Living in Bible Times
A Mina in the Hebrew scriptures was equal to about 100 Drachmas in the Greek scriptures. How many days wages was a Mina?
What is 100 days wages?
I started as five and two in hand, yet fed a crowd across the land. With baskets full left over still, a miracle done by the Master’s will. What am I?
What are the loaves and the fishes?
This man had been dead for four days before Jesus resurrected him.
Who is Lazarus?
This person gave up their last meal to feed a prophet.
Who is the widow from Zar'ephath?
After the Flood, Noah's ark came to rest on this mountain range.
What is the Ararat Mountains?
The length of a cubit.
What is from your elbow to your fingertips? (17.5 inches)
Small in stature, I longed to see, so I climbed up high in a sycamore tree. Though others mocked, the Lord called my name, to my own house, salvation came. Who am I?
Who is Zacchaeus?
When Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, he performed this miracle after Simon Peter cut off the ear of the high priest's slave.
What is healing the ear of the high priest's slave?
Though Noah had died just 2 years before he was born, and his Father worshiped idols, this man possibly learned about Jehovah through Shem and became a worshipper of Jehovah.
Who is Abraham?
This river had its waters part, allowing the Israelites to cross on dry ground into the Promised Land.
What is the Jordan River?
The names of the three Great Festivals that were held for Jehovah each year.
What are The Festival of Unfermented Cakes, The Festival of Weeks or (as called later) Pentecost, and The Festival of Booths?
There in the desert I began to talk, a strange sight to him that was tending a flock. Hot in the dessert, I delivered a message from God, our father, our rock . What am I?
What is the burning bush?
Jesus' first recorded miracle occurred at a wedding in this city when he turned water into wine.
What is Cana?
She bravely approached a princess in order to save her brother's life.
Who is Miriam?
The place where Elijah defeated the prophets of Baal.
Where is Mount Carmel?
This plant was harvested, dried, and beaten against stone in order to make linen.
What is Flax?
I steadied his hand, kept enemies back, a shepherd’s tool turned leader’s staff. Cast to the ground, I hissed with life, struck the rock to end their strife. What am I?
What is Moses’s staff?
When Jesus healed 10 lepers on his final trip to Jerusalem, this is the number of them who returned to thank him.
What is one?
Jehovah used this prophet to foretell a great famine. Relief was then able to be given to the brothers in Judea.
Who is Agabus?
Job, a blameless and upright man, lived in this land.
What is the land of Uz?
After giving birth, a woman was considered unclean for a time, and would continue to cleanse herself for a time after that. This is the amount of time she would she be unclean after birthing a son. A daughter.
What is 7 days unclean (33 days cleansing) for a son?
14 days unclean (66 days cleansing) for a daughter?
I stood tall and mighty, a city’s great pride, but round me they marched, with trumpets they cried. At the sound of a shout, I crumbled away—no hand, no hammer, brought my decay. What am I?
What are The Walls of Jericho?
This is the only miracle mentioned in all four Gospels.
What is the feeding of the 5,000 men?
King Artaxerxes wrote to this Priest telling him that he ordered that anyone of the people of Israel who is willing to go with him to Jerusalem to rebuild should go.
Who is Ezra?
The prophet Ezekiel was by this river in "the land of the Chaldeans" when he received visions from Jehovah God.
What is the Chebar River?