100 Bible Verses About Biblical Figures

Bible verses about Biblical Figures

Delve into the lives of Biblical figures and uncover profound truths woven into their stories. Scripture reveals these individuals not as flawless heroes, but as ordinary people who, through faith and obedience, encountered God's extraordinary power. By studying their journeys – their triumphs and failures – we gain invaluable insights into our own spiritual walks. Understanding their struggles with temptation, doubt, and adversity provides guidance and encouragement as we navigate our own challenges. These narratives offer timeless lessons in faith, repentance, forgiveness, and the unwavering love of God, inspiring us to seek a deeper relationship with Him.

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Leviticus 1:8 (KJV)

And the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:

Faithful Figures: Bible Verses & Their Stories

The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

Psalms 83:6KJV

And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.

Numbers 3:20KJV

And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

2 Kings 14:21KJV

The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.

Proverbs 31:1KJV

In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

Genesis 49:30KJV

And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.

1 Samuel 27:9KJV

And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

Genesis 21:27KJV

Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites.

Genesis 36:43KJV

And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

1 Samuel 14:51KJV

These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.

2 Samuel 23:8KJV

And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.

1 Samuel 2:34KJV

And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.

Genesis 36:25KJV

And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan–aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

Genesis 25:20KJV

And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.

Numbers 17:8KJV

Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

Ezra 8:9KJV

And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king’s friend:

1 Kings 4:5KJV

And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau’s son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau’s wife.

Genesis 36:12KJV

And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

Genesis 24:30KJV

And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,

1 Chronicles 12:4KJV

And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them, so did they.

Exodus 7:6KJV

And Abraham said, I will swear.

Genesis 21:24KJV

And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:

Genesis 46:6KJV

And the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:

Leviticus 1:8KJV

But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Leviticus 9:10KJV

Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

1 Chronicles 11:40KJV

So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

1 Kings 18:6KJV

And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

Genesis 32:1KJV

And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the Lord hath put in my mouth?

Numbers 23:12KJV

And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.

Numbers 21:24KJV

The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Tamah,

Nehemiah 7:55KJV

Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

1 Kings 11:12KJV

Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the Lord: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

Genesis 24:50KJV

And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

Genesis 42:13KJV

Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.

2 Kings 10:13KJV

And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

Genesis 22:23KJV

And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

Genesis 25:23KJV

And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;

Genesis 36:4KJV

And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:

Numbers 7:12KJV

I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 1:12KJV

Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,

1 Chronicles 11:45KJV

And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

Genesis 21:3KJV

And then the coast turneth westward to Aznoth–tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.

Joshua 19:34KJV

And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

Judges 20:15KJV

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

Job 20:1KJV

And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphalet.

1 Chronicles 14:7KJV

And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar.

Leviticus 9:12KJV

Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

Judges 1:8KJV

And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

Genesis 20:1KJV

Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.

1 Samuel 21:7KJV

And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.

Genesis 21:11KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Leviticus 21:16KJV

The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.

Ezra 2:60KJV

David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.

1 Samuel 25:43KJV

These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz,

Genesis 36:15KJV

And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

Genesis 28:12KJV

And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lying in wait.

Judges 9:35KJV

Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.

Numbers 13:12KJV

And Ziklag, and Beth–marcaboth, and Hazar–susah,

Joshua 19:5KJV

And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:

Genesis 35:25KJV

In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;

Isaiah 20:1KJV

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

Proverbs 1:1KJV

And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?

Genesis 27:37KJV

The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth–shemesh, and Elon–beth–hanan:

1 Kings 4:9KJV

Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:

1 Chronicles 2:15KJV

The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

Ezra 7:3KJV

The two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

1 Chronicles 25:29KJV

The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran.

Genesis 36:28KJV

And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?

1 Samuel 18:8KJV

And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren–happuch.

Job 42:14KJV

And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,

Genesis 36:40KJV

And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.

Numbers 33:39KJV

And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

Genesis 46:9KJV

And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,

1 Chronicles 6:8KJV

And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

Genesis 23:7KJV

Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,

1 Chronicles 11:43KJV

To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the Lord; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the Lord said to him by the hand of Moses.

Numbers 16:40KJV

And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.

Genesis 36:14KJV

And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.

Genesis 38:5KJV

And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

Genesis 43:30KJV

And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs,

1 Chronicles 6:80KJV

And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.

1 Samuel 26:5KJV

And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

Numbers 10:20KJV

And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.

2 Samuel 14:27KJV

And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;

2 Samuel 3:4KJV

Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.

1 Kings 7:38KJV

Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

Genesis 25:15KJV

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

Genesis 49:4KJV

Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.

Leviticus 13:13KJV

And of Hushim he begat Abitub, and Elpaal.

1 Chronicles 8:11KJV

Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

1 Chronicles 3:11KJV

And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

Genesis 37:26KJV

And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,

Joshua 15:43KJV

The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.

Numbers 26:28KJV

And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s household among the sons of Pharaoh.

1 Kings 11:20KJV

For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.

Joshua 14:3KJV

Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.

Numbers 13:11KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,

Leviticus 11:1KJV

And Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,

1 Chronicles 3:10KJV

Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

2 Chronicles 27:1KJV

And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?

Genesis 44:4KJV

Reflecting on these verses about key biblical figures reveals timeless truths about faith, obedience, and God's unwavering faithfulness. From Abraham's unwavering trust to Ruth's steadfast loyalty, and David's repentance to Esther's courage, their lives, though imperfect, offer profound lessons in navigating our own journeys. These verses highlight that God uses ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things, demonstrating His grace and power in the face of human weakness. Studying these passages encourages us to examine our own character, identify areas for growth, and embrace the call to live lives that honor God. By internalizing these stories and applying the principles they teach, we can deepen our understanding of God's character and strive to emulate the faith and devotion of these remarkable individuals in our own lives. Let their triumphs and failures inspire us to walk more closely with God, trusting in His guidance and embracing His purpose for our lives.