Bible Quiz

Laughter

1. Which couple laughed at the incredibility of God’s promise to them?

2. Which son brought laughter to his mother?

3. Which king was laughed at when he invited people from all over Israel to celebrate the Passover?

4. Who advised that laughter should change to mourning?

5. Who referred to himself as laughingstock?

6 Who laughed at Nehemiah’s attempt to rebuild Jerusalem’s walls?

7. Who told his friend that God would fill his mouth with laughter?

8. Who said laughter was mad?

9. Who was laughed at when he said that someone was not dead but only sleeping?

10. Who was afraid the townspeople might laugh at him because of his relations with “a prostitute”?

Prepared by Bert den Boggende, a BR reader in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Answers

1. Abraham and Sarah. Before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, when Abraham was 100 years old, God promised him that Sarah, who had been barren all her life, would give him a son. “Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said to himself, ‘Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?’ ” (Genesis 17:17). Abraham was later visited by three men at the Oaks of Mamre. Sarah overheard the visitors telling Abraham that she would bear a son and laughed to herself. However, before her son was born, she denied having laughed at God’s promise, afraid that she had angered Him (Genesis 18:12–15).