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
Israel, the northern throneJeroboam to Hoshea1 written life
Exile and returnBabylon to the Persian years1 written life
The church, from Acts onwardPaul, his circle and the letters2 in the register

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

OmriThe sixth king of Israel who founded the Omride dynasty, built Samaria as the new capital, and was considered so wicked that Assyrian records referred to Israel as "the house of Omri" for generations

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

ObadiahObadiah's one chapter, the shortest book in the Old Testament, is a judgment on Edom for standing with Jerusalem's destroyers in 586 BC. Its wider point is that the day of the LORD is near upon all the nationsJames Tissot, Obadiah (prophet portrait, Jewish Museum series) (c. 1888-1902)

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.

2 in the register

The register: 2 names in this era, each with the passages that hold them

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Keep studying

Each of the 111 written lives cites the chapters it stands on. A name here is a way into the text.

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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.