Therefore the place was named Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

• Numbers 11:34

From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth and stayed there.

• Numbers 11:35

The descendants of Shekaniah: Shemaiah and his sons: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah and Shaphat—six in all.

• 1 Chronicles 3:22

The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai.

• 1 Chronicles 4:13

Then Amnon hated her with intense hatred. In fact, he hated her more than he had loved her. Amnon said to her, “Get up and get out!”

• 2 Samuel 13:15

This quiz may be quite obscure, or it may be quite easy.  If you are used to my quizzes, this one may be a bit worse on the whimsy meter.

The questions are really Bible verses with one word missing.  Within that word, there is a hidden word, that means a lot to me, personally.  Do not be hasty in drawing a conclusion.  Answer all the questions to form your idea of what the hidden word is.

The Questions:

#	Question (Bible Verse with one word left as a blank	Bible Reference	Answer
1	When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they ____ him and could not speak a kind word to him.
2	But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who ____ dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.
3	and do not erect a sacred stone, for these the Lord your God ____.
4	“I was so sure you ____ her,” he said, “that I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead.”
5	I ____ those who cling to worthless idols; as for me, I trust in the Lord.
6	With words of ____ they surround me; they attack me without cause.
7	save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—____even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.
8	The owl will nest there and lay eggs, she will ____ them, and care for her young under the shadow of her wings; there also the falcons will gather, each with its mate.
9	Like a partridge that ____ eggs it did not lay are those who gain riches by unjust means. When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them, and in the end they will prove to be fools.
10	slanderers, ____, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; (Note: there is a hyphenated word for this answer.)

I enjoy word puzzles.

There is one kind of puzzle that can be, at times, baffling, but this one should not be that bad.  The word puzzle that I refer to is where one word is hidden in a message.  It might be the latter few letters of one word and the first few letters of the next word.  Since only one word is missing in the fill-in-the-blank Bible verses, the answer is contained within that one word, thus not as baffling as it could have been.

By the way, this was a big hint.

Bible References:

#	Question (Bible Verse with one word left as a blank	Bible Reference	Answer
1	When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they ____ him and could not speak a kind word to him.	Genesis 37:4
2	But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who ____ dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.	Exodus 18:21
3	and do not erect a sacred stone, for these the Lord your God ____.	Deuteronomy 16:22
4	“I was so sure you ____ her,” he said, “that I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead.”	Judges 15:2
5	I ____ those who cling to worthless idols; as for me, I trust in the Lord.	Psalm 31:6
6	With words of ____ they surround me; they attack me without cause.	Psalm 109:3
7	save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—____even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.	Jude 1:23
8	The owl will nest there and lay eggs, she will ____ them, and care for her young under the shadow of her wings; there also the falcons will gather, each with its mate.	Isaiah 34:15
9	Like a partridge that ____ eggs it did not lay are those who gain riches by unjust means. When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them, and in the end they will prove to be fools.	Jeremiah 17:11
10	slanderers, ____, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; (Note: there is a hyphenated word for this answer.)	Romans 1:30

There is far too much negativity in the world today.  I hate that.  Why is it that one person says that their favorite ice cream is vanilla and the strawberry ice cream loving person hates the vanilla ice cream loving person, and the person that hates ice cream (if there is such a person) hates both of the ice cream lovers?

Life is too short for such negativity.

And Jesus taught us a new commandment, to love one another.  Then the armchair lawyer parses the words “one another.”  Maybe Jesus only meant those within His hearing at the time.  Maybe Jesus only meant other believers, as those within His hearing were fellow believers.  No, elsewhere in the Gospels, Jesus taught us to love our enemies.  Not that vanilla ice cream lovers are my enemies.  I think something is severely wrong with them, but I will not call them enemies because their taste buds are defective, but…

I apologize for this strange rant, but before we get to the answers.  There are words in each of the featured Scriptures at the top of the post that also contain the hidden word.  Wow!  With so many things right out in the open that contain the hidden word, is the hidden word truly hidden?!?!

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The Answers:

#	Question (Bible Verse with one word left as a blank	Bible Reference	Answer
1	When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they ____ him and could not speak a kind word to him.	Genesis 37:4	hated
2	But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who ____ dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.	Exodus 18:21	hate
3	and do not erect a sacred stone, for these the Lord your God ____.	Deuteronomy 16:22	hates
4	“I was so sure you ____ her,” he said, “that I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead.”	Judges 15:2	hated
5	I ____ those who cling to worthless idols; as for me, I trust in the Lord.	Psalm 31:6	hate
6	With words of ____ they surround me; they attack me without cause.	Psalm 109:3	hatred
7	save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—____even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.	Jude 1:23	hating
8	The owl will nest there and lay eggs, she will ____ them, and care for her young under the shadow of her wings; there also the falcons will gather, each with its mate.	Isaiah 34:15	hatch
9	Like a partridge that ____ eggs it did not lay are those who gain riches by unjust means. When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them, and in the end they will prove to be fools.	Jeremiah 17:11	hatches
10	slanderers, ____, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; (Note: there is a hyphenated word for this answer.)	Romans 1:30	God-haters

Did you think that the hidden word was “hate?”  Shame on you!!  I said that the hidden word is something that means a lot to me.  Then again, “hatred” does not have the letters of “hate” consecutively in the word, and “hating” does not have an “E” at all.  And then we get to the prophets and we talk of eggs hatching.  Hmmm.  The answer by that point cannot he “hate,” but it most definitely is “hat.”  Why is that something that means a lot to me?  This blogsite is hatrackley.com.  My nicknames have been over the years “hat”, “hats”, or even “hat rack.”

The mystery word is “HAT.”

Whether you did well on this quiz or, ummm, not so well, for the first video.  Here is a carpenter explaining how to make a hat rack.  Okay, he has no hats.  He has baseball caps that he calls hats.  Being the hat rack, I must make that distinction.  I own very few baseball caps, but I have a combination of hats and caps, but my caps range from a newsboy, to a Greek fisherman’s cap, to tam o’shanters, etc.  But my hats are things like fedoras, homburgs, bowlers, panamas, and such.  And my Australian Akubra is one of my favorites.

And here is First Love, sung by Kari Jobe.

And here is Cory Asbury singing, Reckless Love.

And here is Planetshakers, singing Perfect Love.

If you like these Saturday morning Bible quizzes, but you think you missed a few, you can use this LINK. I have set up a page off the home page for links to these Saturday morning posts. I will continue to modify the page as I add more.

Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.