Beginnings and Covenants
Land and water were created on this day of creation.
What is the third day?
This man was a priest-king who foreshadowed Jesus and blessed Abram after he rescued Lot from captivity in Sodom and Gomorrah.
Who was Melchizedek?
Moses' mother put him in this river as a baby because the pharoh was killing all baby boys.
What is the Nile River?
The Israelites crossed this river into the Promised Land.
What is the Jordan River? (who else was in the Jordan later on?)
These three kings were the first three kings of Israel and each reigned for 40 years.
Who were Saul, David, and Solomon?
What is focusing on the creation over the creator?
Abram's name meaning "Exalted Father" was changed to Abraham meaning "Father of Many Nations" after this key event showing his faith in God.
What is binding Isaac and showing willingness to sacrifice his only son with Sarah?
God brought this many plagues into Egypt after the Pharoh refused to let the Hebrew slaves go.
Bonus: name as many as you can.
What is 10.
Bonus: Blood, Frogs, Lice/Gnats, Flies, Livestock, Boils, Hail, Locusts, Darkness, Death of firstborn
This prostitute protected Israelite spies and later became part of Jesus' lineage...showing anyone can play a great role in God's story.
This king was tall, dark and handsome...the stereotypical archetype of what the people thought a king should look like.
Who was Saul?
After the Fall from the original sin by Adam and Eve, God gives this promise of hope to them. Bonus: What is the catholic word for this?
What is that man will conquer evil through God one day.
Bonus: Protoevangelium (="First Gospel")
After wrestling with the angel/God, Jacob's name (meaning "heel-grabber" or "supplanter") was changed to THIS. Bonus: What does it mean?
What is Israel. Meaning = "He who struggles with God" or "God prevails"
What was the purpose of the Ten Commandments that God gave to Moses on Mt. Sinai?
What is they were given to help reshape a polytheistic people into a new nation of followers of God, starting with a moral and ethical framework: Encouraged justice, protected human dignity, ordered community life, Corrected harmful behavior
The Israelites brought down the walls and defeated this city just by following God's commands and yelling.
What is Jericho?
This king wrote Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes, and several of the Proverbs. He is known for his wisdom.
Who was Solomon?
In God's covenant to Noah after the flood, he made a what with Moses and promised never to flood the land again.
What is a covenant?
After years of fleeing from the wrath of his brother, Esau, this was Esau's response when he saw his brother Jacob again.
What is he ran to him, embraced him, they wept, and he forgave him?
Moses' life can be divided into 3 phases of this many years.
What is 40?
This many judges make up the Book of Judges and served as tribal chieftans as Israel's morality spun more and more out of control. Bonus: Were they consecutive or concurrent?
What is 12? Bonus: Concurrent (overlapping).
David slept with this man's wife, got her pregnant, then tried to get him to come home and sleep with her to make it look like it was his baby, and then had him killed on the battlefield when that plan failed.
Who was Uriah?
DOUBLE! God made a three-fold covenant with Abraham that promised these three things that came to be realized through these three people.
What is Land, a Kingdom, and a Blessed Lineage, and Moses, David, and Jesus.
Joseph was thrown into prison after Potiphar's wife falsely accused him of assaulting her. He got out of prison between 2-10 years later for THIS.
What is interpreting Pharoh's dreams?
This was one key lesson God wanted the Hebrews to learn as they wandered the desert, and he gave them manna each day.
What is to rely on God each and every day for our every need?
This man is considered the last judge even though he was not an official judge, and helped God to find and bless Israel's first king.
Who was Samuel?
This was the downfall of Solomon - the reason God was displeased and sent a prophet to tell Solomon all but one tribe of Israel would be taken from his son Rehoboam.
What was worshipping the other gods of his many wives? ...along with having 700 wives, 300 concubines, amassing a fortune etc.