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Joshua |
One of the twelve spies of Israel sent by Moses to explore the land of Canaan. After the death of Moses, he led the Israelite Tribes in the conquest of Canaan and allocated the land to the 12 Tribes. He died at the age of 110. |
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Reubenites, Gadites and the Half-tribe of Manasseh |
These are the tribes who chose to have their inheritance on the east side of the Jordan. Recorded in Joshua 22, upon their return to the east side after joining in the conquest of the Promised Land, these “Eastern Tribes” built an imposing altar near the Jordan River on the west side. This made the other Israelite Tribes furious because they thought that the Eastern Tribes were forsaking the Lord. However, in reality, the Eastern Tribes built the altar as a replica and as a witness between them and the Western Tribes that God was still with them. This is why the altar was named, “A Witness Between Us That The Lord Is God.” |
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Rahab |
The prostitute in Jericho who received, concealed and safely sent-off the two spies that Joshua sent to “spy-out” Jericho. After the Israelites attacked and marched around the walls of Jericho seven times, everything collapsed and they destroyed everyone except the house and family of Rahab, which by agreement was marked by a scarlet cord. |
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Achan |
The Israelite who was stoned for keeping a quantity of the gold, silver and costly clothing after the fall of Jericho when God commanded the entire army to destroy everything. He hid the possessions in his tent but was caught by the casting of lots. Achan and his entire family were stoned to death and burned. Over them, they placed a large pile of rocks. |
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Caleb |
One of the twelve spies sent by Moses to “spy-out” the Promised Land. Only Caleb and Joshua brought back a good report from Canaan. Joshua gives him Hebron as his inheritance. Hebron (Kiriath Arba) was the sacred burial grounds for the Patriarchs/Matriarchs – Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob and Leah. |
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Othniel |
The first Judge of Israel. He gained the hand of Achsah, daughter of Caleb, as a reward for his bravery in leading a successful expedition against the city of Debir. |
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Adoni-Bezek |
King of Bezek fled in battle when his men were defeated, but was captured by the men of Judah. They punished him for his cruelty of cutting-off the thumbs and big toes of seventy kings whom he had conquered – by likewise having his thumbs and big toes cut-off. |
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Ehud |
The second Judge of Israel. He was a valiant, left-handed warrior. He used a two-edged dagger to put to death Eglon, the Moabite king. He thereafter captured and slaughtered 10,000 other Moabites and brought about eighty years of peace for Israel. |
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Eglon |
The Moabite king who was killed by Ehud. When Ehud thrust his sword into Eglon’s belly, “the fat closed over it.” |
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Deborah |
The fourth Judge of Israel and a prophetess who judged Israel at the end of the 20 year Israelite oppression by Jabin, king of Hazor. She is considered a "mother in Israel” and she also wrote the "Song of Deborah," which commemorates the battle in which the Israelites defeated Jabin’s army. |
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Barak |
Did not want to fight the army led by Sisera without Deborah by his side, and so she went and they were victorious. |
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Sisera |
Commander of Jabin’s army who was defeated by the Israelite army. After all was lost he fled, and Jael, Heber's wife, received him into her tent with apparent hospitality. However, after he fell asleep, Jael drove a tent peg through his skull instantly killing him – an enemy of God’s people. |
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Gideon (Jarub - Baal) |
A Judge of Israel who was called by God to save Israel out of Midian’s hand as he was threshing wheat in a winepress. When he doubted, God simply told him, “Go in the strength you have.” God shrunk his army from 32,000 to 300 to show that it was not going to be about the size of the army but it would be God who brings about victory. Gideon’s 300 men victoriously defeated 135,000 Midianites. |
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Zebah and Zalmunna |
Two kings of Midian who were killed by Gideon after confessing that they took part in killing his brothers. |
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Abimelek |
The only son of Gideon by a concubine in Shechem. Abimelek murders all but one of his 70 half-brothers – who were sons of Gideon’s many wives. Abimelek makes himself king of Israel. However, he was ingloriously killed when he was struck on the head by a millstone thrown by a woman from the wall of Thebez. Realizing that the wound was fatal, Abimelek told his armor-bearer to kill him so that people would not say he was killed by a woman. |
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Jotham |
The youngest of Gideon's seventy sons and the only one to escape the mass murdering by Abimelek. |
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Gaal |
The man in whom the people of Shechem placed their confidence to head their revolution against Abimelek, but the people of Shechem were destroyed by Abimelek. |
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Jephthah |
The gifted Judge of Israel, who after leading the Israelites victoriously in battle against the Ammonites, fulfilled a rash vow to sacrifice the first thing that came out of his house. Tragically, it was his beloved daughter. |
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Samson |
The Judge of Israel who was given supernatural physical strength by God to combat the Philistines. He performed feats of strength such as killing a lion, slaying a 1,000 men with only the jawbone of a donkey, lifting off of a city’s gate carrying it to the top of a hill, and destroying a pagan temple. Samson fell in love with Delilah, who brought about his demise, by cutting off his hair. His life ended – tied up in chains with his eyes gouged out – but with his divine strength restored as his hair grew back, he knocked over two pillars in the temple sacrificing himself and killing 3,000 Philistines. |
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Manoah |
Father of Samson. |
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Naomi |
Ruth’s mother-in-law and wife of Elimelech. Naomi left Judea with her husband and two sons in a time of famine and went to the land of Moab. Her husband and sons died. On her return to Bethlehem, she wished to be known as Mara, which means “bitterness” instead of Naomi, which means “pleasant.” |
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Ruth |
The Moabite widow of Mahlon, who was the daughter-in-law to Elimelech and Naomi. On the death of her father-in-law and husband, she followed Naomi to Bethlehem. Demonstrating a rare selfless loyalty, she uttered these now famous words to Naomi, “Where you go I will go, and where your stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.” In Bethlehem, Naomi had a rich relative, Boaz, to whom Ruth would later marry. She became the mother of Obed, the grandfather of David. |
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Boaz |
Ruth’s husband who redeemed the estates of her deceased husband Mahlon. |
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Boaz's Mother |
Boaz’s mother was Rahab of Jericho who was incorporated into the Jewish people after her aid in the sacking of Jericho. Thereafter, she became the wife of Salmon and the mother of Boaz. |
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Obed |
Son of Boaz and Ruth. Father of Jesse and grandfather of David. |
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David |
Second king of United Israel and Judah. Shepherd at a young age and then called to be King and Shepherd over all of God’s people in Israel. He wrote many of the Psalms, defeated Goliath, righteously overcame Saul’s jealous attacks, and even though he committed adultery and murder, David became known as “a man after God’s own heart.” (Acts 13:22) |
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Elkanah |
Father of Samuel the prophet and husband of Samuel’s mother – Hannah. |
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Peninnah |
The second wife of Elkanah. |
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Hannah |
Wife of Elkanah and mother of Samuel. After not being able to conceive, she prayed to the Lord for a child and vowed that if God granted her a son that she would offer him for the service of the Lord. Her prayers were answered and she gave birth to Samuel. |
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Eli |
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The high priest of Shiloh who trained Samuel and judged Israel for 40 years after the death of Samson. After receiving word from the battlefield that Israel had lost to the Philistines, that his two sons were killed, and that the Ark of God was in the hands of the Philistines, he fell backward in his seat, breaking his neck, and died at ninety-eight years old. |
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Samuel |
Dedicated by his mother, Hannah, as a part of a Nazirite vow she made before he was born. Was trained by Eli and he successfully defeated the Philistines. Similar to Eli’s two sons, Samuel’s two sons acted wickedly and therefore Samuel could not pass down his judgeship and so the people demanded a king. He anointed the first two kings of Israel: Saul and David. |
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Dagon |
The national god of the Philistines whose temple was in Ashdod. There the Philistines placed the stolen Ark of God. The Spirit of God during two consecutive nights destroys the idol of Dagon ultimately forcing the Philistines to return the Ark of God back to Israel. |
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Saul |
The first king of United Israel; he was anointed by Samuel. Although he started as a humble and valiant king, he forsook God by performing unauthorized sacrificial offerings, as well as failing to obey God by eliminating all of the Amalekites and their livestock. He was allowed to reign the rest of his life, but he was tormented with an evil spirit and so he spent most of his later years trying to kill David. He died a coward’s death by taking his own life by falling on his sword. |
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Jonathan |
Eldest son of King Saul and closest friend to David. On one occasion, he saved Israel by attacking the Philistines along with his armor bearer when the two of them only had one sword. |
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Goliath |
Over nine feet tall, the Philistine champion from Gath taunted the Israelites in a prideful manner for 40 days. When hit with a stone from David’s slingshot, he was killed by this faith-filled shepherd boy. |
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Merab |
King Saul’s eldest daughter who was promised by her father Saul to David for his victory over Goliath. Saul took back his word and gave her in marriage to Adriel. |
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Michal |
The younger daughter of King Saul who fell in love with David and married him after David overpaid the dowry price of 100 Philistine foreskins by bringing to Saul 200 foreskins. |
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Nabal |
A very rich and egotistic man who was married to Abigail. God struck him dead, because he refused to provide necessary sustenance for David and his men after their loyal service to him, as well as for insulting David. His name means “fool.” |
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Abigal |
Wife of Nabal who after his death became the wife of David. David admired her as she saved her household from destruction by acting quickly and humbly in making up for Nabal’s wickedness. |
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Joab |
Son of David’s oldest half-sister Zeruiah; nephew of David and commander of his army. He played a leading role in many of David’s victories and led the loyal force that crushed the rebellion of David’s son Absalom. Yet, was an untrustworthy and unspiritual man. |
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Nahash |
King of the Ammonites who offered an ultimatum to the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead which was to either gouge out their right eyes or become his subjects. In response, Saul attacked and destroyed the Ammonite forces. |
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Hanun |
Became King of the Ammonites following the death of his father Nahash. David's messengers, sent as a message of condolence to Hanun, were so grossly insulted that David proclaimed war against Hanun. The Israelites gained a complete victory over the Ammonites and their allies. |
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Uzzah |
Committed an irreverent act in touching the Ark of God as it was falling off the cart, and so God’s anger burned against him and God struck him dead on the spot. |
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Bathsheba |
Wife of Uriah who later becomes the wife of David after committing adultery with him. As a consequence for their sin, their child dies. Yet later, by God’s grace, she becomes the mother of Solomon. Her father Eliam (Ammiel) was one of the “Mighty Men” and her grandfather was the revered sage, Ahithophel. |
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Uriah |
Husband of Bathsheba and one of David’s 30 “Mighty Men,” who was very committed and loyal to Israel. When King David commits adultery and impregnates Uriah’s wife Bathsheba, David tries to cover it up and ends up having Uriah killed on the battlefield. |
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Nathan |
The Prophet who rebuked David for his sin with Bathsheba. Also, the name of the third son of David & Bathsheba. |
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Amnon |
Oldest son of David who raped his half-sister Tamar, and because of this irreverent crime was murdered by her full brother – Absalom. |
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Absalom |
Conspired to become Israel’s next king by winning the hearts of the Israelites by false promises, largely motivated by his father David not dealing with Amnon when Amnon raped Absalom’s sister. During the ensuing battle between Absalom’s and David’s forces, Absalom was killed by Joab’s spears when his luxurious hair was caught in a tree. |
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Hushai |
Friend of David who gave advice to Absalom to not immediately pursue the retreat of David and thus gave David time to regroup and gather his forces. |
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Zeruiah & Abigail |
Half-sisters of David. |
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Josheb-Basshebeth |
Chief of David’s Three Mighty Men. |
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Araunah |
Sold his threshing floor to David, so that David could build an altar to the Lord and stop the plague brought on by David’s unrighteous census of Israel. |
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Adonijah |
Tried twice to make himself the successor of his father David as King of Israel. He was put to death at the command of his younger brother, Solomon, God’s choice to succeed David as king. |
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Abishag |
Very beautiful young woman who was chosen to be a helper and a servant to David when he became old and frail. One of her duties was to keep David warm in bed although they never had sexual relations together. Some believe her to be the “Shulammite” wife of Solomon described in his Song of Songs. |
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Solomon |
Third king of Israel, builder of the first temple in Jerusalem, and known to be the wisest man on earth. |
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Jeroboam |
First king of the divided Northern Israel Kingdom. |
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Rehoboam |
Son of Solomon who inherited his throne of United Israel. However, early in his reign is when the united twelve tribes divided into the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the Southern Kingdom of Judah. He became king of the Southern Kingdom of Judah while Jeroboam became king of Northern Israel. Israel split into two kingdoms because of Rehoboam’s harshness. |
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Queen of Sheba |
Upon hearing about Solomon’s fame and relationship with God, she went to test him. On arrival, she gave Solomon large quantities of gold, spices and precious stones. Sheba is considered by most to be modern Ethiopia. |
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Asa |
Known as a righteous king purging idolatry from Judah and even deposing his own grandmother – Maacah daughter of Absalom – from her queen position for making a repulsive Asherah pole. Sadly at the end of his reign, his downfall was that he did not rely on the Lord but made a treaty with Ben-Hadad, and also he did not seek help from the Lord about his foot disease. |
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Ahab |
King of Northern Israel who acted very wickedly by building altars for Baal and worshipping him. First Israelite king to ally himself to heathenism through marriage. |
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Jezebel |
The evil wife of King Ahab who was a Sidonian (pagan) princess; she threatened and killed the Lord’s prophets. |
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Elijah |
Prophet and miracle maker in the Northern Kingdom of Israel who challenged the 450 prophets of Baal to a “duel of fire” on Mount Carmel. Through God’s power Elijah defeated them and had them killed. As well, Elijah raised the dead, discipled Elisha, and was taken up to Heaven by a whirlwind in a chariot of fire. |
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Elisha |
Disciple and successor of Elijah as a prophet and also a miracle maker. He asked Elijah to have a double portion of Elijah’s spirit right before he was taken up into Heaven. |
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Naboth |
He was unrighteously stoned to death by the command of Jezebel for refusing to sell his vineyard to King Ahab. |
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Jehu |
Anointed King of Israel and destroyer of the house of Ahab. |
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Hoshea |
Last king of Israel. Refused to pay increased taxes demanded by the King of Assyria, and so he sought help from the king of Egypt. As a result, the King of Assyria defeated Hoshea’s army and Israel (the Northern Kingdom) was taken into captivity for their grievous sins against the Lord. |
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Hezekiah |
A righteous King of Judah, who removed idol worship from the Southern Kingdom, undertook the restoration of the temple, and defeated the Assyrians through prayer. In answer to Hezekiah’s prayer, God sent His Angel who killed 185,000 Assyrians. Also, Hezekiah became ill but after he prayed for God to spare him, the Lord added 15 years to his life. |
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Sennacherib |
As King of Assyria, he waged war against Hezekiah and the Angel of the Lord killed 185,000 of his soldiers thus sparing Jerusalem. |
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Manasseh |
Became the King of Judah at age 12 and reigned 55 years – the longest reign of any Hebrew King. However, he built altars for pagan gods and sacrificed his own children as burnt offerings. God humbled him by having him captured by the Assyrians and taken into exile. He immediately repented and destroyed the pagan altars that he had built and restored the altar in the Lord’s Temple. |
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Josiah |
Became King of Judah at age eight and in time started to restore the Temple. While cleaning out the temple, Hilkiah – the high priest – found the lost Book of the Law. The Book of the Law was read to King Josiah, and when he heard God’s Word, Josiah cried and tore his cloths in repentance. Then Josiah called all Judah together to renew their covenant with God. This great revival ended when Josiah was killed by Pharaoh Neco of Egypt. |
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Jehoahaz |
The son and successor of Josiah as King of Judah. He only reigned for three months because Pharoah Neco removed him from the throne and sent him to Egypt, where he later died. |
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Jehoiakim |
Made King of Judah by Pharaoh Neco after he removed Jehoahaz. Jehoiakim reigned 11 years and did evil in the sight of the Lord. |
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Jehoiachin |
Successor of Jehoiakim, who ruled only three months and ten days. Significant because the line of David that produced Jesus comes through him. |
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Zedekiah |
Successor of Jehoiachin as he was made King of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar, who changed his original name, “Mattaniah” to “Zedekiah.” In an attempt to escape Nebuchadnezzar’s siege on Jerusalem, Zedekiah was captured and forced to watch his sons killed, then his own eyes were gorged-out, and he died exiled in Babylon. |
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Nebuchadnezzar |
King of the Babylonian Empire who successfully attacked Jerusalem in 606 BC, 597 BC, and finally destroyed the temple and all Jerusalem in 586 BC. On each of these three occasions, Nebuchadezzar took exiles back to Babylon. Of note: Daniel in 606 BC; Jehoiachin and Ezekiel in 597 BC. |
