Curiosities of the Bible

Who was put to death by a plague? What's the shortest verse? 446 pages of Bible prize questions, enigmas and curiosities that Victorian Sunday schools competed over.

Old Testament Persons

9 pages in this part of Curiosities of the Bible.

Old Testament Persons (Who was made King of Judah)

37. Who was made King of Judah at seven years of age having been hid for six years? 38. What King shut up the temple of God? 39. Of whom…

Old Testament Persons (He held his peace Jonah)

53. He held his peace 54. Jonah. ... 55. In the valley of Moab. 56. Seers.. 57 One thousand and five. 58. Song of the well. 59. Benhadad…

Old Testament Persons: Jeremiah

BE Jeremiah Jeremiah xix. 9. 86 Pashur, because he smote the prophet Jeremiah Jer. xx. 4. 87. Jeremiah..

Old Testament Persons: Ezekiel

Ezekiel i. 1. .1 Sam. ix. 25.

Old Testament Persons: Moses

Acts xxi. 9 120. Josiah. 121. David and jonathan. 122. He was first to smite the Jebusites.. ...... 124. Moses, Num. xi. 15; Elijah…

Old Testament Persons: Gideon

Num xxvi. 10. 143 "They which are of faith" and "if ye be Christ's," Gal. iii. 7.29. 141. Children of Rachab.Jer. xxxv. 1, 10 145. Gideon…

Old Testament Persons: Samson

Judge xiii. 21 179. Samson's father.

Old Testament Persons: Nebuchadnezzar

Gen. xv. 1. 214. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon. 2 Kings xxv. 1. 11. 215. Daniel... ..

Old Testament Persons: Balaam

Num. xi. 16 159. Mesha. 458. Totipher, Gen. xxxix. 5; Laban. 460. Ahijah the Shilinite. 461. Jonathan and Ahimaaz Gen. xxx. 27 .2 Kings iii…

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