Old Testament

Character Studies IV
David and Abigail –
Elisha’s Help to the Prophets and King
Eight Lessons

Bible Study Course

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 LESSON 1: DAVID AND ABIGAIL
1. I Samuel 25:1 - What wilderness did David go to after Samuel died?

2. I Samuel 25:2-3a - What man in Maon had many sheep and goats?
3. I Samuel 25:3 - How was his wife Abigail described?

4. I Samuel 25:4 - What did David hear of Nabal?

5. I Samuel 25:5 - How many young men did David send out to meet Nabal?
6. I Samuel 25:10-12 - Did Nabal react kindly to David’s young men?

7. I Samuel 25:13 - How many armed men went with David to deal with Nabal?

8. I Samuel 25:14-17 - Why did the young man say “evil is determined against our master, and against his household”?

9. I Samuel 25:18 - What gifts did Abigail prepare for David?

10. I Samuel 25:23b - What did Abigail do when she saw David?

11. I Samuel 25:24-27 - What did Abigail call herself as she humbly brought gifts to David and his men?

12. I Samuel 25:28 - What did Abigail say the Lord would make of David?
13. I Samuel 25:29b - What did Abigail say would happen to the souls of David’s enemies?

14. I Samuel 25:30b - What appointment did Abigail say David would have?

15. I Samuel 25:31b - Who did Abigail ask David to remember when the Lord “dealt well” with him?
16. I Samuel 25:32 - Who did David say sent Abigail to meet him?
17. I Samuel 25:33a - Did David consider Abigail’s advice a blessing?

18. I Samuel 25:35 - Did David hearken to Abigail’s advice and let her go to her house in peace?
19. I Samuel 25:36-37 - What happened within Nabal when Abigail told him what had occurred?

20. I Samuel 25:38 - How long did Nabal live after that?
21. I Samuel 25:39a - Who heard of Nabal’s death?
22. I Samuel 25:39b - What did David say about Nabal’s wickedness?

23. I Samuel 25:39c - “And David _______________ and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to ________________.”

24. I Samuel 25:41 - What did Abigail offer to do for the servants of David?

25. I Samuel 25:42 - How many damsels did Abigail take with her when she became David’s wife?

Memory Verse: I Samuel 25:32 ~ “And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to
meet me:”

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 LESSON 2: THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON
1. I Kings 3:5 - What did God say to Solomon in his dream?

2. I Kings 3:6a - How did Solomon describe his father David’s walk?

3. I Kings 3:6b - What did Solomon say was a “great kindness” from the Lord?

4. I Kings 3:7 - How did Solomon humbly describe himself?

5. I Kings 3:8 - “And thy _______________________ is in the midst of thy people which thou hast __________________, a

great people, that cannot be ____________________________ nor counted for multitude.”

6. I Kings 3:9 - What kind of heart did Solomon desire of the Lord?

7. I Kings 3:10 - Did Solomon’s speech please the Lord?

8. I Kings 3:11-12a - Did the Lord grant Solomon’s petition? _____________________________
9. I Kings 3:12b - Would anyone again be like unto Solomon, according to the Lord?

10. I Kings 3:13 - What did God also give to Solomon?

11. I Kings 3:14 - How could Solomon see his days lengthened?

12. I Kings 3:15 - What type of offerings were offered up by Solomon?

13. I Kings 3:16 - How were the two women described that stood before Solomon?
14. I Kings 3:17 - Who did the first woman testify was delivered unto her (as both women dwelt in one house)?

15. I Kings 3:18a - What did she testify happened after the third day of her delivery?
16. I Kings 3:19 - What did the first woman say happened to the other woman’s child?
17. I Kings 3:20 - What did the first woman say happened while she slept?

18. I Kings 3:21 - What did she say happened when she awoke?
19. I Kings 3:22 - What did the other woman testify?
20. I Kings 3:24 - What did Solomon command to be brought to him after hearing the conflicting testimonies?

21. I Kings 3:25 - What did Solomon propose to do?

22. I Kings 3:26a - What did the mother of the living child say?

23. I Kings 3:26b - What did the other woman say to do to the child?

24. I Kings 3:27 - “Then the king answered and said, _______________ her the living child, and in no wise _______________

it: she is the __________________________ thereof.”

25. I Kings 3:28 - What did all Israel see was in Solomon when they heard his judgement?

Memory Verse: I Kings 3:9a ~ “Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern
between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?”

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 LESSON 3: ELIJAH AND THE WIDOW
1. I Kings 17:1a - Who was the Tishbite “of the inhabitants of Gilead”?

2. I Kings 17:1b - To what king did he prophesy specifically that “there shall not be dew nor rain”?
3. I Kings 17:2 - What came unto this prophet?

4. I Kings 17:3 - By what brook was Elijah instructed to hide?

5. I Kings 17:4 - What did the Lord command the ravens to do?

6. I Kings 17:5 - How did Elijah respond to the word of the Lord?
7. I Kings 17:6 - At what parts of the day did Elijah receive food from the ravens?

8. I Kings 17:7 - “And it came to pass after a while, that the ____________ dried up, because there had been no ___________

in the __________________.”
9. I Kings 17:8-9a - Where did the word of the Lord direct Elijah to go after the brook dried up?
10. I Kings 17:9b - What did the Lord command “a widow woman there” to do?

11. I Kings 17:10 - What did Elijah ask the widow to do as she was gathering sticks?
12. I Kings 17:11 - What else did Elijah desire from the widow woman?

13. I Kings 17:12a - What food did the widow have in supply?

14. I Kings 17:13 - What did Elijah instruct the widow to make for him?

15. I Kings 17:14 - What did the Lord tell the widow (through Elijah) would not waste or fail?

16. I Kings 17:15 - “And she went and ______________ according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did

eat _________________ days.”

17. I Kings 17:16 - Did all that Elijah said to the widow concerning God providing for her come true?
18. I Kings 17:17 - Who became sick unto death?
19. I Kings 17:18 - What did the woman think was called up “to remembrance”?

20. I Kings 17:19 - Where did Elijah place the widow’s son?
21. I Kings 17:20 - Did Elijah question God concerning the widow’s son?
22. I Kings 17:21 - How many times did Elijah stretch himself upon the child as he prayed unto the Lord?
23. I Kings 17:22 - What happened to the child after Elijah prayed?

24. I Kings 17:23 - What did Elijah do with the child after the Lord revived him?
25. I Kings 17:24 - What did the woman testify of Elijah?

Memory Verse: I Kings 17:22 ~ “And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and
he revived.”

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 LESSON 4: ELIJAH AT MOUNT CARMEL
1. I Kings 18:17 - What question did evil king Ahab ask Elijah?

2. I Kings 18:18 - What was bold Elijah’s response to king Ahab?

3. I Kings 18:19 - Where did Elijah instruct Ahab to gather all Israel and the “prophets”?
4. I Kings 18:20-21a - What question did Elijah ask the children of Israel there?

5. I Kings 18:22 - How many prophets of Baal were at Mount Carmel?

6. I Kings 18:23 - What animal was given for each sacrifice?

7. I Kings 18:24b - “. . . the ________________ that answereth by ____________________, let him be God.”

8. I Kings 18:25-26 - How long did the “prophets” call upon the name of Baal before they leaped on the altar?

9. I Kings 18:27-28 - What did these prophets do after Elijah mocked them?

10. I Kings 18:29 - Did these prophets receive any answer from Baal?
11. I Kings 18:30 - What did Elijah instruct the people to do when he began to repair the broken altar?
12. I Kings 18:31 - How many stones did Elijah take?

13. I Kings 18:32 - What did Elijah make “about the altar”?

14. I Kings 18:33 - What did Elijah have poured on the sacrifice and wood?
15. I Kings 18:34 - How many times was this done?

16. I Kings 18:35 - “And the water ran ______________ about the altar; and he _______________ the trench also with water.”

17. I Kings 18:36 - What did Elijah pray would be known?

18. I Kings 18:37 - What did Elijah request of the Lord concerning the heart of Israel?
19. I Kings 18:38 - What happened after Elijah prayed?

20. I Kings 18:39 - What then did all the people do?

21. I Kings 18:40 - Who did Elijah instruct the people to take?
22. I Kings 18:41-42a - Who did Elijah instruct to eat and drink, saying “there is a sound of abundance of rain”?
23. I Kings 18:42b-44 - What did Elijah’s servant see the last time he looked toward the sea?

24. I Kings 18:45 - What came down from heaven?

25. I Kings 18:46 - “And the ________________ of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and _____________

before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.”

Memory Verse: I Kings 19:46a ~ “And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah;”

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 LESSON 5: NABOTH’S VINEYARD
1. I Kings 21:1 - Whose palace was by Naboth’s vineyard?

2. I Kings 21:2a - Why did Ahab desire the vineyard?

3. I Kings 21:3 - “And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD ____________________ it me, that I should ________________ the

___________________________ of my fathers unto thee.”

4. I Kings 21:4b - Where did Ahab go after his offer was rejected?
5. I Kings 21:5 - What did Jezebel ask Ahab?
6. I Kings 21:6-7 - What did Jezebel say she would give Ahab?
7. I Kings 21:8-9 - What did Jezebel do in Ahab’s name?

8. I Kings 21:10 - Who were false witnesses against Naboth?

9. I Kings 21:11-12 - Who “proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people”?

10. I Kings 21:13 - What did the people do to Naboth when the children of Belial falsely accused him?
11. I Kings 21:14-15 - What did Jezebel instruct Ahab to do with Naboth’s vineyard?

12. I Kings 21:16 - Did Ahab do as she instructed?

13. I Kings 21:17 - What came to Elijah the Tishbite?

14. I Kings 21:18 - Where was Elijah instructed to meet Ahab?

15. I Kings 21:19b - What did the Lord say the dogs would do with Ahab’s blood?

16. I Kings 21:20 - What did Ahab say when he saw Elijah?
17. I Kings 21:20-21 - What did Elijah say would be brought upon Ahab?

18. I Kings 21:22 - “And will make thine house like the house of _________________ the son of Nebat, and like the house of

Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to ______________, and made Israel to sin.”
19. I Kings 21:23 - What did Elijah prophecy concerning Jezebel?

20. I Kings 21:24 - “Him that __________________ of Ahab in the city the _______________ shall eat; and him that dieth in

the field shall the _________________ of the air eat.”

21. I Kings 21:25 - Was there ever any like wicked Ahab, “whom Jezebel his wife stirred up”?
22. I Kings 21:26 - What did Ahab follow “very abominably”?

23. I Kings 21:27 - What did Ahab do when he heard these words?

24. I Kings 21:28-29a - Why did the Lord say he would not bring evil to Ahab in his days?

25. I Kings 21:29b - In whose days did the Lord say he would bring the evil?

Memory Verse: I Kings 21:25 ~ “But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of
the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.”

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 LESSON 6: MICAIAH AND THE KINGS
1. I Kings 22:1 - How long did Israel and Syria continue without war?

2. I Kings 22:2-6a - Who did Ahab gather when Jehoshaphat desired the word of the Lord?
3. I Kings 22:6b - What did they say?

4. I Kings 22:7-8 - Why did Ahab hate the prophet Micaiah?

5. I Kings 22:11 - Who prophesied that the Syrians would be consumed?

6. I Kings 22:12 - Did all the “prophets” agree that Ahab and Jehoshaphat would prosper?
7. I Kings 22:13b - What did Ahab’s messenger try to persuade Micaiah to say?

8. I Kings 22:14 - How did Micaiah answer the messenger?

9. I Kings 22:17 - “And he said, I saw all Israel _______________________ upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd:

and the LORD said, These have no master: let them _____________________ every man to his house in peace.”
10. I Kings 22:24 - Who struck Micaiah on the cheek after he prophesied contrary to Ahab’s prophets?
11. I Kings 22:25 - Where did Micaiah say Zedekiah would go to hide?

12. I Kings 22:26 - To what governor did Ahab send Micaiah to be imprisoned?
13. I Kings 22:27 - What was Micaiah to eat while he was in prison?

14. I Kings 22:28 - Who did Micaiah say had not spoken by him if Ahab returned in peace?
15. I Kings 22:29 - Where then did Ahab and Jehoshaphat go?
16. I Kings 22:30a - What was Ahab’s intention when he dressed for battle?
17. I Kings 22:30b - What did Ahab want Jehoshaphat to wear into battle?
18. I Kings 22:31 - How many captains did the king of Syria instruct to fight “only with the king of Israel”?

19. I Kings 22:32 - Who did the captains of the chariots think Jehoshaphat was?
20. I Kings 22:33 - Did these captains stop pursuing Jehoshaphat when they perceived he was not the king of Israel?

21. I Kings 22:34 - Who did a certain man “at a venture” shoot and wound with his bow and arrow?

22. I Kings 22:35 - What ran “into the midst of the chariot” after Ahab had died?
23. I Kings 22:36 - What proclamation was made at sunset?

24. I Kings 22:37 - Where was king Ahab buried?

25. I Kings 22:38 - What did the dogs lick up “according unto the word of the Lord”?

Memory Verse: I Kings 22:14 ~ “And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.”

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 LESSON 7: ELISHA AND NAAMAN THE LEPER
1. II Kings 5:1 - What was Naaman’s position?

2. II Kings 5:2 - From what land was Naaman’s wife’s “little maid” brought away captive?
3. II Kings 5:3 - What information did she give to the mistress?

4. II Kings 5:5 - Who sent a letter (along with gifts) to the king of Israel?

5. II Kings 5:6 - What did the letter say?

6. II Kings 5:7-8 - What did the king of Israel do to his clothes after reading the letter?
7. II Kings 5:8 - Who said “he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel”?

8. II Kings 5:9 - “So Naaman came with his horses and with his _____________________, and stood at the ______________

of the ___________________ of Elisha.”

9. II Kings 5:10 - What did Elisha instruct Naaman to do through the messenger?

10. II Kings 5:11 - Is this what Naaman expected to be done to cure his leprosy?

11. II Kings 5:12 - What rivers did he say were “better than all the waters of Israel”?
12. II Kings 5:13 - Who convinced Naaman to yield to Elisha’s instructions?

13. II Kings 5:14 - What happened to Naaman’s flesh after he obeyed the instructions of the man of God?
14. II Kings 5:15 - What did Naaman testify to the man of God?

15. II Kings 5:16 - Did Elisha take anything from Naaman?

16. II Kings 5:18 - Where did Naaman’s master worship?

17. II Kings 5:19 - “And he said unto him, _________ in peace. So he __________________________ from him a little way.”

18. II Kings 5:20 - What was the name of Elisha’s covetous servant?
19. II Kings 5:21b - What did Naaman ask this servant when he caught up to him? _______________________________________

20. II Kings 5:22 - What did the lying Gehazi desire of Naaman?

21. II Kings 5:23 - What did Naaman give Gehazi?

22. II Kings 5:24 - “And when he came to the _______________, he took them from their hand, and ____________________

them in the house: and he let the men go, and they ___________________________.”
23. II Kings 5:25 - Did Gehazi lie to Elisha about his comings and goings?
24. II Kings 5:26 - Did Elisha, the man of God, already know what Gehazi did?

25. II Kings 5:27 - What was the consequence of Gehazi’s sin?

Memory Verse: II Kings 5:8b ~ “. . . let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.”

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 LESSON 8: ELISHA’S HELP TO THE PROPHETS AND KING
1. II Kings 6:1-2 - Where did the sons of the prophets tell Elisha that they desired to go?

2. II Kings 6:2 - What did every man take along?

3. II Kings 6:3 - “And one said, Be _______________, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will _____.”

4. II Kings 6:4 - What did they do when they came to Jordan?

5. II Kings 6:5a - What implement fell into the water?

6. II Kings 6:5b - What was also a concern for the one that lost the axe head?

7. II Kings 6:6a - What did the man of God ask?

8. II Kings 6:6b - What did the iron do when the man of God cast the stick into the water?

9. II Kings 6:7 - “Therefore said he, _______________ it up to thee. And he put out his ___________________, and took it.”

10. II Kings 6:8 - Who warred against Israel?

11. II Kings 6:9 - Was the man of God able to warn the king of Israel of the Syrian’s counsel?

12. II Kings 6:10 - Was Elisha able to save the king of Israel more than once?

13. II Kings 6:11 - Whose heart was very troubled?

14. II Kings 6:11b - What did the king of Syria ask his servants?

15. II Kings 6:12 - Who knew that it was the prophet Elisha that gave his counsel to the king of Israel?

16. II Kings 6:13 - Where did the servant of the king of Syria say that Elisha was?
17. II Kings 6:14 - At what time of day did the Syrians compass the city of Dothan?

18. II Kings 6:15-16 - What encouraging words did Elisha say when his servant saw the bands of Syrians all around?

19. II Kings 6:17b - What did the servant see after Elisha prayed for him?

20. II Kings 6:18 - What did Elisha pray concerning the Syrians coming down to him?

21. II Kings 6:19 - Where did Elisha lead the Syrians?

22. II Kings 6:20 - What did Elisha then pray concerning the Syrians?
23. II Kings 6:21 - What did the king of Israel ask Elisha?
24. II Kings 6:22b - What did Elisha instruct to be set before the Syrians?

25. II Kings 6:23b - Did the bands of Syria come any more into the land of Israel?

Memory Verse: II Kings 6:16 ~ “And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.”

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