A "BOOKS-OF-THE-BIBLE" LOVE STORY

Richard and I were invited to a dinner party and attended it on Friday night. It was a lovely evening in a lovely home with sweet friends. Charlie and Gail were fantastic host and hostess. They served a scrumptious meal after which we played a game ~~ the fill-in-the-blanks-with-the-name-of-a-book-of-the-Bible quiz found below. It really was a fun evening with lots of good Christian fellowship. The answer to the quiz is found down below.

Although he was a descendant of _____, he had a very common name, which of course was ____. Her name, like his, had only one syllable and it was ____. He traveled a great deal and met her on one of his many ______ .

When they first met, he asked her, "What is your father's business?" She hesitatingly answered, "_______ ale and beer."

They soon became well acquainted, and one day she asked him, "Have you ever had a sweetheart?" He frankly replied, "_______ of them."

Her friend asked her if he was in love with her, and she said: "He never said so, but he _____ like it."

One day, he found the courage to tell her of his love, and she professed to be surprised at the ____________.

She accepted his proposal and when the wedding invitations were issued, his friends joked him a great deal, but he told them to _______. Some thought they ought to be the _______ of the matter.

The bride and groom went to live with her father, but he told them that he had a large enough family to support and requested them to make an ________. So the young man found a ____ and went to work. They rented a house and bought their furniture from a second-hand dealer. The man's prices were high, but they ____ him down.

After that , things did not go quite so well. She often annoyed him by singings ______ and quoting ________ to him.

When he went to shave one day, he found that the water was only ____-warm. This angered him, and he said to her: "I regret the day the preacher _____ together.

He soon fell in love with another woman. Her name was ______. When his wife discovered this, she kept the neighbors awake all night with her loud __________. She finally tried to shoot him, but she missed her ____ and so the sad _________ of their love ends.