People: Joshua - 1 Chronicles Flashcards
1) 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 tribes and then died at the age of 110.
2) Reubenites, Gadites and half the tribe of Manasseh
A people who chose their inheritance on the east side of Jordan, in the Land of Gilead. They built an imposing altar near the Jordan which made the Israelites furious because they thought it was an altar for themselves and that they were forsaking the Lord but in reality they built the altar as a replica and as a witness between them and the rest of the Israelites that God was still with them. This is why the altar was named, “A Witness Between Us”.
3) Rahab
A prostitute in Jericho who received, concealed, and safely sent off Joshua’s two spies who were being chased by the King of Jericho. After the Israelites attacked and marched around the walls of Jericho seven times, everything collapsed and they destroyed everyone except the house of Rahab.
4) Achan
An 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 tried to hide the possessions in his tent but was caught and stoned to death and burned, along with his entire family. His name means, “One who troubles.”
5) Caleb
One of the twelve spies and together with Joshua brought back a good report from Canaan. Joshua blesses him as a sign of God’s blessing and approval, giving him Hebron.
6) 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.
7) Adoni-Bezek
King of Bezek who fled in battle when his men were defeated, but was captured and punished for his cruelty of mutilating the thumbs and great toes of seventy kings whom he had conquered—his thumbs and big toes were likewise cut off.
8) Ehud
The second judge of the Israel who was a strong, left-handed warrior. He used a two-edged dagger to put to death Eglon, a Moabite king. He thereafter captured and slaughtered 10,000 other Moabites and brought about forty years of rest.
9) Eglon
A Moabite king who was killed by Ehud as he drew a sword into his fat belly.
10) 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 they defeated Jabin’s army.
11) Barak
Didn’t want to fight the army led by Sisera without Deborah and so she went and they were victorious.
12) Sisera
Captain of Jabin’s army who was defeated the Israelite army. After all was lost he fled and Jael, Heber’s wife, received him into her tent with apparent hospitality, yet drove a tent peg through his skull while he was asleep.
13) Gideon (Jerub-Baal)
A Judge of Israel who was called by God to save Israel out of the Midian’s hand as he was threshing wheat in a winepress. When he doubted, God simply told him to “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 that He will bring about victory. With 300 men they defeated the Midianites.
14) Zebah and Zalmunna
Two kings who were killed by Gideon after confessing that they took part in killing his brothers.
15) Abimelech
Son of Gideon who murdered 70 of his brothers. He was struck on the head by a millstone thrown by a woman on the wall. Realizing the wound was fatal, he told his armor-bearer to kill him so they wouldn’t say he was killed by a woman.
16) Jotham
The youngest of Gideon’s seventy sons and the only one to escape the mass murdering of Abimelech.
17) Gaal
The man in which the Schechemites placed their confidence in to head their revolution against Abimelech but they were destroyed.
18) Jephthah
Judge of Israel who after leading the Israelites victoriously into battle against the Ammonites, fulfilled a rash vow to sacrifice his daughter.
19) Samson
Judge of Israel who was given supernatural strength by God to combat his enemies and perform feats such as killing a lion, slaying an entire army with only the jawbone of a donkey, lifting off of a city’s gate, and destroying a pagan temple. Fell in love with Delilah, who brought about his demise, by cutting off his hair. His life ended in tied up in chains with his eyes gouged out. With divine strength he knocked over two pillars in the temple he was being kept for show, killing both himself and many Philistine officials.
20) Manoah
Father of Samson.
21) 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 and on her return to Bethlehem she wished to be known as Mara, which mean “bitterness” instead of Naomi, which means “sweetness”.
22) Ruth
A widow and a Moabite 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. There Naomi had a rich relative, Boaz, to whom which Ruth married. She became the mother of Obed, the grandfather of David. She uttered the 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.”
23) Boaz
Ruth’s husband who redeemed the estates of her deceased husband Mahlon.
24) Boaz’ mother
Boaz’s mother was Rahab of Jericho who was incorporated among the Jewish people after her aid in the sacking of Jericho. Thereafter became the wife of Salmon and the mother of Boaz, Jesse’s grandfather.
25) Obed
Son of Boaz and Ruth. Father of Jesse and grandfather of David.
26) 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 Israel. He wrote most of the Psalms, defeated Goliath, overcame Saul’s attacks and even though he committed adultery and murder he was still known to be a man after God’s own heart.
27) Elkanah
Father of Samuel the prophet and husband of Samuel’s mother Hannah.
28) Peninnah
Second wife of Elkanah.
29) 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 she would offer him in return for the service of the Shiloh priest. Her prayers were answered and she gave birth to Samuel.
30) Eli
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 and that his sons were killed, he fell backward from off his seat and died at ninety-eight years old.
