People and genealogy
The people of Scripture
The people this site has written or filed, set in the period each one stands in, from before Abraham to the letters of the apostles.
Summary
111 lives are written here in full, and 117 more names carry a register row with the verses that hold them. Five studies take a whole group at once and are counted apart.
- Genesis opens with every nation. It narrows to the family God calls in Abraham.
- The family goes into Egypt, comes out under Moses, and takes the land under Joshua.
- Judges lead until Israel asks for a king. Then 39 reigns follow the split.
- Assyria takes the north and Babylon the south. Persia sends the people home.
- The Gospels open four hundred years later. The Twelve carry the story into Acts.
The people by era
Show the groups
- Five walks across the familyeach takes a whole group at once0 group studies
- Egypt and the wildernessMoses to the plains of Moab2 in the register
- The conquest and the judgesJoshua to Samuel1 in the register
- Israel, the northern throneJeroboam to Hoshea1 written life
- The church, from Acts onwardPaul, his circle and the letters1 written life
Egypt and the wilderness
The generation that left Egypt, took the law at Sinai, and died in the desert. Its leaders and its rebels are both here.
2 in the register
The register: 2 names in this era, each with the passages that hold them
Balaam son of BeorThe Mesopotamian diviner hired by Balak to curse Israel, rebuked by his own donkey, and constrained to bless four times — the Star out of Jacob among his oracles; attested extrabiblically at Deir Alla14 passages- BalakKing of Moab who hired Balaam against the camp on his border and got four blessings and a prophecy of his own destroyer for his fee6 passages
The conquest and the judges
The land taken, then nearly lost again, under leaders God raised one at a time. Ruth belongs to these years.
1 in the register
The register: 1 names in this era, each with the passages that hold them
Israel, the northern throne
Nine dynasties rose and fell in two hundred years, each judged by the calves at Bethel and Dan. Elijah and Elisha were sent against this throne.
1 written life
The church, from Acts onward
Paul and his circle, the men and women of Acts, and the churches the letters were written to. The Twelve stand one period back, where they were called.
1 written life
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Where they stood3
The written lives come from this site’s own character pages. The register rows come from its person dossiers. The number in a register row is how many passages Orville J. Nave lists under that name in Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a public domain work.