& Showdowns
This prophet challenged 450 prophets of the pagan god Baal to a sacrificial duel on Mount Carmel, calling down fire from heaven to win.
Who is Elijah?
Jacob worked a total of 14 years of hard labor just to earn the right to marry this woman, the true love of his life.
Who is Rachel?
Pharaoh dreamed of seven healthy cows being devoured by seven skinny cows, which predicted this upcoming ecological disaster.
What is a famine?
This sacred, gold-covered chest held the Ten Commandments and was carried by the Levites into battle.
What is the Ark of the Covenant?
$200 Clue: After wrestling with a mysterious man all night, Jacob's name was permanently changed to this, meaning "wrestles with God."
Who is Israel?
The sun and moon miraculously stood completely still in the sky for an extra day during a battle led by this military commander.
Who is Joshua?
This high priest mistakenly thought Samuel’s mother, Hannah, was drunk because she was praying silently with moving lips.
Who is Eli?
While sleeping on a stone pillow, Jacob dreamed of this object reaching all the way to heaven with angels walking up and down it.
What is a ladder? (Accept staircase)
God commanded Moses to lift up a bronze version of this animal on a pole to cure Israelites who had been bitten by venomous pests.
What is a snake? (Accept serpent)
Originally named Abram, God changed his name to Abraham to signify his new role as this type of patriarch.
What is the "father of many nations"?
He was cast into a den of hungry lions as punishment for violating a royal decree that banned praying to anyone but the king.
Who is Daniel?
King David wept uncontrollably after this rebellious son of his was killed when his long hair got tangled in a tree during battle.
Who is Absalom?
King Nebuchadnezzar dreamed of a massive statue made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, and clay, which represented these major entities.
What are world empires? (Accept kingdoms)
Gideon used 300 men equipped with torches, empty jars, and this musical instrument to scare off a massive Midianite army.
What is a trumpet? (Accept shofar / ram's horn)
Daniel's three friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah are much better known today by these specific Babylonian names.
Who are Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego?
When Aaron threw down his staff before the Egyptian Pharaoh, it miraculously transformed into this creature.
What is a snake? (Accept serpent)
God commanded this prophet to marry an unfaithful woman named Gomer to illustrate Israel's spiritual unfaithfulness to God.
Who is Hosea?
In a grand vision of God's throne room, Isaiah saw these six-winged angelic beings crying out, "Holy, holy, holy!"
What are Seraphim?
This special oil was poured over the heads of kings and priests to show they were chosen and set apart by God.
What is anointing oil?
Following the tragic deaths of her husband and sons, Naomi asked her friends to call her Mara, a name that means this.
What is bitter?
This pagan god's stone statue mysteriously kept falling over face-first and breaking in front of the captured Ark of the Covenant.
What is Dagon?
This woman was the clever older sister of Moses who watched over his basket in the Nile and later led Israel in a victory song.
Who is Miriam?
This prophet had a bizarre vision of four living creatures and a complex "wheel within a wheel" moving through the sky.
Who is Ezekiel?
This item belonging to Aaron miraculously budded, blossomed, and produced ripe almonds overnight to prove his divine authority.
What is a rod? (Accept staff)
Joshua, the heroic military leader who succeeded Moses, was originally given this birth name by his parents.
What is Hoshea?