Play: Old Rags and a Rope

Forehead Guess and Scripture Showdown with words and questions from the Youth 11–14 lesson “Old Rags and a Rope”.

Forehead Guess

One player holds the screen up to their forehead, facing the class. Everyone else gives clues. Tap “Got it!” or “Pass” (or tip the screen down or up) before the timer runs out.

Scripture Showdown

10 questions from the lesson on one screen. Teams take turns, tap an answer and see why.

The words (18)

  • 🧑 Jeremiah: Prophet who got stuck in a muddy pit
  • ✍️ Baruch: Scribe who wrote the scroll twice
  • 📜 Scroll: The king cut it up and burned it
  • ✂️ Penknife: What King Jehoiakim cut the scroll with
  • 🔥 King Jehoiakim: Burned the Lord’s message in his fire
  • 👑 King Zedekiah: Believed Jeremiah privately but was afraid to obey
  • 🙋 Ebed-melech: Ethiopian outsider who spoke up and rescued Jeremiah
  • 🕳️ Dungeon: A pit with no water, only mud
  • 🟫 Mud: What Jeremiah sank into
  • 🪢 Rope: Used to lower Jeremiah down and pull him up
  • 🧦 Old rags: Padding under Jeremiah’s arms
  • 💪 Thirty men: The rescue crew the king sent
  • 💗 New covenant: The Lord’s law written in hearts
  • ❤️ Heart: Where the Lord will write His law
  • 🏛️ Babylon: Army that surrounded Jerusalem
  • 😢 Lamentations: Book of mourning for Jerusalem
  • 🌄 Morning: His mercies are new every ___
  • 🔐 Passcode: Something you know by heart

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