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Younger son of Isaac and Rebekah, renamed Israel after wrestling at Peniel (Gen.32.28). Father of the twelve t…

father Isaac · mother Rebekah · spouse Leah, Rachel · children Reuben, Simeon, Levi

Shepherd of Bethlehem, killer of Goliath, second king of Israel, writer of psalms. Lived around 1000 BC.

father Jesse · spouse Michal, Abigail · children Solomon, Absalom, Adonijah

Father of the Hebrew people. Called from Ur to Canaan and given the covenant promise. Lived around 2000 BC.

father Terah · spouse Sarah, Hagar · children Ishmael, Isaac

Eldest son of Noah, ancestor of the Semitic peoples and of Abraham. Through Shem’s line God’s redemptive promi…

father Noah · children Arphaxad, Elam, Asshur

Seventh king of Israel, son of Omri. Married Jezebel of Sidon and made Baal worship the state religion; Elijah…

father Omri · spouse Jezebel · children Ahaziah, Joram, Athaliah

Eighth-century prophet to the northern kingdom, son of Beeri. Commanded to marry the unfaithful Gomer as a liv…

father Beeri · spouse Gomer · children Jezreel, Lo-Ruhamah, Lo-Ammi

Son of promise born to Abraham and Sarah in their old age (Gen.21). Bound on Mount Moriah, husband of Rebekah,…

father Abraham · mother Sarah · spouse Rebekah · children Esau, Jacob

Eleventh son of Jacob, sold by his brothers into Egypt, rising from slavery and prison to be second only to Ph…

father Jacob · mother Rachel · spouse Asenath · children Manasseh, Ephraim

Sixteenth king of Judah. Last great reformer. The Book of the Law was found in the temple during his repairs; …

father Amon · mother Jedidah daughter of Adaiah · children Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Zedekiah

First king of all Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin. Anointed by Samuel, victorious early but rejected for diso…

father Kish · children Jonathan, Ish-bosheth, Michal

The first man, formed by God from the dust of the ground and given the breath of life (Gen.2.7). With his wife…

spouse Eve · children Cain, Abel, Seth

Daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, wife of Jehoram, the only queen regnant of Judah. Murdered all royal heirs to se…

father Ahab · mother Jezebel · spouse Jehoram of Judah · children Ahaziah

First king of the northern kingdom of Israel after the split with Judah. Set up golden calves at Bethel and Da…

father Nebat · mother Zeruah · children Abijah, Nadab

Last judge of Israel and first of the great prophets after Moses. Born to Hannah at Ramah, raised at Shiloh un…

father Elkanah · mother Hannah · children Joel, Abijah

Eighth king of Judah. Killed his father's assassins lawfully, reconquered Edom in the Valley of Salt, then pro…

father Joash of Judah · mother Jehoaddan of Jerusalem · children Uzziah

Fourteenth king of Judah, son of Manasseh. Reigned two years sacrificing to his father's idols. Murdered by hi…

father Manasseh · mother Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz · children Josiah

Twelfth king of Judah. Smashed Ahaz's altars, cleansed the temple, kept the great Passover. Sennacherib's army…

father Ahaz · mother Abi daughter of Zechariah · children Manasseh

Eighteenth king of Judah. Originally Eliakim; renamed by Pharaoh Necho. Burned Jeremiah's scroll column by col…

father Josiah · mother Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah · children Jehoiachin

Fifth king of Judah. Married Ahab's daughter Athaliah, killed all his brothers, lost Edom and Libnah. Died of …

father Jehoshaphat · spouse Athaliah · children Ahaziah

Seventh king of Judah, hidden in the temple as an infant from Athaliah's purge. Crowned at seven by Jehoiada t…

father Ahaziah of Judah · mother Zibiah of Beersheba · children Amaziah

Tenth king of Judah. Co-regent during Uzziah's leprosy. Built the upper gate of the temple, subdued the Ammoni…

father Uzziah · mother Jerusha daughter of Zadok · children Ahaz

Thirteenth king of Judah. Longest reign of any Hebrew king. Filled Jerusalem with bloodshed and idols, but in …

father Hezekiah · mother Hephzibah · children Amon

First king of Judah after the split. Refused the elders' counsel, threatened scorpions instead of whips, and l…

father Solomon · mother Naamah the Ammonite · children Abijah

Moabite widow who returned with her Israelite mother-in-law Naomi from Moab to Bethlehem in the days of the ju…

spouse Mahlon, Boaz · children Obed

Third named son of Adam and Eve, born after Abel’s murder (Gen.4.25). Through Seth runs the godly line that le…

father Adam · mother Eve · children Enosh

Son of David and Bathsheba, third king of the united Israelite monarchy, builder of the first temple in Jerusa…

father David · mother Bathsheba · children Rehoboam

Ninth king of Judah (also called Azariah). Fifty-two-year reign of great prosperity; struck with leprosy for u…

father Amaziah · mother Jecoliah of Jerusalem · children Jotham

Eleventh king of Judah. Sacrificed his son in the fire, called Tiglath-pileser of Assyria for help against Rez…

father Jotham · children Hezekiah

Eighth king of Israel, son of Ahab and Jezebel. Fell through a lattice in his upper chamber, sent to inquire o…

father Ahab · mother Jezebel

Third king of Judah, great-grandson of Solomon. Smashed idols, removed his grandmother from queen-mother for h…

father Abijah · children Jehoshaphat

Son of Seth, grandson of Adam. In his day “men began to call upon the name of the LORD” (Gen.4.26). Fourth in …

father Seth · children Kenan

Galilean fisherman, son of Zebedee, elder brother of John the apostle; one of the inner three with Peter and J…

father Zebedee · mother Salome

Fourth king of Judah. Sent Levites with the book of the law to teach the people; allied unwisely with Ahab. Wo…

father Asa · children Jehoram

Tenth king of Israel. Anointed by Elisha's emissary to destroy the house of Ahab. Killed Joram, Jezebel, and t…

father Jehoshaphat · children Jehoahaz

Thirteenth king of Israel, great-grandson of Jehu. Longest northern reign. Restored Israel's borders from Lebo…

father Jehoash · children Zechariah

Galilean fisherman, son of Zebedee, brother of James the Greater; one of the inner three apostles, with Peter …

father Zebedee · mother Salome

Ninth king of Israel, brother of Ahaziah. Removed Baal's pillar but kept Jeroboam's calves. Allied with Jehosh…

father Ahab · mother Jezebel

Young Galilean woman, betrothed to Joseph the carpenter, who was visited by the angel Gabriel and bore Jesus C…

spouse Joseph · children Jesus

Son of Enoch, grandfather of Noah, and the longest-lived person in scripture at 969 years (Gen.5.27). He died …

father Enoch · children Lamech

Twentieth and last king of Judah. Originally Mattaniah; installed by Nebuchadnezzar. Rebelled, watched his son…

father Josiah · mother Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah

Prophetess and fourth judge of Israel, holding court under a palm in Ephraim. Summoned Barak to defeat Sisera’…

spouse Lapidoth

Priest and prophet of the Babylonian exile, son of Buzi. By the river Chebar he saw the chariot-throne of the …

father Buzi

Fifth judge, called from threshing wheat in a winepress. Tested God with the fleece, then with 300 men routed …

father Joash

The nineteenth and last king of Israel. Assassinated Pekah to take the throne, withheld tribute from Assyria, …

father Elah

Eighth-century Jerusalem prophet, son of Amoz. Called by a throne-room vision (Isa.6), he ministered to Uzziah…

father Amoz

Priest of Anathoth called to prophesy from the thirteenth year of Josiah through Jerusalem’s fall in 586 BC. A…

father Hilkiah

Prophet of Judah, son of Pethuel. Used a devastating locust plague to summon the people to repentance and to a…

father Pethuel

Eighth-century prophet from Gath-hepher in Galilee, son of Amittai. Fled the LORD’s call to Nineveh, was swall…

father Amittai

Son of Nun of the tribe of Ephraim, attendant to Moses and commander at Rephidim (Exo.17). After Moses he led …

father Nun

Simon son of Jonah, fisherman of Bethsaida and Capernaum, called by Jesus at the lake of Galilee and renamed C…

father Jonah

Nazirite judge of Dan, gifted with extraordinary strength while his hair remained uncut. Fought the Philistine…

father Manoah

Priest-prophet of the post-exilic restoration, son of Berechiah. Began with eight night visions in 520 BC (Zec…

father Berechiah

Prophet in the reign of Josiah, great-great-grandson of King Hezekiah. Announced a sweeping Day of the LORD ag…

father Cushi

Eighth-century shepherd and dresser of sycamore figs from Tekoa, sent to prophesy at Bethel against the prospe…

Late seventh-century Judean prophet who questioned the LORD about violence and was told that the just shall li…

Post-exilic prophet who, with Zechariah, roused the returned community in 520 BC to finish the rebuilding of t…

Last of the writing prophets, c. 430 BC, contemporary with Nehemiah’s second visit. Rebuked priestly corruptio…

Eighth-century prophet of Moresheth in the Shephelah, contemporary of Isaiah. Foretold Samaria’s ruin, Bethleh…

Prophet of Elkosh in seventh-century Judah, sent to announce the fall of Nineveh — a century after Jonah’s pre…

Author of the shortest book in the Old Testament (21 verses), a vision of judgment against Edom for its violen…