2 Samuel Bible Quiz
55 questions with answers and verses. Tap any question to test yourself — or play a timed quiz.
Play a Kings quizEasy (12)
- What son did Bathsheba bear David after their first child died?
- Which refrain repeats in David's lament for Saul and Jonathan?
- Which city did David capture from the Jebusites and call the City of David?
- Uzzah died after reaching out to touch what?
- How did David celebrate as the ark was brought into the City of David?
- For Jonathan's sake, whom did David invite to always eat at the king's table?
- From where did David first see Bathsheba bathing?
- Bathsheba was the wife of which soldier in David's army?
- After David condemned the rich man in the parable, what did Nathan tell him?
- Which son of David stole the hearts of the men of Israel at the city gate?
- How was Absalom trapped in the battle in the forest of Ephraim?
- Hearing of Absalom's death, David wept, "O my son Absalom!" What else did he cry?
Medium (17)
- In his lament, David said whose love for him surpassed the love of women?
- How did Jonathan's son Mephibosheth become lame?
- Who looked down from a window and despised David for dancing before the LORD?
- David told Nathan he lived in a house of cedar while the ark of God stayed where?
- When David wanted to build a house for the LORD, what did God say through Nathan?
- God promised that David's house, kingdom, and throne would endure for how long?
- Who was over David's army?
- In the spring, while Joab's army besieged Rabbah, where did David stay?
- What did David send to Joab by Uriah's own hand?
- In Nathan's parable, what did the rich man take from the poor man?
- What did David do when he learned that his baby son had died?
- Where did Absalom have himself proclaimed king?
- Which man from Saul's family cursed David and threw stones at him as he fled?
- Who killed Absalom, despite David's order to deal gently with him?
- What did David do with the water three mighty men brought him from Bethlehem's well?
- What did David order Joab to do, which afterward struck David's conscience?
- Why did David insist on paying for the threshing floor where he built an altar?
Hard (18)
- After Saul's death, the men of which tribe anointed David as their king?
- How old was David when he became king?
- Who came to David claiming he had killed Saul, bringing Saul's crown and armband?
- Whom did Abner make king over Israel after Saul's death?
- How long did David reign in Hebron over Judah?
- Who stabbed Abner in the gateway at Hebron?
- In whose house did the ark stay for three months, bringing God's blessing?
- How did Hanun king of the Ammonites humiliate David's envoys?
- Why did Uriah refuse to go home to his wife while he was in Jerusalem?
- Nathan said that because of David's sin, what would never depart from his house?
- On which day did the first child of David and Bathsheba die?
- Whom did Joab send to persuade David to bring Absalom back?
- Whom did David send back to Jerusalem to frustrate the advice of Ahithophel?
- What did Ahithophel do when Absalom rejected his advice?
- What happened to the rebel Sheba son of Bichri at Abel-beth-maacah?
- What was unusual about a giant from Gath killed by David's nephew Jonathan?
- Which of David's mighty men killed a lion in a pit on a snowy day?
- On whose threshing floor did David build an altar to stop the plague?
Expert (8)
- In his lament, David said, "Tell it not in…" which Philistine city?
- What name did the LORD send through Nathan for the baby Solomon?
- Where did Absalom flee and stay three years after his men killed Amnon?
- How much did Absalom's hair weigh when he cut it each year?
- Which foreign soldier vowed to follow David "whether it means life or death"?
- In the battle against Absalom, what devoured more people than the sword?
- Which 80-year-old Gileadite had supplied David at Mahanaim but declined to go to Jerusalem?
- Which mother guarded the bodies of her hanged sons from birds and beasts?