But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals;
    you covered us over with deep darkness.

• Psalm 44:19

Thorns will overrun her citadels,
    nettles and brambles her strongholds.
She will become a haunt for jackals,
    a home for owls.

• Isaiah 34:13

“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; and I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there.”

• Jeremiah 9:11

Note: This quiz is not related to the well known game “You Don’t Know Jack!” which can be found online or in a store near you, maybe.

This quiz is about the word “jackals”.  I was thinking of something else, but why not a quiz about a dog-like creature that no one seems to like very much.  At least the references in the Bible are not that complimentary.

The questions are in biblical order, and all the questions are from the Old Testament.

The Questions:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	For the first use of Jackal in the Bible, what outside the Valley Gate did Nehemiah walk by, along with the Dung Gate, as Nehemiah inspected the broken walls of Jerusalem? Hint: It is not the Jackal Gate.
2	Why would Job consider himself a brother of jackals and a companion of owls?
3	In Psalm 63, King David writes that “they” will die by the sword and be food for jackals.  Who is “they” in regard to this warrior king?
4	Isaiah prophesies against a nation and says that “her” house will be a house for jackals, owls will live there, and wild goats will jump about.  What nation?
5	What would make a wild donkey stand on the heights and pant like a jackal?
6	God’s people are heartless, says the lament.  Even a jackal offers what for their young?
7	The lament continues to say that jackals prowl over what Mount?
8	According to Ezekiel, who are like jackals among the ruins?
9	Because of the sin of the people, the prophet Micah will weep and wail, moan like an owl and do what like a jackal?
10	And Malachi says that Israel, God has loved, but who has God hated, whose inheritance is a wasteland left for desert jackals?

I mulled over ideas roaming around in my brain for a quiz idea, and I thought of playing a card game.  There are definitely kings and queens in the Bible, but are there any jacks?  No jacks, but there were nineteen mentions of the word “jackal” in the NIV, all in the Old Testament.

Funny how you start out with one idea that does not work and you get another, but I already have an idea for next week’s quiz with the card game idea.  Oh, yes, I think it might be fun.

Of course, the jackal is a wild relative of the dog.  It usually hunts at night.  Oddly, dogs are mentioned much more often, over twice as often as jackals.  Maybe another quiz idea. …

Bible References:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	For the first use of Jackal in the Bible, what outside the Valley Gate did Nehemiah walk by, along with the Dung Gate, as Nehemiah inspected the broken walls of Jerusalem? Hint: It is not the Jackal Gate.	Nehemiah 2:13
2	Why would Job consider himself a brother of jackals and a companion of owls?	Job 30:29
3	In Psalm 63, King David writes that “they” will die by the sword and be food for jackals.  Who is “they” in regard to this warrior king?	Psalm 63:10
4	Isaiah prophesies against a nation and says that “her” house will be a house for jackals, owls will live there, and wild goats will jump about.  What nation?	Isaiah 13:21-22
5	What would make a wild donkey stand on the heights and pant like a jackal?	Jeremiah 14:6
6	God’s people are heartless, says the lament.  Even a jackal offers what for their young?	Lamentations 4:3
7	The lament continues to say that jackals prowl over what Mount?	Lamentations 5:18
8	According to Ezekiel, who are like jackals among the ruins?	Ezekiel 13:4
9	Because of the sin of the people, the prophet Micah will weep and wail, moan like an owl and do what like a jackal?	Micah 1:8
10	And Malachi says that Israel, God has loved, but who has God hated, whose inheritance is a wasteland left for desert jackals?	Malachi 1:2-3

Throughout these uses of jackals, most of them pertain to nations whose cities or the land in general is overrun by jackals.

Since Jackals hunt at night and you can hear them howl, it paints not just a depressing sight to see jackals everywhere, but a frightening sight as well.  These nations will be truly desolate when the predominant beast is the jackal.

May we take heed and not be a nation that God will leave for the jackals.

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The Answers:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	For the first use of Jackal in the Bible, what outside the Valley Gate did Nehemiah walk by, along with the Dung Gate, as Nehemiah inspected the broken walls of Jerusalem? Hint: It is not the Jackal Gate.	Nehemiah 2:13	The Jackal Well
2	Why would Job consider himself a brother of jackals and a companion of owls?	Job 30:29	He compared himself to darkness, from the sores on his skin and not being in God’s Light.  Jackals, like owls, hunt at night.
3	In Psalm 63, King David writes that “they” will die by the sword and be food for jackals.  Who is “they” in regard to this warrior king?	Psalm 63:10	Whoever wants to kill King David (in the previous verse).
4	Isaiah prophesies against a nation and says that “her” house will be a house for jackals, owls will live there, and wild goats will jump about.  What nation?	Isaiah 13:21-22	Babylon, the subject of the chapter.  The jackals and owls are mentioned in Isaiah 34 in the Scriptures above, but not the wild goats regarding Edom’s fate.
5	What would make a wild donkey stand on the heights and pant like a jackal?	Jeremiah 14:6	The drought that is coming.
6	God’s people are heartless, says the lament.  Even a jackal offers what for their young?	Lamentations 4:3	A breast
7	The lament continues to say that jackals prowl over what Mount?	Lamentations 5:18	Mount Zion, basically all of the Promised Land.
8	According to Ezekiel, who are like jackals among the ruins?	Ezekiel 13:4	Israel’s false prophets
9	Because of the sin of the people, the prophet Micah will weep and wail, moan like an owl and do what like a jackal?	Micah 1:8	Howl
10	And Malachi says that Israel, God has loved, but who has God hated, whose inheritance is a wasteland left for desert jackals?	Malachi 1:2-3	Esau

Whether you did well on this quiz or, ummm, not so well, for the first video:  Here is Here is C. J. Cregg “doing” The Jackal on the television show, West Wing. Just for the fun of it.

And since the concept of a jackal was frightening in biblical times, here is Zach Williams singing Fear is a Liar.  And the video is a tearjerker.

And here is Kari Jobe singing No Fear.  This video is a little over nine minutes, but it keeps coming back to Turn your eyes upon Jesus, right here, right now, no fear.

Here are Leanna Crawford singing Truth I’m Standing On.

If you like these Saturday morning Bible quizzes, but you think you missed a few, you can use this LINK. I have set up a page off the home page for links to these Saturday morning posts. I will continue to modify the page as I add more.

Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.