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The Four Lepers Quiz

Test how well you remember the story of the four lepers from 2 Kings 7. Each question is answered directly from the passage, and the King James verse is shown with every answer. Complete the quiz to unlock a free 7-day prayer guide!

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  1. What did Elisha say would happen by the next day?
    • Fine flour and barley would sell cheaply in the gate
    • The Syrians would attack at dawn
    • Rain would end the drought
    • The king would die
  2. How did the king's officer respond?
    • He doubted it could happen even with windows in heaven
    • He praised the LORD
    • He ordered the gates opened
    • He sent for more grain
  3. What did Elisha tell that officer?
    • He would see it with his eyes but not eat of it
    • He would be made governor
    • He would die in battle
    • He would be forgiven
  4. How many leprous men sat at the gate?
    • Four
    • Two
    • Seven
    • Twelve
  5. What question did they ask each other?
    • Why sit we here until we die?
    • Where shall we hide?
    • Who will feed us?
    • When will the king come?
  6. What did they find at the Syrian camp?
    • No man there
    • A sleeping guard
    • A locked gate
    • An army waiting
  7. Why had the Syrians fled?
    • They heard a noise of chariots and a great host
    • Their food ran out
    • Their king recalled them
    • A plague struck the camp
  8. What did the four men do first in the camp?
    • Ate, drank and carried off silver and gold
    • Ran back to the city
    • Set the tents on fire
    • Freed the horses
  9. What made them go back to the city?
    • They said it was a day of good tidings and they were holding their peace
    • They ran out of food
    • The Syrians returned
    • The king sent for them
  10. What did the people do once the report was confirmed?
    • Went out and spoiled the tents of the Syrians
    • Closed the gates
    • Fasted and prayed
    • Marched on Damascus

The Four Lepers Quiz Answers & Bible References

Every answer below, with the King James Bible verse it comes from — so you can look up each one for yourself.

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  1. What did Elisha say would happen by the next day?

    Fine flour and barley would sell cheaply in the gate

    Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

    2 kings 7:1 (KJV)

  2. How did the king's officer respond?

    He doubted it could happen even with windows in heaven

    Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

    2 kings 7:2 (KJV)

  3. What did Elisha tell that officer?

    He would see it with his eyes but not eat of it

    Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

    2 kings 7:2 (KJV)

  4. How many leprous men sat at the gate?

    Four

    And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

    2 kings 7:3 (KJV)

  5. What question did they ask each other?

    Why sit we here until we die?

    And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

    2 kings 7:3 (KJV)

  6. What did they find at the Syrian camp?

    No man there

    And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.

    2 kings 7:5 (KJV)

  7. Why had the Syrians fled?

    They heard a noise of chariots and a great host

    For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

    2 kings 7:6 (KJV)

  8. What did the four men do first in the camp?

    Ate, drank and carried off silver and gold

    And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.

    2 kings 7:8 (KJV)

  9. What made them go back to the city?

    They said it was a day of good tidings and they were holding their peace

    Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.

    2 kings 7:9 (KJV)

  10. What did the people do once the report was confirmed?

    Went out and spoiled the tents of the Syrians

    And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.

    2 kings 7:16 (KJV)