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Bible prophecy checked against the historical record

1 Kings

  • Bible Trivia: Egypt and the Bible

    Twelve questions on the state that ruled Canaan for centuries and left the earliest surviving mention of Israel — and on what its records never say.

  • Ahab at Qarqar, 853 BCE

    An Assyrian monument names Ahab the Israelite in a coalition at a battle the Bible never mentions. It is the earliest external record of any king of Israel — and the two accounts are silent about each other’s main events.

  • Bible Trivia: Miracles in the Bible

    Twelve questions on the miracle accounts, at three levels — including the honest one about why a campaign leaves tablets and ruins while an event outside ordinary causation leaves neither.

  • Bible Trivia: The Temple

    Twelve questions on the temple: who built it, who rebuilt it, what the prophets said about it, and why the first temple has left no direct archaeological record at all.

  • Bible Trivia: Jerusalem

    Twelve questions on Jerusalem: who took it and when, why 597 BCE is a date and 587 is a dispute, and what the ground can and cannot tell us about the temple.

  • 1 Kings

    Solomon, the temple, the division, Elijah. And the campaign of Shishak: the first solid synchronism between the biblical narrative and an Egyptian record.

  • Bible Trivia: Kings of Israel and Judah

    Twelve questions on the two royal lines that follow the split at Shechem — who reigned where, who was murdered by whom, and which king belongs to which kingdom.

  • Bible Trivia: Numbers and Dates

    Twelve questions on the figures, spans and counts the biblical text states outright — no arithmetic across passages, no calendar dates — at three levels, each with its verse.

  • Bible Trivia: Kings and Prophets

    Twelve questions across three levels on the prophets who confronted the kings of Israel and Judah — every answer worked through, with the passage that settles it.