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Intro to the Bible > Characters > Flashcards

Characters Flashcards

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Adam

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  • Meaning of name in Hebrew “from the earth”

* Created to maintain God’s Creation

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Eve

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  • Made to be partner of Adam

* Created from rib, two parts of the same whole

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Cain

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  • First son of Adam and Eve
  • Farmer
  • Killed Abel
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Abel

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  • Second son of Adam and Eve
  • Shepherd
  • Killed by Cain
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Noah

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  • Righteous in his day
  • Ark
  • Didn’t care that God was going to kill everyone
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Abraham

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  • Righteous and good
  • Father of all three main monotheistic religions
  • First patriarch
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Sarah

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  • Wife of Abraham
  • First name Sarai
  • Conceived in 90s
  • Mother of Issac
  • Laughed when God promised son
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Hagar

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  • Sarah’s slave girl
  • Mother of Ishmael
  • Sarah jealous of her
  • Sent away with son when Issac came
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Ishmael

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  • First son of Abraham
  • Name means “God listens”
  • Circumcised at 13
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Issac

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  • Second patriarch
  • Son of Abraham and Sarah
  • Almost sacrificed by Abraham
  • Father of Esau and Jacob
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Rebekah

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  • Isaac’s wife
  • Favored Jacob over Esau
  • Helped Jacob trick Isaac into giving him his blessing
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Esau

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  • First son of Isaac and Rebekah
  • Traded birthright for soup
  • Athletic and hairy
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Jacob

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  • Second son of Isaac and Rebekah
  • Held on to Esau’s ankle
  • “holder of the heel”
  • Took birthright from Esau
  • Tricked Isaac into giving him blessing
  • Name change
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Israel

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  • Jacob’s second name
  • Last patriarch
  • Means “wrestles with God”
  • 12 sons
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Joseph

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  • 11th son of Israel
  • 2nd son of Rachel
  • Dreams
  • Prophet (kind of)
  • Israel’s favorite
  • Sold into slavery by brothers
  • 2nd in command under Pharaoh
  • Famine
  • Two sons: Ephraim and Mannaseh
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Judah

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  • Jacob’s 4th son, son of Leah
  • “Praised one”
  • One who suggested selling Joseph
  • Regrets, offers life for Benjamin’s
  • Sleeps with daughter in law Tamar
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Pharaoh

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  • Did not know Joseph
  • Distrustful of Israelites – enslaved them
  • Heart hardened by God
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Moses

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  • Given up by mother, adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter
  • Chosen by God to lead Israelites out of Egypt
  • Gets Torah from God
  • Wants to give up leading Israelites
  • Mentors Joshua
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The Six Women of Exodus who rescue Moses

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  • Puah and Shiphrah, midwives, don’t kill him
  • Birth mom put in basket and nursed him
  • Miriam, sister, found birth mom to nurse
  • Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him
  • Zipporah, wife
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Caleb

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  • One of twelve spies sent to holy land

* One of two who thought it was possible to get to holy land

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Joshua

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  • Moses’s protégé
  • One of twelve spies
  • Took over when Moses died
  • Battle of Jericho
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Aaron

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  • Moses’ brother
  • First high priest
  • Made golden calf
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Baal

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Canaanite god of agriculture

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Deborah

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  • Only female judge
  • “Mother of Israel”
  • Prophesied death of Sisera by Jael
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Samson

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  • Born to barren woman
  • Hair gave him strength
  • Delilah hired to find out secret
  • Little interest in God’s will
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Jonathan son of Gershom son of Moses

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  • Priest under Micah

* Idol in image of God

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Samuel

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  • Last judge
  • Had to find a king
  • Anointed two kings
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Saul

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  • First king of Israel
  • Crazy
  • From Benjamin
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David

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  • Second king of Israel
  • Defeated Goliath
  • Played lyre for Saul
  • Bathsheba
  • Wrote many psalms
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Goliath

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  • Philistine giant

* Taunted Israelites

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Bathsheba

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  • Woman David slept with
  • Bore David’s child
  • Husband killed by David
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Solomon

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  • Son of David and Bathsheba
  • King known for wisdom
  • Built the temple
  • Golden age of Israel
  • 1000 wives
  • Started worshiping idols
  • Son over taxed
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Elijah

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  • Prophet
  • Counter to Ahab
  • Defeated prophets of Baal
  • Mentored Elisha
  • Malachi prophesized his return
  • Didn’t die, taken
  • Miracles like Moses
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Elisha

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  • Protégé of Elijah
  • Appoints Jehu king
  • Calf worship continues
  • Jehu has Jezebel killed
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Josiah

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  • Good king of Judah
  • Found Torah
  • Reforms
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Gideon

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  • Smashed Baal idols
  • Defeated Midianites and Amalekites with only 300 troops
  • Had 70 sons plus Abimelech with concubine
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Jephthah

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  • Son of a concubine
  • Begged to save Israel from Ammonites
  • Defeated Ammonites, sacrificed king’s daughter
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Hannah

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  • Mother of Samuel

* Barren, dedicates son to God

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Eli

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  • Decent high priest
  • Sons corrupt
  • Thinks Hannah is drunk
  • Raises Samuel
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Absalom

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  • Son of David
  • Avenges full sister raped by half brother
  • Exiled by David
  • Returns and dethrones David
  • Hair caught in tree, killed by Joab
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Jeroboam

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  • First king of northern kingdom of Israel

* Idolatry

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Ahab

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  • Northern king
  • Marries Jezebel
  • Reintroduced Baal worship
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Hezekiah

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  • Judah’s most righteous king

* Bird in a cage, wouldn’t surrender

44
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Isaiah

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Prophet in Jerusalem (capital of Judah)
Ministry spanned four kings
Holiness of God
Permanence of Zion
Salvation
Name means "Salvation of YHWH"
45
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Jeremiah

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Levite
Prophesied for Josiah through fall of Jerusalem
Predicts fall to Babylonians and exile
“Weeping Prophet” because he was hated by the people and they made him sad with their actions

46
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Ezekiel

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Prophet only after being exiled from Babylon
Had a famous vision about God’s glory
He explains why they were exiled and how they will be redeemed
The glory of God is with the people, not in a temple
Wife dies but he is not allowed to mourn her

Intro to the Bible (3 decks)

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