The Root Of Evil
What wealthy Christian woman made her living selling purple dye?
Lydia (Acts 16:14)
Which king with many wives and many children almost lost his throne to his rebellious son Absalom?
David (2 Samuel 15-18)
Who prompted the Jews after the Babylonian exile to divorce their foreign wives?
Ezra (Ezra 10)
Which apostle foretold that on the day of the Lord the heavens would disappear with a roar?
Peter (2 Peter 3:10)
Whose preaching in the wilderness led many people to confess their sins and be baptized in the Jordan River?
John the Baptist ( Matthew 3:4-6)
What (formerly) rich man sat in a pile of ashes?
Job (Job 2:7-8)
What wicked king of Israel had 70 sons?
Ahab (2 Kings 10:1)
What unscrupulous king divorced his first wife to marry his brother’s wife?
Herod ( Matthew 14:3-4)
The apostle Paul predicted that the day of the Lord would arrive like a “____ in the night.”
Thief (1 Thessalonians 5:2)
What famous parable of Jesus concerns a very forgiving father and a young man who squandered his money?
The Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32)
Whom did Jesus send fishing in order to get money for taxes?
Peter (Matthew 17:24-27)
What book of the bible says that a child raised up in the right way will not depart from it?
Proverbs (22:6)
Who made a wedding feast before giving the wrong bride to Jacob?
Laban, Jacob’s crafty uncle (Genesis 29:22-26)
Who foretold the looting of Jerusalem on the Day of the Lord?
Zechariah (Zechariah 14:1-2)
Which king repented after being confronted by the prophet Nathan about his committing adultery and murder?
David (2 Samuel 12:7-23)
What New Testament prophet told Roman soldiers to be content with their pay and to avoid taking money by force?
John the Baptist (Luke 3:2, 14)
Which prophet had dishonest sons who took bribes?
Samuel ( 1 Samuel 8:1-3)
What gruesome objects did Saul require from David as dowry for his daughter?
A hundred Philistine foreskins (1 Samuel 18:25-27)
According to Isaiah, who would be destroyed on the Day of the
Lord?
Sinners (Isaiah 13:9), a theme echoed throughout the bible
What pagan city’s inhabitants repented of their sin after the preaching of jonah?
Nineveh’s (Jonah 3:4-9)
What treacherous man do we associate with 30 pieces of silver?
Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus for that amount (Matthew 26:14-15)
Which Epistle advises fathers not to exasperate their children?
Ephesians (6:4)
What evil king of Israel was under the thumb of his equally evil, foreign- born wife?
Ahab, who, with his wife Jezebel, might well qualify as the wickedest married couple in the bible ( 1 Kings 18-22).
What book of the bible laments that “in the day of the Lord’s anger none escaped or remained”?
Lamentations, appropriately enough (2:2)
Whose jealous brothers at long last were sorry they had sold him into slavery?
Joseph’s (Genesis 42:21; 45:14-15; 50:17-18)