Bibleology

Copyright

Copyright © 2007 by Stan Campbell

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Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

Quotations noted KJV are from the King James Version of the Bible.

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1

Identify the Quote

The Bible is the source of many of our everyday quotes I and references. For example, when you hear people speak of "the writing on the wall" or a "doubting Thomas," they are using biblical references (whether they know it or not).

Below are a number of familiar sayings. See if you can identify which ones come from the Bible and which have other sources. (And give yourself extra credit if you can identify those sources.) To maintain a similar cadence, the King James Version is used for the Bible verses below.

(1) "I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."

(2) "The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath: it is twice blessed; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes."

(3) "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?"

(4) "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

(5) "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."

(6) "God helps them that help themselves."

(7) "To err is human, to forgive divine."

(8) "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

(9) "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."

(10) "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

(11) "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."

(12) "Hope springs eternal in the human breast."

(13) "The love of money is the root of all evil."

(14) "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

(15) "Spare the rod, and spoil the child."

2

It's a Miracle!

When you think of miracles in the Bible, it's natural to think of Jesus right away. Yet a number of other people either initiated a miracle or participated in one. Some were instruments of God who brought about the miracle; others merely benefited from it. Try to match the following miracles with the people associated with them (listed at the end of the chapter).

Miraculous Event

Peformed the Miracle

3

Who Knows His Moses?

The story of the life of Moses fills four books of the Bible: Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Below are twenty questions covering just a few of the events of Moses' life. See how much you know about this fascinating Old Testament figure.

(1) When the Moses story begins, the Israelites had been in Egypt for about:

(A) Four years

(B) Four decades

(C) Four centuries

(D) Forty days and forty nights

(2) Moses escaped early death due to clever parents, God's protection, and:

(A) Egyptians with bad aim

(B) Dumb luck

(C) An accounting error

(D) A thrilling escape on an "ark"

(3) After being fished out of the Nile, Moses had a pretty smooth life until:

(A) Egypt lost a big war

(B) A woman cut his hair

(C) A famine hit

(D) He killed a guy

(4) After fleeing to the wilderness, Moses acquired:

(A) Flocks and herds too numerous to count

(B) A wife, a kid or two, and a call from God

(C) A bad attitude

(D) BO like you wouldn't believe

(5) God spoke to Moses from a burning bush and told him to:

(A) Don't just stand there; get some water!

(B) Start working out because times were about to get tough

(C) Go tell Pharaoh he was going to lead the Israelites out of Egypt