Ancient Israel

Ancient Israel and Judah were two Israelite kingdoms that existed in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.

most sacred object by the Israelites.

Yahwism, also known as the Israelite religion, was the ancien

Israel and the only female judge mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.

Elisha was, according to the Hebrew Bible, an Israelite prophet and a wonder-worker.

of the united Kingdom of Israel, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.

century BC), according to the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible.

considered an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis.

According to the Hebrew Bible, Aaron ( AIR-ən or ARR-ən) was an Israelite

Numbers, and later succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelite tribes in the Book of Joshua of the Hebrew

Sarah (originally Sarai) is a biblical matriarch, prophet, and major figure in

In the biblical Book of Genesis, Ishmael was the first son

Esau is the elder son of Isaac in the Hebrew Bible.

'Daughter of Sheba' or 'Daughter of the Oath') was an Israelite queen consort.

In the Hebrew Bible’s Book of Genesis, Dinah (; Hebrew:

Hezekiah (; Biblical Hebrew: חִזְקִיָּהוּ,

Josiah (Koine Greek: Ἰωσίας; Latin: Iosias)

in pausa: אֶפְרָיִם ʾEp̄rāyīm) was, according to the Book of Genesis, the second son of Joseph ben Jacob and

lit. 'There is reward') was, according to the Book of Genesis, Jacob's ninth son, the fifth of the six

According to the Book of Genesis, Naphtali (; Hebrew: נַפְתָּלִי, Modern:

(Hebrew: רָחֵל, romanized: Rāḥēl, lit. 'ewe') was a Hebrew Bible figure, one of the Israelite matriarchs,

Samuel is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from

six sons of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite tribe of Zebulun.

Solomon () (Hebrew: שְׁלֹמֹה, romanized: šəlōmō), also called Jedidiah (Hebrew: יְדִידְיָה, romanized: yəḏîḏĭyā), was a king of ancient Israel.

Jeremiah was the son of Hilkiah, a priest from the land of Benjamin in the village of Anathoth

Nephi and his family live in Jerusalem, circa 600 BC, during the reign of King Zedekiah

In the ancient Israelite religion, the holy anointing oil

was a monarch of ancient Israel and Judah

Biblical Hebrew (Hebrew: עִבְרִית מִקְרָאִית, romanized: ʿiḇrîṯ miqrāʾîṯ or לְשׁוֹן הַמִּקְרָא, ləšôn ham-miqrāʾ), also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanitic branch of the Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel, roughly west of the Jordan River and east of the Mediterranean Sea.

Jews, or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating in the Israelites of ancient Israel and Judah.

The Kingdom of Israel occupied that part of the land on the Mediterranean Sea known as the Levant which corresponds roughly to the State of Israel of modern times.

Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.

AD 30) was an itinerant Jewish preacher (Hebrew name Yochanan) who was active in the area of the Jordan River in the early 1st century AD.

In Judaism, he is the ethnic ancestor and first Hebrew patriarch who began the covenantal relationship between the Jewish people and God; in Christianity, he is regarded as the forebear of Jesus and the spiritual ancestor of all Christians; and in Islam, he is a link in the chain of Islamic prophets that begins with Adam and culminates in Muhammad.

Isaac is the second Hebrew patriarch in Judaism and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Samaritanism, Christianity, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and Rastafari.

Jacob, later given the name Israel, is the third Hebrew patriarch in Judaism and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions.

Isaiah (UK: or US: ; Hebrew: יְשַׁעְיָהוּ, Yəšaʿyāhū, "Yahweh is salvation"; also known as Isaias or Esaias from Greek: Ἠσαΐας) was the Israelite prophet, dated to the 8th century BC, after whom the Book of Isaiah is named.

According to the canonical Gospels, Joseph was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.

Akiva ben Joseph (Mishnaic Hebrew: עֲקִיבָא בֶּן יוֹסֵף, ʿĂqīḇāʾ ben Yōsēp̄; c. 50-28 September 135 CE), also known as Rabbi Akiva (רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא), was a leading Jewish scholar and sage and a tanna of the latter part of the first century and the beginning of the second.

Gad is the founder of the Israelite tribe of Gad.

Simeon (Hebrew: שִׁמְעוֹן, Modern: Šīmʾōn, Tiberian: Šīmʾōn) was the second of the six sons of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite tribe of Simeon, according to the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.

Ezekiel, also spelled Ezechiel (; Hebrew: יְחֶזְקֵאל, romanized: Yəḥezqēl [jə.ħɛzˈqeːl]; Koine Greek: Ἰεζεκιήλ, romanized: Iezekiḗl [i.ɛ.zɛ.kiˈel]), was an Israelite priest.

In the Hebrew Bible, Hosea ( hoh-ZEE-ə or hoh-ZAY-ə; Hebrew: הוֹשֵׁעַ, romanized: Hōšēaʿ, lit. 'Salvation'), also known as Osee (Ancient Greek: Ὡσηέ, romanized: Hōsēé), son of Beeri, was an 8th-century BC prophet in Israel and the nominal primary author of the Book of Hosea.