bible Trivia Quiz # 20

This song was sung after the Israelites had walked on dry land through the middle of the parted Red Sea but the pursuing Egyptians were drowned by the waters rushing back to their place. This mighty miracle occurred on the heels of the ten plagues in Egypt that persuaded Pharaoh to let the Israelites go. In verse 21 of the same chapter, Miriam the prophetess, answered them: "Sing to the LORD for He has truimphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!" All the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

The plagues are found in Exodus 7 through Exodus 12. The parting of the Red Sea is in Exodus 14.

See Proverbs 30:24-28. Listed as wise are ants, conies, locusts and spiders.

Noah took two of every type of unclean (uneatable) animal and seven of every type of clean (eatable) animal with him on the ark. Genesis 6:19

Romans 8:28 "And we know that al things work together for good to them that LOVE God, to them that are called according to his purpose."

The Murray family insisted that it be known that they were opposed to the practice of forced bible reading and coercive prayer recitation in public schools because they were atheists, so the following statement was drawn up to explain what an atheist is.



"Your petitioners are Atheists and they define their lifestyle as follows. An Atheist loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we should work for now - here on earth- for all men together to enjoy. An Atheist accepts that he can get no help through prayer but that he must find in himself the inner conviction and strength to meet life, to grapple with it, subdue and enjoy it. An Atheist thinks that only in knowledge of himself and a knowledge of his fellow man can he find the understanding that will help to a life of fulfillment.



"Therefore, he seeks to know himself and his fellow man rather than to 'know' a god. An Atheist knows that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist knows that a deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.



He wants disease conquered, poverty vanquished, war eliminated. He wants man to understand and love man. He wants an ethical way of life. He knows that we cannot rely on a god nor channel action into prayer nor hope for an end of troubles in a hereafter. He knows that we are our brothers' keepers in that we are, first, keepers of our lives; that we are responsible persons, that the job is here and the time is now."



(Copied from http://www.atheists.org/courthouse/petitioners.html)

Revelation speaks of the Second Coming of Christ.

I Samuel 25:1-42 tells the story of the wealthy Nabal and his wife Abigail. Nabal had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep. After Nabal refused David's request for provisions, his wife sent David what he needed. When Nabal died ten days later, Abigail became David's wife.

Paul said this in the book of Romans - Chapter 12:2. Verses 1 and 2 are both often quoted. "I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service." Romans 12:1

Lilith is often seen as the female half of an originally bisexual being. The first human would then have been an androgynous, hermaphroditic 'two-in-one' creature as in the Platonic stories. There remains room for discussion whether this creature was joined back-to-back or side-by-side.

Though largely a character from the Jewish Talmud Lilith is not absent from Bible. She occurs in Isaiah 34,14. It may be noted that in the Quran-version of the "Genesis" story, even Eve herself is barely mentioned.

In some non-literalist approaches to the Bible text what is supposed to have been filtered out seems to be seen as at least as significant as what was left in. Especially in literature the less well documented characters are an interesting source of inspiration. Lilith is especially popular with modern not-so-very-Christian authors. Goethe's Faust talks about her to Mephisto. Dante Gabriel Rosetti writes about her in 'Eden's Bower'. Anatole France uses her as a symbol in "Lilith's Daughter" (1889).Especially George Bernard Shaw gives her an important role in "Back to Methuselah". More to be found on this topic in "Grosse Frauen der Bibel" by Herbert Haag, Joe H. Kirchberger and Dorothée Sölle. Published by EMB-Service fuer Verleger, Luzern, Switzerland,1993. First chapter is entitled: Eve and Lilith.

Also at witcombe.sbc.edu/eve-women/7eve-lilith.html

In the Hebrew text Isaiah has: aksam hirgi ah lilit u-masah lah manoh (imperfect transcription). To avoid having to read "lilit" as a reference to the goddess of the night, various solutions have been tried: night-owl; night-monster; night hag; night creatures. The KJV "screech-owl" is probably influenced by the owls that follow in 34:11 "yansup" actually a waterbird and 34:15 "qippoz" often rendered as "great owl" but actually a snake.