Bible Scavenger Hunt

10 Bible Scavenger Hunt Riddles

 

Look around the Church and find the names of the 10 people from the Bible that match the description below. We have included a Bible verse under each answer to tell you where in the Church to find the answers if you need a clue. Write the answers on the line. When you have found all 10 names return it to the table for a prize.

 

1.       With a rock and with a sling he killed a giant and became king

 

Mathew 7:7 “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”

 

2.       Going to Nineveh was something he didn’t wish to do. The person who ended up in a fish’s bell was who?

 

Galatians 3:27 “For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.”

 

3.       This man was created out of earth. Only person of whom a woman didn’t give birth.

 

Jeremiah 52:32 “He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.”

 

 

4.       He was a short man Jesus he wanted to see. And so he decided to climb a sycamore tree.

 

Psalm 1:3 “That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither-- whatever they do prospers.”

 

 

5.       He lived on a boat as the water started to rise. Looking at him there were thousands of eyes.

 

Mark 14:22 “While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take it; this is my body."

 

 

 

 

6.       This guy built up courage to go to the Pharaoh. And said to the leader “Let my people go”

 

1 Kings 6:8 “The entrance to the lowest floor was on the south side of the temple; a stairway led up to the middle level and from there to the third.”

 

 

7.       This man was set up by over 100 men. And then he was thrown into a lions’ den.

 

Hosea 7:6 “Their hearts are like an oven; they approach him with intrigue. Their passion smolders all night; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.”

 

 

8.       Lived in the wilderness on locusts and honey he fed. Eventually he died after losing his head.

 

John 19:28 “After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.”

 

9.       Became a follower of Jesus as to Damascus he went. He wrote half the books in the New Testament.

 

2 Timothy 3:16 “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness”

 

 

10.   I don’t know him, I don’t know him, I don’t know him he said. Yet the early church is who he led.

 

Psalm 149:1 “Praise the LORD. Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of his faithful people.”

 

 

Name:_________________________________________________________________

Please return for your prize J

Answer Key

 

1 – David (church front door)

2 – Jonah (baptismal font)

3 – Adam (Father’s Chair)

4 – Zaccheus (Outside on a tree)

5 – Noah (Communion table)

6 – Moses (stairway door down to community room)

7 – Daniel (oven down stairs)

8 – John the Baptist (water fountain downstairs)

9 – Paul (Pulpit)

10 – Peter (Choir seats)