People of Hebrew Scriptures
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- Leah Rachel
- father is Laban
- Hagar
- mother of Ishmael
- Lot
- Abram's nephew
- Leah Rachel
- wives of Jacob
- Ishmael
- father of the Islam religion
- Saul
- made the first king
- Jonathon
- Saul's son and friend of David
- Esau
- threatens to kill his brother Jacob
- Abraham
- father of our faith
- Benjamin
- second son of Rachel
- Lot's wife
- turns into a pillar of salt
- Joseph
- first son of Rachel
- Abraham
- rescues his nephew Lot
- Ishbaal
- son of Saul
- Aaron
- God chose him to assist Moses with Pharoah
- Samson
- a Nazirite whose strength was in his hair and was unable to resist the Philistine woman Delilah
- Samuel
- reluctantly anoints Saul as king
- Egyptian princess
- saves baby Moses from the Nile
- Hannah
- gives birth to Samuel and offers him up as a Nazirite
- Potiphar's wife
- seduces Joseph
- Jacob
- favorite son of Rebekah
- Michal
- Saul's daughter and the wife of David
- Sarah
- forces her husband to conceive a son with her maid
- Abraham
- father of Islam, Jewish, and Christianity
- Jacob
- another name for this man is Israel
- Samuel
- warns against establishing a monarchy but gives in
- Abraham
- leader of the Semetic tribe
- Absalom
- full brother of Tamar who kills Amnon
- Meribaal
- son of Jonathan and the surviving heir of Saul
- Ruth
- mother of Obed
- Goliath
- Philistine man whom David fights and kills using a simple slingshot and a rock
- Eli
- judge/priest who blesses Hannah and has sons unworthy of leadership
- Amnon
- David's firstborn son and heir to the throne who rapes Tamar
- Rahab
- a prostitute who sheltered the Isralites spies in Jericho
- Ruth
- grandmother of Jesse
- Abraham
- receives a call that his descendants will outnumber the stars in the sky
- David
- youngest son of Jesse who was secretly anointed by Samuel to be king
- Jedidiah
- second son of Bathsheba
- Delilah
- Philistine woman who cuts Samson's hair while he is sleeping
- Boaz
- from whom Ruth harvested wheat and her future husband
- Isaac
- his father took him up to the top of the mountain to sacrifice him
- Leah
- Jacob gets tricked into marrying her
- Aaron
- brother of Moses
- Rachel
- dies at the birth of her second son Benjamin
- Abner
- Saul's general and the ruler of the north of Israel
- Achan
- removes something from the city of Jericho after the battle and breaks the ban
- Abraham Sarah Jacob
- people whose names were changed
- Miriam
- sister of Moses
- Jacob
- receives his father's birthright even though he is not the oldest son
- Bathsheba
- wife of Uriah and the woman whom David acidentally gets pregnant; then he marries her
- Abner
- betrayer of Ishbaal
- Samuel
- calls Israel to live under "TheLaw" fidelity
- Tamar
- half sister of Amnon who is raped by him
- Ruth
- great-grandmother of David
- his mother
- raised Moses in the Israelite faith until he was weaned
- Uriah
- husband of Bathsheba and a soldier whom David placed on the frontline to get killed so he could marry Bathsheba
- Joshua
- will take Moses place as leader of teh Israelite and will lead them into the Promised Land (Canaan)
- Rebekah
- wife of Isaac