Covenants
A primordial covenant with these figures promised co-rulership with God, and at first involved naming the animals.
Who were Adam and Eve?
According to the Old Testament, the Ark of the Covenant contained two of these.
What are stone tablets, or tablets of the law?
This blood of this shepherd and victim of fratricide cried out against the murderer, who would no longer till the soil.
Who was Abel?
An evil spirit took the form of this slithering animal during the first chapters of Genesis in order to tempt the mother of humanity.
What is a snake or a serpent?
This city, first conquered by David, became the capital of the United Monarchy through the death of Solomon.
What was Jerusalem, or Zion?
When pleading with God for mercy, Moses often appealed to God to not forget the covenant first made with this ancestor.
Who was Abraham?
From Moses through the time of David, the ark was supposed to be encamped, specifically in this structure.
What was the tabernacle or the tent of the presence?
King David wrote songs while on the run from this third-born prince, and David even protected him, even though this third-born was a murderer.
Who was Absalom?
Alongside the mysterious manna, God fed the Israelites meat through massive flocks of this ground-level, almost flightless bird.
What is a quail?
After God's promise to Noah not to destroy the Earth by flood, this city first tested God's patience and met his towering justice.
What was Babel?
For forty days, Moses fasted before receiving the covenant from God upon this holy mountain, which shares a name with a major peninsula.
What is Mt. Sinai, or Mt. Horeb?
The ark of the covenant was last seen in the first and greatest of these, built by Solomon, right up until the ark was hidden by Jeremiah.
What is the temple?
An ancient "John Doe" was killed by this descendant of Cain, a primordial king who bragged in song about his bloodthirst to both of his wives.
Who was Lamech?
During the Passover, the Israelites mirrored Abel by sacrificing an unblemished one of these, and were saved by having its blood on their doorposts.
What is a lamb?
Before conquering the City of David, David ruled all Israel and Judah from this city which, despite its name, is not related to the word "Hebrew."
What was Hebron?
This birthplace of David would also be the birthplace of his most famous descendent, fulfilling his covenant.
What was Bethlehem?
After the Israelites impiously used the Ark as a good-luck trophy before battle, it was seized and put on a cart by these victorious enemies.
Who were the Philistines?
Under David's reign, Joab murdered at least twice until he was brought to justice by this Davidic successor.
Who was Solomon?
Unlike the unfaithful raven, when Noah released this bird after the flood, it came back, an olive branch in its beak.
What is the dove, or the turtledove?
The conquering of the Southern Kingdom of Judah left many Jews exiled to the old homeland of Abraham, specifically to this foreign capital.
What was Babylon?
A covenant is a mutual gift of these, in which one or both sides gain a benefit, usually in return for certain conditions.
What are persons?
Instead of sacrificing before the ark as he should have, King Solomon sacrificed at these places before and after building a temple.
What are the high places?
Amnon was guilty of a particularly heinous crime against his half-sister, repeating the sins of this man, his father.
Who was David?
This braying animal talked back to a pagan prophet, who had failed to curse the wandering Israelite nation.
What was a donkey?
This capital of the Northern Kingdom would be attributed as the hometown of at least one good person, if only in parable.
What was Samaria?