The Good Book's Geography
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Parables and Proverbs
Women of the Word
100

This river, known as the longest in the world, is where baby Moses was placed in a basket.

What is the Nile?

100

This beloved disciple was the only one of the original twelve to be present at Jesus' crucifixion.

Who is John?

100

This fiery prophet was taken up to heaven not by death, but in a whirlwind, leaving his mantle for his successor Elisha.

Who is Elijah?

100

"Vanity, vanity vanity!" says this preacher

Who is Solomon?

100

Jesus restored this young woman to life after telling her parents, "Talitha koum," which means "Little girl, I say to you, get up!"

Who is Jairus' daughter?

300

The name of the "land flowing with milk and honey."

What is Canaan?

300

This Apostle is also known as Didymus

Who is Thomas?

300

This non-human creature spoke to the prophet Balaam after he struck it three times.

What is a donkey?

300

This is the biblical book that tells us to "Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways and be wise."

What is proverbs?

300

The mother of John the Baptist

Who is Elizabeth?

500

The Walls of Jericho famously tumbled down in the region known as Canaan, just west of this river.

What is the Jordan?

500

Saul was headed to this city when he had his radical conversion.

What is Damascus?

500

When Abraham negotiated with God to spare Sodom, he initially asked for this many righteous men to be found in the city.

What is fifty (50)? 

500

This small but powerful body part is compared to a spark that can set a whole forest on fire, according to James.

What is the tongue?

500

God was going to kill my husband for disobedience, so I circumcised my son with own hands and threw the foreskin at my husband's feet.

Who is Zipporah?

700

Jonah was supposed to preach repentance to the city of Nineveh, the capital of this ancient empire.

What is Assyria?

700

At the Council of Jerusalem, this Apostle sided with Paul, arguing that Gentile Christians did not need to be circumcised.

Who is Peter?

700

After destroying the first set of tablets, Moses spent this number of days and nights on Mount Sinai receiving the second set.

What is forty (40)?

700

In the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the older brother was angered when the father ordered this to be killed for a feast.

What is the (fatted) calf?

700

The prophet Hosea married this woman as a living object lesson about Israel's unfaithfulness to God.

Who is Gomer?

860

The Apostle Paul was shipwrecked on his way to Rome near this major island south of Greece.

What is Malta?

860

The first Gentile convert recorded in the book of Acts was this Roman centurion, baptized by Peter.

Who is Cornelius?

860

The Book of Esther is unique among the Old Testament books for not mentioning this word.

What is God (or Lord)?

860

This piece of currency was given to the laborers who started work late, matching the pay given to those who worked all day.

What is a denarius?

860

this wealthy woman was a seller of purple cloth in Thyatira. 

Who is Lydia?

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