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Psalms & Proverbs trivia, the verse open beside you.

A hundred and fifty psalms and thirty-one chapters of Solomon's wisdom. Kerygma's Psalms & Proverbs category tests prayers and proverbs alike — the songs that shaped Christian liturgy and the maxims that shaped Christian discernment.

What's covered

  • The five books of the Psalter — Books I–V, the structural division inside the 150 psalms.
  • Davidic psalms — laments, royal psalms, songs of ascent.
  • Messianic psalms — Psalm 22, 110, 118 and how the New Testament reads them.
  • The wisdom genre — proverbs, parables, the fear of the Lord as the beginning of wisdom.
  • Solomon's authorship and Hezekiah's compilation — Proverbs 25 and the curators of the text.
  • Memorable verses and chapters — Psalm 1, 23, 51, 91, 139; Proverbs 3, 31.

A round, in two minutes

Pick the difficulty, pick how many questions, start. Tap your answer and the actual verse opens with a short commentary tying the passage back. Quiet repetition is how it sticks.

Sample question

Acquainted · Psalms & Proverbs

Which psalm begins, "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want"?

  1. Psalm 1
  2. Psalm 23
  3. Psalm 51
  4. Psalm 91

"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want."Psalm 23:1

Likely the best-known psalm in any language. Attributed to David, six verses long, quoted at funerals, hospital bedsides, and Sunday services across two millennia. The shepherd-king image is a play on David's own past as a shepherd before he was anointed king.

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