A Puzzlement:

Scriptural Doubles

by John A. Tvedtnes

Each of the following questions may be answered from both the Bible and the Book of Mormon. If you identify more persons from the Bible than from the Book of Mormon (or vice versa), it will be easy for you to see in which book you need more reading.

1. Who received a heavenly manifestation while traveling to persecute members of the church?

Bible: __________ Book of Mormon: __________

2. Who, as a young lad, became commander of a whole army?

Bible: __________ Book of Mormon: __________

3. Who built a boat and sailed from one continent to another in order to escape the destruction of his home?

Bible: __________ Book of Mormon: __________

4. Who left his home to find a promised land?

Bible: __________ Book of Mormon: __________

5. Who blessed his sons before his death, telling them what would happen to them and their descendants?

Bible: __________ Book of Mormon: __________

6. Who delivered inspired counsel dealing with faith, hope, and charity?

Bible: __________ Book of Mormon: __________

7. Who foresaw the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians (Chaldeans)?

Bible: __________ Book of Mormon: __________

8. Who journeyed from city to city preaching the gospel and setting the church in order?

Bible: __________ Book of Mormon: __________

9. What king sent out princes as missionaries?

Bible: __________ Book of Mormon: __________

10. Who offered in a garden a prayer to God?

Bible: __________ Book of Mormon: __________

11. Who defeated an enemy in man-to-man combat and cut off bis head?

Bible: __________ Book of Mormon: __________

12. Who, by the king’s order, were cast into the fire to be executed?

Bible: __________ Book of Mormon: __________

13. What man, not of royal lineage, was offered a kingship but declined it?

Bible: __________ Book of Mormon: __________

14. Who returned to the land of his fathers and led his people out of bondage?

Bible: __________ Book of Mormon: __________

15. Who led his entire army to destruction?

Bible: __________ Book of Mormon: __________

Answers:

• Bible	Book of Mormon
  1. Saul (Paul) (Acts 9:1–6)	1. Alma the Younger and the sons of Mosiah (Mosiah 27:8–19)
  2. David (1 Sam. 18:5)	2. Mormon (Morm. 2:1–2)
  3. Noah (Gen. 7–8)	3. Nephi (1 Ne. 17–18)
  4. Abraham (Gen. 12:1–5)	4. Lehi (1 Ne. 2:4, 18:8)
  5. Jacob (Israel) (Gen. 49)	5. Lehi (2 Ne. 1–4)
  6. Paul (1 Cor. 13)	6. Mormon (Moro. 7)
  7. Isaiah (Isa. 39:5–7), and Jeremiah (Jer. 21:3–10; Jer. 25:8–13)	7. Lehi and “many” others (1 Ne. 1:4, 13)
  8. Paul (Acts 13–28. See also his epistles)	8. Alma the Younger (Alma 5:16, 29–35)
  9. Josiah (2 Chr. 17:7–10)	9. Mosiah (Mosiah 28:1–9)
  10. Jesus (Matt. 26:36; John 18:1–2)	10. Nephi (Hel. 7:10–11)
  11. David (1 Sam. 17:40–57)	11. Coriantumr (Ether 15:29–31)
  12. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (Dan. 3:8–30)	12. Abinadi (Mosiah 17)
  13. Gideon (Judg. 8:22–23)	13. Alma the Elder (Mosiah 23:6–14)
  14. Moses (Ex. 3–14)	14. Ammon (Mosiah 7–8, 22)
  15. Pharoah (Ex. 14:23–28)	15. Shiz and Coriantumr (Ether 14–15)