Old Testament – Patriarchs & Prophets
He built an ark of gopher wood to survive a worldwide flood that lasted forty days and forty nights.
Who is Noah?
Genesis 6:14, Genesis 7:12
God gave Moses the Ten Commandments upon this specific, smoke-covered mountain.
What is Mount Sinai?
Exodus 19:18-20
Jesus performed his very first miracle by turning water into wine at a marriage feast in this town.
What is Cana of Galilee?
John 2:1-11
On the road to this city, a blinding light from heaven shone around Saul, causing him to fall to the earth and hear the voice of Jesus.
What is Damascus?
Acts 9:3-4
When Paul’s ship was caught in a tempestuous wind called Euroclydon, they ran under a certain small island, which the Bible names as this.
What is Clauda or Cauda?
Acts 27:14-16
This prophet was caught up by a whirlwind into heaven in a chariot of fire with horses of fire.
Who is Elijah?
2 Kings 2:11
This giant city's walls came tumbling down after the Israelites marched around them once a day for six days, and seven times on the seventh day.
What is Jericho?
Joshua 6:3-5
This short chief tax collector climbed up into a sycomore tree just to get a glimpse of Jesus passing through Jericho.
Who is Zacchaeus?
Luke 19:1-4
The Holy Spirit descended like cloven tongues of fire upon the believers on this Jewish feast day, fifty days after the Passover.
What is the Day of Pentecost?
Acts 2:1-4
In the book of Job, God describes a massive, powerful creature whose "bones are as strong pieces of brass" and whose "tail moveth like a cedar," calling it by this specific name.
What is Behemoth?
Job 40:15-18
This left-handed judge delivered Israel by using a two-edged dagger to assassinate Eglon, the dangerously obese king of Moab.
Who is Ehud?
Judges 3:15-22
This sacred chest, made of shittim wood and overlaid with pure gold, contained the tables of the covenant, a pot of manna, and Aaron's rod.
What is the Ark of the Covenant/Testimony?
Exodus 25:10-11, Hebrews 9:4
While on the cross, Jesus cried out, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which the KJV translates as this phrase.
What is "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
Mark 15:34 / Matthew 27:46
In 1 Corinthians 13, the Bible states that while prophecies and knowledge shall fail, this specific spiritual virtue "never faileth."
What is charity/love?
1 Corinthians 13:8
This shortest book in the Old Testament consists of only one chapter containing twenty-one verses, and delivers a fierce prophecy of doom against the land of Edom
What is Obadiah?
Book of Obadiah
This son of Saul and intense rival of David was assassinated in his bed by his own captains, Rechab and Baanah, who then brought his head to David.
Who is Ishbosheth?
2 Samuel 4:5-8
Abraham purchased this specific cave from Ephron the Hittite as a burial plot for Sarah; it later became his own resting place.
What is the cave of Machpelah?
Genesis 23:17-19, Genesis 25:9
When Christ healed a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech, He looked up to heaven, sighed, and uttered this specific Aramaic command.
What is Ephphatha? (Meaning, "Be opened").
Mark 7:34
In the book of Acts, this sorcerer tried to buy the power of the Holy Spirit from Peter and John with money, leading to a severe rebuke.
Who is Simon Magus or Simon the sorcerer?
Acts 8:9-20
If you take the length of Noah's Ark in cubits, subtract the height of Goliath in cubits(not including the span), and then subtract the number of loops on the edge of the Tabernacle's curtains, you get this final number.
What is 244?
Genesis 6:15 (Ark length = 300 cubits); 1 Samuel 17:4 (Goliath = 6 cubits and a span); Exodus 26:10 (50 loops).
When Elijah fled from Jezebel into the wilderness, he sat down under this specific type of desert tree and requested that he might die.
What is a juniper tree?
1 Kings 19:4
In Exodus, Moses’ father-in-law is famously called Jethro, but in the Book of Numbers, he is identified by this distinct name.
Who is Hobab?
(Numbers explicitly names him Hobab, the son of Raguel).
Numbers 10:29
Mentioned only in the Gospel of John, this father of Judas Iscariot is named explicitly whenever Judas's full lineage is stated.
Who is Simon or Simon Iscariot?
John 6:71, John 13:2, John 13:26
In 2 Timothy, Paul warns Timothy to avoid two specific men whose profane babblings "will eat as doth a canker"—one is Hymenaeus , and the other is this man.
Who is Philetus?
2 Timothy 2:16-17
When this wicked queen saw that her son, King Ahaziah, was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed of the house of Judah to seize the throne for herself.
Who is Athaliah?
2 Kings 11:1 (also 2 Chronicles 22:10)