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Who Doesn't Love Bible Trivia

For those who missed out on Sunday, we opened up our Manna & Mercy class with a bit of Old Testament Bible Trivia!  Here you go ...

"What then is this bleating of ___________ in my ears?"

"O my son _____________!  My son, my son ____________!  If only I had died instead of you!  O ____________ my son, my son!"

Ezekiel and the valley of ____ _________.

Jeremiah buys a  _________ while Israel is under siege.

"When [Elisha] turned around and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord.  Then two ___-_______ came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys."

"The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.  He makes me lie down in ______ ______."

"This also is vanity and a chasing after ______."

Isaiah and the six-winged _______ in the __________ of the Lord."

"But he was wounded for our _____________, crushed for our ____________."

"For surely I know the ______ I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans for your ______ and not for harm, to give you a future with hope."

"As the deer longs for flowing _________, so my soul longs for you, O God."

The gift that Solomon asked for from God:  _________.

The object Saul threw at David and almost killed him:  ________.

"Saul has slain his _____________, and David his ____ of ___________."

What David did before the Lord and the people that angered his wife Milchal:  ________.

Three sins David that led to Nathan, the prophet, confronting the king (and led to Psalm 51):  1. ______________   2. _____________ 3. ____________

Number of wives Solomon was said to have:  __________.

Number of concubines Solomon was said to have:  ________.

After Solomon's death, the tribes of Israel split into two _____________.

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