Kings & Rulers
What was the king's name that married Esther?
Xerxes (or Ahasuerus)
What did Daniel request that he and his friends be allowed to eat instead of the king's food?
Vegetables
(Daniel 1:12 - "Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.")
At this event, one of Jesus' disciples leads a crowd to him who are carrying clubs and spears!
Jesus' arrest (or Garden of Gethsemane)
Where was Paul going to when he first met Jesus?
Damascus
(Acts 9:3 - Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven shone around him.)
Who said... "God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up." ?
Shadrach, Meshach, & Abednego
Who threw Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego into a fiery furnace after they refused to bow down to a golden statue?
Nebuchadnezzar
John the Baptist survived in the wilderness by living off of which foods?
Locusts & wild honey
(Matthew 3:4 - Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.)
The book of Esther talks about a man named Haman who wants to destroy who?
The Jews
(Mordecai is also correct)
The book of Daniel takes place in this city where Daniel and his friends are taken captive.
Babylon
Who said... "For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" ?
Mordecai
What Queen did Esther replace because the king kicked her out at the beginning of the book?
Vashti
How many banquets did queen Esther invite the king to before she asked him for help for her people?
2
Who was in danger of being put to death along with all the other wise men and magicians if they couldn't interpret the king's dream?
Daniel & the boys
(Daniel 2:13 - 13 So the decree went out, and the wise men were about to be killed; and they sought Daniel and his companions, to kill them.)
Jesus was born in Bethlehem, but soon after his parents fled to this place in order to keep him safe from Herod.
Egypt
(Matthew 2:13 - ...an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.")
Who said... "Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!" ?
Jesus
Who was the first king of Israel?
Saul
How many fish and how many loaves did Jesus use to feed a crowd of five thousand people?
2 fish & 5 loaves
(Matthew 14:17 - They said to him, "We have only five loaves here and two fish.")
Haman gets an ironic death when he is killed using what?
The gallows that he had built to kill Mordecai
(Esther 7:10 - And the king said, "Hang him on that." So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.)
The Persian citadel in the book of Esther is called what?
Susa
(Esther 1:2 - in those days when King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa, the citadel...)
Who said... "For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." ?
Paul
Who was the last king of Babylon?
Belshazzar
When Paul finds himself on a boat adrift at sea, he and the crew eat this food before throwing the ingredients overboard.
Bread
(Acts 27:35,38 - And when he had said these things, he took bread, and giving thanks to God in the presence of all he broke it and began to eat. 38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.)
Angry Jews from Antioch & Iconium stirred up the crowds to stone this man because they didn't like what he was teaching.
Paul
(Acts 14:19 - But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.)
Paul and his captors are saved from drowning when their boat shipwrecks on the reef of this island.
Malta
(Acts 28:1 - After we were brought safely through, we then learned that the island was called Malta.)
Who said... "It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me. How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion endures from generation to generation." ?
King Nebuchadnezzar