BIBLICAL ALLUSIONS
Identify the source of the following quotations, places, and phrases. (Book, chapter and verse) and write a brief
summary of events or definition of the term. In the ease of proverbs, just a one-sentence summary is enough.
Hint: Books and chapters are provided: match ‘em. Be ready for a quiz on this the first week back.
Adams rib Harden your heart
Alpha and Omega Jonah and the whale
Am I my brother’s keeper? Lamb to the slaughter
Ark of the Covenant Let my people go
Ashes to ashes, dust-to-dust Loaves and fishes
Babel Manna from heaven
Be fruitful and multiply Mark of Cain
Bitter as Wormwood Methuselah
Break bread Noah’s ark
Burning bush Parting of the waters
By their fruits shall ye know them Pearls before swine
Canter through the eye of a needle Prodigal son
Cast the first stone Sackcloth and ashes
Water into wine Seven pillars of Wisdom
Chariot of fire Sodom and Gomorrah
Consider the lilies of the field Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
Crown of thorns Thirty pieces of silver
David and Goliath This is my body
Daniel in the lions den Tree of Knowledge
Doubting Thomas Turn the other cheek
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth Voice crying in the wilderness
Forty days and forty nights Water into wine
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Way of all flesh
Gain the whole world hut lose your own soul White sepulchers
Gold, frankincense and myrrh Who lives by the sword shall die by the sword
Golden calf Wisdom of Solomon
Word made flesh Golden Rule
Ye cannot serve God and mammon Good Samaritan
BIBLICAL REFERENCES USED ABOVE: Genesis 1: 22-23, Genesis 2:9 &16-17, Genesis 2:18
Genesis 3:17-19, Genesis 4: 9-10, Genesis 4:15-16, Genesis 5:21-27, Genesis 6:13-16, Genesis 7:4,
Genesis 11:8-9, Genesis 18:20-21 Exodus 3:1-2, Exodus 4:21, Exodus 5:1 Exodus 14: 15-17, Exodus 16:14-15,
Exodus 21:23-25, Exodus 32:4, 1 Samuel 17:4.8-9, Isaiah 53:6-7, Isaiah 40:1-3, Daniel 6:16. Proverbs 5:3-6,
Proverbs 9:1, Joshua 23:14, 1 Kings 3:16-28, Jonah 1:17-2:10, Mathew 2:1l, Mathew 6:24-28, Mathew 6:34,
Mathew 7:6, Mathew 7:12-15, Mathew 11:20-21, Mathew 14: 15-18, Mathew 16:24-26, Mathew 19:23-25,
Mathew 23:23-27, Mathew 26:14-16, Mathew 25:26-29, Mathew 26:49-54 Mathew 27:27-29, John 1:14-15,
John 2:7-10, John 8:4-7, John 20:24-25, Luke 6:29 Luke 10:30-34. Luke 15:11-14, Revelation 1:7-8, 11,
Revelation 5:1-4, Exodus 25:10 & 30:1-6, Acts 20:7, II Kings 2:11, Revelation 6:2-8, Mark 8:36, Luke 6:31,
Romans 7:5, I Kings 3:16-28