In Genesis | Leaders and Judges | The Kings | In Exile | Family in the Gospels |
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Who is Noah?
This man built an ark with his seven family members to survive a global flood
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What is Jericho?
This fortress of a town is where Rahab was living before it was destroyed
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Who is David?
This faithful king and friend of Jehovah was the second over all of Israel - even part of Jerusalem was named after him
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What is the governor?
This is the position Zerubbabel held in the group of Israelites returning to their homeland
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Who is Joseph?
He adopted Jesus as a son after he found out his wife-to-be was pregnant miraculously
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Who is Abraham?
This man faithfully left Ur with his wife, his father, and his nephew to camp in the wilderness
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What is Judah?
This tribe, the one Jesus descended from, led the march through the wilderness
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Who is Josiah?
He started ruling over Judah at only eight years old and rid the land of idolatry
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Who is Jeremiah?
This faithful prophet was used by Jehovah to warn the last five Judean kings of their impending conquering by Babylon, and he continued active into the exile
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Who is John the Baptizer?
This "messenger" wore camel-fur clothes like Elijah and ate only insects and honey
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Who is Rebekah?
Eliezer found this faithful woman when looking for a wife for his master's son
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What is Moab?
Naomi travelled back from this nation with her daughter-in-law Ruth
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Who is Hezekiah?
Likely the writer of Psalm 119, this king relied on Jehovah to defend Judah against the Assyrians
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Who is Haman?
This evil man's plan to convince the king of Persia to annihilate the Jews threatened the line of the Messiah, but Esther got in his way
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What is Boanerges?
Jesus gave this nickname to his cousins James and John, meaning "Sons of Thunder"
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Who is Seth?
This early man ended up as progenitor of all of modern humanity after one of his older brothers killed another out of jealousy
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Who is Obed?
The neighbor women named him just after his birth at the end of the book of Ruth
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Who is Ahab?
This wicked Israelite king and his despicable wife made their way into Jesus' lineage by their daughter, who ruled as Judah's only queen for six years
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What is God's holy spirit?
Jehovah told Zerubbabel through Zechariah that he would overcome opposition "not by a military force, nor by power, but by" this
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Who is Salome?
She was Jesus' aunt, and she pleaded with him for her sons to have a high-ranking position in God's Kingdom
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Who is Leah?
This wife of Jacob was the mother of Jesus' tribe
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Who is Nahshon?
This man was a prominent chieftain during the trek in the wilderness - Aaron even married his sister
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What is Mount Moriah?
David purchased the threshing floor of Ornan on this tall mountain for Solomon to eventually build the temple on
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Who is Jeconiah (Jehoiachin)?
This Judean king was taken captive to Babylon and decades later became friends with Nebuchadnezzar's successor Awil-Marduk
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Who is Heli?
Though listed as Joseph's father in the geneological records, this man actually was Mary's father, giving Jesus a lineage back to David both legally and by blood
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