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
- Judah, the southern throneRehoboam to Zedekiah2 written lives
- Israel, the northern throneJeroboam to Hoshea2 written lives
- Exile and returnBabylon to the Persian years1 written life, 1 in the register
- Jesus and the Gospelsthe birth to the ascension2 in the register
- The church, from Acts onwardPaul, his circle and the letters1 in the register
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.
2 written lives
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ZephaniahZephaniah prophesied early in the reign of Josiah (c. 640-625 BC), before or during the great reformUnknown (Yaroslavl school), The Prophet Zephaniah
ZedekiahThe last king of Judah, installed by Nebuchadnezzar, who repeatedly consulted Jeremiah but lacked the courage to obey himGustave Doré, Zedekiah's Sons Are Slaughtered before His Eyes, The Holy Bible (1866)
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
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, 1 in the register
The register: 1 more names in this era, each with the passages that hold them
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 in the register
The register: 2 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.
1 in the register
The register: 1 names in this era, each with the passages that hold them
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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.