Bible Story Ideas

Here's a list of Bible story suggestions you can choose from for the SabbathIdeas.org activities which require a Bible story, like thinking up what Bible Charade to act out, or scene to draw etc.

< Genesis >

- Creation

• Formless world, hovering spirit
• Day 1: Light and darkness
• Day 2: Sky/atmosphere
• Day 3: Dry land, the seas, and vegetation
• Day 4: The sun, the moon and the stars
• Day 5: Living creatures in the water, birds in the air
• Day 6: Land animals and people
• Day 6: Adam made from dust and breathed into his nostrils
• Day 7: God "rested", and blessed the seventh day

- Adam and Eve 

• Adam names animals
• God takes Adam's rib and creates Eve
• Serpent tricks Eve to eating fruit
• Adam eats fruit
• Adam and Eve hide from God
• Adam blames Eve, who blames the Serpent
• God rebukes Adam, Eve and the serpent
• Banished form the garden
• Able offers Lamb sacrifice
• Cain offers food sacrifice but isn't accepted by God 
• Cain kills Abel in a field
• God asks where Able is
• Cain is 'cursed' and leaves
• Seth is born

• Enoch taken to heaven
• Methuselah lives 969 years

- Noah

• Noah Gets instructions from God
• Builds ark
• Animals come in twos and sevens 
• Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth and wives enter ark
• Angel closes door of ark
• A weeks wait in the ark
• Rains 40 days and nights
• Waited for water to go down
• Sent out Raven and Dove, which returns
• Sent out dove again after 7 days and returns with olive leaf
• Sent out dove again after 7 days and does not return
• Leave the ark
• Noah builds alter
• Rainbow covenant given
• Noah becomes drunk
• The tower of Babel built
• Languages confused
• Nationalities spread over the earth

- Abraham

• Call of Abram
• Abram goes to Egypt and says Sarai is his sister
• Abram and Lot separate
• Abram rescues Lot 
• God promises a son and nation as numerous as the stars
• Abraham has a son, Ishmael, with Hagar 
• Abram and Sari renamed by God
• Promised a son named Isaac and the covenant of circumcision
• 3 Angels visit and Sarah laughs at thought of bearing a child
• Pleads with God to spare Sodom and Gomorrah if there are, 50, 45, 40, 30, 20 or 10
• God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah
• Lots wife turned into a pillar of salt for looking back
• Abraham tells Abimelech Sarah is his sister
• Isaac born, Hagar and Ishmael sent away
• Treaty at Beersheba and 7 ewe lambs
• The Binding of Isaac as a sacrifice
• Isaac and Rebekah

- Jacob

• Esau born first of twins, Jacob holding onto heal
• Jacob trades Esau's birthright for stew
• Isaac calls Rebekah his sister to Abimelech
• Jacob tricks Isaac that he's Esau by wearing goats skin
• Jacob flees to Laban
• Jacob dreams of a ladder with angels going to Heaven
• Jacob works for Laban 7 years and is tricked to marrying Leah
• Jacob works another 7 years and finally marries Rachel
• Jacob has children  
• Jacob breeds a strong flock
• Jacob flees from Laban
• Jacob wrestles with an angel

- Joseph

• Joseph receives a coat of many colors
• Joseph dreams about bowing sheaves of grain
• Josephs dreams about sun moon and stars bowing down to him
• Reuben convinces brothers not to kill Joseph, who's put in a well instead
• Joseph sold, enslaved and taken to Egypt
• Brothers show Josephs coat covered in goat blood to father
• Potiphar's wife tries to seduce Joseph
• Joseph imprisoned
• The butler dreams of a vine and the baker dreams of baskets of bread - Joseph interprets
• Joseph interprets Pharaoh's Dreams of the seven fat and seven thin cows, and the seven fat and seven scorched heads of grain
• Joseph freed and put in charge of the land of Egypt
• Seven years of plenty, then seven years of famine
• Joseph puts his brothers in prison then sends them all home, except Simeon, to bring Benjamin back. Their silver is put back in their sacks
• Brothers return with double silver and Benjamin when they run out of food again, and feast, unknowingly, with Joseph, Simeon returned to them.
• Joseph cries privately, brothers seated in order of age, Benjamin fed 5x portions
• Silver put in sacks again, and Silver cup planted in Benjamin's sack
• Joseph threatens to keep Benjamin as a slave. Judah give heart felt speech
• Joseph reunites with his family, who move to Egypt.

< Exodus >

• Baby Moses in the Bulrushes
• Moses kills Egyptian
• Moses' exile
• The Burning Bush
• Aaron's rod becomes a serpent
• The Plagues of Egypt:
1. Water into blood
2. Frogs
3. Lice
4. Flies
5. Diseased livestock
6. Boils
7. Thunderstorm of hail
8. Locusts
9. Darkness
10. Death of firstborn/The Passover
• The Exodus
• Crossing of the Red Sea
• The Ten Commandments
• The Golden Calf

< Leviticus >

• Many instructions given

< Numbers >

• The shower of quails
• The report of the spies
• Aaron's rod sprouts and bears fruit
• Balaam's Donkey talks to him

< Deuteronomy >

• The Death of Moses

< Joshua >

• Rahab and the Spies
• Crossing the Jordan
• Marched around Jericho once, six days in a row
• Seventh day seven time and Jericho's walls fell
• The Sun Stands Still

< Judges >

• The Sign of the wet and dry Fleece
• Gideon's army reduced to Three Hundred
• Gideon's army defeats the Midianites
• Samson's riddle of the lion and honey
• Ties foxes together and sets fire
• Sampson bound, then attacks Philistines with Donkey's jawbone
• Carries city gates to top of the hill
• Samson tricks Delilah
• Samson's hair cut, eyes gouged
• Samson pushes the temple pillars down

< Ruth >

• Ruth and Boaz

< 1 & 2 Samuel >

• God Calls Samuel in the night 3 times
• Samuel anoints David 
• David plays harp for King Saul
• David dressed in but rejects kings aromor
• David collects 5 smooth stones kills Goliath 
• Saul throws spear at David
• David and Jonathan
• Saul chases David 
• David spares Saul's life twice
• Saul and the witch of Endor
• Saul takes his life
• David and Bathsheba

< 1 & 2 Kings >

• The Wisdom of Solomon
• Solomon builds the Temple
• The Queen of Sheba
• Elijah on Mount Carmel
• Elijah Taken up to Heaven
• The Healing of Naaman

< Jonah >

• Jonah spends 3 days in the Big Fish
• Jonah and the withering vine

< Job >

• The trials of Job

< Esther >

• Esther and Mordechai

< Daniel >

•  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego Food Test
• Nebuchadnezzar's Dream
• The Fiery Furnace
• The writing on the wall
• Daniel in the lions' den

< Gospels >

• Angel appears to Mary, and Joseph
• Birth of John the Baptist
• Birth of Jesus
• The Shepherds
• Star of Bethlehem
• Wise men and their gifts visit Herod
• Escape into Egypt
• Massacre of the Innocents
• Finding Jesus in the Temple
• John the Baptist
• Baptism of Jesus
• Temptation of Jesus
• Marriage at Cana
• Jesus & Nicodemus
• Temple Cleansing
• The Growing Seed
• Calling of the disciples of Jesus
• Miraculous draught of fishes
• Beatitudes
• Young Man from Nain
• The Two Debtors
• The Lamp under a Bushel
• Parable of the Good Samaritan
• The Friend at Night
• The Rich Fool
• Samaritan Woman at the Well
• The Wise and the Foolish Builders
• Cleansing a leper
• The Centurion's Servant
• Calming the storm
• Paralytic at Capernaum
• New Wine into Old Wineskins
• Daughter of Jairus
• The Bleeding Woman
• Commissioning the twelve Apostles
• Paralytic at Bethesda
• Man with withered Hand
• The Lord's Prayer
• Healing the blind and mute man
• Parable of the strong man
• Eternal sin
• Parable of the Sower
• The Birds of Heaven
• The Tares
• The Barren Fig Tree
• An Infirm Woman
• Parable of the Mustard Seed
• The Leaven
• Parable of the Pearl
• Drawing in the Net
• The Hidden Treasure
• Beheading of St. John the Baptist
• Feeding the 5000 - (5 loves 2 fish - 12 baskets leftover)
• Feeding the 4000 - (7 loaves and a few fish - 7 baskets leftover)
• Walking on water
• Blind Man of Bethsaida
• Confession of Peter
• Transfiguration of Jesus
• Coin in the fish's mouth
• The Little Children and Jesus
• The Lost Sheep
• The Unforgiving Servant
• The Lost Coin
• Parable of the Prodigal Son
• The Unjust Steward
• Rich man and Lazarus
• The Master and Servant
• Cleansing ten lepers
• The Unjust Judge
• Jesus and the rich young man
• Jesus and the woman taken in adultery
• The Workers in the Vineyard
• Raising of Lazarus
• Jesus and Zacchaeus
• Palm Sunday
• Cursing the fig tree
• Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's
• Widow's mite
• The Budding Fig Tree
• The Faithful Servant
• The Ten Virgins
• The Talents or Minas
• The Sheep and the Goats
• Anointing of Jesus
• Bargain of Judas
• The Grain of Wheat
• Last Supper
• Promising a Paraclete
• Gethsemane
• The kiss of Judas
• Healing the ear of a servant
• Arrest of Jesus
• Sanhedrin Trial of Jesus
• Crucifixion of Jesus
• Myrrhbearers
• Empty tomb
• Resurrection of Jesus
• Road to Emmaus appearance
• Resurrected Jesus appears to Apostles
• Great Commission
• Doubting Thomas
• Catch of 153 fish
• Ascension of Jesus

< Acts >

• Jesus' Ascension
• Matthias replaced Judas
• The Day of Pentecost
• Ananias and Sapphira
• Seven Greeks appointed
• The Stoning of Stephen
• Paul's Conversion of the Road to Damascus
• Peter's vision of a sheet with animals
• Conversion of Cornelius
• Paul and Barnabas' missionary journeys
• Paul's missionary journey

< Revelation >

• John addresses the seven churches:
1. Ephesus
2. Smyrna
3. Pergamum
4. Thyatira
5. Sardis
6. Philadelphia
7. Laodicea
• The four creatures
• Seven seals
• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
• Seven trumpets
• John measures the temple of God,   
• A woman clothed in the sun
• The beasts
• The Woman dressed in purple and scarlet
• Babylon falls
• The white horse
• Jesus Second Coming
• The Saints who died are resurrected
• Satan is bound 'in the Abyss' for a thousand years
• Satan is released to deceive the nations
• Satan is thrown into the Lake of Fire
• The wicked dead are resurrected and judged
• Earth is Cleansed
• A new heaven and a new earth