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Old Testament People
| description | answer |
|---|---|
| First man God created | Adam |
| First woman God created | Eve |
| Brother who killed his brother because he was angry that God didn't accept his sacrifice. | Cain |
| Third child of Adam and Eve | Seth |
| Oldest person mentioned in the bible that lived to be 969 years old. | Methuselah |
| Man that God asked to build a boat of gopher wood. | Noah |
| Three sons of Noah | Shem, Ham and Japheth |
| Father of Abraham | Terah |
| Original name of Abraham | Abram |
| Wife of Abraham | Sarah |
| Nephew of Abraham that lived in Sodom | Lot |
| What woman looked back toward Sodom and turned into a pillar of salt? | Lot's wife |
| Son of promise of Abraham and Sarah | Isaac |
| Isaac's wife, mother of Jacob and Esau | Rebekah |
| Twins of Isaac and Rebekah | Jacob and Esau |
| sold his birthright for a bowl of soup or stew | Esau |
| Jacob's father-in-law that tricked him | Laban |
| First wife of Jacob | Leah |
| Wife whom Jacob loved | Rachel |
| Son of Jacob that had a coat of many colors, oldest son of Rachel, dreamed dreams | Joseph |
| Firstborn son of Jacob, Joseph's brother, kept him from being killed and just had him thrown into a pit | Reuben |
| Joseph's brother that suggested selling Joseph | Judah |
| Name of Joseph's 1st Egyptian slave master, his wife accused Joseph of assault, and he was put in prison by this man | Potiphar |
| Youngest of Jacob's sons and only full brother of Joseph | Benjamin |
| Name of Hebrew baby put in a basket in the waters of Egypt, lawgiver and leader of the Israelites out of Egypt to the Promised Land, received tablets of stone on which the law was written on Mt. Sinai | Moses |
| Title of Egyptian ruler that kept the Israelites as slaves | Pharoah |
| Moses' brother that later became the first high priest | Aaron |
| Priest of Midian and later became Moses' father in law | Jethro |
| Wife of Moses | Zipporah |
| Name of tribe that the priests were from | Levi |
| Raised by an Egyptian princess; killed an Egyptian slave master for abusing a Hebrew slave and hid his body; escaped to Midian, got married and became a shepherd for 40 years; Led the Israelites across the Red Sea and into the wilderness for 40 years | Moses |
| Name the two spies that went spied out Canaan that came back with good news | Joshua and Caleb |
| Left handed judge that slayed a king with a 2 edged sword | Ehud |
| female prophet and judge in Israel that helped Barak in battle against the Canaanite army | Deborah |
| Israelite woman that first gives him milk and shelter, then slew the Canaanite general of King Jabin, Sisera, by hammering a tent spike into his temple while he slept after he escaped from the battle with Deborah's general, Barak. | Jael |
| Very strong judge that slayed 1000 men with a jawbone, killed a lion with bare hands, tied foxes together and set tails on fire to destroy crops of the Philistines, pulled down pillars upon the Philistines | Samson |
| Judge that killed the Midianites for Israel, wanted a sign (dew on fleece) army of 300 with sticks and lights in a jar | Gideon |
| Name of last judge, also a prophet, who was left with Eli in the temple at a young age due to a oath his mother Hannah made to God | Samuel |
| First king of Israel, father of Jonathan | Saul |
| Young man that killed Goliath, 2nd king of Israel, gathered the materials for the temple; wrote many of the Psalms | David |
| Giant of the Philistines that was killed with a small stone from a sling | Goliath |
| Prophet that told David how serious his sin was dealing with Bathsheba and her husband | Nathan |
| 2nd child born to David and Bathsheba; wrote many of the Proverbs addressed to his son | Solomon |
| Son of David and Bathsheba, 3rd King of Israel that built the 1st temple of God in Jerusalem | Solomon |
| Son of David that was hung by his long locks of hair and later died | Absalom |
| eldest son of King Saul; friend of David | Jonathan |
| Wicked king, married to Jezebel | Ahab |
| Prophet who lived in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab. In 1 Kings 18, He defended the worship of the Hebrew God over that of the Canaanite deity Baal. His greatest miracle involved a contest with the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah on Mount Carmel to show that Baal had no power against the God of Israel. The outcome would demonstrate who served the true God (1 Kings 18:19-40). He was taken to heaven in a chariot pulled by horses of fire | Elijah |
| Captain of Syria that had leprosy, went to Elisha for cure | Naaman |
| possibly oldest book in Bible, name of man that God allowed Satan to curse, and his friends nor his wife were very supportive during this test of his faith | Job |
| Prophet whose book spoke a lot about the destruction of Israel and the coming Messiah | Isaiah |
| The weeping prophet, wrote the book of Lamentations, many prophecies about coming of Babylonians and destruction of Jerusalem | Jeremiah |
| Hebrew man refused to eat the king's meat, interpreted Nebuchadnezzar's dream about 4 kingdoms; that was throw into the lion's den for praying to God instead of Darius; handwriting on the wall interpreted for King Belshazzar | Daniel |
| Man who didn't go to Ninevah as God had instructed and was later swallowed by a large fish; got on a boat going to Tarshish | Jonah |
| Hebrew man who had uncovered plot of king's officers who guarded the doorway, who had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes; raised the orphan Esther; encouraged her to speak to the king and save her people | Mordecai |
| Moabitess Woman who took care of Naomi and married Boaz; ancestors of David | Ruth |
| Woman who married King Xerxes in Persia and saved her people from Haman's plot to destroy them | Esther |
| Prophet that anointed Saul and David as kings of Israel | Samuel |
| Leader of the Israelites after Moses, Military leader in the land of Canaan for Israelites | Joshua |
| Prophet that was student of Elijah and sent a message to Naaman to wash 7 times in the Jordan to cure his leprosy, | Elisha |
| King David’s military commander | Joab |
| The opposing kings who divide Israel into the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah | Jeroboam (Israel-given the kingdom) & Rehoboam (leader of Judah: stupid, riches-seeking son of Solomon who overtaxed the people) |
| Dreamer who was able to plan ahead for famine in Egypt | Joseph |
| a woman who lived in Jericho, who hid 2 spies, hung a red cord out her window and was spared | Rahab |
| won a victory over a Midianite army leading a troop of 300 | Gideon |
| became king of Judah when he was 8 years old, a godly king who restored the Temple and rediscovered the Law | Josiah |
| 3 young Hebrew men who refused to bow down to the golden idol and were ordered thrown in the furnace by Nebuchadnezzar | Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego or (Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah |
| Name given to Jacob after he wrestled with an angel | Israel |
| 2nd son of Adam and Eve, a shepherd who offered his firstborn flock up to God as an offering, was killed by his brother, Cain | Abel |
| wife of Ahab, King of Israel, instituted the worship of Baal and Asherah on a national scale. | Jezebel |
| soldier, husband of Bathsheba, was betrayed in battle by David's orders to Joab. The soldiers were ordered to fall back and leave him alone | Uriah, the Hittite |
| tribe of slave traders that took Joseph to Egypt | Midianites |
| 2 men in prison with Joseph---- which one was restored and which was beheaded? | butler (restored) and baker (beheaded) |
| King Saul wanted no other dowry price from David to marry his daughter Michal than to take revenge on his enemies by collecting which items? | a hundred Philistine foreskins |
| son of Abraham and Hagar, the servant of Sarah; followers of Islam consider him the rightful heir to God's promises, not Isaac | Ishmael (considered father of the Arabs) |
| older brother of Moses, first high priest | Aaron |
| older sister of Moses, stricken with leprosy after a rebellion | Miriam |
| Saul's commander of the Israelite army | Abner |
| Prophet that god commanded to marry an unfaithful wife named Gomer as an object lesson about idolatry by the Jewish nation, asked God to forgive Israel for their unfaithfulness | Hosea |
| lied to a king, said his wife was his sister | Abraham |
| hit the rock when he was supposed to speak to the rock for water | Moses |
| was given the commandments on Mt Sinai (Horeb) | Moses |
| name of Moses' parents | Amram and Jochebed |
| Prophet sent for by a king of Moab named Balak to curse the Israelites; his donkey saw the angel and spoke to him | Balam |
| priest and king who met Abraham after he rescued Lot | Melchizedek |
| wife of Uriah the Hittite, seen bathing by David, mother of Solomon | Bathsheba |
| Persian ruler, sent Jews home form Babylonian exile | Cyrus |
| the oldest of all the figures mentioned in the Bible | Methuselah |
| the son of Abinoam summoned by Deborah who ordered him, in the name of god, to take ten thousand men to Mount Tabor and fight against the Caananite army of King Jabin of Hazor. He agreed to on condition that Deborah go with him. | Barak |
| commander of the Canaanite army of King Jabin of Hazor. After being defeated, he ran away and was killed by Jael, who hammered a tent peg into his temple while he slept. | Sisera |
| a commander of the army of Syria whose wife had a servant girl from Israel who said that a prophet there would be able to heal him of leprosy. | Naaman |
| the grandson of Abraham, the the second-born son of Isaac and Rebekah, and the traditional ancestor of the people of Israel, also called Israel. husband of the sisters Rachel and Leah, and father of twelve sons, tricked by Laban into marrying Leah after working 7 years for Rachel. | Jacob |
| Wrote of the decree of King Cyrus of Persia and the return of two groups of Jews from Babylon to Jerusalem, where they rebuilt the temple and their community. | Ezra |
| Childless as one of the two wives of Elkanah, she prayed for a son, promising to dedicate him to God. mother of Samuel, the Jewish judge, grew up in the charge of the priest Eli. | Hannah |
| also called the "weeping prophet", pronounced God's judgment upon the people in Judah of his time for their wickedness right before Judah fell to Babylon. He was arrested, beaten, accused of treason, and thrown in jail then thrown in a deep empty well. He lived through the siege of Jerusalem and was there as the people were taken away as captives. | Jeremiah |
| In 586 B.C., the southern kingdom of Judah fell to this Empire as the walls of Jerusalem were breached, the Temple was destroyed, and the city walls torn down by armies of | Babylonian Empire |
| King of Judah whose reign ended in the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and the deportation of most of the Jews to Babylon | Zedekiah |
| Babylonian king who destroyed Jerusalem and led away many Hebrews into captivity in Babylon. According to Daniel, the he suffers from a mental illness, and lives isolated and ate grass for seven years, until he acknowledges the power of the one God. | Nebuchadnezzar II |
| 2 faithful spies who brought back a good report of Canaan, only 2 adults allowed to enter the Promised Land | Joshua and Caleb |
| was only 8 years old when he became king of Judah. A good king who wiped out all of the pagan cults that had formed within his kingdom | Josiah |
| worst king of Israel after the division of the kingdom, built a temple and altar to Baal in Samaria, caused a drought that lasted for several years | Ahab |
| He was an idolater who turned against God and worshiped every kind of pagan deity, known as the worst king of Judah | Manasseh |
| an Egyptian slave, a handmaiden of Sarah, whom Sarah gave to her husband Abram as a wife to bear him a child. Abraham's firstborn son, through Hagar, Ishmael, became the progenitor of the Ishmaelites, generally taken to be the Arabs. | Hagar |
| told by God to leave the city of Ur and go to a land he would be shown | Abraham |
| Abraham's father | Terah |
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