IN THE BEGINNING
God commanded this man to sacrifice his son Isaac on a mountain in Moriah, then stopped him and provided a ram.
**Who is Abraham?** — *Genesis 22*
This shepherd boy refused Saul's armor and killed the Philistine champion Goliath with a stone from a sling.
**Who is David?** — *1 Samuel 17*
Told to preach to Nineveh, this prophet sailed for Tarshish instead and spent three days inside a great fish
**Who is Jonah?** — *Jonah 1–2*
Jesus was born in this town, fulfilling the prophecy of Micah.
**What is Bethlehem?** — *Matthew 2:1; Luke 2:4*
Saul was on the road to this city, carrying letters authorizing arrests, when a light from heaven struck him blind.
**What is Damascus?** — *Acts 9:1–9*
These two siblings of Moses spoke against him over his Cushite wife, and one of them was struck with leprosy for seven days.
**Who are Aaron and Miriam?** — *Numbers 12*
This son of David stole the hearts of Israel and rebelled against his father, then died caught by his head in the branches of an oak.
**Who is Absalom?** — *2 Samuel 15–18*
As Elisha watched, this prophet was carried into heaven by a whirlwind, with a chariot and horses of fire.
**Who is Elijah?** — *2 Kings 2:11*
Jesus wept, then called this man out of a tomb where he had lain four days.
**Who is Lazarus?** — *John 11*
This husband and wife sold property, secretly held back part of the price, lied to Peter about it, and both fell dead.
**Who are Ananias and Sapphira?** — *Acts 5:1–11*
The Egyptian magicians duplicated the first two plagues, but failed at this third one and told Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God."
**What are the gnats?** — *Exodus 8:16–19*
*Accept lice, gnats, or mosquitoes — translations vary.*
When her son died, this woman destroyed the whole royal family of Judah and reigned six years — until the priest Jehoiada revealed the surviving heir and had her executed.
**Who is Athaliah?** — *2 Kings 11*
God commanded this prophet to marry a promiscuous woman named Gomer, making his own marriage a living parable of Israel's unfaithfulness.
Who is Hosea? — *Hosea 1*
Apart from the resurrection itself, this is the only miracle recorded in all four Gospels.
**What is the feeding of the five thousand?** — *Matthew 14; Mark 6; Luke 9; John 6*
Paul and Barnabas parted company so sharply over this young man that they never worked together again — Barnabas took him to Cyprus.
**Who is John Mark?** — *Acts 15:36–39*
*Accept Mark or John Mark.*
God tells Moses that he appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty — El Shaddai — but was not known to them by this name.
**What is the LORD / YHWH?** — *Exodus 6:3*
*Accept Yahweh, Jehovah, or "the LORD."*
He was the last king of the northern kingdom of Israel, reigning when Samaria fell to Assyria and the ten tribes were carried away.
**Who is Hoshea?** — *2 Kings 17:1–6*
This prophet walked stripped and barefoot for three years as a sign against Egypt and Cush.
Who is Isaiah? — *Isaiah 20:2–4*
Luke alone names this woman — the wife of Herod's steward Chuza — among those who supported Jesus and his disciples out of their own means.
**Who is Joanna?** — *Luke 8:3*
Sitting in a third-story window during one of Paul's very long sermons, this young man fell asleep, fell out, and was taken up dead — then restored by Paul.
**Who is Eutychus?** — *Acts 20:7–12*
Numbers 21 quotes two lines from this otherwise completely lost book, which no longer exists anywhere.
**What is the Book of the Wars of the LORD?** — *Numbers 21:14*
1 Kings names two daughters of Solomon, each given in marriage to one of his twelve district governors. Name either one.
Who are Taphath or Basemath?
*1 Kings 4:11, 4:15*
*Either answer is correct. Basemath also appears as Basmath.*
Confronted by the priest Amaziah, this prophet insisted he was no prophet and no prophet's son — just a herdsman and a tender of a sycamore tree.
Who is Amos? — *Amos 7:14*
Mark preserves the Aramaic words Jesus spoke to Jairus's twelve-year-old daughter, translated "Little girl, I say to you, arise." Give the Aramaic.
**What is "Talitha koum"?** — *Mark 5:41*
*Accept talitha cumi, koumi, or any reasonable pronunciation.*
Near the end of Romans, this man to whom Paul dictated the letter, interrupts and greets the church in his own name.
**Who is Tertius?** — *Romans 16:22*