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
- The conquest and the judgesJoshua to Samuel1 written life
- The united kingdomSaul, David and Solomon1 written life, 1 in the register
- Exile and returnBabylon to the Persian years2 written lives
- The church, from Acts onwardPaul, his circle and the letters3 in the register
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 written life
The united kingdom
Three reigns over one nation, with the prophets who stood beside them. The throne is given, built up, then split at Solomon's death.
1 written life, 1 in the register
The register: 1 more names in this era, each with the passages that hold them
Exile and return
The people who kept faith in a foreign court, and the ones who came back to build. Two empires and their kings stand here too.
2 written lives
DanielTaken to Babylon as a youth of noble birth in the first deportation from Judah (605 BC), trained in Babylonian learning, and rose to advise Nebuchadnezzar and later Darius the MedePeter Paul Rubens, Daniel in the Lions' Den
Darius the GreatThe Persian king who confirmed Cyrus's decree and allowed the Jerusalem Temple to be completed in his sixth yearNicolaes Knüpfer, Zorobabel and Darius (17th century)
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.
3 in the register
The register: 3 names in this era, each with the passages that hold them
- DemasPaul's fellow-worker (Col 4:14; Phlm 24) who later forsook him, having loved this present world (2 Tim 4:10) — the New Testament's quiet cautionary arc3 passages
- Demetrius (3 John)"Demetrius hath the witness of all men, and of the truth itself" (3 Jn 12) — likely the letter's carrier
- Diotrephes"Who loveth to have the preeminence" — refused the elder's letter, prated with wicked words, and cast out those who would receive the brethren (3 Jn 9-10)1 passage
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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.