32 Bible riddles with answers

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Easy Bible riddles

  1. I was the first man. I had no mother and no father, and I named every animal.

    Hint

    He lived in the Garden of Eden.

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    Adam · Genesis 2:7, 19-20

  2. I built a huge boat on dry land and filled it with animals two by two.

    Hint

    It rained for 40 days.

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    Noah · Genesis 6–7

  3. I am a sign painted across the sky, a promise never to flood the whole earth again.

    Hint

    You see me after the rain.

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    Rainbow · Genesis 9:13

  4. I was a tower where everyone suddenly spoke different languages.

    Hint

    It is in Genesis 11.

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    Babel · Genesis 11:9

  5. My brothers sold me as a slave, but I ended up saving them from famine.

    Hint

    My father gave me a special robe.

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    Joseph · Genesis 37; 45:4-7

  6. I am a city whose walls fell flat after seven days of marching and a great shout.

    Hint

    Joshua led the march.

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    Jericho · Joshua 6:20

  7. I was the strongest man alive, but a haircut was my undoing.

    Hint

    Delilah found out my secret.

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    Samson · Judges 16:17-19

  8. I am the weapon a shepherd boy used to bring down a giant.

    Hint

    He picked five smooth stones.

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    Sling · 1 Samuel 17:40, 49

  9. I was a shepherd boy who became king and wrote many of the psalms.

    Hint

    I defeated Goliath.

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    David · 1 Samuel 16–17

  10. I asked God for wisdom instead of riches, so God gave me both.

    Hint

    I was King David's son.

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    Solomon · 1 Kings 3:11-13

  11. I became queen after a royal search for a bride, and I risked my life to save my people.

    Hint

    My cousin was Mordecai.

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    Esther · Esther 2:17; 4:16

  12. I spent three days and three nights where no man should be: inside a great fish.

    Hint

    I was running from Nineveh.

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    Jonah · Jonah 1:17

  13. I was water until a wedding in Cana. What did I become?

    Hint

    This was Jesus' first sign.

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    Wine · John 2:9-11

  14. I was short, I collected taxes, and I climbed a tree to see Jesus.

    Hint

    It was a sycamore tree.

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    Zacchaeus · Luke 19:1-4

  15. I denied Jesus three times before the rooster crowed.

    Hint

    I also walked on water.

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    Peter · Luke 22:54-62

  16. How many days and nights did it rain while Noah was in the ark?

    Hint

    Jesus also fasted this many days.

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    40 · Genesis 7:12

Medium Bible riddles

  1. What did Adam and Eve never have that everyone else has had?

    Hint

    Think about how they came into the world.

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    Parents · Genesis 2:7, 22

  2. I had twelve sons, and my new name became the name of a nation.

    Hint

    I wrestled with God and limped afterwards.

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    Jacob · Genesis 32:28; 35:22

  3. I fell from the sky six mornings a week, but never on the seventh.

    Hint

    The Israelites ate me in the wilderness.

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    Manna · Exodus 16:26-31

  4. I saw an angel my master could not see. Three times I turned aside, then I opened my mouth and spoke.

    Hint

    My master was a prophet named Balaam.

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    Balaam's donkey · Numbers 22:28-33

  5. "Out of the eater came something to eat; out of the strong came something sweet." What was it?

    Hint

    Samson found it inside a lion.

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    Honey · Judges 14:8-14

  6. I went up to heaven without dying, carried in a whirlwind as a chariot of fire appeared.

    Hint

    Elisha watched me go.

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    Elijah · 2 Kings 2:11

  7. Seven times I dipped in the Jordan, and my skin became like a little child's.

    Hint

    I was a Syrian army commander.

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    Naaman · 2 Kings 5:14

  8. Three men were thrown into me, but the king saw four men walking around unharmed. What am I?

    Hint

    Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego know me well.

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    Fiery furnace · Daniel 3:24-25

  9. I am the shortest verse in most English Bibles: two words that show Jesus' heart.

    Hint

    It happened at the tomb of Lazarus.

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    Jesus wept · John 11:35

  10. I was a fisherman. Jesus said I would fish for people, and my brother was Peter.

    Hint

    I was one of the first disciples called.

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    Andrew · Matthew 4:18-19

  11. I am the garden where Jesus prayed on the night he was betrayed.

    Hint

    It is on the Mount of Olives.

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    Gethsemane · Matthew 26:36

  12. I lost my head because of a dance at King Herod's birthday party.

    Hint

    I baptized Jesus.

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    John the Baptist · Mark 6:22-28

Hard Bible riddles

  1. I was the oldest man who ever lived, yet I died before my father did. Who am I?

    Hint

    My father Enoch walked with God and was taken without dying.

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    Methuselah · Genesis 5:24, 27

  2. I am the mighty hunter before the Lord, founder of Babel and Nineveh.

    Hint

    I was a great-grandson of Noah.

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    Nimrod · Genesis 10:8-11

  3. My husband and I lied about the price of our land, and we both fell down dead.

    Hint

    Peter asked me how much we sold it for.

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    Sapphira · Acts 5:1-10

  4. I fell asleep during a long sermon and fell out of a third-story window.

    Hint

    Paul brought me back to life.

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    Eutychus · Acts 20:9-10

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