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God created couples from the moment he breathed life into Adam’s mate. (Sorry, we’re not giving away the answer to who that was. You can take the quiz to find out if you don’t already know.) Can you figure out who goes with whom in this Biblical couples quiz? Do you know the name of Joseph’s wife? How about Rebekah’s husband? What woman is Samson known for hanging around even though he didn’t marry her? Whether you think you can answer these questions or you want to learn more about the answers to these questions, this is the quiz for you!
Biblical couples not only give us role models for our own relationships but they also help us follow the lineage of Jesus and those important to his story throughout the centuries. As we follow the pairs through history, we learn that trusting God is important in any relationship. We also learn what not to do and how the polygamy practiced by some of these couples led them away from God’s plan for their lives and created more trouble for them.
Most of the Biblical couples you find here are pretty famous, but we have included a few to keep you on your toes. This “Can You Match These Bible Couples?” quiz is here to find out what you know about who went with whom. Show us you know the couples from the Bible and then challenge your friends to beat your score!
Who was one spouse of David?
Jael
Adah
Bathsheba
“When [Bathsheba] heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the LORD.” ― 2 Samuel 11: 26--27
Noadiah
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Who was the spouse of Adam?
Phoebe
Julia
Timna
Eve
Women frequently give birth to men in non-Christian creation stories, but only Genesis records the story of how the woman was created. (Biblical couple found in Genesis 2)
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Who was the spouse of New Testament Joseph?
Mary
“So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child..”― Luke 2: 4—5
Tabitha
Jemima
Sarai
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Who was the spouse of King Ahab?
Shelomith
Jezebel
King Ahab actually provided 2,000 chariots and 10,000 infantry soldiers in a collation against Assyria. Although not recorded in the Bible, this event is recorded in Assyrian records. (Biblical couple found in 1 Kings 16-22)
Helah
Iscah
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Who was the spouse of Esther?
Pharaoh Necho (Nekau)
King Nebuchadnezzar
King Xerxes
“Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.” ― Esther 2: 17
King Josiah
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Who was the spouse of Abraham?
Jedidah
Sarah
Sarah was not only Abraham’s wife, but she also was his half-sister. According to customs of the time, this could mean she shared blood with him or it could mean his father adopted her at a young age to be given in marriage to Abraham when she was old enough. (Biblical couple found in Genesis 12)
Athaliah
Puah
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Who was the spouse of Aquila?
Priscilla
“After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome.” ― Acts 18: 1—2
Jael
Vashti
Reumah
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Who was the spouse of Ananias?
Sapphira
Peter made it clear that Ananias and Sapphira were killed because they lied about how much money they were giving to the church. They did not have to donate any of the money, but by saying they donated all of it, they sinned. (Biblical couple found in Acts 5)
Zillah
Rhoda
Mara
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Who was the spouse of Elkanah?
Karen-Happuch
Hannah
“There was a certain man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham… an Ephraimite. He had two wives; one was called Hannah and the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.” ― 1 Samuel 1: 1—2
Joanna
Baara
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Who was the spouse of Rebekah?
Issachar
Jabez
Titus
Isaac
When Rebekah volunteered to water the servant’s camels, she might have made a hundred trips or more to do so. A single thirsty camel can drink 25 gallons by itself and the servant had ten camels. (Biblical couple found in Genesis 24)
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Who did Herod Agrippa live in an incestuous relationship with?
Susanna
Bilhah
Drusilla
Bernice
“The next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the audience room with the high-ranking military officers and the prominent men of the city. At the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.” ― Acts 25: 23
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Who was the spouse of New Testament Zechariah?
Atarah
Jerusha
Elizabeth
Zechariah was handed a writing tablet to write John the Baptist’s name. Writing tablets of the time were wooden and coated with stucco or wax. Wax coated boards could be erased and reused. (Biblical couple found in Luke 1)
Chloe
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Who was Nabal’s spouse?
Abigail
“One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them. Yet these men were very good to us. They did not mistreat us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing.” –1 Samuel 25: 14—15
Salome
Tabitha
Zilpah
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Who was one of Jacob’s spouses?
Serah
Rachel
It was a common practice of the time for fathers to give their daughters a handmaid when they wed. If the wife was infertile, the handmaid could produce heirs for the couple in place of her. (Biblical couple found in Genesis 29)
Ruth
Jehosheba
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When Tamar’s husband died because of his wickedness, who eventually got her pregnant?
Shelah
Onan
Judah
“Judah recognized them and said, “[Tamar] is more righteous than I, since I wouldn’t give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not sleep with her again.” ― Genesis 38: 26
Er
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Who was the spouse of King Herod?
Michaiah
Kezia
Candace
Herodias
Herod the Great had three sons. One of them was Herod Philip I, who lived in Rome and was married to his grandniece, Herodias. When Herod Antipas (another of Herod the Great’s sons) went to stay with them, he persuaded Herodias to leave Philip I and marry him. (Biblical couple found in Matthew 14)
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Who was the Midianite spouse of Moses?
Keziah
Zipporah
“Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, ‘I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.’” ― Exodus 2: 21—22
Huldah
Abiah
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Who was the spouse of Leah?
Abraham
Jacob
Under the customs of the time, if a woman’s brother arranged her marriage, she had the right to refuse. However, if her father arranged the marriage, she had to submit to his ruling. (Biblical couple found in Genesis 29)
Isaac
Joseph
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What is the name of the only one of Solomon’s 700 wives and 300 concubines who was actually named in scripture?
Lois
Adah
Damaris
Naamah
“Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.” ― 1 Kings 14: 21
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Who was the spouse of Uriah?
Hadassah
Bathsheba
Ritual bathing was (and is) important in the Hebrew culture. Ritual baths were located at ground level. In Hebrew, the implication of the verses is that Bathsheba was bathing inside her home, and David’s height from his roof allowed him to view her. (Biblical couple found in 2 Samuel 11)
Mahalah
Joanna
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Who was the spouse of Elimelek?
Helah
Mary of Bethany
Rizpah
Naomi
“Now Elimelek, Naomi’s husband, died, and she was left with her two sons. They married Moabite women, one named Orpah, and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.” ― Ruth 1: 3—5
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Who was the spouse of Felix?
Drusilla
Drusilla was Herod Agrippa I’s youngest daughter. She married the King of Emesa (Azizus) at the age of fourteen, but later left him for Felix. (Biblical couple found in Acts 24)
Lydia
Apphia
Shua
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Although David married several women, which one was King Saul’s daughter?
Nehushta
Abital
Michal
“Now Saul’s daughter Michal was in love with David, and when they told Saul about it, he was pleased. ‘I will give her to him,’ he thought, ‘so that she may be a snare to him and so that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.’ So Saul said to David, ‘Now you have a second opportunity to become my son-in-law.’” ― 1 Samuel 18:
Bashemath
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Who was one of Lamech’s spouses?
Zillah
Lamech had four children that are mentioned in the Bible: Jabal and Jubal by Adah, and Tubal-Cain and Naamah by Zillah. These are the last people in Cain’s line to be named. (Biblical couple found in Genesis 4)
Claudia
Martha
Mahlah
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Who was the spouse of Deborah the prophet?
Thaddaeus
Lappidoth
“Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time. She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided.” –Judges 4: 4—5
Joab
Bartholomew
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Who did Moses’ father, Amram, marry?
Persis
Jochebed
Biblical genealogies primarily follow male lineage with a few notable women, such as Moses’ mother, added. Interestingly, in Hebrew culture, it is through one’s mother that one is born Jewish. In other words, if you have a Jewish father and gentile mother, you would not be considered Jewish and would need to undergo a conversion ceremony. (Biblical couple found in Exodus 6)
Dinah
Naamah
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Who was one of Esau’s spouses?
Elizabeth
Eunice
Judith
“When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite. They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.” –Genesis 26—28
Euodia
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Who was the spouse of Hosea?
Mary Magdalene
Gomer
At the time of Hosea, there were harlots and shrine prostitutes. Shrine prostitutes were involved in religious rituals involving sex while harlots were common prostitutes who had sex for payment. (Biblical couple found in Hosea 1)
Salome
Rahab
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Who did Abraham marry after his first wife, Sarah, died?
Miriam
Hodesh
Keturah
“Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah. She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah..” ― Genesis 25: 1—2
Taphath
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Who was a spouse of King Hezekiah?
Sheerah
Naarah
Claudia
Hephzibah
Although King Hezekiah is generally regarded as good, his son with Hephzibah was evil. Manasseh killed so many prophets and innocents that Josephus said Jerusalem was “overflowing with blood." Manasseh is also credited with having the prophet Isaiah sawed in two. (Biblical couple found in 2 Kings 21)
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Who was the spouse of King Rehoboam?
Bithiah
Dinah
Hagar
Maakah
“Rehoboam loved Maakah daughter of Absalom more than any of his other wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.” –2 Chronicles 11: 21
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Who was the second spouse of Ruth?
Ham
Telah
Boaz
Excavations found raised, canopied, platforms and benches located at the city gate. The city gate was a place for legal proceedings and elders of the city or the king frequently sat there. (Biblical couple found in Ruth)
Cain
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What was the name of the woman who betrayed Samson—although their marriage is not recorded, they are one of the most famous Biblical couples?
Tirzah
Anna
Matred
Delilah
“Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah.” ― Judges 16: 4
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After the fall of Jericho, who did Rahab marry?
Abel
Salmon
A German excavation at the beginning of the 20th century revealed that the northern section of the Jericho wall did not fall with the rest of it. This section had houses in it that shared their back wall with the city wall. (Biblical couple mentioned in Matthew 1 and Rahab’s story is from Joshua 2)
Nimrod
Israel
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Who was the spouse of Old Testament Joseph?
Asenath
“Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah and gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On,[d] to be his wife. And Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt.” –Genesis 41: 45
Hogla
Dorcas
Orpah
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