All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.

• Job 15:20

“Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:

• Job 27:13

Arrogant foes are attacking me; ruthless people are trying to kill me— people without regard for God.

• Psalm 54:3

Arrogant foes are attacking me, O God; ruthless people are trying to kill me— they have no regard for you.

• Psalm 86:14

I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless.

• Isaiah 13:11

Therefore strong peoples will honor you; cities of ruthless nations will revere you.

• Isaiah 25:3

I am going to bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations; they will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom and pierce your shining splendor.

• Ezekiel 28:7

Do they teach children how to recite all the books in the Bible in order?  My wife, growing up Catholic, had no idea where the books in the Bible were.  She fell in love with a Bible that had tabs.  Even after years of reading the Bible, she could not remember the books in order.

This quiz has ten lists of Bible books.  In each list, a book is missing.  The question in each case is: “What is the missing book?”

Due to the nature of the quiz, there will be no Bible Reference Section.

The concept can be used in a few different ways.

The Questions:

	Question	Answers
1	Genesis Exodus Leviticus ? Deuteronomy
2	Joshua Judges ? 1 Samuel 2 Samuel
3	1 Kings 2 Kings 1 Chronicles 2 Chronicles ? Nehemiah Esther
4	Job Psalms Proverbs ? Song of Solomon
5	Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel Hosea ? Amos Obadiah
6	Jonah Micah ? Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi
7	Matthew Mark Luke ? Acts
8	Romans 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Galatians ? Philippians Colossians
9	1 Thessalonians 2 Thessalonians 1 Timothy 2 Timothy Titus ? Hebrews James
10	1 Peter 2 Peter 1 John 2 John 3 John ? Revelation

A meaningless hint: The books that are missing are random.  They do not spell anything.  But none of the numbered books are missing, that is books like I Samuel, 2 Thessalonians, or 3 John.

When I was in elementary school, we had a Sunday school teacher who had us memorize the books of the Bible in order.  Why? We would then divide these books into logical groups.  For example, Question 4 contains the poetry books or wisdom books.  Questions 5 and 6 are the prophetic books.

But not long after, the assembly that we would have before breaking into our individual classes would have a song, a prayer, and Bible verse challenges.  The teacher in charge of that would call out the book, chapter, and verse and then we would raise our hand when we had it.

This simple exercise, prepared us for life, in a way.  We were reading key verses that were often memorized, but when someone said to look in Jonah, chapter 3, we could find it quickly.

But, I wonder if those skills are necessary?  Search engines can find the chapter faster than we can flip through the Bible, even if we are very good at knowing where that book is located.

It was in the aftermath of the COVID lockdown, but our church bulletin has the lyrics of the hymns and the Scripture passages that the pastor will use in the sermon.  We do not need to look either of them up.  I think they were worrying about someone coughing into the Bible or hymnal and then someone else fanning through the pages to find something.  But the habit has continued.

With that change in our bulletin, the pastor made an announcement on the Sunday after vacation Bible school.  They had removed all the hymnals and Bibles from the pews due to some activity that VBS did.  They did not have the time to replace the books, which were stacked in the back of the sanctuary.  Upon the announcement, two elderly people got up and went back to the stacks to get one of each book.  Maybe they did not feel comfortable without the Bible and hymnal at arm’s reach.

But many modern contemporary services forget the bulletin altogether.  They have everything on large screens all around the sanctuary.  Or do they call it a sanctuary?

But alone on an island, with only the Bible to read, you might need to find a verse in Zechariah.  Hmmm, now where is that book?

Oh, I almost forgot to mention a hint.  The Scriptures at the beginning of this quiz provide a hint for the answer of one of the questions.

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The Answers:

	Question	Answers
1	Genesis Exodus Leviticus ? Deuteronomy	Numbers
2	Joshua Judges ? 1 Samuel 2 Samuel	Ruth
3	1 Kings 2 Kings 1 Chronicles 2 Chronicles ? Nehemiah Esther	Ezra
4	Job Psalms Proverbs ? Song of Solomon	Ecclesiastes
5	Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel Hosea ? Amos Obadiah	Joel
6	Jonah Micah ? Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi	Nahum
7	Matthew Mark Luke ? Acts	John
8	Romans 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Galatians ? Philippians Colossians	Ephesians
9	1 Thessalonians 2 Thessalonians 1 Timothy 2 Timothy Titus ? Hebrews James	Philemon
10	1 Peter 2 Peter 1 John 2 John 3 John ? Revelation	Jude

If you missed what hint the Scriptures at the beginning provided, each of the Scriptures contained the word “ruthless.”  The second list of Bible books is missing the book of Ruth.  In other words, the list was “Ruth-less”.

Whether you did well on this quiz or, ummm, not so well, for the first video, here is Word of God Speak from MercyMe.

Here is Michael W. Smith with Ancient Words.

Here is Grosse Pointe (MI) Memorial Church Virtual Choir singing O Word of God Incarnate.

God did not give us His Holy Word for it to collect dust on the end table.  It is there for us to read and learn more about Him.  But if I could only remember where that book of the Bible is…

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.