The Bible Flashcards
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Genesis 4 he lies about his brother’s whereabouts–& to god, yet!
Cain
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| He avenged his treatment by the Philistines, crashing their temple down on them
Samson
$1200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Matthew this ruler called for the deaths of all infant boys in Bethlehem: that’s not so “great”
Herod
$1600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The dragon, the false prophet & the beast are all mentioned in this book
Revelation
$2000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This rebellious son of King David seduced his father’s concubines on the palace roof in full view of everyone
Absalom
$None ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This happens several times, as in I Kings 17 & Acts 20; the most famous time, it’s done by Jesus in John 11
raising the dead
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| A 1631 edition was known as “the wicked Bible”; it had left this word out of the 7th Commandment in Exodus 20:14
not
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Festus interrupted a speech by this apostle claiming, “Much learning doth make thee mad”
Paul
$1200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The stories of Gideon & Samson are found in this book of the Bible
Judges
$6000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| I Corinthians states, “As in” this man “all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive”
Adam
$2000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| According to Jeremiah, this place seems to be short of balm & physicians
Gilead
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Jeremiah compared the false prophets he’d seen to the sinners of these 2 cities
Sodom & Gomorrah
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The births of John & Jesus were heralded by this archangel
Gabriel
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This many friends of Daniel were thrown into the fiery furnace but saved by God
3
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This Tarsan was converted on the road to Damascus
Saul (or Paul)
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The NRSV is short for this, published in 1989
New Revised Standard Version
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| He easily broke the bowstrings Delilah used to bind him
Samson
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Tradition states that it contained Aaron’s miraculous rod as well as the tablets of the law
the Ark of the Covenant
$1200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Isaiah 2:4 speaks of beating these into plowshares; Joel 3:10 says to do the reverse
swords
$1600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This angel’s announcement to Mary that she’d bear the Son of God appears only in Luke’s gospel
Gabriel
$2000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| While barren, she gave her Egyptian maid Hagar to Abraham to bear his children
Sarah
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Luke, Jesus is tried both by Herod & by this Roman governor
Pontius Pilate
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| When the Jews of Persia are ordered killed, Mordecai puts on a sackcloth accessorized with these
ashes
$1200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The First & Second of these books cover the same period as Second Samuel & First & Second Kings
Chronicles
$4000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The Jews held these people in low esteem, so they’re made to look “good” in Luke
the Samaritans
$2000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| As Rachel died bearing him, she called him Benoni, “son of my suffering”; his father, Jacob, used this name
Benjamin
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| “The sun and the moon shall be darkened” is the forcast of Joel, one of the 12 minor these
prophets
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| They’re 1 of the 2 groups of people who require a second epistle from Paul, due to backsliding after the first
Thessalonians (or Corinthians)
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| They’re the stories by which Jesus taught–hey, did you hear the one about the sower & soils?
parables
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The 117th of these has only 33 words, including 3 “praise”s & 3 “Lord”s
the Psalms
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Nonagenarians live to 90; we’re not sure what to call Seth & this father of his, who both reached 900
Adam
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| When morning arose, 2 of these beings warned Lot to leave Sodom quickly with his wife & daughters
angels
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| He sent out a dove & the dove did not return, indicating that “the face of the ground was dry”
Noah
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This 4th gospel writer begins his book with “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God…”
John
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Genesis 32 Jacob’s name was changed to this, “For as a prince hast thou power with God and with men”
Israel
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| He wrote in his epistle to the Galatians, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself”
Paul
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| God told Moses to place the 10 Commandments in this container
the Ark of the Covenant
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Jesus asked this disciple to follow him as he sat in his tax office
Matthew
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In writing to the Ephesians, he called himself “An Apostle of Jesus Christ by the Will of God”
Paul
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The book of Proverbs is “The Proverbs of” this man, “The Son of David, King of Israel”
Solomon
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| He asked God, “Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee?”
Job
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The births of John & Jesus were heralded by this archangel
Gabriel
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Acts says Judas bought a plot of land & it only cost him this much
30 pieces (of silver)
$1200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| (<a>Hi. I’m Alan Dershowitz</a>.) In “The Genesis of Justice” I present as a case this Biblical character’s abduction by his jealous brothers
Joseph
$1600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Published in 1989, the NRSV is short for this
the New Revised Standard Version
$2000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Exodus tells of its use for lighting; Ezekiel for cooking; & Psalms for anointing
oil
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Created from the earth, this man’s name in Hebrew means “red earth”
Adam
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| It’s the numerical name for the principal works of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John
the four gospels
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Matthew 10:34 recounts that Jesus, the Prince of Peace, “came not to send peace, but” this instead
a sword
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| St. Paul attended a conference in Jerusalem to decide if this “cutting” practice was required
circumcision
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In II Samuel he laments, “Would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!”
David
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| God actually told him to transport 7 pairs of each clean animal
Noah
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Mary “brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in” these, “and laid him in a manger”
Swaddling clothes
$2000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Absalom was killed during a rebellion against this man, his father
David
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Shamgar the judge passed sentences on 600 Philistines by killing them with a goad for this animal
Ox
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| While this king was boasting about Babylon, a voice from heaven said, “The kingdom is departed from thee”
Nebuchadnezzar
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This prophet passed the time he spent inside a fish offering up prayers
Jonah
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| It’s what God “did there confound” to frustrate the building of the Tower of Babel
Confound their languages
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| When Miriam displeases God in Numbers 12, she comes down with a case of this dreaded skin disease
Leprosy
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Exodus 19, God says that if the children of Israel keep this bargain, they’ll be a “peculiar treasure”
Covenant
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Paul wrote his first letter to the people of this Greek port after he spent a year & a half there
Corinth
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The 12 disciples whom Jesus chose to be his special messengers were called these
Apostles
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Exodus the feast of unleavened bread is combined with this holiday
Passover
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Containing 150 songs of praise including “The Lord is my shepherd…”, it’s the Bible’s longest book
Psalms
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Though born in Bethlehem, Jesus was raised in this town in Galilee
Nazareth
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The Queen of Sheba told this king, “Thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard”
Solomon
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The 27th of these begins, “The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?”
Psalms
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Jacob wrestled this new name out of an angel
Israel
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In the King James Version, these large black birds fed Elijah in hiding by the brook Cherith
ravens
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This first Christian martyr saw “the heavens opened” right before he was stoned to death
Stephen
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Both the gospel of Luke & this book are addressed to someone named Theophilus
Acts of the Apostles
$None ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| According to the King James Version of the Bible, the number of people on Noah’s Ark
8
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This wise king of Israel had “Forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen”
Solomon
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Under the command of this Babylonian king, Nebuzaradan burned “All the houses of Jerusalem”
Nebuchadnezzar
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In 1 Corinthians, he wrote that “Your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God”
Paul
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This son of Jacob served under Potiphar, captain of Pharaoh’s palace guard
Joseph
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| While they were mending their nets, John & this brother were summoned by Jesus to become disciples
James
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Biblical book titles in English, the only “song” is the “Song of” this wise king
Solomon
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The word “bible” comes from the ancient Greek word for this
Book
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Though much of Leviticus is ritual, chapter 19 has the sweeping “Thou shalt love” this person “as thyself”
Thy neighbor
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In the New Testament, Jesus recruited apostles on the shore of this “sea” on which he later walked
Sea of Galilee
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In the King James Version, it finishes the line “Blessed are the meek: for…”
They shall inherit the Earth
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The first 2 disciples Jesus called were Andrew & this man, his brother
Simon Peter
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The Philistine king gave David this protection job for life; hey, Kevin Costner could play him in the movie
Bodyguard
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| One given on taking leave is mentioned in Genesis 31; one of betrayal in Matthew 26
Kiss
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| These structures mentioned included those of Penuel, Eder, Hananel & of course, of Babel
Towers
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Some say this object was actually a conjunction of Jupiter & Saturn in the constellation of Pisces
Star of Bethlehem
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In a parable, this character aids a man wounded by thieves & pays for his recovery
The Good Samaritan
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| After Pharaoh put him in charge of Egypt, he gathered so much corn he lost track of how much he had
Joseph
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| He cast a “legion” of demons from a madman & put an end to his howling & raging
Jesus
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Jonah was angry when this Assyrian city he prophesied against wasn’t destroyed
Nineveh
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| After Adam & Eve were expelled from Eden, this type of angel, not seraphim, made sure they stayed out
Cherubim
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Of 40, 100 or 400, the one closest to the total years the Israelites were in captivity in Egypt
400
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| At 969, he was the Bible’s longest-lived man
Methuselah
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In the Old Testament, Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar & others collectively, but not Judy
Judges
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| At Passover, this thief was freed in place of Jesus
Barabbas
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Eve is the first woman mentioned in the Bible; this unnamed woman is second in Genesis 4:17
Cain’s wife
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This strongman carried the gates of Gaza about 40 miles to a hilltop named Hebron
Samson
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This second gospel does not mention Jesus’ birth; instead, it focuses on his public ministry
Mark
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| He said to his friends, “Miserable comforters are ye all”
Job
$2000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Acts 11 Barnabas brought this man to Antioch to assist his mission
Paul
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This mother of John the Baptist was a descendant of Aaron
Elizabeth
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This boy escaped Pharaoh’s order to kill all male Hebrew babies
Moses
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Because he was short, Zacchaeus climbed one of these to see Jesus over the crowd around him
Sycamore tree
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Herod had this apostle, the brother of John, killed with a sword
James
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| David & this prince became good friends after routing the Philistines
Jonathan
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| “Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up” this man
Jonah
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| 6 days before Passover Jesus had a supper with this man whom he had raised from the dead
Lazarus
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In the book of Luke, this angel announces the births of both John the Baptist & Jesus Christ
Gabriel
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This future king of Israel was summoned to soothe King Saul with his harp playing
David
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This king cast Shedrach, Meshach & Abednego into a fiery furnace
Nebuchadnezzar
$None ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The Hebrew title of this 2-part Old Testament book can be translated as “the events of the days”
Chronicles
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Number of the psalm that begins “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want”
23rd
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The Wise Men, sent to Bethlehem by this king, were warned by God not to return to him
Herod
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| It’s the book in which Pharaoh says, “Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river”
Exodus
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The book of Acts is also known by the longer title “The Acts of” these men
The Apostles
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The Lord’s Prayer says, “And lead us not into temptation, but” do this
Deliver us from evil
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This brother of Moses often acted as his spokesman
Aaron
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Early in his ministry, Jesus was thrust out of this city “Where he had been brought up”
Nazareth
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Apostle who said to Jesus, “Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?”
Thomas
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Genesis Leah is described as “tender eyed” & this sister as “beautiful and well favored”
Rachel
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This husband of Mary is not named in Mark’s gospel
Joseph
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Solomon proposed that this object of contention be divided between 2 women
a baby
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Ezekiel reported that God commended Daniel, Noah & this sufferer for their righteousness
Job
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Of her twin boys, Rebekah favored this one
Jacob
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Abner fought for Ish-Boseth against this king but later agreed to join him
King David
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The gospel according to Mark doesn’t mention this husband of Mary by name
Joseph
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The book of Ecclesiastes is traditionally ascribed to this wise king
Solomon
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| David was instantly taken with this woman after he saw her bathing
Bathsheba
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| He was the Bible’s first murder victim
Abel
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Acts 15:14 this apostle is referred to as Simeon
Simon (Peter)
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| He killed Abel because God rejected his offering of crops yet accepted Abel’s firstborn sheep
Cain
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| To build the temple, Solomon used wood from the fir, the olive & this tree of Lebanon
Cedar
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Rachel became jealous of Leah’s fertility & told this husband, “Give me children, or else I die”
Jacob
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This disciple’s name may mean “Man of Kerioth”
Judas Iscariot
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| After Ahab married Jezebel, he adopted her worship of this god
Baal
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Cousin to whom Elisabeth said, “Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb”
Mary
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The 4 Gospels appear in this order
Matthew, Mark, Luke & John
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In the Latin Vulgate bible, this book is called “Liber Judicum”
Judges
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This angel makes his only O.T. appearance when he interprets Daniel’s vision of a ram & a goat
Gabriel
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| After seducing Bathsheba, David plotted to have this man, her husband, killed in battle
Uriah the Hittite
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This book says Nineveh was so big it took 3 days to cross; that’s a whale of a tale to us
Jonah
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| According to Luke 2, Jesus was wrapped in these clothes after birth
Swaddling Cloths
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| While Moses was on Mount Sinai, his brother Aaron made this heathen idol for the Israelites to worship
The golden calf
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Deceived, he blessed his son Jacob rather than Esau
Isaac
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Nathan was a prophet in the court of this king & anointed his successor
David
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Elah, the valley where he killed Goliath, was protected by the cities of Libnah & Azekah
David
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Matthew 1:19 shows him as a just man by his refusal to divorce & humiliate the pregnant Mary
Joseph
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The musical instrument called a shofar was made from this part of a ram
Horn
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| She was busy with her housework while her sister Mary sat at Jesus’ feet & listened to his teachings
Martha
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| When the United Monarchy failed, Rehoboam became head of this kingdom in southern Palestine
Judah
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The Lord called Moses’ people stiff-necked, meaning stubborn, for making this idol & worshiping it
The Golden Calf
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Jesus called it a den of thieves & ordered it cleansed, angering the priests
The Temple
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Judge Shamgar slew 600 of these people with an ox goad; David slew just one with a sling & a stone
Philistines
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Famous quote from Jesus that precedes “But by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God”
“Man does not live by bread alone”
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The first word in Romans 1:1 is his name
Paul
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This event is also called the deluge
The Flood
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This brother of Moses was the first Jewish high priest
Aaron
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Alphabetically, it’s the first book of the King James Bible
Acts of the Apostles
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Luke 17 Jesus healed 10 men with this affliction, but only one thanked him
Leprosy
$1800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Paul’s first & second epistles to these Greeks immediately follow his epistle to the Romans
The Corinthians
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Man’s first job was as a gardener, as God told him to dress & keep the garden of Eden
Adam
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The last word in the King James Version Old Testament is “curse” & this is the first word
“In”
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In the New Testament order, Paul’s first epistle goes to this group, not friends or countrymen
the Romans
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| During the second plague these amphibians came out of the water
frogs
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Jesus said “Among those born of women there is not a greater prophet than” this man of the wilderness
John the Baptist
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This city, the birthplace of Jesus, was also where Samuel anointed King David
Bethlehem
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Genesis God told this creature it would eat dust “all the days of thy life”
the serpent
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| After he was called forth from the dead, he appeared “bound hand and foot with graveclothes”
Lazarus
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The Latin Vulgate calls this book of the Bible “Liber Judicum”
Judges
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The single longest of Paul’s epistles is addressed to these people
the Romans
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Exodus, this miracle occured after a strong east wind blew all night
Parting of the Red Sea
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Type of event in Cana at which Jesus turned water into wine
Wedding
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Of the four authors of the gospels, the one who was a tax collector
Matthew
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Luke 8:2 talks of Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went this many devils
7
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In the book of Esther, he was hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai
Haman
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Genesis 3:7 they sew themselves aprons of fig leaves
Adam & Eve
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This ark builder was the grandson of Methuselah
Noah
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Jesus’ parable, this is killed for a feast when the prodigal son returns
the fatted calf
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The sun is made to rise on the evil & the good & this is sent “on the just and on the unjust”
rain
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This book bewailing the destruction of Jerusalem is traditionally attributed to Jeremiah
the Lamentations
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In chronological order, this book of the Bible comes first
Genesis
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| According to the Open Bible, this fee paid to Judas was worth over $3500
30 pieces of silver
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Since he wasn’t an eyewitness to the events, this doctor’s gospel is all secondhand
Luke
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Exodus 24:12 God said to him, “I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments…”
Moses
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| He, not Gabriel, is the only one in the Bible who’s specifically called an “archangel”
Michael
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| After Jesus’ death, this man of Arimathea obtained his body & buried it in his own tomb
Joseph
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| “In the beginning was the word” are the beginning words of this gospel
John
$1100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| After Eutychus fell from a window to his death, he was restored to life by this apostle
Paul
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The Book of Revelation equates Christ with alpha & omega, the first and last letters of this alphabet
the Greek alphabet
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In chapter 7 of Exodus, God turns the waters of the Nile into this
blood
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| 13 of the New Testament’s 27 books are attributed to him
Paul
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The name of this final book of the Pentateuch means “second law”
Deuteronomy
$700 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Matthew the value of entering the Kingdom of Heaven is likened to this gem
a pearl
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Adam & Eve sewed leaves of this tree “together, and made themselves aprons”
the fig tree
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| God guided the Israelites out of this country with a pillar of cloud by day & of fire by night
Egypt
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| John 1:29 calls Jesus this animal “of God, which taketh away the sin of the world”
a lamb
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This wise successor of David is also called Jedidiah, meaning “Yahweh’s beloved”
Solomon
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| God instructed Noah to use this kind of wood to build the ark
gopher wood
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| When chosen by God to lead the Israelites, he said “But I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue”
Moses
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| To escape from Damascus, this “Apostle to the Gentiles” was lowered over the city walls in a basket
Paul
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| According to the Psalm, “The days of our years are threescore years and” this
ten
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| He wrestled with an angel “until the breaking of the day”
Jacob
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Although elderly & barren, this cousin of Mary gave birth to John the Baptist
Elizabeth
$None ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The English title of this book is a translation of the Greek word “arithmoi”
Numbers
$None ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This Old Testament book opens “The words of the preacher, the son of David, King in Jerusalem”
Ecclesiastes
$None ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Of the men mentioned in the King James Version, he’s first alphabetically
Aaron (Moses’ brother)
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Among these tales told by Jesus were those “of the net”, “of the mustard seed” & “of the hidden treasures”
Parables
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| I Corinthians 7:9 states, “It is better to marry than to” do this
Burn
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| It was like coriander seed, white; & the taste of it was like wafers made with honey
Manna
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Things saved from this city were the gold & silver, the iron & brass vessels & Rahab & her family
Jericho
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| While carting this, Uzza touched it to right it after the oxen stumbled, & the Lord smote him
The Ark of the Covenant
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Some Biblical scholars believe it was an orange or a quince – or possibly an apricot
The Forbidden Fruit
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Governor of Judea who asked Jesus, “Art thou the king of the Jews?”
Pontius Pilate
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| A ladder reaching to heaven appeared to him in a dream
Jacob
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| God first appeared to Moses in this form
Burning Bush
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The first verse of the book of Proverbs attributes its authorship to this man
Solomon
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The pharaoh’s daughter found him in an ark made of bulrushes
Moses
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| One account says this disciple of Jesus hanged himself in remorse
Judas Iscariot
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The story of this Biblical structure begins, “And the whole Earth was of one language & of one speech.”
Tower of Babel
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This parable begins “A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves…”
The Good Samaritan
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| He was David’s best friend & the son of David’s worst enemy, King Saul
Jonathan
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Half of the Psalms are attributed to this king whose name means “Beloved (Of God)”
David
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This New Testament apostle is also called Simon, Simeon or Cephas
Peter
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This came out of the rock at Horeb after Moses struck it with his rod
Water
$700 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This gospel writer was a tax collector at Capernaum when Jesus 1st met him
Matthew
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The 10 included flies, lice, frogs & locusts
The Plagues of Egypt
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| John 2 relates this incident at Cana as Jesus’ 1st miracle
Changing Water into Wine
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In a parable, Jesus compared this kingdom to a grain of mustard seed
Kingdom of Heaven
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| When Eliphaz told him “Man is born unto trouble”, he could have answered, “You’re telling me!”
Job
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The Aramaic name for Calvary, the hill in Jerusalem on which Jesus was crucified
Golgotha
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| God’s promise to Noah of no more floods was sealed by the appearance of this in the sky
the rainbow
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| A believer in the pagan god Baal, her name has come to mean a wicked, shameless woman
Jezebel
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Isaiah 40:15 says, “Behold, the nations are as” one of these “of a bucket”
a drop
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| This apostle inherited Roman citizenship from his father & was trained as a rabbi by Gamaliel
Paul
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| It brought the Philistines such bad luck that they returned it to the Israelites after 7 months
the Ark of the Covenant
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| It’s referred to in the New Testament as the Scriptures
the Torah (or the Pentateuch)
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| God said this man, childless at the time, would have as many descendants as the number of stars in heaven
Abraham
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Joseph was sold to the Ishmaelites for this price: two-thirds of what Judas got for betraying Jesus
20 pieces of silver
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| It takes 13 verses in Exodus 26 to tell how to make the curtains for this tent that held the Holy Ark
the tabernacle
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Greek for “hidden books”, Lutherans view these as non-canonical, but useful works
Apocrypha
$None ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The first verse of this book says, “There was a man in the land of Uz that feared God and eschewed evil”
Job
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Isaiah quotes the Lord as saying “Heaven is my throne, &” this “is my footstool”
the Earth
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Naomi’s daughter-in-law, she not only gleaned Boaz’s wheat, she married him
Ruth
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In the King James Bible, “They shall beat their swords into plowshares &” these “into pruninghooks”
their spears
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Ecclesiastes says “A man hath no better thing under the sun than to” do these 3 “hedonistic” things
eat, drink, & be merry
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Genesis, it’s to whom God said “Thou art cursed above all cattle”
the Serpent
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Isaac sent this hairy son, not Jacob, to go hunting for venison
Esau
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Name of this king, who had a peaceful reign, derives from “Shalom”, meaning “peace”
Solomon
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Biblical prophecy portrayed by this N.Y. <a>sculpture</a>:
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares.”
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| When they were slaves, the Israelites lived in this part of the land O’Egypt
Goshen
$500 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Relationship of Naomi to Ruth
mother-in-law
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| In Exodus 3, it burned but wouldn’t burn up
the burning bush
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Nephew whom Abraham rescued in Gen. 14, he also needed rescuing from Sodom by Gen. 19
Lot
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| King whose reign was so rich that silver was said to have been as common as stones in Jerusalem
Solomon
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| He wanted to put his finger into the nail marks in Jesus’ palms
Thomas (or Didymus)
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| It’s the battlefield where good & evil will fight their final battle
Armageddon
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The 2nd book of the Old Testament
Exodus
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Image of worship built of old jewelry while Moses was on the mountain
the golden calf
$100 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| The longest of the 2 “Testaments”
the Old
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| He lived to be 969 years old
Methuselah
$300 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Jesus said that only “he that is without sin” could do this
cast the first stone
$200 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| When “Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho”, these took a tumble
the walls
$400 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| His price was 30 pieces of silver
Judas
$600 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| According to the Bible, it wasn’t necessarily an apple
the forbidden fruit (or the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge)
$800 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| Though its name means “city of peace”, it’s seen over 30 wars, the last in 1967
Jerusalem
$1000 ||| Category: THE BIBLE ||| According to 1st Timothy, it is the “root of all evil”
the love of money
