- Question 1: This couple was made for each other. Their first home was a paradise until they violated the lease agreement and were turned out of their home, the entrance to which was guarded by angels wielding fiery swords.
- Answer:Adam and Eve (Gen chapters 2:8-9, 15-18, 21-25; 3:1-24).
- Question 2: This son and granddaughter of Herod the Great fell in love, divorced their spouses, and then married. When they were condemned by St. John the Baptist as adulterers, they orchestrated his death.
- Answer: Herod Antipas and Herodias (Mt 14:3-12; Mk 1:9-11; Lk 3:19-20).
- Question 3: This wicked king of Israel married a (Phoenician) Sidonian princess. They encouraged the worship of Baal, persecuted God's holy prophets, and she became the epitome of a "wicked woman" in Scripture and tradition.
- Answer: King Ahab of the Northern Kingdom of Israel and his wife Queen Jezebel (2 Kng 16:29-33; 18:3-4; 19:1-2; Rev 2:20).
- Question 4: He saw her bathing and it was love at first site; unfortunately she already had a husband. He arranged the death of her husband and married her only to be punished by God for his sin. He repented and submitted to God's judgment which included the death of their firstborn child. Their son, Solomon became Israel's third king.
- Answer: David and Bathsheba (2 Sam 11:2-17; 12:7-14, 22-25).
- Question 5: She was his true love but he was tricked by her father into marrying her older sister. He had to commit himself to 14 years of servitude to her father to be allowed to marry her as well.
- Answer: Jacob and Rachel (Gen 29:16-30).
- Question 6: This best loved son of Jacob-Israel was betrayed by his brothers and sold as a slave in Egypt. When he won the Pharaoh's favor, he was given an Egyptian name and an Egyptian bride who was the daughter of the influential priest of Heliopolis (On).
- Answer: Joseph (Zaphenath-paneah) and Asenath (Gen 37:3-4, 23-28; 41:41-46).
- Question 7: This fourth son of Jacob-Israel refused to give his third son in marriage to his Canaanite widowed daughter-in-law, as was the custom. She took matters into her own hands and by deceiving him, bore twin sons.
- Answer: Judah and Tamar (Gen 38:1-30).
- Question 8: This brave Aramean girl accepted her bridegroom sight-unseen and traveled from Nahor in Aram-Naharaim (on the modern Syrian-Turkish border) to Beer-Lahairoi in the region of the Negeb in Canaan to marry her kinsman. She bore him twin sons.
- Answer: Isaac and Rebekah (Gen 24:1-4, 10-33, 42-54, 61-66; 25:20-22, 24-26).
- Question 9: This Egyptian refugee who was a son of the tribe of Levi fought off shepherds who were preventing the daughter of a Midianite chieftain/priest and her six younger sisters from watering their flock. She married him and they had two sons before he was called by God to return to Egypt.
- Answer: Moses and Zipporah (Ex 2:15-22).
- Question 10: This man and his unnamed wife took their three sons and their wives on an extended cruise that lasted a year and eleven days. It was as much a cruise as a safari!
- Answer: Noah and his wife (Gen 6:5-8:19).
- Question 11: This man from a pagan Aramean family married his half-sister and took her on a journey to a land that was promised to their descendants. God made a covenant with them, and although they suffered many trials, God blessed them and gave them new names. She, however, remained childless until he was 100 years old and she was 90, when she bore him one son.
- Answer: Abraham [Abram] and Sarah [Sarai] (Gen 12:1-5; 17:5, 15-16; 20:11-12; 21:5).
- Question 12: This Jewish-Christian couple where good friends, traveling companions of St. Paul and were fellow Christian evangelists. They were tent-makers by profession who established a Christian faith community in their home. Paul credited them with saving his life.
- Answer: Pricilla and Aquila (Acts 18:1-4, 18, 26; Rom 16:3; 1 Cor 16:19; 2 Tim 4:19).
- Question 13: This Jewish couple supported Jesus' ministry and two of their sons were selected as Apostles. Jesus called their sons the "sons of thunder." She journeyed with her sons and Jesus to Jerusalem for His last Passover, was present at the Cross, helped to prepare Jesus' body for burial and was present at the Resurrection.
- Answer: Zebedee and Salome (Mt 20:20; 27:56; Mk 15:50; 16:1).
- Question 14: He was the Roman governor of Judah and she was the Jewish great-granddaughter of Herod the Great, the daughter of Herod Antipas I and the sister of Herod Antipas II. She left her husband to marry this Roman official. They heard St. Paul preach the Gospel at his palace in Caesarea, but her husband kept Paul in prison for two years.
- Answer: Felix and Drusilla (Acts 24:24-27).
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