Test your Bible knowledge with these tricky, thoughtful riddles.
These hard Bible riddles are meant to stretch your memory and encourage deeper reading of Scripture.
Eriddle points to a person, place, event, object, or verse answers are given right after each riddle so you can check yourself.
Old Testament Figures (Hard) 🕯️
- I wrestled with a mysterious man all night and left with a new name meaning “he struggles with God.” Who am I?
Answer: Jacob. - I was king, asked for wisdom instead of wealth, and wrote many proverbs. Who am I?
Answer: Solomon. - I was thrown into a den of lions for refusing to stop praying. Who am I?
Answer: Daniel. - I was the Moabite who became the great-grandmother of King David. Who am I?
Answer: Ruth. - I called down fire from heaven to prove God’s power on Mount Carmel. Who am I?
Answer: Elijah. - I was the reluctant prophet swallowed by a great fish and later preached in Nineveh. Who am I?
Answer: Jonah. - I led Israel out of Egypt and received the Law at Sinai. Who am I?
Answer: Moses. - I tricked my father to steal a blessing and later fled to Haran. Who am I?
Answer: Jacob (trickier: could accept “Jacob” again — you can note it’s intentionally challenging). - I lost my whole family and wealth but refused to curse God. Who am I?
Answer: Job. - I was the woman who anointed David’s head and later mother of a king. Who am I?
Answer: Bathsheba.
Prophecy & Visions (Hard) 🔮
- I saw dry bones come together in a valley and live. Who am I?
Answer: Ezekiel. - I had visions of four beasts and the Ancient of Days. Who am I?
Answer: Daniel. - I wept over Jerusalem and pronounced its destruction; I also wrote of the potter and the clay. Who am I?
Answer: Jeremiah. - I prophesied about a suffering servant and wrote many Messianic poems. Who am I?
Answer: Isaiah. - I foretold a day when the Lord would pour out his Spirit on all people Who am I?
Answer: Joel. - I declared “the day of the Lord” with locust imagery and a call to repentance in the valley of vision. Who am I?
Answer: Joel - I saw a scroll sealed with seven seals opened in a vision of heaven. Which New Testament writer recorded this?
Answer: John - I predicted the seventy-weeks prophecy concerning Jerusalem and the Anointed One. Who am I?
Answer: Daniel. - I had a vision of a man measuring Jerusalem with a reed. Who am I?
Answer: Ezekiel - I proclaimed dry bones, valley, wheel within a wheel my visions were full of strange symbols. Who am I?
Answer: Ezekiel.
Parables, Teachings & Sayings (Hard) 🗣️
- I taught a story about a man who fell among robbers and was helped by a foreigner. Which passage or who told it?
Answer: The Parable of the Good Samaritan — told by Jesus - I told of a lamp under a jar and said not to hide your light. Which book contains this teaching?
Answer: The Gospels - I described a fig tree that must be cut down if it bears no fruit
Answer: Jesus - I gave the Sermon on the Mount with the Beatitudes. Who taught this?
Answer: Jesus - I told a riddle of ten bridesmaids, wise and foolish — what is the lesson and where?
Answer: Be ready; the Parable of the Ten Virgins - I used the image of a sower and seeds that fell on different soils. What is the parable and what does it teach?
Answer: Parable of the Sower; it teaches how people receive God’s word - I asked “Who do you say I am?” and received a rocklike answer from Peter. Where did this happen?
Answer: Matthew 16 - I compared the kingdom to a mustard seed and yeast. Who spoke this analogy?
Answer: Jesus. - I taught that the first shall be last and the last shall be first — in what context?
Answer: Jesus’ teaching about the kingdom/humility - I warned that every tree not producing good fruit will be cut down. Who taught this?
Answer: Jesus
Numbers, Genealogies & Chronology (Hard) 🔢
- I lived 969 years, the longest recorded in Scripture. Who am I?
Answer: Methuselah. - I was 600 cubits long, 50 cubits high, and 30 cubits wide — what was I?
Answer: Noah’s Ark - I counted 40 days and 40 nights more than once in the Bible — name two who had that period.
Answer: Noah (rained 40 days/nights) and Moses also Jesus (40 days in wilderness) and Elijah (40 days to Horeb). - I led Israel in a census that cost a king his soul as punishment. Which king and why?
Answer: David - I am the number linked with completeness and also used in testing; name the number and one example.
Answer: 40 — e.g., 40 days of flood, 40 years in desert, 40 days fasting. - I was told to take a wife from my father’s household at age 75 and later wrestle nations—who am I?
Answer: Abraham - I ruled for 40 years as king of Israel and built the house of the Lord? Who?
Answer: Solomon ruled 40 years and built the Temple. - I have a long genealogy linking Abraham to Jesus where is the genealogy in the New Testament?
Answer: Matthew 1 (and Luke 3 has another). - I was raised from the dead after four days in a tomb; who is the person and who raised them?
Answer: Lazarus — raised by Jesus - I am the tribe from which the priesthood came. Which tribe is that?
Answer: Levi
Places, Journeys & Battles (Hard) 🗺️
- I am the city of refuge whose name begins with ‘G’ and sheltered manslayers—name one.
Answer: Golan others: Kedesh, Shechem, Hebron. - I parted so people walked on dry ground, then drowned a pursuing army. What am I?
Answer: The Red Sea — event of Exodus. - I am the high place where Abraham nearly sacrificed his son. What is the place?
Answer: Mount Moriah - I am the river that baptized Jesus. What am I?
Answer: The Jordan River. - I was the city of the naïve, walls fell after trumpets — name it.
Answer: Jericho. - I am the mountain on which Moses saw the Promised Land before he died. What am I?
Answer: Mount Nebo. - I was the city where Paul was shipwrecked and warmly received. Which island?
Answer: Malta - I am the place where Samuel anointed the first king of Israel. Which town?
Answer: In Bethlehem - I am the valley where David defeated Goliath. What is the valley?
Answer: The Valley of Elah. - I’m a garden where sorrow and sweat met the night before arrest. What am I?
Answer: Gethsemane.
Objects, Symbols & Worship (Hard) 🕯️🔱
- I contained manna, Aaron’s rod, and the stone tablets. What am I?
Answer: The Ark of the Covenant. - I am the bronze sea or laver where priests washed—where was I located?
Answer: In Solomon’s Temple - I am a prophetic object used by Ezekiel: I lay on my side for 390 days. What was I doing?
Answer: Lying on his side to symbolize Israel’s years of site . - I signaled God’s covenant with Noah after the Flood. What was the sign?
Answer: The rainbow. - I am the instrument David used to soothe Saul. What am I?
Answer: A harp - I was made of fine linen, gold, and wood and kept the Holy Place separated. What was I?
Answer: The curtain/veil - I am the cup Jesus used at the last supper; what name is often used for it in theology?
Answer: The Lord’s Supper cup / the Holy Grail - I am the symbol of the Holy Spirit at Jesus’ baptism. What appeared?
Answer: A dove. - I am the number of plagues brought on Egypt. How many?
Answer: Ten plagues. - I was a tax collected by Jesus’ opponents and a coin hidden in a fish’s mouth; which tax and what miracle?
Answer: The temple tax
Conclusion ✍️
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