Bible by the Numbers
It's the number of Apostles
What is 12?
The number of days of Creation
What is seven?
He is the first Patriarch, to whom God promised his descendants would be as many as the stars in the sky, despite the fact that he was elderly and didn't have any children.
Who is Abraham?
It was the 10th Plague, the one that finally caused Pharaoh to allow Moses to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt.
What is the Passover (or the killing of all the firstborn sons of Egypt unless their house was marked with the blood of a lamb)?
He was the man who led the Israelites after Moses died, leading them across the Jordan River to enter & conquer the Promised Land, starting with the city of Jericho.
Who was Joshua?
The shepherd boy who killed the giant Goliath.
Who was David?
The number of tribes that broke away from the united kingdom of Israel to form the Northern Kingdom, called simply "Israel."
What is 10?
The prophet who was thrown into a lion's den for praying to God rather than "praying" only to the king.
Who was Daniel?
The longest book (by far!) in the whole Bible.
What is the book of Psalms?
The number of Deuterocanonical books (i.e., books in the ancient Catholic & Orthodox Bibles, but removed by Protestants 500 years ago)
What is 7?
What is 5?
It's the day of Creation on which God created human beings.
What is the 6th day of Creation?
He is the first and only son who was finally born to his 90-year-old mother and 100-year-old father.
Who is Isaac?
It's the miracle the God brought about in Moses's day to feed the hungry Israelites in the desert.
What is the miracle of the manna (the "bread from heaven") which happened every day until the Israelites crossed over into the Promised Land and ate from the land.
It was the gold box that the priests carried on poles, leading the Israelites across the Jordan River, and leading them in "attacking" the city of Jericho.
What was the Ark of the Covenant?
The second (and greatest!) king of Israel.
Who was King David?
The capital city of "Judah" (the Southern Kingdom), where the one and only Temple was located.
What is Jerusalem?
The prophet who got swallowed by a "great fish" after he tried to run away instead of obeying God.
Who was Jonah?
A book that is full of wise sayings & truths, many of which aren't even religious in nature.
What is the book of Proverbs? (also acceptable: Sirach or Ecclesiasticus)
The name of the deuterocanonical book that describes the heroism of a beautiful and holy woman who saved her people. (One of the following: Judith, Ruth, Mary, Deborah, Jael)
What is Judith?
The number of books in the New Testament.
What is 27?
It's what God said when He created the very first thing the Bible describes God speaking into existence.
What is "Let there be LIGHT"?
He is the one who whom God asked to sacrifice his only son to him as a burnt offering. (This was a test by God, but God didn't allow that person to offer up his son after all.)
Who is Abraham?
He was one of only two people who left slavery in Egypt as an adult and lived to cross over into the Promised Land. (Double points for naming both men.)
Who was Joshua, son of Nun? -- And/Or -- Who was Caleb?
It's the way that the Israelites "attacked" the city of Jericho, causing the walls to crumble and fall.
What is circling the city of Jericho silently once each day for 6 days, and then circling it 7 times on the 7th day, and then shouting?
The very first King of Israel.
Who was King Saul?
The number of good & godly kings of the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
What is "zero"?
The Jewish woman who became a queen of a foreign land, and who risked her life by asking the king to save her people?
Who was Queen Esther?
It tells the story of a man richly blessed with wealth, land, and children, which was all taken away from him. He still continued to bless God, so in return, God gave him back even more than he had to begin with.
What is the book of Job?
The deuterocanonical book that has wise proverbs. (Choose from the following: Obadiah, Sirach, Tobit, 2 Maccabees)
What is Sirach (also called "Ecclesiasticus" or "Ben Sira")?
The number of books in the Catholic Old Testament.
What is 46?
They are the first three words both in the Gospel of John and also in the entire Bible.
What are "In the beginning"?
He's the older son of Isaac & Rebecca, whom his twin brother Jacob tricked out of his birthright and cheated out of his father's blessing at the end of his life.
Who is Esau?
It's the reason that the Israelites had to wander in the dessert for 40 years instead of going right to the Promised Land.
What is the significance of all of the spies (except 2), who returned from spying on the Promised Land, reporting that the people there were too big and scary for the Israelites to conquer?
He's the "judge" (ruler of Israel before they had kings) whom God told to let almost all of his 32,000 men go home, keeping only 300 to attack (and defeat) the enemy camp, which had tens of thousands of warriors.
Who was Gideon?
The third (and last) king all 12 tribes of Israel.
Who was King Solomon?
The number of years that the Southern Kingdom lived in exile before being allowed to return to rebuild the Temple and their city walls. (Double points for the year in which they were conquered and led away into exile.)
What is 70? (What is 586 or 587 B.C.?)
The "young" and "sad" prophet who got thrown into a well (or cistern) because the people didn't want to hear his message. (He wrote a Bible book named after himself, and he also wrote another book, "Lamentations.")
Who was Jeremiah?
The book that contains many of King David's songs of repentance, praise, thanksgiving to God.
What is the book of Psalms?
The books that tell the story of rededicating the temple in Jerusalem after it was desecrated by the Greeks, the event celebrated at the Jewish feast of Hannukah each December
What are 1 & 2 Maccabees? (Chronologically speaking, these are the last two books of the Old Testament)
The number of books in the Catholic Bible.
What is 73?
It's the day of Creation on which God created the sun, moon, and stars.
What is the 4th day of Creation?
That is the name that God changed Jacob's name to.
What is "Israel"?
It was the reason that Moses was not allowed to enter the Promised Land.
What was the significance of Moses striking the rock twice instead of speaking to it for water to pour forth from it for the thirsty Israelites to drink?
She is the woman who found out the secret of the amazing strength of the judge Samson, which led to his downfall.
Who was Delilah?
One of the wives of the second (and greatest!) king of Israel who was the mother of the third king, and thus the Queen (the mother of the king, not the wife of the king). (Double points for telling how this woman came to be the king's wife.)
Who was Bathsheba? (King David saw her bathing on a rooftop and sent for her. When she became pregnant, David recalled from battle her husband, Uriah the Hittite, so he could spend time with Bathsheba so he would later think the child was his. When Uriah refused to be with Bathsheba, David sent him to the front lines to be killed in battle. This is the great sin for which David repents mightily in Psalm 51)
The prophet who, living in exile in a foreign land, was able to tell the king of that land what the giant hand that had appeared out of nowhere had written on the wall. (There's a book of the Bible named after this prophet.)
Who was Daniel?
The first and longest of all the books of the Prophets, and the one that is quoted the most at Christmas & during Lent because it contains lots of prophesies about Jesus.
What is "Isaiah"?
It's one of two Wisdom Books, along with Sirach, that is in the Catholic Bible but is missing from most non-Catholic Bibles. (Wisdom Books: Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom, and Sirach)
What is Wisdom (of The Wisdom of Solomon)?
The (deuterocanonical) book that tells the story of a young man who is accompanied by a "man" (secretly the Angel Raphael) on a journey for his father in which he marries a woman whose 7 previous husbands have all died on their wedding night, and in which he obtains a miraculous healing ointment from a fish. (Choices: Nehemiah, Judith, Tobit, Joshua)
What is the book of Tobit?