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Lets try a new game.  This time, characters the bible in alphebetical order.  Must name the individual, then a short synopsis about them and where they are located in the bible.

First ones a given....

Adam.  First man God created.  Disobeyed God and caused the fall of man into sin.  Found in Genisis.

Hmmm...maybe B is too hard?

How about

Bathsheba...

Woman who tempted David 2 Sam

Ooh! I missed it till now!  ;D

C-
Cain

Adam and Eve's firstborn was a son.
A jealous boy he did become.
A bad boy whose name was Cain...
his brother he done did slain.

*edited to add original redneck poetry to follow the rules ;D*

You have to tell a little history about the individual...can be short, but try to be creative!

David -

Killed a giant, became a King...was smitten to his sox, when his eyes did catch that bathsheba fox  ;D  (Carmen lyrics)

Enoch was Methuselah's dad-
365 years he done did had.
He walked with God
till God took him away.
He missed out on death
to this very day.

More redneck poetry.... ;D

(Genesis and Hebrews)

Felix....

Governor of Judea which the Apostle Paul was tried before.

Gabriel
Gabriel is an angel (or archangel). He appears first in the prophesies of Daniel in the Old Testament. The angel announced to Daniel the prophecy of the seventy weeks. His name also occurs in the apocryphal book of Enoch.

Habakkuk
A prophet who prophesied after the destruction of Nineveh.  (Theres a name you don't see too often in modern times!)

Here is a great one..........

Isaiah
The son of Amoz, who was apparently a man of humble rank. His wife was called "the prophetess", either because she was endowed with the prophetic gift, like Deborah and Huldah, or simply because she was the wife of "the prophet". He had two sons, who bore symbolic names.
Isaiah probably lived to its close, and possibly into the reign of Manasseh, but the time and manner of his death are not specified in Scripture or recorded history.

Jesus!

Son of God, took on flesh and dwelt among us.  Talk about Bible Characters, he is the main theme throughout!

Kenaz
In the Old Testament, Kenaz was a son of Eliphaz and a grandson of Esau. He was an Edomite leader (Genesis 36:11, 15, 42).

Lazarus

Brother of Mary and Martha, became sick and died...Jesus raised him from the dead.

Micah
A man of Mount Ephraim, whose history so far is introduced in Judg. 17, apparently for the purpose of leading to an account of he settlement of the tribe of Dan in Northern Palestine, and for the purpose also of illustrating the lawlessness of the times in which he lived (Judg. 18; 19:1-29; 21:25)

Nathan
1. Son of David and Bathsheba
2Sa_5:14; 1Ch_3:5; 1Ch_14:4
2. A prophet in the time of David:
His message to David concerning the building of a temple
2 Sam 7:1-17; 1Ch_17:1-15

Obadiah
A Levite who superintended the repairs of the Temple in Jerusalem under Josiah (2 Chron. 34:12).

Peter

A fisherman chosen by Christ to be a Desciple.  Walked on the water with Jesus, denyed Christ 3.

(One of my favorite portions of the bible 1st and 2nd Peter)

There is no "Q's" I can find in the Bible. Nice thing about having a Bible on the computer. So with out futher ado.

Reuben
Although part of the plot to kill and later enslave their brother Joseph, it is Reuben who advises the others not to kill Joseph, see Genesis 37:20-22, and who later points out that their troubles in Egypt were the consequence of the plot.

Also.............
Reuben or Reuben sandwich is made with corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and Thousand Island Dressing on rye bread and then grilled or toasted. It may have been invented at Reuben's restaurant in Los Angeles, California, sometime between 1914 and 1930. East Coast delis may often substitute Russian Dressing for the traditional thousand island dressing. ;D

2T I am heading off to lay down for a bit. Sincereheart is going to be mad at me, :eek: I passed her while posting in this section, (movies.)

Quartus
A Christian in Corinth.
Rom_16:23   ;D  (thanks to bible dictionary)  ;D

Have a good rest DW....I need 17 more to hit the bottom of the top 15 posters...lol

Grace and Peace!

Satin.  For the really dumbed down version... He was the most beautiful angel who was cast out of heaven for trying to become more powerful than God.

Thomas

Thomas was one of the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ. In the Synoptic gospels and the Book of Acts he is listed with the other apostles.

"You have to tell a little history about the individual...can be short, but try to be creative!"

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I did!   :P    However, thats all thats said about him....lol

Uriah
A Hittite one of 37 of Davids mighty men.  Probably due to early version of the bowflex  :P

Vashti-
Ignored the command
to be paraded before the King
So her royal husband dumped her
and Esther then got that ring.

 :P

Hmmm, can't find any W names...how about..

3 Wise men  ;D

At the time of Jesus birth, following a star they came to Jerusalem from the east, in order to worship the King!

Xerxes

Esther's hubby.  :P

Can't think of or find any y's?  Ideas?

Zacchaeus!

was a wee little man, and wee little man was he....climbed up in a sycamore tree for the lord he wanted to see.   ;D

It was Eves fault, she ate Adam out of house and home.




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Aaron - brother of Moses, he became the first high priest of Israel. Exodus and Numbers....

Barabas,

The murderer that was chosen by the people to be released instead of Christ.   :'(

Cephas --
John 1:42  
And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.

Delaiah

Tricked Samson into telling her the secret to His strength.  Is this only mention of a hair cut in scripture?

Elijah - prophet. He was fed by the widow woman whose flour and oil didn't run out for her, her son, and Elijah.

Festus
Called also Porcius Festus.
Governor of Judea, and successor to Felix

Goliath -
Big guy, big fall.  ;D

Hagar  (not Sammy lol)
A servant of Abraham and handmaid of Sarah.

I can't drive...... 55!  :P

Isaiah - "Prince of prophets", he foretold the coming of Christ!

Judas

Betrayed Christ for 30 pieces of silver.



Good example of taking scriptures out of context....

Judas ran and hanged himself.....

Go thou, and do likewise  ;D

Kish -- A son of Gibeon, a Levite in David's time, great gramps of Mordecai, father of King Saul.

Levi
Son of Jacob, a forefather of one of the 12 tribes of Israel

Not Strauss?  :P

Merab - daughter of Saul promised to David but given  ::) to Adriel.

Naomi
The mother-in-law of Ruth.

Onan - 2nd son of Judah, slain by God for disobedience. :-X

Palti
A chief Benjamite and one of the twelve spies sent into Canaan.

Quirinius - Governor of Syria.

Reba
A king of Midian, slain by the Israelites.
Also a member of CU whos been absent a while  ???

I thought of our Reba this morning. I hope it's just move related!  :-\

Salah - A son of Arphaxad and ancestor of Christ, called Shelah in 1 Chronicles.

Thomas
The doubter who did not believe Christ rose from the dead until he felt Jesus' wounds.

Ur - Father of one of David's mighty men.

Viper   ???

Satans disguise in the graden?  Can't think of any names with V

LOL!  ;D

And stuck me with a "W".... ::)

or an "X"... ::)
or a "Y".... ::)

So I'll skip to "Z".... ;D

Zalmon - The Ahohite who was one of David's guards.

Abba
Our Daddy/father God!

Good one!  :D

Blessed Redeemer.  :D

Sorry - just seemed wrong to go anywhere else!  ;)

I see I get the best one. ;D

Christ, Jesus ;D

born: c. 6 BC- c. 6; died: c. 27 - c. 36 was a Jewish religious teacher and healer; who was crucified during the early years of the Roman Empire.

Found all over in the N.T.

Thats it?? :'(




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Daniel - uh, found in Daniel.  ;D

Esau!
Jacobs twin born to Isaac and Rebekah. (Look in and around... lets see - I'm doing this from memory... Genesis 25????)
Esau was a big red-headed dude.  (He was Irish  ;D)  Jacob held Esau's heal during birth because he wanted to be born first.  Jacob got his birth right from Esau for a bowl of grandma's chicken noondle soup.  (Obvioulsy good stuff!)

Esau was a hunter.  Jacob was a shepherd.

JN

LOL! "Irish" and "chicken noodle"!  ;D

Festus - Also called PORCIUS FESTUS, the Roman governor of Judaea, and Successor to Governor Felix
Acts 24:27

Tries Paul
Acts 25:26

 ???

What you people smoken? ;D


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Say what??!! ???

Gad
1. Jacob's seventh son
General references
Gen_30:11; Gen_35:26; Exo_1:4

Hatach - A eunuch of Ahasuerus' court. Est 4:5

Isaiah
also called Esaias, the son of Amos

Jesus Christ!  :D

My Savior!  :D
The Savior for all who will accept Him!
The only antidote for sin.

Kneehemiah?   (   ;D   )


No, um....  Kirstie Alley?

Oops. No, um...


ah...KOHATH!  Exodus 6:16  (a son of Levi)

 ;D



Lappidoth - husband of prophetess Deborah (Judges 4:4).

Moses, he never made it to the promise land.


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 :)


Dreamweaver, in yours on October 11 :  

Isaiah probably lived to its close, and possibly into the reign of Manasseh, but the time and manner of his death are not specified in Scripture or recorded history.


I thought church tradition had it that Isaiah was sawn in two (possibly from the reference in Hebrews 11 ?)??

 ???


Oh, DEFINITELY Nehemiah this time (or Naomi, or Nahum).  :)

Obal

Paul "My Apostle"   :)





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Queen Esther    :-X

   ;D  Good one, sincereheart.

Hmmmm, what comes after Q.... hmm...


um


OH YEAH, OKAY...

 RAM! (the father of Amminadab, Matt. 1:4)   8)  
   

Sabbath!   ;D  (that is...the ultimate sabbath, My Jesus)   ;)  

Timothy  ;D

 ;D

Ulam
1. Son of Sheresh
1Ch_7:16-17

Viper -

Watchman
A sentinel.
On the walls:
Of cities
Son_3:3; Son_5:7

XXX  :-X
Xerxes - again..... :-\

Young Men
Eze 24:5  :P

Zaza - One of the sons of Jonathan, a descendant of
Jerahmeel (1 Chr 2:33).

Ummm...duhhhh...   Adam?

 ;D

Barabbas

Prisoner released by Pilot instead of Christ

Goliath
Goliath is a Biblical giant slain by David.
Goliath of Gath was a gigantic figure in the Biblical story of David in the Book of 1 Samuel  in the Old Testament. He came from Gath, one of five ancient city-states of the Philistines, which was opposed to Israel at the time.

Ham
Son of Noah.  Also a thanksgiving treat!  ;D

;D

Isaiah
The son of Amoz (Isa. 1:1; 2:1), who was apparently a man of humble rank.

Jeremiah,

Was a bullfrog...duh duh duh!   :D OKOK just kidding.

He foretold of the desolation of Israel. Jer_19:1-15

Kenan.
1 Chr 1:2

The fourth antediluvian patriarch, son of Enos. He was 70 years old at the birth of his son Mahalaleel, after which he lived 840 years (Gen. 5:9-14), and was 910 years old when he died.

Lydia - The first Pauline convert in Europe, and afterward his hostess when at Philippi. This former Jewish proselyte was touched by the Gospel at a riverside sabbath-worship. Seems to have been rather wealthy.....

Mary,

Virgin mother of our Lord Jesus.

Nahum, was a prophet in the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh who lived some time around 750 or 700 B.C.

He was the seventh of the so-called minor prophets, an Elkogotcha2e. All we know of him is recorded in the Book of Nahum.

He was probably a native of Galilee, and after the deportation of the ten tribes took up his residence in Jerusalem. Others think that Elkosh was the name of a place on the east bank of the Tigris, and that Nahum dwelt there.

Olympas - A Roman Christian greeted by Paul (Rom. 16:15).

How come we're skipping letters? ???

Did we skip some?  :-\

I did "O-Olympus" to follow "Nahum".  :-\

Yes, I noticed it the last time I think and now this time through, we missed C, D, E, F and G.

Oh well, we'll carry on.  This is fun!

Peter... a courageous disciple of Jesus

Ah! It happens. Course it's usually DreamWeaver's fault!  :P I'd never do that!  :-X Yeah! That's it!  ::)

 :-X Oops! Back on track......

Q for me again. Yay.  ::)
Quail. Good eatin'. Ex 16:13, Num 11:31-32.  :P

Rachel
In the Book of Genesis, Rachel is the second and favourite wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin. She is the younger sister of Leah, Joseph's first wife, and both are daughters of Laban.
Jeremiah 31:15 the prophet speaks of 'Rachel weeping for her children' (KJV). This is interpretted in Matthew 2:16-18 as predicting the Massacre of the Innocents, the slaughter of male Hebrew babies following the birth of Jesus Christ.

BUMP

Sadducees

The Sadducees as a sect are thought to have originated about the same time as the Pharisees.

Tiberius

Tiberius is mentioned by name only once, in Luke 3:1 stating that John the Baptist entered on his public ministry in the fifteenth year of his reign. However, since it was during his reign that Jesus Christ preached, many references to him as Caesar.

Uzziah

(Azariah), king of Judah.  787-735 BC

Reigned 52 years.  II Kings 15:1-7

V, hmmmm, V, vvvvvvvvvvvv,  hmm, ?????vvvvv  hmmm.. ???

um....


   ::)

vvvvvv, um

lemme think on this one...

 :P

 ::) ^^

Vashti

Esther 1:9

Vashti made a feast for the women of the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

Zedekiah

Last king of Judah.

II Kings 25

Aaron - Moses' bro.  ;D

Behemoth
An interesting animal described in...
Job_40:15

Caleb

Caleb is a figure from the Jewish Torah (the first five books of the Christian Old Testament) who is noted for his faith in God when the Hebrew nation refuses to enter the "promised land"

Daniel

Thrown into the lions den, and lived to tell about it.

Elpaal - a Benjaminite (1Chron 8:11).

Fig Tree

A character mentioned many times in scripture  ;D

Goshen
The Land of Goshen is a place in Egypt, as referenced in the Biblical story of Joseph. According to Genesis 46:31-34:

Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father's household, "I will go up and speak to Pharaoh and will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household, who were living in the land of Canaan, have come to me. The men are Shepherds; they tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks and herds and everything they own.' When Pharaoh calls you in and asks, 'What is your occupation?' you should answer, 'Your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.' Then you will be allowed to settle in the region of Goshen, for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians."

Traditionally, the Israelites lived in peace in Goshen for 400 years, before they were taken by the Egyptians as slaves. Goshen is said to be located in northeastern Egypt, in the delta region of the Nile River, where it empties into the Mediterranean Sea.

Hairy primates:

22 The king had a fleet of trading ships at sea along with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons.

 ;D

Immanuel:
Isaiah 7
14Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel

 ;D

LOL @ SH

Jacob
Son of Isaac, and twin brother of Esau.  Old story in the Bible, but very much alive and kicking in our time.   ;)

Keziah - 2nd of Job's posttrial daughters (Job 42:14).

Luke

The Beloved Physician

Mentioned three times in the New Testament:

• Colossians 4:14 - Beloved Physician
• Philemon 24 - "Fellow-Worker"
• 2 Timothy 4:11 - was with Paul in the dark hours of approaching martyrdom

Matthias, the person who replaced Judas. Acts 1:23-26

Nahash,  King of the Ammonites in the time of Saul. The inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead having been exposed to great danger from Nahash, sent messengers to Gibeah to inform Saul of their extremity. He promptly responded to the call, and gathering together an army he marched against Nahash. "And it came to pass that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them [the Ammonites] were not left together" 1 Sam. 11:1-11