Trivia

Trivia

  • Did you know that all the Jews living in one kingdom owed their lives to one girl who chose to endanger her life for them? (see Esther)
  • Did you know that, as listed in His genealogy, one of Jesus’ recorded ‘ancestors’, Rahab, was a prostitute before she became a heroine by saving the life of Joshua’s spies? (see Joshua 2 and 6)
  • Did you know that Anna, the widowed prophetess who saw young Jesus in the temple, was already 84 years old when they met? (see Luke 2:36-38)
  • Did you know that the only female judge of Israel recorded in the Bible, Deborah, judged the tribes under a palm tree? (see Judges 4-5)
  • Did you know that it was through the relative of a godly man who served as an honoured official under an emperor, that all the Israelites living in that kingdom were saved? (see Esther 2)
  • Did you know that one of the most famous Christian converts during Jesus’ time was a Roman centurion? (see Acts 10:1-2)
  • Did you know that one of the greatest rulers of the prodigious Babylon was a man of God? (see Daniel 2:48)
  • Did you know that the deputy of an entire island, Cyprus, was a Christian convert? (see Acts 13:4-7)
  • Did you know that a godly Hebrew had to answer God’s call to rule over ungodly Egypt in order to keep the entire nation of Israel from dying from starvation? (Genesis 42:6)
  • Did you know that the first color mentioned in the Bible is green? “I have given every green herb…” (See Genesis 1:30)
  • Did you know that the Bible records the longest life a man ever lived to be… 969 years old?! His name was Methuselah. (See Genesis 5:27)
  • Did you know that the shortest reign by a king of Israel was only seven days? King Zimri died as his palace burned around him. (See 1 Kings 16:15, 18)
  • Did you know that the celebrated prophet, Elijah, was once branded as “the worst troublemaker in Israel” by a king? (See 1 Kings 18:17)
  • Did you know that the Bible’s first recorded piggy bank was in the temple at Jerusalem? It was a chest, ordered by King Joash, who had a hole bored in the lid to keep priests from stealing funds. (see 2 Kings 12)
  • Did you know that the Bible records the first lie as being told by the serpent in the Garden of Eden? (see Genesis 3:4)
  • Did you know that the Bible’s first recorded twins were Jacob and Esau? (see Genesis 24:23-26)
  • Did you know that the first daughter mentioned by name in the Bible is Naamah, daughter of Lamech? (see Genesis 4:22)
  • Did you know that the only man mentioned in the Bible as being naturally bald is Elisha? (see 2 Kings 2:23)
  • Did you know that the only book in the Bible that mentions God laughing is the Book of Psalms? (see Psalms 2:4, 37:13; 59:8)
  • Did you know that the first birthday party by a king recorded in the Bible is by Pharaoh, at the time Joseph was in Egypt? (see Genesis 40:20)
  • Did you know that the first dream mentioned in the Bible is the dream of Abimelech, in which he was told to return Sarah to Abraham? (see Genesis 20:3-8)
  • Did you know that grapes were the first thing that Noah cultivated after the Great Flood? (See Genesis 9:20)
  • Did you know that, according to the ancient customs of Israel, a person who wished to transfer property had to publicly remove his shoe and give it to the person to whom he was transferring his property?
  • Did you know that sheep is the most common animal mentioned throughout the Bible?
  • Did you know that, as indispensable as garlic has been thru the ages, it is mentioned only once in the Bible? (See Numbers 11:5)
  • Did you know that the only man mentioned in the Bible as being naturally bald is Elisha? (see 2 Kings 2:23)
  • Did you know that the only book in the Bible that mentions God laughing is the Book of Psalms? (see Psalms 2:4, 37:13; 59:8)
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