Mothers of the Bible — Hard Bible Trivia

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?

2. According to Jewish rabbinic tradition (Genesis Rabbah), which woman was the wife of Noah and mother to his sons, though Scripture itself leaves her unnamed?

3. What was the relationship between Bathsheba and her first husband before she became David's wife, and what was his military rank?

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

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

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?

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

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?

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?

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?