Mothers of the Bible — Hard Bible Trivia Flashcards

#1

In Judges 13, which unnamed mother was visited by an angel and told she would bear a Nazirite son destined to deliver Israel from the Philistines?

📖 Judges 13:2-3

#2

According to 2 Kings 18:2, what was the name of King Hezekiah's mother?

📖 2 Kings 18:2

#3

Who was Bathsheba's husband before she became David's wife, and how is he identified among David's warriors?

📖 2 Samuel 11:3, 2 Samuel 23:39

#4

Zebedee's wife is never named in Scripture, but she is known for requesting what specific honor for her two sons from Jesus?

📖 Matthew 20:20-21

#5

Jochebed, the mother of Moses, is explicitly named in Scripture. In which book and chapter does her name first appear?

📖 Exodus 6:20

#6

What was the name of Timothy's mother, and which New Testament epistle specifically mentions her faith and her role in Timothy's spiritual upbringing?

📖 2 Timothy 1:5

#7

Gomer, the wife of the prophet Hosea, bore three children with symbolic names. What was the name and meaning of the first child?

📖 Hosea 1:4

#8

Michal, the daughter of King Saul and first wife of David, bore no children and is explicitly said to have no offspring. What was given as the reason for her childlessness?

📖 2 Samuel 6:16-23

#2

Abi

2 Kings 18:2 identifies Hezekiah's mother as Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.

2 Kings 18:2

#1

The wife of Manoah

Judges 13:2-3 states that the angel of the Lord appeared to Manoah's wife, who was childless, and promised she would bear a son (Samson). Scripture never explicitly names her.

Judges 13:2-3

#4

That they would sit on His right and left in His kingdom

Zebedee's unnamed wife asked Jesus to grant that her sons James and John would sit at His right and left hands in His kingdom (Matthew 20:20-21).

Matthew 20:20-21

#3

He was Uriah the Hittite, one of David's mighty men

Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite. Uriah is later listed among David's mighty men, but Scripture does not give him the rank of captain.

2 Samuel 11:3, 2 Samuel 23:39

#6

Eunice; 2 Timothy

Timothy's mother was Eunice, and Paul specifically commends her faith in 2 Timothy 1:5, noting that her sincere faith dwelt first in his grandmother Lois and then in Timothy.

2 Timothy 1:5

#5

Exodus 6

Jochebed is first named in Exodus 6:20 in the genealogy of Moses and Aaron, where she is identified as Amram's wife and the mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

Exodus 6:20

#8

She despised David in her heart because of his dancing

According to 2 Samuel 6:16-23, Michal despised David in her heart for his dancing before the ark, and the text states she had no children to the day of her death, indicating her childlessness was connected to her contempt for him.

2 Samuel 6:16-23

#7

Jezreel; God scatters

The first child was named Jezreel, meaning 'God scatters' or 'God sows,' symbolic of God's judgment on Israel's violence at Jezreel (Hosea 1:4).

Hosea 1:4

#9

Ruth, who became the mother of Obed and grandmother of King David, was from which foreign nation, and what was her religious status before her marriage to Boaz?

📖 Ruth 1:16-17, Ruth 3:11

#10

Herodias was the mother of Salome, who danced before King Herod and requested the head of John the Baptist. What was Herodias's relationship to Herod before her marriage to him?

📖 Matthew 14:3-4, Mark 6:17-18

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#10

She was the wife of his brother Philip

Herodias was previously married to Philip, Herod's brother. She left Philip to marry Herod Antipas, which John the Baptist condemned as unlawful (Matthew 14:3-4, Mark 6:17-18).

Matthew 14:3-4, Mark 6:17-18

#9

Moab; a proselyte or convert to the faith of Israel

Ruth was from Moab and is depicted as someone who fully committed herself to the God of Israel and to Naomi's people, demonstrating the faith and loyalty characteristic of a convert (Ruth 1:16-17, Ruth 3:11).

Ruth 1:16-17, Ruth 3:11

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