Lions!

From: Messages of God's Love: 2014

In early Bible times, lions roamed some of the countrysides. Some of God’s people met up with lions in different ways. But one of the names in our list was, and still is, an enemy of God.

Can you match each name with its description?

David, Benaiah, Satan, Samson, Daniel

If you need help or want to check your answers, look up the references.

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Who tore a lion apart with his bare hands and later ate honey out of the dead lion’s body? (Judges 14:5-6,8-9⁵Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him. ⁶And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done. (Judges 14:5‑6)
⁸And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion. ⁹And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion. (Judges 14:8‑9)) ________________

Who is like a roaring lion? (1 Peter 5:8⁸Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: (1 Peter 5:8)) ________________

Who was placed in a den of lions? (Daniel 6:16¹⁶Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee. (Daniel 6:16)) ________________

Who killed a lion with his bare hands? (1 Samuel 17:34-35³⁴And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: ³⁵And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. (1 Samuel 17:34‑35)) ________________

Who killed a lion in a pit on a snowy day? (2 Samuel 23:20²⁰And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow: (2 Samuel 23:20)) ________________

ML-04/20/2014

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