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.
Featured Verse
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;
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.
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
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.
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.
And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
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.
And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
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.
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.
And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.
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.
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.
Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king’s friend:
And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau’s son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau’s wife.
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.
And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,
And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them, so did they.
And Abraham said, I will swear.
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:
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:
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.
Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the Lord hath put in my mouth?
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.
The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Tamah,
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.
Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the Lord: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
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.
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.
And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
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.
And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;
And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
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.
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.
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphalet.
And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar.
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.
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
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.
And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.
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,
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.
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.
Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
And Ziklag, and Beth–marcaboth, and Hazar–susah,
And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
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?
The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth–shemesh, and Elon–beth–hanan:
Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:
The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
The two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran.
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?
And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren–happuch.
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,
And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.
And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,
And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
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.
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.
And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
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.
And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
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.
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.
And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
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.
Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
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.
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.
And of Hushim he begat Abitub, and Elpaal.
Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.
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.
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.
Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
And Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
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.
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?
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.