Names
Naomi returned to Bethlehem from Moab, she asked people to no longer call her Naomi, but to call her by this name that means "bitterness"
Mara (Ruth 1:20)
Hebrews 12:29: "For our God is a..."
Hebrews 12:29: "For our God is a consuming fire."
Elijah challenged the 450 prophets of Baal at this place.
Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:19-20)
"Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting."
Daniel (Dan 5:27)
The shortest book in the bible
3 John
Hebrew/Aramaic name of Barnabas before the apostles gave him his famous surname meaning "Son of Consolation"
Joseph (or Joses) (Acts 4:36)
Psalm 84:11: "For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good........
Psalm 84:11: "For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly."
Judas bought this land with the money from betraying Jesus. Acts 1:19 The name of this place means "the field of blood"
Aceldama
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Jesus (Matthew 7:15)
Tribe of Israel received no inheritance of land
Levites
Esther's Hebrew name
Hadassah (Esther 2:7)
Jeremiah 31:3: "The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an......."
Jeremiah 31:3: "The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee."
The mountain where Moses died and viewed the Promised Land without entering it
Mount Nebo (Deuteronomy 34:1-6)
"Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves?"
Goliath (1 Samuel 17:43)
Jesus said that this would be the reward of the disciples for forsaking everything and following Him. According to Matthew 19:28
"And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."
Judge of Israel struck down 600 Philistines using only an agricultural ox goad
Shamgar (Judges 3:31)
John 16:33: "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good....."
John 16:33: "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; .I have overcome the world."
Valley where David defeated Goliath and the Philistine army
The Valley of Elah (1 Samuel 17:2)
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."
Job (Job 19:20)
The book of the bible ends with a question mark
Jonah
Malicious church leader who refused to welcome traveling brothers according to 3 John
Diotrephes (3 John 1:9)
Colossians 2:14: "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way,..."
Colossians 2:14: "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way nailing it to his cross;"
Name of the pool in Jerusalem where Jesus healed a blind man by telling him to wash there.
The Pool of Siloam (John 9:7)
I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit
Amos said this in response to the priest of Bethel Amaziah after he told him (Amos) to stop prophesying and to go back to Judah. Amos 7:14
Books of the bible that do not contain the word "God"
Esther and Songs of Solomon