THE BIBLE OLD TESTAMENT COLLECTION: 147 DOWNLOADABLE 8K DIGITAL ILLUSTRATIONS FROM VERY ILLUSTRATED PEOPLE™

The collection features 147 illustrations of the men, women, kings, prophets, matriarchs, and patriarchs of the Hebrew Bible, from the Primeval World through the Persian Era of restoration. The video above includes illustrations from the two-collections set on the Bible that also includes the New Testament, for a total of nearly 300 characters from the Bible.  

A note about the illustrations: For this Old Testament collection and our other collections related to the Bible (New Testament, Wisdom of Jesus, and Marian Devotion), we took the same approach we did when creating our Shakespeare collections: The illustrations illustrate the words. The words are all we need to know. 

For example, when Hamlet muses about the "essence of man," Shakespeare is recognizing a scientific notion put forth by Empedocles around 450 BC and later expanded by Aristotle, with everything in the world comprised of four elements: earth, water, fire, and air. Ayurveda, a 3,000-year-old holistic system of medicine originating from India, included a fifth element, ether. In Ayurveda, ether is the first and most subtle of the five great cosmic elements (known as Pancha Maha Bhutas), known in Sanskrit as Akasha, it translates to "space" or "the all-enveloping". It represents the boundless void that contains and allows room for all other elements to exist. So it is likely when Hamlet ponders humanity's profound meaninglessness in the face of death by saying, "And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?" he is referring to that fifth element (quintessence). When we developed the illustrations for the characters in Hamlet, we decided to leverage what even Shakespeare didn't know but we now know, the 118 elements of the Periodic Table, formulated as scientific law by Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev. That's why Hamlet in our Shakespeare collection is rendered as the six noble gases.

Similarly here, if the Bible states "Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground..." we render Adam from the dust of the ground. Since the Bible states Eve was created from one of Adam's ribs, then Eve is rendered in rib bone. The Bible states Cain was a tiller (farm tool), so he is rendered as an ancient wooden farm tool. The illustrations illustrate the words.     

001 Adam — First Man
002 Eve — First Woman
003 Cain — Firstborn Son of Adam
004 Abel — Son of Adam, Shepherd
005 Seth — Patriarch
006 Enosh — Patriarch
007 Kenan — Patriarch
008 Mahalalel — Patriarch
009 Jared — Patriarch
010 Enoch — Patriarch, Walked with God
011 Methuselah — Patriarch, Oldest Man
012 Lamech — Patriarch, Father of Noah
013 Noah — Patriarch, Ark Builder
014 Shem — Son of Noah
015 Ham — Son of Noah
016 Japheth — Son of Noah
017 Nimrod — Mighty Hunter, King
018 Terah — Patriarch, Father of Abraham
019 Abraham — Patriarch, Father of Nations
020 Sarah — Matriarch, Wife of Abraham
021 Lot — Patriarch, Nephew of Abraham
022 Melchizedek — Priest, King of Salem
023 Hagar — Mother of Ishmael
024 Ishmael — Son of Abraham and Hagar
025 Isaac — Patriarch, Son of Abraham
026 Rebekah — Matriarch, Wife of Isaac
027 Esau — Son of Isaac
028 Jacob — Patriarch, Israel
029 Rachel — Matriarch, Wife of Jacob
030 Leah — Matriarch, Wife of Jacob
031 Bilhah — Concubine of Jacob
032 Zilpah — Concubine of Jacob
033 Dinah — Daughter of Jacob
034 Judah — Patriarch, Son of Jacob
035 Tamar — Daughter-in-Law of Judah
036 Joseph — Patriarch, Son of Jacob
037 Benjamin — Son of Jacob
038 Pharaoh — King of Egypt
039 Potiphar — Egyptian Official
040 Potiphar's Wife — Egyptian Official's Wife
041 Moses — Prophet, Lawgiver
042 Aaron — High Priest, Brother of Moses
043 Miriam — Prophetess, Sister of Moses
044 Jethro — Priest of Midian, Father-in-Law of Moses
045 Eleazar — High Priest, Son of Aaron
046 Phinehas — Priest, Son of Eleazar
047 Bezalel — Craftsman, Builder of the Tabernacle
048 Aholiab — Craftsman, Builder of the Tabernacle
049 Joshua — Military Leader, Successor of Moses
050 Balaam — Prophet, Seer
051 Balak — King of Moab
052 Rahab — Heroine of Jericho
053 Deborah — Judge, Prophetess
054 Barak — Military Commander
055 Jael — Heroine
056 Gideon — Judge, Military Leader
057 Abimelech — King, Son of Gideon
058 Jephthah — Judge
059 Samson — Judge, Nazarite
060 Delilah — Philistine Woman
061 Samuel — Prophet, Judge, Priest
062 Saul — First King of Israel
063 David — King of Israel
064 Solomon — King of Israel, Builder of the Temple
065 Nathan — Prophet
066 Gad — Prophet, Seer of David
067 Bathsheba — Queen, Wife of David
068 Joab — Commander of David's Army
069 Absalom — Prince, Son of David
070 Amnon — Prince, Son of David
071 Tamar — Princess, Daughter of David
072 Adonijah — Prince, Son of David
073 Zadok — High Priest
074 Abiathar — Priest
075 Rehoboam — King of Judah
076 Jeroboam — King of Israel
077 Asa — King of Judah
078 Jehoshaphat — King of Judah
079 Ahab — King of Israel
080 Jezebel — Queen of Israel
081 Jehoram — King of Israel
082 Jehu — King of Israel
083 Hezekiah — King of Judah
084 Manasseh — King of Judah
085 Josiah — King of Judah
086 Elijah — Prophet
087 Elisha — Prophet
088 Isaiah — Prophet
089 Jeremiah — Prophet
090 Ezekiel — Prophet
091 Daniel — Prophet
092 Gabriel — Archangel
093 Hosea — Prophet
094 Joel — Prophet
095 Amos — Prophet
096 Obadiah — Prophet
097 Jonah — Prophet
098 Micah — Prophet
099 Nahum — Prophet
100 Habakkuk — Prophet
101 Zephaniah — Prophet
102 Malachi — Prophet
103 Haggai, Zechariah, Zerubbabel & Joshua Son of Jehozadak — Prophets and Leaders of Restoration
104 Nebuchadnezzar — King of Babylon
105 Belshazzar — King of Babylon
106 Cyrus — King of Persia
107 Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego — Exiles in Babylon
108 Job — Patriarch, Man of Suffering
109 Eliphaz, Bildad & Zophar — Friends of Job
110 Elihu — Friend of Job
111 Ezra — Scribe, Priest
112 Nehemiah — Governor, Rebuilder of Jerusalem
113 Sanballat, Tobiah & Geshem — Adversaries of Nehemiah
114 Artaxerxes — King of Persia
115 Hannah — Prophetess, Mother of Samuel
116 Eli — High Priest
117 Micaiah — Prophet
118 Huldah — Prophetess
119 Sennacherib — King of Assyria
120 Esther — Queen of Persia
121 Mordecai — Cousin of Esther
122 Haman — Villain of Persia
123 Ahasuerus — King of Persia
124 Reuben — Tribe of Israel
125 Simeon — Tribe of Israel
126 Levi — Tribe of Israel, Priestly
127 Issachar — Tribe of Israel
128 Zebulun — Tribe of Israel
129 Dan — Tribe of Israel
130 Naphtali — Tribe of Israel
131 Gad — Tribe of Israel
132 Asher — Tribe of Israel
133 Ephraim — Tribe of Israel
134 Naomi — Widow, Mother-in-Law of Ruth
135 Ruth — Moabite, Ancestor of David
136 Boaz — Kinsman Redeemer
137 Obed — Son of Ruth and Boaz
138 Jesse — Father of David
139 Ahaz — King of Judah
140 Omri — King of Israel
141 Jotham — King of Judah
142 Amaziah — King of Judah
143 Tiglath-Pileser — King of Assyria
144 Nabopolassar — King of Babylon
145 Darius the Great — King of Persia
146 Darius the Mede — King of Media
147 Queen Vashti — Queen of Persia

The Bible Old Testament Collection features 147 illustrations in stunning 8K resolution, perfect for prints and posters. It is one collection of a five-volume set devoted entirely to the Bible, that also includes the New Testament, The Complete Mary Collection, The Wisdom of Jesus, and Worldwide Jesus. Over 300 characters from the religious texts central to Christianity and Judaism, and esteemed in other religions such as Islam, with brief teaching summaries, selected from an even larger online collection.

VERY ILLUSTRATED PEOPLE™ is a way to quickly learn more about very important persons in the Bible, mythology, and from throughout history in literature, science, philosophy, exploration, art, music, and, well, history. All in very imaginative portraits you can purchase and download in collections or individually as very high resolution 4-color 8K digital files, perfect for very impressive prints, posters, screen savers, wallpapers, and more. So you can enjoy Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, and other favorites in your home, office, school, or library.

WHAT IS THE OLD TESTAMENT?
The Old Testament — known in Jewish tradition as the Tanakh — is the foundational scriptural record of the covenant between God and the people of Israel. Composed over more than a thousand years by many authors across vastly different historical periods, it encompasses origin stories, law codes, royal histories, poetry, lament, prophecy, and apocalyptic vision. Its earliest texts reach back to oral traditions of the ancient Near East, while its final canonical form was assembled and refined during and after the Babylonian Exile of the sixth century BCE. The result is not a single book but a library: a rich, contested, and endlessly interpreted collection that has shaped the moral, literary, and spiritual imagination of Western civilization more profoundly than any other document in human history.

At its heart, the Old Testament is a story of relationship — between a creator God and his creation, between a holy God and a persistently wayward people, between divine promise and human failure. It opens with the majestic cosmology of Genesis, where God speaks the universe into being and creates humanity in the divine image. The catastrophe of Eden, the fratricide of Cain and Abel, the judgment of the Flood, and the scattering at Babel establish the great dramatic tension of the entire narrative: human beings are made for communion with God but consistently choose rebellion. Into this broken world, God calls Abram — later renamed Abraham — and makes an audacious covenant: from one man will come a people, a land, and ultimately a blessing for all nations.

The patriarchal narratives of Genesis trace this promise through Isaac, Jacob, and the twelve sons who become the twelve tribes of Israel. The most dramatic of these stories — the account of Joseph sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, rising to power in Egypt, and ultimately reconciling with his family — reads with the psychological depth and narrative sophistication of a modern novel. It sets the stage for Exodus, the central event of the entire Hebrew Bible. Under the leadership of Moses, the Israelites escape slavery in Egypt through a series of divine plagues and the miraculous parting of the Red Sea. At Sinai, God delivers the Torah — the Law — including the Ten Commandments, the moral core around which all of Israelite society is organized. The wilderness narratives that follow are a prolonged test of faith: forty years of wandering, complaint, and renewed covenant, culminating in the death of Moses within sight of the Promised Land.

The conquest of Canaan under Joshua and the turbulent era of the Judges give way to the United Monarchy under Saul, David, and Solomon. David is the towering figure of this period — a warrior, a poet, a king who unites the twelve tribes and establishes Jerusalem as his capital, and yet also a man of catastrophic moral failure whose family is torn apart by violence and betrayal. His son Solomon builds the First Temple, the physical dwelling place of God among his people, and presides over an era of legendary wisdom and prosperity. But the kingdom fractures after his death, splitting into the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah, and the long, tragic narrative of the divided monarchy is largely a story of kings who abandon the covenant, prophets who call them back, and a people careening toward disaster.

The prophetic books — Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the twelve Minor Prophets — represent the Old Testament at its most urgent and poetic. The prophets were not primarily fortune-tellers but social critics and theological visionaries who confronted kings and commoners alike with the demands of covenant faithfulness. Isaiah envisions a servant who will bear the sins of many; Jeremiah weeps for a city about to be destroyed; Ezekiel sees the glory of God departing the Temple and returning in a vision of dry bones brought back to life; Daniel interprets the dreams of Babylonian kings and endures the lion's den. These texts sustained the Jewish community through its darkest hours and provided the theological vocabulary through which later generations — including the earliest Christians — would interpret their own suffering and hope.

The destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BCE and the deportation of the elite to Babylon is the defining catastrophe of the Old Testament. The Exile forced a fundamental rethinking of Israelite theology: if God dwelt in the Temple and the Temple was destroyed, where was God now? The answer that emerged — that God was present everywhere, that the Torah could be carried in the heart, that Israel could remain Israel without land or temple — was a revolution in religious thought that gave birth to Judaism as the world has known it ever since. When Cyrus the Great of Persia permitted the exiles to return, the books of Ezra and Nehemiah record the painstaking work of rebuilding — the walls of Jerusalem, the community of the Law, and the identity of a people who had learned to carry their God with them into the world.

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