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
- Israel, the northern throneJeroboam to Hoshea1 in the register
- The kingdom years, both thronesdated by century, not by reign1 in the register
- 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
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 in the register
The register: 1 names in this era, each with the passages that hold them
The kingdom years, both thrones
Names the record sets in the kingdom years without naming a throne. The prophets here are dated by century, not by the king they served.
1 in the register
The register: 1 names in this era, each with the passages that hold them
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
- Gaius (3 John)The beloved addressee of 3 John, walking in truth, commended for faithful hospitality to the brethren going forth for the sake of the Name (3 Jn 1-8)
- GallioProconsul of Achaia and brother of the philosopher Seneca; he threw Paul's accusers out of his court at Corinth as a matter for their own law1 passage
- GamalielThe Pharisee and teacher of the law who talked the Sanhedrin out of killing the apostles with an argument from patience: if this counsel is of men it will come to nothing, and if it is of God you cannot overthrow it. Paul's own teacher6 passages
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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.