Who Me?
Identify the Bible people who gave the following excuses (or reasons) for their actions).
- “I told them, whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off. Then they gave me the gold and I threw it into the fire and out came this calf?”
- It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one. Finish this daughter’s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.”
- The serpent deceived me, and I ate.
- O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.
- When I saw that the men were scattering, and that you did not come at the set time, and that the Philistines were assembling at Micmash, I thought, Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the Lord’s favor. So I felt compelled to offer the burnt offering.
- But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me and I’ll die.
- Ah, sovereign Lord, I do not know how to speak; I am only a child.
- Why were you searching for me? Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?
ANSWERS (Multiple Choice)
- Eve (Genesis
- Laban (Genesis
29:26) - Jesus (Luke 2:49)
- Jeremiah (Jeremiah 1:6)
- Aaron (Exodus 32:24
- Saul (1 Samuel 13:11-12)
- Moses (Exodus 4:10)
- Lot (Genesis 19:19)
