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1.

Where did the woman that Cain married come from?

2.

Who / what were the Nephilim?

3.

Were any of the disciples married?

4.

What was the practice of casting lots?

5.

Was Jonah truly swallowed by a whale?

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Why did God give the Ten Commandments to his people, knowing that they wouldn’t be able to live up to them perfectly?

7.

Who were the authors of the books of the Bible?

8.

What is the origin of Christianity?

9.

Did Moses copy the Law from the Code of Hammurabi?

10.

Where is the current location of Harran?

11.

What was the Holy of Holies?

12.

What is the origin of Valentine's Day, and should Christians celebrate it?

13.

What kind of divination did Joseph do in Genesis 44:5, 15?

14.

Why would people be baptized for the dead?

15.

Did the Israelites in the book of Exodus cross the Red Sea or the Reed Sea?

16.

Why did Jesus weep?

17.

How many sons did King David have?

18.

What was the country of the Gerasenes (or Gadarenes) and why is it significant in the account of the man with the "legion"?

19.

What is the significance of a city gate in the Bible?

20.

What did it mean for the adulteress to have her 'belly swell' and 'thigh rot away' in Num 5:27?

21.

What was Solomon's temple, the first temple? How many temples were there?

22.

How did the rods Jacob peeled make the animals produce offspring of a certain color?

23.

What was the Sanhedrin?

24.

Why did God use a locust swarm to punish Israel?

25.

Why didn't Daniel refuse to be worshipped (Daniel 2:46)?

26.

Where/what is Golgotha/Calvary?

27.

Why did God judge Nineveh so harshly in the book of Nahum?

28.

Who was the Asaph mentioned in the Book of Psalms?

29.

What is historical theology?

30.

Why do some people continue to portray Jacob (Israel) as a thief, cheat, and liar when clearly God was with him?

31.

Why did oaths involve putting a hand under someone's thigh?

32.

Why did God want to kill Moses when he was traveling back to Egypt with Zipporah? What did Moses do to deserve death when God had chosen him to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt?

33.

Why did Esau marry an Ishmaelite woman?

34.

Why God did get angry against Moses?

35.

How did Esau's wives give Jacob and Rebekah grief?

36.

Looking at the examples of Cain and Abel, and also Jacob and Esau, does this mean that there are children who are cursed even before they’re born?

37.

Who is the "great nation" from the "north"? (Jeremiah 6:22)

38.

How many of Daniel's prophecies have already been fulfilled?

39.

Why does it say in Hebrews chapter 9 that the altar of incense is behind the veil just in, but the Old Testament says the altar of incense is in front of the veil?

40.

What can we learn from Israel's refusal to enter the promised land in Deuteronomy 1:26-27?

41.

Why would God tell King David to take a census of the people in verses one through nine, and then cast judgment on him because he did what he told him to do?

42.

Are Judah and Israel still divided?

43.

Why is there such a difference in the way King David responded to the death of his newborn son (he didn’t mourn for him) and how he responded to the death of Absalom?

44.

Where were Sodom and Gomorrah?

45.

What were these "ancient paths"? (Jeremiah 6:16)

46.

How many wives did Esau have? (Genesis 26:34)

47.

What was Ham's sin when he looked upon his father's nakedness?

48.

How old was Noah when Adam died?

49.

What does God mean when he says by His prophet Hosea, "How shall I give thee up, Ephraim?"

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Why didn’t God accept the people’s repentance after the Amorites overcame them in battle? (1:45)