Faith Hub Game
Would You Rather: Bible Edition
Jonah’s fish or Daniel’s lions? Manna or locusts? Pick a side, then see the Scripture behind both answers. A fun break with a little Bible study tucked inside.
Or pick a category
💡 Play it together: read the question out loud at small group, youth night, family dinner or on a road trip, and let everyone vote before you reveal the answer.
Miracles
Would you rather…
🐋 Jonah 1:17–2:1
Jonah spent three days and three nights inside the fish, and he used the time to pray. Chapter 2 is his prayer from the belly of the fish.
🦁 Daniel 6:22
God sent His angel to shut the lions’ mouths. Daniel came out the next morning without a scratch.
Either way, God shows up in the places you’d never choose to be.
Bible Life
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🍞 Exodus 16:31, 35
Manna looked like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey. Israel ate it every day for 40 years.
🦗 Matthew 3:4
That was John’s actual diet. Fun fact: locusts are on the list of clean foods in Leviticus 11:22.
God provides, sometimes in ways that look a little unusual.
Miracles
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🌊 Matthew 14:29–31
Peter really did walk on water, until he looked at the wind and began to sink. Jesus caught him immediately.
🚶 Exodus 14:21–22
The water stood like a wall on the right and the left, and the ground underneath was dry.
Keep your eyes on Jesus and the impossible becomes walkable.
Bible Heroes
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🚢 Genesis 6:15
The ark was 300 cubits long, roughly 450 feet. That’s about one and a half football fields.
🧱 Nehemiah 4:17; 6:15
The wall was finished in just 52 days, and some builders worked with one hand while holding a weapon in the other.
Big assignments get done one faithful board, or brick, at a time.
Bible Heroes
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💪 Judges 14:6
The Spirit of the Lord came on Samson and he tore apart a young lion with his bare hands.
🧠 1 Kings 3:11–13; 4:32
Solomon asked for wisdom instead of riches, so God gave him both. He spoke 3,000 proverbs and wrote 1,005 songs.
Strength gets you through a fight. Wisdom keeps you out of a lot of them.
Miracles
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🔥 2 Kings 2:11
A chariot and horses of fire appeared, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. He never died.
🌿 Exodus 3:2–5
The bush was on fire but never burned up, and God told Moses to take off his sandals because he was standing on holy ground.
God still knows how to get our attention.
Moments With Jesus
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🍷 John 2:6–11
Six stone jars held 20 to 30 gallons each. It was His first miracle, and the guests said the best was saved for last.
🧺 John 6:9–13
It started with a boy’s lunch of five barley loaves and two fish. There were 12 baskets of leftovers.
What you bring Him is never too small.
Moments With Jesus
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🌳 Luke 19:4–5
Jesus stopped, looked up, and called Zacchaeus by name, then invited Himself over for dinner.
🏠 Mark 2:3–5
Four friends dug through the roof to get their friend to Jesus, and Jesus saw their faith.
Jesus sees everyone trying to get to Him. Be one, or be the friend who carries one.
Bible Heroes
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🎺 Joshua 6:3–4, 20
Once a day for six days, then seven times on day seven. That’s 13 laps, and then the walls fell flat.
🪨 1 Samuel 17:40, 49
David picked up five stones. He only needed one.
God’s strategies can look strange. They still work.
Bible Heroes
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🙌 Exodus 17:11–12
When Moses’ arms were raised, Israel won. Aaron and Hur sat him on a stone and held his hands up until sunset.
⛰️ Joshua 3:15–17
It was flood season, but the moment the priests’ feet touched the water, the river stopped and Israel crossed on dry ground.
Sometimes faith is holding someone else up. Sometimes it’s stepping in first.
Holy Humor
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🫏 Numbers 22:28
After Balaam struck her three times, his donkey spoke up and asked what she had done to deserve it. True story.
💇 2 Samuel 14:26; 18:9
Absalom cut his hair once a year and it weighed about 5 pounds. Later his head got caught in an oak tree.
God can use anything to get through to us. Even a donkey.
Moments With Jesus
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🙏 Luke 10:39, 42
Jesus said Mary had chosen the good part, the one thing that would not be taken from her.
🍲 John 11:27
Martha gets a bad rap, but she made one of the boldest confessions in the Gospels: You are the Christ, the Son of God.
Serving matters. Sitting with Him matters first.
Bible Heroes
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👣 Mark 3:14
Jesus chose the twelve first of all so they could be with Him, and then to send them out.
✉️ Romans through Philemon
Thirteen New Testament letters carry Paul’s name, and several of them were written from prison.
Being with Jesus comes before doing for Jesus.
Bible Life
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⏳ Genesis 5:27
Methuselah lived longer than anyone else in the Bible.
✨ Genesis 5:21–24
Enoch walked with God, and then he was gone, because God took him. Fun fact: Enoch was Methuselah’s dad.
It’s not how long you walk. It’s Who you walk with.
Bible Life
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🐑 1 Samuel 17:34–35
Before Goliath, David fought off a lion and a bear to protect his sheep.
🎣 Luke 5:5–6
They caught nothing all night. At Jesus’ word they let the nets down once more, and caught so many fish the nets began to break.
God trains you in the ordinary for what’s coming next.
Bible Life
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🧥 Genesis 37:3–4; 50:20
The coat made his brothers jealous and started a hard road, but God turned all of it for good.
🧣 2 Kings 2:13–14
Elisha picked up Elijah’s mantle, struck the Jordan with it, and the river parted.
What you’re given is for a purpose bigger than you.
Miracles
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💭 Matthew 1:20; 2:13, 19, 22
Mary’s husband Joseph was guided by God in dreams four times, and he obeyed every time.
🪜 Genesis 28:12, 19
Jacob saw angels going up and down a ladder to heaven and named the place Bethel, house of God.
God still guides people who are willing to listen.
Miracles
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🔥 Daniel 3:25–27
The king saw a fourth man in the fire. They walked out without even the smell of smoke on them.
⛈️ Mark 4:38–39
Jesus was asleep on a pillow in the middle of the storm. He stood up, said Peace, be still, and everything went calm.
He doesn’t always keep you out of the fire or the storm. He gets in it with you.
Bible Life
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🍎 Genesis 2:8–10
God planted the garden Himself, and a river flowed out of Eden and split into four rivers.
🏙️ Revelation 21:21
Each of the twelve gates is made from a single pearl, and the street is pure gold, clear as glass.
The Bible begins in a garden and ends in a city, and God is at the center of both.
Moments With Jesus
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🌌 Job 38:4–7
God says the morning stars sang together and the angels shouted for joy when He laid the foundations of the earth.
🌅 Matthew 28:2–6
An angel rolled the stone away and sat on it, then told the women: He is not here, for He is risen.
The God who made everything is the same God who conquered death.
Bible Heroes
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👑 Esther 4:16
Esther said, if I perish, I perish, and her courage saved her people.
🌾 Ruth 1:16; 4:17
Ruth chose Naomi’s God as her own, and she became King David’s great-grandmother.
Courage and loyalty both change history. God uses both.
Holy Humor
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😴 Acts 20:9–11
Paul preached until midnight, Eutychus dozed off and fell from a third-floor window. Paul brought him back to life, then kept preaching until sunrise.
🪔 Matthew 25:10–13
They ran out of oil, went to buy more, and came back to a shut door. Jesus’ point: be ready.
Stay awake and stay ready. (And maybe sit away from the window.)
Miracles
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✌️ 2 Kings 2:9–10
Elisha boldly asked for a double portion of Elijah’s spirit, and he received it.
🗣️ Acts 2:6, 41
People from many nations each heard the gospel in their own language, and about 3,000 were added to the church that day.
Ask boldly. The Spirit still empowers ordinary people.
Bible Life
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🕊️ Genesis 8:11
The dove came back with a fresh olive leaf, the sign that the waters were going down.
🐦 1 Kings 17:6
Ravens brought Elijah bread and meat every morning and every evening.
God sends signs of hope and daily bread, right on time.
Moments With Jesus
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📜 Luke 2:46–47
The teachers were amazed by His understanding. His parents searched for three days before finding Him there.
🕯️ John 13:4–5
Before the meal, Jesus wrapped a towel around Himself and washed His disciples’ feet.
The Son of God came to learn among us and to serve us.
Holy Humor
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📖 Psalm 119
The longest chapter in the Bible at 176 verses: 22 sections of 8, one for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
📄 Obadiah 1–21
The shortest book in the Old Testament, just one chapter and 21 verses. Smart pick.
Hide God’s Word in your heart, one chapter or one verse at a time (Psalm 119:11).
Bible Life
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🏕️ Exodus 13:21–22
A cloud led Israel by day and a pillar of fire lit the way at night. It never left them.
⭐ Matthew 2:9–11
The star went ahead of the wise men and stopped over the place where Jesus was. They brought gold, frankincense and myrrh.
God leads those who are willing to follow.
Miracles
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⛓️ Acts 12:7–16
His chains fell off and the iron gate opened by itself. Then he knocked at the prayer meeting, and Rhoda was so excited she forgot to let him in.
🎶 Acts 16:25–34
They were singing hymns at midnight when every door flew open. The jailer and his whole household believed that night.
Prayer and praise in hard places still shake things.
Miracles
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☀️ Joshua 10:13
The sun stayed in the middle of the sky for about a whole day while Israel finished the battle.
🕰️ 2 Kings 20:9–11
God made the shadow go back ten steps as a sign that He would heal Hezekiah.
Even time answers to God.
Moments With Jesus
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🪙 Mark 12:42–44
Jesus said her two small coins were worth more than all the big gifts, because she gave everything she had.
🏺 Mark 14:3–9
The perfume was worth more than 300 denarii, about a year’s wages, and Jesus said her story would be told wherever the gospel is preached.
Jesus measures the heart behind the gift, not the size of it.
Holy Humor
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🛡️ 1 Samuel 17:5
His coat of armor alone weighed 5,000 shekels of bronze, roughly 125 pounds.
🛏️ Deuteronomy 3:11
Og’s iron bed was 9 cubits long and 4 wide, about 13 feet by 6. Good luck finding sheets.
The giants were real. So was the God who defeated them.
Holy Humor
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🥖 Ezekiel 4:9
God gave Ezekiel a recipe: wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt. You can still buy Ezekiel bread at the grocery store today.
🥣 Genesis 25:29–34
Esau traded his entire birthright for one bowl. It must have been some stew.
Don’t trade what’s eternal for what’s right in front of you.
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Scripture references from the King James Version. Fun facts are paraphrased from the passages listed.