Cautionary Tales
This person regretted looking back on Sodom and Gomorrah and turned into a pillar of salt.
Who is Lot's wife?
Genesis 19:26
Who are giants?
She is the only named female judge of Israel.
Who is Deborah?
She lied to her husband, accusing Joseph of attempting to rape her, when he in fact refused her repeated aggressive advances.
Who is Potiphar's wife?
Genesis 39
Before Moses ever saw the burning bush, he fled to Midian so he didn't get in trouble because he had done this.
What is murder an Egyptian?
Exodus 2:11-15
What Paul did that caused Eutychus to fall out of a window.
What is preach so long the young man fell asleep?
Acts 20:7-12
Complete this verse from Revelation 12: "A great portent appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pangs, in the agony of giving birth. Then another portent appeared in heaven: a great red __________, with seven heads and ten horns and seven diadems on his heads."
What is a dragon?
She saved the spies of Jericho by lowering a red cord from her window.
Who is Rahab?
Who is Jezebel?
1 Kings-2 Kings
What is Proverbs?
Proverbs 26:11
When Korahite priests rebelled against the leadership of Moses and Aaron, God settled it this way.
What is opening the earth and swallowing them whole?
Numbers 16:32-33
When King Balak of Moab attempted to hire the prophet Balaam to utter a curse against Israel, God sent this to talk some sense into Balaam.
What is a talking donkey?
These two midwives spared Hebrew baby boys from Pharoah's order to kill them.
Who are Shiphrah and Puah?
Who is Delilah?
What is make the sun stand still?
Joshua 10:12-14
Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, were destroyed for incorrectly completing this worship task.
What is offering incense improperly, or made "strange fire" that God did not command in their censers?
Leviticus 10:1-2
In Job, God takes credit for making Leviathan and humankind alike. Leviathan is known as this.
What is a sea monster?
Esther's opportunity to become Queen of Persia came because King Ahasuerus banished this wife.
Who is Vashti?
John the Baptist publicly critiqued Herod for taking his brother's wife, so she asked her daughter to dance for Herod to gain his favor and asked for John's head on a platter.
Who is Herodias? (Salome is her daughter)
Mark 6:21-24
The judge and warrior Jephthah made a vow to sacrifice this if he successfully defeated the Ammonites in battle.
What is his daughter?
Judges 11:29-33
When some small boys came out of the city and jeered at the prophet Elisha, saying, “Go away, baldhead! Go away, baldhead," this happened next.
What is two she-bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys?
2 Kings 2:23-24
The King James Version alone translated the scant six Biblical occurrences of a horned animal in this way: "God brought them out of Egypt; he hath, as it were, the strength of __________."
What is a unicorn?
The only named female prophet of Israel.
Who is Huldah?
She is the only Queen-King of Israel.
Who is Athaliah?
Unfortunately, she was so zealous about the practice of worshipping idols that she ordered her own grandchildren to be killed.
The writer of Chronicles condemns King Saul for seeking guidance from a __________, instead of God.
What is a medium, wizard, or witch?
1 Chronicles 10:13
The medium is the Witch of Endor! She summoned Samuel from the dead in 1 Samuel 28