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Exploring people of the Old Testament

Print Book, English, 2006-2007
Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids, MI, 2006-2007
Biographies
3 volumes ; 24 cm.
9780825433849, 9780825433856, 9780825433863, 0825433843, 0825433851, 082543386X
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v. 1. Adam and his world
Eve: Adam's wife
Cain and his creed
Enoch: a candidate for rapture
Noah: "All aboard!"
Ham: a shameless scoffer
Nimrod: author of confusion
Abraham: friend of God
Lot: the persistent backslider
Hagar: Abraham's bondwoman
Isaac and his family
Jacob and his ways
Esau: rebel-born
Leah: the unwanted wife
Reuben: the firstborn
Young Joseph at home
Joseph in adversity
Joseph in advancement
Joseph and his present
Joseph: "Go tell my father"
Joseph: blessed of God
Joseph and his bones
Job: none like him on earth
Jochebed: the mother of Moses
Pharaoh and his hard heart
Aaron and his call
Balaam and his curse
Issachar and his men
Joshua: conqueror of Canaan
Caleb: a grand old warrior
Rahab: the harlot
Hannah and her faith
Ehud: the left-handed judge. v. 2. Barak: the weak judge
Jephthah: the harsh judge
Gideon and his sign
Shamgar: a little known judge
Samson: the philandering judge
Eli: a weak, old judge
The leper and his cure
The Nazarite: all on the altar
Boaz: mighty man of wealth
Ruth: a pagan seeker
Elimelech: the backslider
Naomi: the restored backslider
Saul: a big fool of a man
David and Goliath the giant
Abigail: a spiritual bride
Jonathan: David's friend
Mephibosheth: a trophy of grace
Michal: Saul's daughter
Joab: David's general
Abner: Saul's general
Absalom: David's favorite
Shimei: David's foul-mouthed foe
Barzillai: David's aged friend
Ahithophel: David's Judas
Ittai, Zadok, and Hushai: David's three wise men
Abiathar: David's priest
David and Bathsheba
Solomon: the worldly king
Rehoboam: the foolish king
Joash: the ungrateful king
The sons of Shelah
Jabez and his problem. v. 3. The old prophet and his guile
Elijah and his faith
The servant who was too busy
Elisha and the missing master
Elisha and the professing preachers
Elisha and the worthless water
Elisha and the scoffing students
Elisha and the weeping widow
Elisha and the woeful woman
Elisha and the poisoned pottage
Elisha and the lordly leper
Elisha and the sinful servant
Elisha and the fearful famine
Elisha and the worried workers
Elisha and the Syrian sovereign
Jeremiah and his woes
Josiah: the reforming king
Ezekiel: the sign-giving prophet
Daniel: the beloved of God
Hosea: the betrayed prophet
Joel: the prophet of the plague
Amos: the small-town prophet
Obadiah and his focus on Edom
Jonah: the runaway prophet
Micah: the country cousin
Nahum: prophet of Nineveh's doom
Habakkuk: the prophet with a problem
Zephaniah: the royal prophet
Haggai: prophet of a changing world
Zechariah: the murdered prophet
Malachi and his long, last call
Joshua: high priest of the return