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1. When Moses went up on Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments, he was delayed, and the Israelites whom he had brought out of Egypt were restless. They wanted a new god, and Aaron (Moses' brother) took from them their gold, melted it down, and created a new animal idol for the people. What type of animal?
2. The wise men greeted the Christ child with gifts. The first gift was gold, but which were the other two gifts?
3. When the Israelites walked around this city seven times and the walls fell, they were given the assignment to go in and take the precious metals, including the gold from the city, and put it in the Lord's treasury. Which famous walled city was this, which the Israelites attacked in the book of Joshua?
4. This important Biblical object is described as being made of "acacia wood; two cubits and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. And you shall overlay it with pure gold, within and without shall you overlay it, and you shall make upon it a molding of gold round about."
This gold-overlaid object was created in Exodus and at one point was captured by Philistines. What is it?
5. Gold is used not only as sacred decoration, but also as a symbol of prosperity. Which son of David was a king who ushered in such a prosperous age that in 2 Chronicles, he was credited with making "silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stone"?
6. In the book of Daniel, a Babylonian king was visited with a dream. In it, he saw a statue made of very many materials, including gold (which formed the head). He was told that the gold head atop the multi-material piece was meant to be him and his divinely-empowered kingdom, but the other pieces of the statue represent increasingly fragile and impure kingdoms to succeed his.
Who was this powerful Babylonian king?
7. This much-touted visitor to the court of King Solomon wanted to test the great and well-known king to see if he was as wise as was claimed. She brought gifts to the court, as described in 1 Kings, and including over 100 talents of gold, and was recompensed with gifts as well. She was, of course, very impressed with Solomon and blessed Solomon's god.
Which visitor was this?
8. In this visionary book of the Bible that takes the reader into the spiritual future, possibly written by the apostle John, the "city" of heaven is described as having streets of gold that is so pure it is transparent.
Which book of the Bible is this?
9. In the Old Testament, there is a book about a man who was sorely tested by the Lord to see if his faith was pure. This leads to another reference to gold as pure, when the man states that "But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold."
Which man is this, whose wife begged him to curse the God that allowed him to come to hideous misfortune?
10. While this king was not able to build the temple, he did a fair bit of work attempting it, and handed off many advantages to his son for such a project, including precious metals. He told his son, "I have taken great pains to provide for the temple of the LORD a hundred thousand talents of gold, a million talents of silver, quantities of bronze and iron too great to be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them."
He wasn't able to build the temple but he did a lot for the building - who was it?
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