Israel

• Creation of all things
• Creation of Adam and Eve
• The Fall
• God curses Cain
• God decides to destroy every living thing
• God instructs Noah to build the ark
• God makes a covenant with Noah
• Abrahamic Covenant
• Sodom Destroyed
• Birth of Jacob and Esau
• Lifetime of Jacob
• Birth of Reuben
• Birth of Simeon
• Birth of Levi
• Birth of Judah
• Birth of Dan
• Birth of Naphtali
• Birth of Gad
• Birth of Asher
• Birth of Issachar
• Birth of Zebulon
• Birth of Dinah
• Birth of Joseph
• Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin
• Joseph sold to Egypt
• Joseph imprisoned
• 7 years of famine
• Joseph's brothers return to Egypt
• Death of Jacob
• Ten Commandments Given
• The Holy Spirit is promised
• Jesus ascends to Heaven
• The Holy Spirit comes
• Believers pray for boldnessc. AD 30
• Ananias and Sapphira lie to Godc. AD 30

Jacob· Jeshurun· Israel (Person)· Israelite· Jesurun

Father

Isaac

Mother

Rebekah

Spouse

Bilhah· Leah· Rachel· Zilpah

Siblings

Esau

Children

Asher· Benjamin· Dan· Dinah· Gad· Issachar· Joseph· Judah· Levi· Naphtali· Reuben· Simeon· Zebulun

• Ἰακώβ·Jacobmeans “that supplants, undermines; the heel”
• Ἰσραήλ·Israel
• Ἰσραηλίτης·Israel
• יַעֲקֹב·Jacobmeans “that supplants, undermines; the heel”
• יִשְׂרָאֵל·God
• יִשְׂרָאֵל·Israel
• יִשְׂרְאֵלִי·Israel
• יִשְׂרְאֵלִית·Israel
• יְשֻׁרוּן·Jeshurun

Includes 926 verses that refer to Israel without naming them, as “he”, “she”, or the subject of a verb.

1. Joshua 22:13יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
   The Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the land of Gilead, to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
2. Joshua 22:14יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
   With him they sent ten chiefs—one family leader from each tribe of Israel, each the head of a family among the clans of Israel.
3. Joshua 22:16יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
   “This is what the whole congregation of the LORD says: ‘What is this breach of faith you have committed today against the God of Israel by turning away from the LORD and building for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel against the LORD this day?
4. Joshua 22:17Referred to, not named
   Was not the sin of Peor enough for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day? It even brought a plague upon the congregation of the LORD.
5. Joshua 22:18יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
   And now, would you turn away from the LORD? If you rebel today against the LORD, tomorrow He will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.
6. Joshua 22:20יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
   Was not Achan son of Zerah unfaithful regarding what was set apart for destruction, bringing wrath upon the whole congregation of Israel? Yet it was not only Achan who perished because of his sin!’”
7. Joshua 22:21יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
   Then the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders of the clans of Israel:
8. Joshua 22:22יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
   “The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! He knows, and may Israel also know. If this was in rebellion or breach of faith against the LORD, do not spare us today.
9. Joshua 22:24יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
   But in fact we have done this for fear that in the future your descendants might say to ours, ‘What have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?
10. Joshua 22:25Referred to, not named
    For the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no share in the LORD!’ So your descendants could cause ours to stop fearing the LORD.
11. Joshua 22:27Referred to, not named
    Rather, let it be a witness between us and you and the generations to come, that we will worship the LORD in His presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and peace offerings.’ Then in the future, your descendants cannot say to ours, ‘You have no share in the LORD!’
12. Joshua 22:29Referred to, not named
    Far be it from us to rebel against the LORD and turn away from Him today by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings, or sacrifices, other than the altar of the LORD our God, which stands before His tabernacle.”
13. Joshua 22:30יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation—the heads of Israel’s clans who were with him—heard what the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had to say, they were satisfied.
14. Joshua 22:31יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest said to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, “Today we know that the LORD is among us, because you have not committed this breach of faith against Him. Consequently, you have delivered the Israelites from the hand of the LORD.”
15. Joshua 22:32יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Then Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, together with the other leaders, returned to the Israelites in the land of Canaan and brought back a report regarding the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead.
16. Joshua 22:33יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    The Israelites were satisfied with the report, and they blessed God and spoke no more about going to war against them to destroy the land where the Reubenites and Gadites lived.
17. Joshua 23:1יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    A long time after the LORD had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, when Joshua was old and well along in years,
18. Joshua 23:2יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    …he summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers. “I am old and well along in years,” he said,
19. Joshua 23:3Referred to, not named
    …“and you have seen everything that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, because it was the LORD your God who fought for you.
20. Joshua 23:4Referred to, not named
    See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.
21. Joshua 23:5Referred to, not named
    The LORD your God will push them out of your way and drive them out before you, so that you can take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you.
22. Joshua 23:6Referred to, not named
    Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left.
23. Joshua 23:7Referred to, not named
    So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by them, and you must not serve them or bow down to them.
24. Joshua 23:8Referred to, not named
    Instead, you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.
25. Joshua 23:9Referred to, not named
    The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you.
26. Joshua 23:10Referred to, not named
    One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.
27. Joshua 23:11Referred to, not named
    Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.
28. Joshua 23:12Referred to, not named
    For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
29. Joshua 23:13Referred to, not named
    …know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.
30. Joshua 23:14Referred to, not named
    Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.
31. Joshua 23:15Referred to, not named
    But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.
32. Joshua 23:16Referred to, not named
    If you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from this good land He has given you.”
33. Joshua 24:1יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.
34. Joshua 24:2יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.
35. Joshua 24:3Referred to, not named
    But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,
36. Joshua 24:4יַעֲקֹב · Jacob
    …and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
37. Joshua 24:5Referred to, not named
    Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I afflicted the Egyptians by what I did there, and afterward I brought you out.
38. Joshua 24:6Referred to, not named
    When I brought your fathers out of Egypt and you reached the Red Sea, the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen as far as the Red Sea.
39. Joshua 24:7Referred to, not named
    So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.
40. Joshua 24:8Referred to, not named
    Later, I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought against you, but I delivered them into your hand, that you should possess their land when I destroyed them before you.
41. Joshua 24:9יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Then Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, set out to fight against Israel. He sent for Balaam son of Beor to curse you,
42. Joshua 24:10Referred to, not named
    …but I would not listen to Balaam. So he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you from his hand.
43. Joshua 24:11Referred to, not named
    After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.
44. Joshua 24:12Referred to, not named
    I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow.
45. Joshua 24:13Referred to, not named
    So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities that you did not build, and now you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.’
46. Joshua 24:14Referred to, not named
    Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.
47. Joshua 24:15Referred to, not named
    But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”
48. Joshua 24:23יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    “Now, therefore,” he said, “get rid of the foreign gods among you and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”
49. Joshua 24:31יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Israel had served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced all the works that the LORD had done for Israel.
50. Joshua 24:32יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel; יַעֲקֹב · Jacob
    And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.
51. Judges 1:1יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the LORD, “Who will be the first to go up and fight for us against the Canaanites?”
52. Judges 1:28יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely.
53. Judges 2:1Referred to, not named
    Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,
54. Judges 2:2Referred to, not named
    …and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?
55. Judges 2:3Referred to, not named
    So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”
56. Judges 2:4יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    When the angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
57. Judges 2:6יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    After Joshua had dismissed the people, the Israelites went out to take possession of the land, each to his own inheritance.
58. Judges 2:7יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    And the people served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, who had seen all the great works that the LORD had done for Israel.
59. Judges 2:9Referred to, not named
    They buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
60. Judges 2:10יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel.
61. Judges 2:11יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.
62. Judges 2:14יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.
63. Judges 2:15Referred to, not named
    Wherever Israel marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them to bring calamity, just as He had sworn to them. So they were greatly distressed.
64. Judges 2:16Referred to, not named
    Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them.
65. Judges 2:17Referred to, not named
    Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.
66. Judges 2:18Referred to, not named
    Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.
67. Judges 2:19Referred to, not named
    But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.
68. Judges 2:20יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed the covenant I laid down for their fathers and has not heeded My voice,
69. Judges 2:22יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    In this way I will test whether Israel will keep the way of the LORD by walking in it as their fathers did.”
70. Judges 3:1יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
71. Judges 3:2יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    …if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:
72. Judges 3:4יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.
73. Judges 3:5יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
74. Judges 3:7יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
75. Judges 3:8יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years.
76. Judges 3:9יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them.
77. Judges 3:10יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he became Israel’s judge and went out to war. And the LORD delivered Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram into the hand of Othniel, who prevailed against him.
78. Judges 3:12יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Once again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. So He gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
79. Judges 3:13יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    After enlisting the Ammonites and Amalekites to join forces with him, Eglon attacked and defeated Israel, taking possession of the City of Palms.
80. Judges 3:14יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    The Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.
81. Judges 3:15יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
82. Judges 3:27יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    On arriving in Seirah, he blew the ram’s horn throughout the hill country of Ephraim. The Israelites came down with him from the hills, and he became their leader.
83. Judges 3:30יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    So Moab was subdued under the hand of Israel that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.
84. Judges 3:31יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath. And he too saved Israel, striking down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad.
85. Judges 4:1יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD.
86. Judges 4:3יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
87. Judges 4:4יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
88. Judges 4:5יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    And she would sit under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, where the Israelites would go up to her for judgment.
89. Judges 4:6יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun.
90. Judges 4:23יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.
91. Judges 4:24יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    And the hand of the Israelites grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.
92. Judges 5:2יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    “When the princes take the lead in Israel, when the people volunteer, bless the LORD.
93. Judges 5:3יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Listen, O kings! Give ear, O princes! I will sing to the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.
94. Judges 5:5יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai, before the LORD, the God of Israel.
95. Judges 5:7יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Life in the villages ceased; it ended in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel.
96. Judges 5:8יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.
97. Judges 5:9יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    My heart is with the princes of Israel, with the volunteers among the people. Bless the LORD!
98. Judges 5:11יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    …the voices of the singers at the watering places. There they shall recount the righteous acts of the LORD, the righteous deeds of His villagers in Israel. Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates:
99. Judges 6:1יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
    Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,
100. Judges 6:2יִשְׂרָאֵל · God; יִשְׂרָאֵל · Israel
     …and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.