Important Old Testament People

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Delineated below are the names of more than 110 important people in the Old Testament. Each listing contains where the person is mentioned in the Bible as well as brief information about their life.

A
Aaron    -    Abel
Abednego    -    Abraham
Absalom    -    Achan    -    Adam
Ahab    -    Amos
B
Balaam
Baruch    -    Bathsheba
Belshazzar    -    Benjamin
Bilhah    -    Boaz
C
Cain    -    Cyrus the Great
D
Daniel    -    Darius I the Great
David    -    Deborah    -    Delilah
E
Eli    -    Elijah    -    Elisha
Enoch    -    Esau    -    Esther
Eve    -    Ezekiel    -    Ezra
G
Gideon    -    Goliath


H
Habakkuk    -    Hagar    -    Haggai
Ham    -    Hannah
Heber    -    Hezekiah
Hiram    -    Hosea    -    Hoshea
I
Isaac    -    Isaiah
Ishmael    -    Israel
J
Jabez    -    Jacob
Japheth   -   Jehoiachin   -   Jephthah
Jeremiah    -    Jeroboam    -    Jesse
Jezebel    -    Joab    -    Job
Joel    -    Jonah    -    Jonathan
Joseph    -    Joshua    -    Josiah
Judah
K
Keturah
L
Laban    -    Leah
Levi    -    Lot
M
Malachi    -    Manasseh
Melchizedek    -    Meshach
Methuselah    -    Micah    -    Michal
Miriam    -    Moab
Mordecai    -    Moses
N
Nahum    -    Naomi
Nathan    -    Nebuchadnezzar
Nehemiah    -    Nimrod
Noah


O
Obadiah
R
Rachel    -    Rahab    -    Rebekah
Rehoboam    -    Reuben    -    Ruth
S
Samson    -    Samuel    -    Sarah
Satan    -    Saul    -    Sennacherib
Seth    -    Shadrach    -    Shalmaneser
Shem    -    Sisera    -    Solomon
T
Terah    -    Tiglath Pileser
Z
 Zadok
Zechariah    -    Zephaniah
Zerubbabel    -    Zilpah
Zipporah

Series References
1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus
Complete Book of Who's Who in the Bible
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
Hitchcock's Bible Names
Holman Bible Dictionary
Holy Bible, a Faithful Version
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia