Bible Characters
This man interpreted Pharaoh’s dreams about seven good years and seven years of famine.
Joseph
“Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Cain
This city’s walls fell after Israel marched around them for seven days.
Jericho
This tax collector climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus.
Zacchaeus
“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.”
Psalms
Jesus, in picturing His death and resurrection, used this Old Testament who spent three days and three nights in a great fish.
Jonah
This prophet succeeded Elijah and asked for a double portion of his spirit.
Elisha
“Speak; for thy servant heareth.”
Samuel
This judge defeated an army with only 300 men.
Gideon
This married couple lied about the amount of money they received from selling land and died as a result.
Ananias and Sapphira
“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”
Philippians
Jesus compared His coming crucifixion to this object Moses lifted up in the wilderness.
The brazen serpent/serpent of brass
This woman became queen of Persia and risked her life by approaching the king without being summoned.
Esther
“Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Peter
This prophet confronted David after his sin with Bathsheba by telling him a story about a poor man’s lamb.
Nathan
This woman, a seller of purple, was Paul’s first recorded convert in Philippi.
Lydia
“For there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”
Proverbs
Paul uses this Old Testament patriarch in Romans 4 as his primary example of justification by faith.
Abraham
This left-handed judge assassinated Eglon, king of Moab.
Ehud
“Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.”
King Agrippa
During the reign of this king, the book of the law was discovered while the temple was being repaired.
Josiah
This man was chosen to replace Judas Iscariot among the twelve apostles.
Matthias
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
Jeremiah
Hebrews compares Jesus’ priesthood to this mysterious Old Testament king and priest who met Abraham.
Melchizedek
This king of Judah became king at age 16 and was struck with leprosy after unlawfully entering the temple to burn incense.
Uzziah
“I know that my redeemer liveth.”
Job
This king of Judah was given a sign from God in which the shadow went backward ten degrees.
Hezekiah
This sorcerer offered the apostles money so that he could have the power to give the Holy Ghost by laying on hands.
Simon the Sorcerer / Simon Magus
“For there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”
Amos
Matthew applies the words “Out of Egypt have I called my son” to Jesus. This Old Testament prophet originally wrote those words.
Hosea