Bible Quiz: Ashes

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1) Ash Wednesday is the beginning of the six-week season of Lent leading up to Easter. Many Christian churches observe Lent as a period of repentance and prayer, a time of turning back to God, and turning away from sin, disobedience or rebellion. Some churches observe Ash Wednesday by placing ashes on the forehead, as in the picture below, as a sign of repentance.

In the ancient world, people would sprinkle themselves with or sit in ashes as a sign of grief, humiliation, or repentance. Which city's king covered himself in sackcloth and sat in ashes as a sign of repentance when Jonah prophesied the city's destruction?

Gomorrah

Jerusalem

Nineveh

Sodom

2) The term "ashes" is often used in the Old Testament to signify worthlessness, insignificance or humility. While speaking to God about the fate of the city of Sodom, this man said, "Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city because of five people?" (NIV)

Abraham

Joseph

Lot

Matthew

3) In his suffering and grief, which man cried out, "I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes"?

Adam

Job

Judas

Peter

4) Who said, "Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes"?

Jeremiah

Jesus

Jonah

Joshua