1. Abraham’s son
   Abraham’s wife
2. Abraham’s second wife
   Abraham’s mother

Isaac, Abraham’s son, was identified by God as the ultimate symbol of loyalty that the Father of Many Nations can do, if Abraham were to sacrifice his own son to Him. He was torn, of course, but he eventually got to preparing the sacrifice, which proved to God that Abraham is indeed a loyal and worthy man, so He stopped the sacrifice and let Isaac live.

1. Adam and Eve
   Gabriel and Lucifer
2. Saul and David
   Jonas and Ezekiel

Adam and Eve are supposedly the first human beings to be created by God during the week-long Creation Story, only He created Adam first, which He fashioned out of His likeness. When Adam got lonely, God supposedly got a bone from his ribs and fashioned it to become his companion, Eve.

1. Pillar of salt
   Manna
2. Burning bush
   Forbidden fruit

God supposedly created a tree that bore the forbidden fruit, which He prohibited Adam and Eve to eat, for it will lead then to sin. But Eve was tempted by a snake-like creature into taking a bite, and inciting Adam to do the same, which led to their banishment from paradise for disobeying God’s direct order.

1. Simon and Peter
   Luke and John
2. Matthew and Mark
   Cain and Abel

Adam and Eve had children named Cain and Abel. But the two brothers also had a subplot of their own, as Abel’s offerings seemed to be favored more by God than Cain’s, so Cain ended up killing Abel in a fit of jealousy and rage.

1. His singing prowess
   Interpreter of dreams
2. Magic tricks
   Cooking exotic dishes

Joseph’s own narrative starts out as a slave serving an important Egyptian leader named Potiphar, but the man caught his wife trying to seduce the poor slave, so he sent Joseph to jail. While in jail, Joseph showed his talent of interpreting dreams to two prisoners, one of which ended up serving the Pharaoh. And when the Pharaoh had troubling dreams, the dude recommended Joseph’s interpretation skills, which became our protagonist’s way of getting out of jail, and ascending to the ranks beside the Pharaoh.

1. Tower of Babel
   Pyramids
2. Ziggurat
   Absalom’s Monument

After the great flood, it seems that the people were all sharing one culture and one language, so they united to create one city with a structure called Tower of Babel to reach the heavens. But God saw this as hubris, and stopped the construction by making the workers speak different languages instead of just one, so they ended up miscommunicating.

1. Canaan and Israel
   Sodom and Gomorrah
2. Bethany and Bethlehem
   Galilee and Golgotha

God got displeased a lot of times during the Old Testament, so He destroyed many things that were also sinful and bad. The famous destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah stands out among those stories, because it was a good cautionary tale of what happens when societies become godless, corrupt, and decadent.

1. His son
   His daughter
2. His wife
   His pets

An angel was sent to Lot to give him instructions on how to escape, and specifically said that no one should look back as Sodom and Gomorrah are being destroyed. But Lot’s wife got curious and took a peek during their escape. As a result, she was turned into a pillar of salt, to the dismay and grief of Lot.

1. Kill all firstborn
   Part the Red Sea
2. Flood everything
   Send hail of fire

God planned to make it rain for 40 days and 40 nights, to wipe away the sins that humankind were racking up already since the time of Adam’s banishment. So Noah built the solid ark for years, amidst the people making fun of him, until the great flood finally came, so of course he had the last laugh there, in a way.

1. Tortured him
   Killed him
2. Sold by his brothers
   Fed him to the lions

Jacob didn’t see how his favoritism would wreak havoc on his family, so Joseph’s older brothers connived to throw him somewhere and leave him there. But when they saw some merchants passing by on their way to Egypt, they decided to make a sale, and sold Joseph to become a slave in Egypt.

1. Levi
   Gideon
2. Aaron
   Moses

When the Pharaoh ordered that all Hebrew newborn male children should be thrown into the river, Moses’ mother hid him by securing and setting him afloat into the river, where the Pharaoh’s own daughter found him, and raised him as her own. But as a grownup, Moses discovered his true heritage and his true role in life – to lead his people, the Israelites, away from Egyptian slavery.

1. Smeared lamb’s blood on their doors
   They slept it off
2. Prayed until morning
   Went ahead to the exodus

Moses was instructed by God to alert the Israelites to smear some blood of lamb on their houses, particularly right above the doors, so that death will not literally come knocking there as He unleashed the tenth plague that killed all of Egypt’s firstborns. So even the firstborn son of the Pharaoh was killed by the plague, which made him change his mind about the whole slave business, and agreed to release the Hebrew people.

1. The upcoming harvest
   Animals
2. His wardrobe
   Birthright and final blessings

As Isaac was dying, it should be the elder son who should get the birthright and final blessings, so that should be Esau. But Jacob deceived his father and pretended to be Esau, so he got the coveted blessings instead. Of course, that didn’t go well with Esau.

1. Wine
   Spit
2. Water
   Oil

God showed the Egyptians the Ten Plagues one by one, and the first grand gesture was turning all kinds of water into blood, leaving them with nothing to drink or use in their daily life. Later, frogs, lice, locusts, and even a hailstorm came as well, pestering the Egyptians.

1. Crucifixion
   Resurrection
2. Creation
   Transfiguration

The book of Genesis greatly expounds on the Creation Story, where God made many things part by part, and day by day, from the heavens down to the earth and the living beings that inhabited it. He purportedly created everything in the span of almost a week, then took a rest on the seventh day.

1. Pool of Siloam
   Sea of Galilee
2. Jordan River
   Red Sea

People in the exodus reached the edge of the Red Sea when the Pharaoh changed his mind about letting the Israelites leave, so he ordered his soldiers to pursue them. Moses prayed so hard to God for some miracle to save them, and that was when the Red Sea parted, clearing a path for the people to cross safely, then He closed the path again, drowning the Pharaoh’s soldiers in pursuit.

1. Eight Beatitudes
   Ten Commandments
2. Pentateuch
   Psalms

The Ten Commandments outlined God’s simplest guidelines in being a good follower, and it enumerated what people ought to do and not do to be deemed worthy of His love. It was like a manual about living a good, decent and God-fearing life.

1. Hanging gardens
   Deep well
2. Roof
   Ladder

Jacob took a nap somewhere and had a significant dream that was symbolic as it is prophetic. The dream is about a flight of stairs where angels ascended and descended, the bottom of which was touching the earth while its top touched the heavens, which Biblical scholars agree that it was about how humans can reach heaven, and also how the forthcoming Jesus could become the personification of the symbolic stairs to bridge humankind and His Father.

1. Seven years of famine
   Ten Plagues
2. Forty days of flood
   Eight Beatitudes

Moses’ story coincides with the time when Egyptians enslaved the Israelite nation, so all Hebrews were slaves. When he finally came into his role of the liberator, Moses warned that Ten Plagues will come to Egypt to show the Pharaoh that the Hebrew God is better than the Egyptian gods, and that he should free His people from slavery if he didn’t want anything untoward to happen to his own nation.

1. Eyes
   Ears
2. Hair
   Lips

The story of Samson and Delilah can be found in the Old Testament book of Judges, where Delilah attempted to seduce Samson so she could get close to him to acquire a valuable secret. Eventually, their narrative will revolve around the long locks of Samson, as his hair becomes a pivotal pot device that moves their somewhat tragic narrative forward.

1. His strength
   His devotion
2. His manhood
   His eyesight

Samson was a strong man with super-human strength, so no enemy can defeat the army he’s in! So what the enemy did was to send a temptress spy, Delilah, to know the secret of his strength and discover how to defeat him. It turns out that his long hair is the source of his strength, so this is what Delilah aimed to cut off to eliminate his power.

1. Pontius Pilate
   Caiaphas
2. Amnon
   Goliath

The story of David and Goliath narrates how an underdog who has enough faith in God can defeat even the biggest of enemies. And that is what happened, as narrated in Samuel, when a shepherd boy named David defeated a huge gigantic soldier named Goliath after the boy heard the enemy mocking his God.

1. Canaan
   Mount Sinai
2. Nineveh
   Sheba

Before he died, Moses put his assistant, Joshua, in command of taking Canaan back for the Israelites to live on. So Joshua was tasked to take back Canaan city by city first, starting with Jericho, where they successfully took over.

1. Lyre
   Trumpets
2. Drums
   Human voice

The attacking army marched around the high, impenetrable walls of Jericho for several days, then they surrounded the place and blew their trumpets out. The combination of the sounds and their prayers brought the walls down, leading to the defeat of the city.

1. Snakes
   Lions
2. Rats
   Ants

Daniel is a trusted man who was promoted to a higher position, but his boss was tricked by jealous coworkers into creating a sort of ordinance that put Daniel in jail, to be thrown to the lions to die. But because of his strong faith, the lions didn’t harm Daniel in any way, and the people were at awe of him and the God that protected him after that incident.

1. A tree branch
   Goliath’s sword
2. Thorns from a bush
   Prayers

It only took one smooth stone to hit Goliath on the forehead, using a slingshot, to knock him down and knock him out cold. When David saw that the enemy was down, he immediately got Goliath’s own sword and decapitated the enemy with it, finishing the job, and winning one for his “team.”

1. A huge clam
   An elephant
2. A turtle
   A whale

Jonah was a prophet who rode a ship that encountered a great storm at sea. When the people there discovered that the storm will stop when he is thrown overboard, they did just that. But Jonah ended up being swallowed by a whale that God sent, so he remained inside of it for three days until God told the whale to spit him out on dry land.

1. Camel
   Goat
2. Donkey
   Ox

The story of Balaam and the Donkey involves an angel of God appearing before them to stop their journey, because Balaam is somewhat disobeying God’s order with that trip. But the angel can only be seen by the donkey, so it avoids it during the trip, confusing Balaam, who ends up punishing the animal. The donkey then miraculously starts talking, like a scene out of a Disney movie, and complains of the ill treatment it’s getting from the master!

1. A death
   A birthday
2. An apparition
   A dream

The Old Testament holds many stories that involves dreams as a plot device to make the narrative more interesting, and to take the story to the next level. In the Book of Daniel, it was King Nebuchadnezzar who had a puzzling dream and wanted it interpreted, but he didn’t want to tell it to potential interpreters, because he believes that if they are truly seers, then they will be able to know what the dream is without him telling them!

1. Kill their firstborn
   Give up their houses
2. Bow down before a golden statue
   Pay taxes

When the Jewish young men named Shadrach, Mesach, and Abednego were thrown into the furnace for refusing to bow down before a golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had built, the king saw that the three were protected by a fourth image that appeared in the furnace, and it appeared like the “Son of God” was protecting the three for their steadfast faith in Him. From then on, the Babylonian king put the three men in high positions in his kingdom and ordered everyone to respect the God of the three unscathed men.

1. John the Baptist
   Noah
2. Nebuchadnezzar
   Moses

Noah was called upon by God to start building a huge ark for His upcoming grand plan. He wanted Noah to gather up different species of plants and a pair of animals that could mate later on to propagate their species again.

1. He disobeyed God’s instructions
   He slipped into the waters
2. He accidentally fell
   He wanted to die

God instructed the prophet Jonah to preach about His word to the people of Nineveh, Israel’s rival land, but Jonah didn’t want to, because that land is the enemy of his land. So when he tried to weasel out of God’s instructions and rode a ship to avoid the task, God saw him and sent a storm, then a whale to swallow Jonah to teach him a lesson.

1. Decisions
   Ornaments
2. Trade treaty
   Clerical notes

King Solomon’s story involves his great decision-making process, one that combines great wisdom and simple truths. The most famous story that demonstrated this process is the one where two women were claiming to be the mother of one baby child, and the king had to carefully weigh in on this problem to solve.

1. Sarah and Hagar
   Ruth and Naomi
2. Salome and Jezebel
   Deborah and Esther

Naomi was the mother-in-law of Ruth, and when Naomi’s son died, Ruth refused to leave Naomi despite being widowed. She said “Where you go, I will go, and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God,” showing how devoted she became to her mother-in-law whom she treated with reverence and kindness, as the feeling was also mutually reciprocated.

1. Ezekiel
   Jeremiah
2. Isaiah
   Malachi

Isaiah was one of the greatest prophets during the Old Testament’s time, but he was preaching the word of God during the time that the Israelites were mired in bad ways. Nonetheless, he was the one who told them about the forthcoming role of the Messiah, and what good that will bring to humankind.