Jonah and Nineveh Quiz
Test how well you remember Jonah, Nineveh and the gourd, from Jonah 3-4. 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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- How many times did the word of the LORD come to Jonah telling him to go to Nineveh?
- Once
- A second time
- Seven times
- Never
- What did Jonah cry in Nineveh?
- Repent, for the kingdom is at hand
- Flee to the mountains
- Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown
- The LORD will roar from Zion
- How did the people of Nineveh respond?
- They believed God and proclaimed a fast
- They threw Jonah out of the city
- They built a wall around the city
- They ignored him
- What did the king of Nineveh do?
- Sent an army against Jonah
- Hid in his palace
- Wrote to the king of Israel
- Covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes
- Who did the king's decree say must not eat or drink?
- Only the priests
- Only the nobles
- Neither man nor beast
- Only the children
- How did Jonah feel when God spared Nineveh?
- It displeased him exceedingly
- He was full of joy
- He was afraid
- He was relieved
- What question did the LORD ask Jonah?
- Where art thou?
- Doest thou well to be angry?
- Whom shall I send?
- What doest thou here?
- What did the LORD God prepare to shade Jonah's head?
- A fig tree
- A cloud
- A tent
- A gourd
- What did God prepare to make the gourd wither?
- A worm
- A fire
- A flood
- A swarm of locusts
- How many persons did God say were in Nineveh?
- Seven thousand
- Forty thousand
- More than sixscore thousand
- Ten thousand times ten thousand
Jonah and Nineveh 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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How many times did the word of the LORD come to Jonah telling him to go to Nineveh?
A second time
And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
jonah 3:1 (KJV) -
What did Jonah cry in Nineveh?
Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
jonah 3:4 (KJV) -
How did the people of Nineveh respond?
They believed God and proclaimed a fast
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
jonah 3:5 (KJV) -
What did the king of Nineveh do?
Covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
jonah 3:6 (KJV) -
Who did the king's decree say must not eat or drink?
Neither man nor beast
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
jonah 3:7 (KJV) -
How did Jonah feel when God spared Nineveh?
It displeased him exceedingly
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
jonah 4:1 (KJV) -
What question did the LORD ask Jonah?
Doest thou well to be angry?
Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
jonah 4:4 (KJV) -
What did the LORD God prepare to shade Jonah's head?
A gourd
And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
jonah 4:6 (KJV) -
What did God prepare to make the gourd wither?
A worm
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
jonah 4:7 (KJV) -
How many persons did God say were in Nineveh?
More than sixscore thousand
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
jonah 4:11 (KJV)