This is the written account of Adam’s family line.
When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

• Genesis 5:1

This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham:

• Matthew 1:1

Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph,
the son of Heli,

• Luke 3:23

This quiz comes out on Grandparent’s Day weekend, not Grandparent’s Day, which is Sunday, but then again, you may not get around to viewing it until Grandparent’s Day.  There is only one question for this quiz.  Who is a grandparent of %%%?  There are only two grandmothers in the quiz.  I could have used others, but maybe that can be next year’s Grandmother’s Day Quiz

Since this might be obscure in a few cases, I provided the answers in alphabetical order.  Thus, it is a matching quiz.

The questions are in biblical order, but understand that some of the genealogies of people being grandparents in the Old Testament are recorded in the Matthew and Luke genealogies.

The gap between the questions and the Bible References will be a hint for each question.  You might need a few.  The Bible Reference may only give the parent’s name.  When the answers are given, the parent in between is also mentioned.

The Questions:

	Question: Who was a grandparent of:	Bible Reference	Answers
1	Enosh
2	Noah
3	Canaan
4	Abram
5	Ephraim
6	Jesse
7	Rehoboam
8	Nathan (in the Luke genealogy)
9	Jacob
10	Timothy

The Answers in Alphabetical Order:

Abraham, Adam, Bathsheba, Boaz, Jacob (Israel), Jesse, Lois, Methuselah, Noah, Nahor

Hints:

1. Enosh was the son of Seth.
2. This grandparent was at least still around at the time of the flood, or at least that year.
3. Canaan’s father told his brothers about their father’s nakedness, and Canaan was cursed.
4. Over 14 chapters, you read this name in three different contexts.  The grandparent had a son who was Abram’s father.  But Abram also had a brother by that name.  And the town they lived in when Abram’s father decided to settle down was named for Abram’s grandfather, being where Abram sent his servant to find a wife for Isaac.
5. Ephraim and his brother were born in Egypt due to their father being sold into slavery.  And they each were blessed, basically giving their father a double portion of the inheritance.
6. An entire book was written about the faithfulness of a daughter-in-law whose mother-in-law regains her husband’s inheritance through a kinsman-redeemer.
7. This is one of the grandmothers and she is not mentioned in the Matthew genealogy by name, but by the wife of Uriah.
8. This name is a common name, for instance, the prophet who confronted King David over the adultery with the answer to the previous question.
9. Although next to last, the grandfather, father, and son are considered the three patriarchs, although that title has been maligned of late.
10. The other grandmother, and only mentioned in one verse, to praise the mother and grandmother for teaching the grandson the Scriptures.

Bible References:

	Question	Bible Reference	Answers
1	Enosh	Genesis 5:6
2	Noah	Genesis 5:25
3	Canaan	Genesis 10:6
4	Abram	Genesis 11:24
5	Ephraim	Genesis 41:52
6	Jesse	Ruth 4:21-22
7	Rehoboam	Matthew 1:7
8	Nathan (in the Luke genealogy)	Luke 3:31
9	Jacob	Luke 3:34
10	Timothy	2 Timothy 1:5

I had four grandparents, as most of us have biologically.  But does biology matter at all anymore?  With some misbehaving children these days, it takes a village.  But I digress…

My father’s father was a farmer.  Very young, he lost his right index finger in a farming accident, and he was ineligible to serve in the army during World War I.  This embarrassed him.  He could fire straighter than most of those eligible using his middle finger.  He went to college for three years before his bride would give her consent to marry him.  After all, she had been his school marm in a one-room schoolhouse.

My father’s mother was a school marm, having gone to normal school after high school.  She and one other woman built the school and then started teaching the farmer children in the southeast section of the county in Mississippi where I grew up.  She and her husband had several Bibles around the house, but every room had a dictionary, and if she thought you might not know the meaning of a word, she quizzed you, and if you got the definition wrong, she pointed to the dictionary.  If I have a better-than-average vocabulary, I owe it to her.  Both could quote Scripture from memory better than the pastor.

My mother’s father was a logger.  But he retired to be the veteran’s administration agent for the county.  While a logger, he would buy the land, strip it, and then replant before selling the land.  One of those two last bits of acreage, near 150 acres, became the Boy Scout Camp when he donated the land upon retirement.  In my very early schooling, I would walk to the courthouse and do my homework while he did his work.  My brother and sister disliked him due to his stern ways, but I was his little beekeeping partner.  He died when I was ten, cancer, but complications from being gassed while on the front lines in World War I.

My mother’s mother, MawMaw, was a housewife, over ten years younger than her husband.  She was small, and wire thin.  But she had the same temperament that my wife had.  The two of them were thick as thieves, both impish and willing to do something crazy just for a laugh, and she was the only grandparent my wife ever got to see, my wife’s grandparents all dying during Axis occupation in World War II or soon after. The lady behind my wife in the photo is MawMaw.

They all showed their love in different ways, and I loved them all.  If they were around today, I would ask so many questions.  Other than MawMaw, they all died before I finished college.

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The Answers:

	Question	Bible Reference	Answers
1	Enosh	Genesis 5:6	Adam – Seth – Enosh
2	Noah	Genesis 5:25	Methuselah – Lamech – Noah
3	Canaan	Genesis 10:6	Noah – Ham – Canaan
4	Abram	Genesis 11:24	Nahor – Terah – Abram
5	Ephraim	Genesis 41:52	Jacob – Joseph – Ephraim
6	Jesse	Ruth 4:21-22	Boaz – Obed – Jesse
7	Rehoboam	Matthew 1:7	Bathsheba – Solomon – Rehoboam
8	Nathan (in the Luke genealogy)	Luke 3:31	Jesse – David – Nathan
9	Jacob	Luke 3:34	Abraham – Isaac – Jacob
10	Timothy	2 Timothy 1:5	Lois – Eunice – Timothy

Whether you did well on this quiz or, ummm, not so well, … Here is Mike Manuel singing Grandpa was Just Like That.  It reminds me so much of my father’s father, but then again, he rocked in a rocker that he made on his front porch instead of going to the café.

Here are Robert Ray singing My Superman.

And here are Chad Johnson singing Grandma’s Song.

And here is See You Again.  It is sung by Carrie Underwood.  I don’t know about you, but these songs gave me a chance to get the tears working.

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.