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| 7526468148 | Abraham | the first patriarch of the Old testament. God made a covenant with Abraham, telling him to leave his own country and promising to give his family (the Hebrews) the land of Canaan. God tested Abraham by telling him to sacrifice his beloved son, Isaac, as a burnt offering. Abraham obeyed, but an angel stopped him before he killed Isaac because he had proven his faith. | 0 | |
| 7526468149 | Alpha and Omega | beginning and the end. from a quote in Revelations in the New Testament. God says he is these two things. | 1 | |
| 7526468150 | Apostles | the 12 men chosen by Jesus to follow him and spread the gospel after his death. Generally, a person who preaches or promotes a cause. | 2 | |
| 7526468151 | Armageddon | a destructive confrontation; the site of the final battle between good and evil in the Book of Revelations in the New Testament. | 3 | |
| 7526468152 | Babel, Tower of | In the Book of Genesis, the tower the descendants of Noah built. They intended that the tower would reach heaven and make them more like God. God prevented them from finishing it by confusing their language so they couldn't understand each other when they spoke. ("babble" means confusion and noise) | 4 | |
| 7526468153 | Babylon | any place of sin and corruption; during the Babylonian captivity, the Jews were exiled here, a place they found luxurious yet corrupt. | 5 | |
| 7526468154 | Burning bush | in the Book of Exodus, God revealed himself to Moses, telling him that he must go to the Pharaoh, free the Israelites from slavery, and deliver them to the Promised Land. It was considered a miracle because "the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed." Speaking out of the bush, God said "I am that I am" in reply to Moses' inquiry about His name. | 6 | |
| 7526468155 | Cain | a brother who kills a brother; from the story of Adam and Eve's son who killed his brother Abel out of jealousy. | 7 | |
| 7526468156 | Cast not pearls before swine | to share something of value with someone who won't appreciate it; from the Sermon on the Mount, suggests that followers of Jesus should pass his message to those most likely to receive it | 8 | |
| 7526468157 | Chapter and verse | method of locating passages in the Bible; to quote this generally means to give detailed evidence for something | 9 | |
| 7526468158 | Coat of many colors | the special coat that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph; this gift made Joseph's brothers jealous and resentful. | 10 | |
| 7526468159 | Consider the lilies of the field | words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, encouraging his followers not to worry about their worldly needs or possessions | 11 | |
| 7526468160 | Crown of thorns | something that causes intense suffering; it was a mock king's crown made from thorn branches put on Jesus's head by Roman soldiers before his execution. | 12 | |
| 7526468161 | Daniel | one known for wisdom and accurate judgement; from a wise leader in the Old Testament who was able to read the handwriting on the wall during Babylonian captivity. He thrown into a lion's den to be killed when he refused to stop praying to God, but an angel helped him and he was unharmed. | 13 | |
| 7526468162 | Doubting Thomas | someone who demands evidence to be convinced, esp. when the demand is out of place. This apostle doubted the resurrection of Jesus and said he would only believe Jesus was alive if he saw him with his own eyes and touched his wounds with his own hands. | 14 | |
| 7526468163 | Exodus | a departure; from the 2nd book in the Old Testament, describing the departure of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. Moses got them out of Egypt, but they were cursed to wander the desert for 40 years because they had no faith. | 15 | |
| 7526468164 | Eye of the Needle | a very difficult task; from famous narrow gateway called "the needle". Jesus said it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven. | 16 | |
| 7526468165 | Filthy Lucre | money or profits; from the story of Jesus casting moneylenders out of the Temple. | 17 | |
| 7526468166 | Forbidden fruit | anything tempting but potentially dangerous, often associated. with sexuality; the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden, often pictured as an apple. | 18 | |
| 7526468167 | Four Horsemen | four figures in the Book of Revelation who symbolize the evils to come at the end of the world. The four horses are conquest (a white horse), war (a red horse), famine (a black horse), and plague (a pale horse). "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" | 19 | |
| 7526468168 | Golden calf | any false god or something worshipped undeservedly; an idol that the Israelites made while God was handing down the Ten Commandments to Moses. When Moses arrived with the Commandments, he saw the golden idol, smashed the tablets w/ the Commandments on them, and made the Israelites destroy the idol. | 20 | |
| 7526468169 | Good Samaritan | someone who helps another, often of a different race or background; from Jesus' parable of a Samaritan (enemy of the Hebrews) helping a Jewish man that had been left for dead after other Jews refused to aid the injured man. | 21 | |
| 7526468170 | Handwriting on the wall | what the future holds; from a story of Daniel who was able to translate something that said that the king was going to die soon. | 22 | |
| 7526468171 | Isaac | son of Abraham and father of Jacob and Esau; Isaac was the son that Abraham was ready to sacrifice at God's request. | 23 | |
| 7526468172 | Ishmael | one who is cast out as being unworthy; the son of Abraham and his handmaiden Hagar, was cast out into the desert when Abraham's wife Sarah had their son Isaac; therefore Ishmael is said to be the ancestor of the nomadic desert tribes of Arabs. | 24 | |
| 7526468173 | Jacob | grandson of Abraham, son of Isaac and Rebekah, brother of Esau, and the ancestor of the Israelites. His name changed to Israel, and his 12 sons fathered the 12 Tribes of Israel. His brother, Esau, should have inherited the covenant with God as Abraham's eldest son, but he traded his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of soup. (He was manipulated into it by Jacob) | 25 | |
| 7526468174 | Jacob's ladder | a ladder that Jacob saw in a dream that led to heaven. God stood at the top and promised to bless Jacob and his offspring and lead them to the Promised Land. | 26 | |
| 7526468175 | Job | one who suffers a great deal but remains faithful; a Biblical figure whose faith was tested by Satan. He lost his family and belongings but still remained faithful to God. | 27 | |
| 7526468176 | Job's comforters | "friends" who try to comfort someone but actually makes them feel worse. Job's "comforters" didn't comfort at all but were the source of his affliction. | 28 | |
| 7526468177 | Judas | a traitor; one of the 12 apostles, notorious for betraying Jesus. Disclosed Jesus' whereabouts to the chief priests and elders for thirty pieces of silver. | 29 | |
| 7526468178 | Judge not lest ye be judged | a command of Jesus; since all people are sinners, no one is worthy to condemn another. | 30 | |
| 7526468179 | King Ahab and Jezebel | an evil king of Israel and his treacherous wife, synonymous today with evil. Jezebel introduced the worship of Baal, an idol, to Israel, inciting mutual enmity with the prophets. She instigated the murder of Naboth for the possession of a vineyard. Today, "Jezebel" means a brazen or forward woman. | 31 | |
| 7526468180 | Lamb of God | a Christian name for Jesus, used by John the Baptist. Lambs were killed for the Jewish Passover, Jesus was sacrificed and is the lamb of the new Passover. | 32 | |
| 7526468182 | Lazarus | someone who makes a comeback from obscurity; a man brought back to life by Jesus after being dead in a tomb for four days. | 33 | |
| 7526468183 | Loaves and fishes | a miracle Jesus performed, took five loaves and two fishes and multiplied them to feed a crowd of thousands. | 34 | |
| 7526468184 | Lot's wife | when God's angels destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, but they chose to spare Lot and his family. The angels commanded them to leave without looking back, but she disobeyed and was turned into a pillar of salt. | 35 | |
| 7526468186 | Manna | a sustaining life-giving source or food; a sweet bread-like food that fell from Heaven to feed the Israelites as they crossed the Sinai desert to the Promised Land with Moses. | 36 | |
| 7526468187 | Methuselah | an extremely old person; according to Genesis, he was the grandpa of Noah and lived to be 969 years old. | 37 | |
| 7526468188 | Moses | born in Egypt during Babylonian captivity, when the Pharaoh ordered all male children of Hebrews to be killed. His mother put him in a small boat in a marsh to hide him where he was found and adopted by the daughter of the Pharaoh. He received the Ten Commandments and led the Israelites to the Promised Land. | 38 | |
| 7526468189 | Olive branch | a sign of peace; the branch brought to Noah's ark by a dove to signify that the Flood was receding. | 39 | |
| 7526468190 | Pearl of Great Price | something so precious that one would devote everything to or give up everything for it; a parable in which the kingdom of Heaven is compared to a pearl of great value found by a merchant. | 40 | |
| 7526468191 | Philistine | a person indifferent or hostile to the arts and refinement; from sea going people from Crete who became enemies of the Israelites. | 41 | |
| 7526468192 | Plagues of Egypt | the set of disasters that God inflicted on Egypt before Moses led the Israelites to the Promised Land. Included: swarms of locusts, hordes of frogs, scourge of boils. Pharaoh freed the Israelites after the 10th plague, when the Angel of Death killed every Egyptian firstborn. | 42 | |
| 7526468193 | Pontius Pilate | the governor of the Jews at the time of Jesus' crucifixion; he didn't think Jesus was guilty and wanted to spare him, but sentenced him to death under pressure from the crowd. He washed his hand in front of the crowd to show that he was not the one who spilled Jesus' blood. | 43 | |
| 7526468194 | Prodigal Son | a wasteful son who disappoints his father; from a parable of a man who split his stuff with two sons. the younger took his $ and went to "live the wild life", while the older stayed and worked the fields. When the younger spent all the $, he came crawling back to his father, who accepted him, pardoning him by saying he was "lost but was found". "The prodigal son returns"--> what people say when someone comes crawling back looking for forgiveness. | 44 | |
| 7526468195 | Road to Damascus | a sudden turning point in someone's life; the Apostle Paul fell from his horse, saw a bright light, and heard a voice that caused him to dramatically convert to the religious life. | 45 | |
| 7526468197 | Samson and Delilah | Samson, an Israelite hero and legendary warrior with extraordinary physical strength fell in love with Delilah the Philistine. When she learned that his hair was the source of his power, she betrayed him and cut it off. Today "Delilah" is associated with a voluptuous, treacherous woman. | 46 | |
| 7526468198 | Scapegoat | one who is made an object of blame for others; in ancient times the goat was symbolically burdened with the sins of Jewish people and thrown over a precipice outside of Jerusalem to rid the nation of iniquities. | 47 | |
| 7526468200 | Sodom and Gomorrah | any place associated with wickedness or sin; from the evil cities of the Old Testament that were destroyed by fire. | 48 | |
| 7526468201 | Thirty pieces of silver | anything paid for a treacherous act; "blood money"; the money Judas received for betraying Jesus to the authorities. | 49 |
