between Jacob and Esau in the womb represent?

Of what nation was Esau the father?

Of what nation was Jacob the father?

What important detail is reported in Genesis 35:27-29 that points to the fact that the struggle between Jacob and Esau was over?

In general, what kind of relationship did Isaac have with the Philistines?

In general, what kind of relationship did Jacob have with the Canaanites?

According to Genesis 27:1–28:5, why did Esau become angry with Jacob?

The name Jacob, in Hebrew, is from the same root as the word translated ________.

In Genesis 27:36, Esau said, Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? He has __________me these two times: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!

Like so many other names in the Bible, the name Israel was, at some point in its history, a praise to God meaning, God _______ or ________.

Why was Jacob’s new name, Israel, important to the twelve tribes as Moses was leading them toward the Promised Land?

Jacob developed a relationship of trust with his father-in-law, Laban.

God blessed Jacob because of his integrity and faithfulness.

The life of Jacob was written primarily for individual believers to apply directly to their personal lives.

In general terms, God’s covenant relationship with His people always involves blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, but as Moses wrote about Jacob, he clearly placed more emphasis on the blessings that God gave to him, even in spite of his disobedience.

God made the same promise to Jacob that He had given to Abraham, to bless those who blessed him and to curse those who cursed him.