2 Samuel Chapter 14 HOALTC Bible Bowl 2020

Question 1

3. What did Joab tell the woman from Tekoa to say about her marital status?

Accepted Answer

She was a widow

Question 2

6. To what did the woman from Tekoa compare her remaining son?

Accepted Answer

The only burning coal she had left

Question 3

2. How did Joab instruct the woman from Tekoa to act?

Accepted Answer

Like a woman grieving for the dead

Question 4

19. What did Absalom want Joab to ask the king on his behalf?

Accepted Answer

"Why have I come from Geshur?"

Question 5

5. What did the woman from Tekoa claim her clan wanted to do to her living son?

Accepted Answer

Put him to death for killing his brother

Question 6

11. Why had Joab instructed the woman from Tekoa to say the things she had told the king?

Accepted Answer

The change the present situation

Question 7

10. Who asked the woman from Tekoa, "Isn't the hand of Joab with you in all this?"

Accepted Answer

The king

Question 8

20. How did the king respond to Absalom when he bowed down before him with his face to the ground?

Accepted Answer

He kissed him

Question 9

4. What did the woman from Tekoa claim one of her two sons had done to the other?

Accepted Answer

Killed him

Question 10

18. What did Absalom have his servants do to Joab's barley field to get Joab to go talk to Absalom?

Accepted Answer

Set it on fire

Question 11

12. What was the result of the discussion between the king and the woman of Tekoa?

Accepted Answer

The king instructed Joab to bring Absalom back

Question 12

8. Why did the woman from Tekoa indicate the king had convicted himself when he devised the plan to protect her family?

Accepted Answer

He had not brought back his own banished son

Question 13

14. By order of the king, whose face was Absalom NOT to see when he returned to Jerusalem?

Accepted Answer

The king's

Question 14

13. To what location did the king insist that Absalom go when he returned to Jerusalem?

Accepted Answer

Absalom's own house

Question 15

16. What did Absalom cut each year that weighed two hundred shekels by the royal standard?

Accepted Answer

His hair

Question 16

9. Who did the woman from Tekoa say, "...devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him"?

Accepted Answer

God

Question 17

15. How does 2 Samuel 14 describe Absalom's appearance?

Accepted Answer

No blemish from his head to his foot

Question 18

1. Who, knowing the king's heart longed for Absalom, devised a plan involving a woman from Tekoa?

Accepted Answer

Joab

Question 19

17. How long did Absalom live in Jerusalem without seeing the king's face?

Accepted Answer

Two years

Question 20

7. What did the woman from Tekoa ask David to do for her and her family?

Accepted Answer

Pardon them

Questions 20