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 Moab1 written life, 1 in the register
- Israel, the northern throneJeroboam to Hoshea2 written lives
- Jesus and the Gospelsthe birth to the ascension1 written life, 2 in the register
- The church, from Acts onwardPaul, his circle and the letters2 written lives, 7 in the register
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.
1 written life, 1 in the register
The register: 1 more 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.
2 written lives
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.
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
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 written lives, 7 in the register
PaulA Pharisee who persecuted Christians until the risen Christ appeared to him on the Damascus roadRembrandt, The Apostle Paul
Philip the EvangelistPhilip the Evangelist, one of the seven chosen to serve the early church, carried the gospel to Samaria with great effect and led the Ethiopian eunuch to Christ on a desert road, becoming a bridge figure in the gospel's spread beyond JerusalemRembrandt, The Baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch
The register: 7 more names in this era, each with the passages that hold them
- PhilemonColossian believer with a church in his house, owner of Onesimus, recipient of Paul's most personal canonical letter — refreshing the hearts of the saints (Phlm 7)1 passage
- PhiletusNamed with Hymenaeus as teaching that the resurrection is past already (2 Tim 2:17-18)2 passages
- PhoebeA deaconess of the church at Cenchreae whom Paul commended, and the likely carrier of the letter to the Romans (Rom 16:1-2)1 passage
- PhygelusNamed with Hermogenes among all they of Asia who turned away from Paul (2 Tim 1:15)
- Porcius FestusFelix's successor as procurator, before whom Paul appealed to Caesar — and who interrupted Paul's defence to tell him that much learning had made him mad2 passages
PriscillaA tentmaker and teacher who, with her husband Aquila, instructed Apollos and hosted a church — Paul's coworker (Rom 16:3; Acts 18)8 passages- PubliusThe chief man of Malta, who lodged the shipwrecked party for three days; Paul prayed for his fever-stricken father and healed him, and the whole island's sick came after2 passages
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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.