People of the Bible

Also: Moshe, Moses the Lawgiver

Born to a Hebrew family during Pharaoh's decree to kill all male Hebrew infants, the infant Moses was placed in a basket on the Nile and found by Phar...

Also: Elias, Elijah the Tishbite

Elijah the Tishbite appeared suddenly in the biblical narrative during the reign of wicked King Ahab and Queen Jezebel, who had promoted Baal worship ...

Also: Eliseus

Elisha was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen when Elijah cast his mantle upon him, calling him to prophetic ministry (1 Kings 19:19-21). He served as E...

Also: Yeshayahu, Isaiah son of Amoz

Isaiah son of Amoz prophesied during the reigns of four kings of Judah — Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah — spanning roughly 740-700 BCE. His callin...

Also: Yirmeyahu, The Weeping Prophet

Called by God before birth — "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee" (Jeremiah...

Also: Yechezkel, Ezekiel son of Buzi

Ezekiel son of Buzi was a priest who was among the Jews deported to Babylon in 597 BCE, before the final destruction of Jerusalem. His prophetic minis...

Also: Belteshazzar, Daniel the Prophet

Daniel was taken to Babylon as a young man in the first deportation of 605 BCE and trained for service in King Nebuchadnezzar's court, where he was re...

Also: Shemuel, Samuel the Seer

Samuel was born in answer to the desperate prayer of his mother Hannah, who had been barren. She vowed: "If thou wilt...give unto thine handmaid a man...

Also: Jonah son of Amittai

Jonah son of Amittai is the only prophet in scripture who explicitly ran from God's commission. When God commanded him to "go to Nineveh, that great c...

Also: Hoshea, Hosea son of Beeri

Hosea prophesied to the northern kingdom of Israel during the turbulent final decades before Assyria's conquest in 722 BCE. God's opening command to H...

Also: Amos of Tekoa

Amos was not a professional prophet or the son of a prophet but "a herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit" from the small village of Tekoa in Judah...

Also: Micah of Moresheth, Mikayahu

Micah of Moresheth prophesied during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah — a contemporary of Isaiah — addressing both the northern and southern k...