Old Testament
I am the trickster.
For some porridge, I took the birthright of my brother.
To escape the wrath of my brother, I went to my mother's brother.
He is a trickster.
Married me to the wrong daughter, and still had me work for 14 years to be with my lover.
Jacob
I had every firstborn Israelite killed and I encountered the three wise men before they visited the newborn "King".
King Herod
My mother was my father's beloved.
As she gave life, she met her end.
My brothers thought my trade would be my end.
My father adopted my sons on his deathbed.
Joseph
My husband lost his voice;
My cousin was God's choice.
My son lost his head;
My nephew rose from the dead.
Elizabeth
Crowned by a river that floods its throne,
I carved out gods from hardened stone.
My firstborn fell in midnight’s cry,
While painted doors let others pass by.
I chased the freed with iron will,
Till walls of water learned to kill.
Egypt
My husband was old;
In the Lord, I once had little faith.
I was considerably old;
The Lord blessed me at an age considered late.
Sarah
One walked with God and vanished whole;
One rode the whirlwind’s fiery scroll.
Yet after grave and guarded stone,
Another rose by power His own.
Not snatched away, nor borrowed flame,
But blessing still, He upward came.
Jesus
The first priest of Israel, the brother of a stammerer.
Of a golden idol, I became the crafter.
Aaron
Behind proud walls of Jericho,
While trumpets primed their fatal blow,
I hid the spies, betrayed my throne,
And tied red mercy to my home.
From shattered gates my life was spared,
Through a red sign that I had bared.
A prostitute’s house became a cord,
Binding my bloodline to the Lord.
Rahab
Long ago a vow was made;
A land of green, of light and shade.
Rivers sweet with milk and honey,
Hills resound with timeless money.
Kings may rise and walls may stand,
Yet faith endures on promised land.
Canaan
An only-daughter, twelve brothers around me;
I got raped, my brothers killed a city to avenge me.
Dinah
I replaced Judas after our Lord ascended.
Matthias
In a lion's carcass, the shepherd found safety but the lion's carcass gave me honey.
The shepherd had a sling but a donkey's jawbone was my blicky.
Weak to love, I met my demise on my lover's bed;
Blinded by my enemies, their crumbled temple was our deathbed.
Samson
The most renowned female judge of Israel.
Deborah
On his way to me, the great persecutor had a transformative encounter.
After 3 days of blindness and 3 years of learning, the great persecutor became the greatest preacher.
Damascus
A prophet fled from mercy’s call,
Bought a berth to outrun All.
The sea grew teeth, the lot was cast,
And overboard his pride was passed.
Three nights entombed where light had none,
Then vomited back to face the sun.
A city spared by whispered plea,
While he still wrestled under a tree.
Jonah
Only thrice did I ever occur. On the third time, all three men that experienced me were discussing on a mountain.
What am I called?
The Transfiguration
Who Samuel was to Saul, I was to David;
Who I was to David, nobody was to Solomon.
Nathan
The prophet thought I was drunk during my prayer; Despite my tears, I told him I was sober.
In my barrenness, I asked the Lord for a child;
Said child heard the Lord call him thrice at night.
Hannah
My name embodied "abomination";
Not even five righteous could be found in me.
I wasn't sentenced to a heavenly restriction;
Two angels punished me with divine combustion;
Pillars of salt were the result of this calamity;
Today, I'm linked to an act of sexual immorality.
Sodom
A servant climbed where thunder burned,
From veiled heights he never returned.
No grieving crowd, no chiseled stone,
The resting place was Mine alone.
He spoke with Me as friend to friend,
Yet I concealed his final end.
One sought Me in the tearing wind,
In quaking earth, in fire thinned.
Yet not in storm did I reside,
I whispered where the silences hide.
I drenched the fleece, then kept it dry,
And answered doubt when faith ran shy.
God
Martyred by crucifixion, I refused to die in the same way my Lord did, and was turned upside down.
Simon-Peter
On my way to curse Israel, my donkey spoke to me.
Balaam
My brother was my rapist;
My brother killed my rapist.
My brother tried to overthrow my father;
A branch, entangled hair, and a spear caused the death of my brother.
Tamar
Deathbed of "The Strongest";
Home of the beheaded giant warrior.
Philistia