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 once4 group studies
- The united kingdomSaul, David and Solomon1 in the register
- Jesus and the Gospelsthe birth to the ascension1 written life, 1 in the register
- The church, from Acts onwardPaul, his circle and the letters2 written lives, 3 in the register
Five walks across the whole family
Each of these five pages takes a whole group at once and sets it on one figure. You can see the shape of the kings or the judges before opening a single life.
4 studies, each of a whole group
- The PatriarchsAbraham to Joseph as one covenant relay: the promise restated, the altars, the crises of faith, the deathbed blessings.
- The Twelve JudgesThe era before the throne, on the cycle wheel: tribe, oppressor, years, one saving act, one flaw.
- The ProphetsSamuel to Malachi on one chronological rail: writing and non-writing, aligned to the kings, ending at the four hundred silent years.
- The Women of ScriptureEden to Romans 16 on one seed-line: matriarchs, prophetesses, the five women of the genealogy, and the contested passages handled honestly.
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
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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.
1 written life, 1 in the register
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The register: 1 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, 3 in the register
TimothyA young disciple from Lystra, raised in the faith by his mother and grandmother, who became Paul's closest missionary companion and was entrusted with pastoral leadership of the church at EphesusUnknown, Saint Timothy- TitusA Greek convert and trusted companion of Paul, a test case for Gentile freedom from circumcision, a peacemaker sent to the troubled Corinthian church, and later left to organize church leadership on the island of Crete
The register: 3 more names in this era, each with the passages that hold them
- TertiusThe scribe who wrote the letter to the Romans at Paul's dictation and added his own greeting (Rom 16:22)1 passage
- TheophilusThe named recipient of both Luke and Acts, addressed as "most excellent" (kratistos, a title of rank). Luke writes to him so that he might know the certainty concerning the things wherein he was instructed (Luke 1:1-4; Acts 1:1)2 passages
- TychicusBeloved brother and faithful minister, Paul's letter-carrier for Ephesians and Colossians (Eph 6:21-22; Col 4:7-8), sent again in 2 Tim 4:12 and Titus 3:127 passages
Keep studying
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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.