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 patriarchsAbraham to Joseph1 in the register
- The conquest and the judgesJoshua to Samuel1 written life
- The united kingdomSaul, David and Solomon1 in the register
- Judah, the southern throneRehoboam to Zedekiah1 written life
- Israel, the northern throneJeroboam to Hoshea3 written lives
- The kingdom years, both thronesdated by century, not by reign1 written life, 2 in the register
- Exile and returnBabylon to the Persian years1 written life
- Jesus and the Gospelsthe birth to the ascension2 written lives
- The church, from Acts onwardPaul, his circle and the letters4 in the register
The patriarchs
One family across four generations, carrying a promise it could not keep, and Job, whom the record sets in the same age. Every later covenant is spoken back to these names.
1 in the register
The register: 1 names in this era, each with the passages that hold them
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 in the register
The register: 1 names in this era, each with the passages that hold them
Judah, the southern throne
The line of David held Jerusalem for twenty reigns, from the split under Rehoboam to the fall of the city, with the prophets sent to them.
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.
3 written lives
HoseaHosea prophesied in the last decades of the northern kingdom before its fall to Assyria in 722 BC. His prophetic sign was his own marriage to Gomer, an unfaithful wife whom he bought back, a living picture of the LORD's covenant love for unfaithful IsraelJames Tissot, Hosea
HosheaThe last king of the northern kingdom, who killed Pekah to take the throneGustave Doré, Foreign Nations Are Slain by Lions in Samaria, The Holy Bible (1866)- HuldahHuldah the prophetess, whose husband Shallum kept the wardrobe, confirmed the rediscovered book of the Law when Josiah's workers found it in the temple (2 Kings 22; 2 Chronicles 34). Her word set Josiah's reform in motion
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 written life, 2 in the register
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The register: 2 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.
1 written life
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Jesus and the Gospels
The Twelve stand here, where a reader first meets them, with the family, the friends, the rulers who tried Jesus, and the witnesses of the resurrection.
2 written lives
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Herod the GreatThe Idumean king appointed by Rome who rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem on a grand scale, and who tried to kill the infant Jesus by ordering the slaughter of the boys of Bethlehem, the first ruler to move against the MessiahGerolamo Mocetto, The Massacre of the Innocents with Herod
Herod AntipasThe tetrarch of Galilee who executed John the Baptist after Salome's dance, who Jesus called "that fox," and who mocked Jesus at his trial when Pilate sent him for examinationPeter Paul Rubens, The Feast of Herod
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.
4 in the register
The register: 4 names in this era, each with the passages that hold them
- HermogenesNamed with Phygelus among they of Asia who turned away from Paul (2 Tim 1:15)1 passage
- Herod Agrippa IThe king who killed James the brother of John with the sword, imprisoned Peter, and died at Caesarea after accepting the acclamation of a crowd calling his voice the voice of a god — the persecutor's death at the hinge of the book
- Herod Agrippa IIThe last of the Herodian kings, who heard Paul's defence at Caesarea alongside Bernice and Festus and answered with the most quoted half-sentence in Acts: with but little persuasion thou wouldest fain make me a Christian1 passage
- HymenaeusFalse teacher delivered unto Satan that he might be taught not to blaspheme (1 Tim 1:20); with Philetus he said the resurrection was past already, overthrowing the faith of some (2 Tim 2:17-18)2 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.