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| 3341196996 | Absolom | a son who brings heartache to his father; from the third son of David, King of Israel. Exiled for three years before he was allowed to return to the court or see his royal father, Absolom plotted to cause a rebellion against his father to overtake the kingdom because he heard Solomon was to succeed David. When Absolom was killed in battle, King David grieved for his son in spite of his treachery against him. | 0 | |
| 3341235437 | Alpha and Omega | The beginning and the end, from a quote in Revelations in the New Testament. | 1 | |
| 3341236889 | Cain | a brother who kills his brother; from the story of Adam and Eve's son Cain, who killed his brother Abel out of jealousy | 2 | |
| 3341239357 | Daniel | one known for wisdom and judgement; from a wise leader in the Old Testament who was able to read the handwriting on the wall | 3 | |
| 3341244055 | David and Bathsheba | represents a big sin -from King David's affair with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah. After they had an affair & she became pregnant, David had her husband Uriah put on the front lines of battle so he would die. The "Bathsheba Affair" formed a critical turning point in King David's life. Prior to this, he had prospered greatly, but afterward, his personal fortunes were greatly diminished. Nathan, the prophet, confronted David after he took Bathsheba for his wife and trapped him into admitting his own guilt. | 4 | |
| 3341258639 | Eye of the Needle | A very difficult task; from famous gateway called "the needle." In the NT, Jesus said it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter heaven | 5 | |
| 3341263080 | Filthy Lucre | Money or profits; from a story in the NT of Jesus casting moneyleaders out of the Temple | 6 | |
| 3341264994 | Goliath | a large person; from the giant in the Philistine city of Gath, slain by David (shepherd boy) | 7 | |
| 3341268807 | Good Samaritan | someone who helps another person, perhaps someone of a different race or background. -from a NT parable about a Samaritan, a traditional enemy of the Hebrews, who stopped to help a Jewish man who had been beaten and left for dead at the side of the rode | 8 | |
| 3341275598 | Handwriting on the wall | what the future holds; from the OT story of Daniel, who was able to accurately predict some mysterious writing that appeared on a wall (predicted the imminent death of a king) | 9 | |
| 3341280152 | Ishmael | one who is cast out as being unworthy; the son of Abraham and his handmaiden Hagar, he was cast out into the desert when his wife Sarah had their son Isaac; therefore said to be the ancestor of the nomadic desert tribes of Arabs | 10 | |
| 3341292011 | Jacob | grandson of Abraham, son of Isaac and Rebekah, brother of Esau, and traditional ancestors of Israelites. His name was changed to Israel and his son became the 12 Tribes of Israel. | 11 | |
| 3341299116 | Job | one who suffers a great deal but remains faithful; -from an OT character whose faith in God was tested by Satan; though he lost his family and his belongings, he remained patient and faithful | 12 | |
| 3341303954 | Job's comforters | "friends" who try to help by bringing blame; ironically, Job's comforters did not comfort at all, but were the source of more affliction | 13 | |
| 3341307310 | Jonah | one who brings bad luck; an OT prophet who ran from God and sailed to sea. When a storm arose, he admitted he was the cause, and the sailors threw him overboard, where he was swallowed by fish | 14 | |
| 3341312685 | Judas | a traitor or a treacherous kiss (a Judas kiss) -one of the 12 apostles, notorious for betraying Jesus -surname = "murderer" or "assassin" -Judas disclosed Jesus' whereabouts to the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver | 15 | |
| 3341319549 | King Ahab and Jezebel | an evil king of Israel and his treacherous evil wife, synonymous today for evil. Through her marriage to Ahab, Jezebel introduced the worship of Baal, an idol, to Israel, thus 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. | 16 | |
| 3341331659 | Manna | a sustaining, life-giving force or food; from the sweetish bread-like food that fell from heaven for the Israelites as they crossed the Sinai Desert to the Promised Land with Moses | 17 | |
| 3341338220 | Original Sin/The Fall | the idea that all men are innately sinful as a result of Adam and Eve's fall from the state of innocence -When they ate the forbidden food, they were cast out of the Biblical Garden of Eden, a post-biblical expression for the doctrine of Adam's transgression and mankind's consequential inheritance of a sinful nature because he ate the forbidden food from the Tree of Knowledge | 18 | |
| 3341348428 | Pearl of Great Price | something so precious that one would devote everything to or give up something for it. In one of Jesus' parables, the kingdom of heaven is compared to a pearl of great price (value) found by a merchant | 19 | |
| 3341365454 | Philistine | a person indifferent or hostile to the arts and refinement; from Sea-going people from Crete who became enemies of Israelites and fought over their lands | 20 | |
| 3341368857 | Prodigal Son | a wasteful son who disappoints his father; from the NT parable of a man with two sons. When he split his estate between the two, the young son gathered his fortune and left home to live the wild life, while the other stayed home to work in the fields. When the young son spent all his money, he came crawling back to his father, who accepted him, pardoning his error by saying he was "lost but was found." | 21 | |
| 3341377011 | Ruth and Naomi | paragons of love between in-laws; faithful friends. From the OT story of Ruth, who, when her husband died in battle, left her own land to travel with his mother back to her people. | 22 | |
| 3341386268 | Samson and Delilah | Treacherous love story: Samson, an Israelite hero and legendary warrior with extraordinary physical strength, fell in love with Delilah, a Philistine. When Delilah learned that Samson's hair was the source of his strength, she betrayed him by accepting a Philistine bribe to cut off his hair while he slept. Today, the name Delilah is associated with a voluptuous, treacherous woman. | 23 | |
| 3341395262 | Scapegoat | one that is made an object of blame for others; the goat was symbolically burdened with the sins of the Jewish people and thrown over a precipice outside of Jerusalem to rid the nation of iniquities. | 24 | |
| 3341400043 | Sepulcher | tomb in the OT | 25 | |
| 3341401418 | Sodom and Gomorrah | any place associated with wickedness or sin; from the evil cities of the OT that were destroyed by fire | 26 | |
| 3341403680 | Solomon | an extremely wise person; from the son of King David, the Israelite king who wrote Proverbs, and was known for his wisdom | 27 | |
| 3341406505 | Twelve Tribes of Israel | in the OT, the Hebrew people took possession of the Promised Lab of Canaan after the death of Moses and named the tribes after the sons and grandson of Jacob (whose name was changed to Israel) - Reuben, Simeon, Judah, Issachar, Zebulum, Gad, Asher, Dan, Naphtali, Joseph, Manasseh, and Ephraim | 28 |
