A Riddle for Fun...

Posted : 17 Mar, 2011 01:15 PM

This riddle is part of a longer Bible puzzle / riddle which originated in 1890. The story of it's origin goes like this:



"This riddle was written by a lady in California in 1890 in response to a gentleman in Pennsylvania who said he would pay $1,000.00 to anyone who could write a puzzle he could not solve. He failed to solve this puzzle and paid the lady the $1,000.00, a great sum at that time. An 8 year old boy figured it out."



What is one word and five letters that only appeared in the King James Version four times ???...



Adam, God made out of dust but thought it best to make me first, so I was made before man to answer God's most holy plan.



A living being I became and Adam gave to me my name. I from his presence then withdrew and more of Adam never knew.



I did my Maker's law obey nor ever went from it astray. Thousands of miles I go in fear but seldom on earth appear.



Hint: For purpose wise which God did see, He put a living soul in me. A soul from me God did claim. And took from me the soul again.



Hint: And when from me the soul had fled, I was the same as when first made. And without hands, or feet, or soul, I travel on from pole to pole.



I labor hard by day, by night. To fallen men I give great light. Thousands of people, young and old will by my death great light behold.



No right or wrong can I conceive. The scripture I cannot believe, although my name therein if found. They are to me an empty sound.



No fear of death doth trouble me, real happiness I will never see. To heaven I shall never go or to hell below.



Now when these lines you slowly read, go search your Bible with all speed; for that my name is written there, I do honestly to you declare.





In the King James Version: 4 times...



Whale 3x (Job 7:12, Ezekiel 32:2, Matthew 12:40) , Whales 1x (Gen 1:21).



xo

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