{"product_id":"the-bible-old-testament-collection-147-downloadable-8k-digital-illustrations-from-very-illustrated-people™","title":"THE BIBLE OLD TESTAMENT COLLECTION: 147 DOWNLOADABLE 8K DIGITAL ILLUSTRATIONS FROM VERY ILLUSTRATED PEOPLE™","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"THE BIBLE CHARACTERS FROM VERY ILLUSTRATED PEOPLE\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1199234534?badge=0\u0026amp;autopause=0\u0026amp;player_id=0\u0026amp;app_id=58479\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eThe 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.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eA 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eFor example, when Hamlet muses about the \"essence of man,\" Shakespeare is recognizing a scientific notion put forth by \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEmpedocles 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 \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ehumanity'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 \u003cem\u003e(quintessence)\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eSimilarly 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.     \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e001 Adam — First Man\u003cbr\u003e002 Eve — First Woman\u003cbr\u003e003 Cain — Firstborn Son of Adam\u003cbr\u003e004 Abel — Son of Adam, Shepherd\u003cbr\u003e005 Seth — Patriarch\u003cbr\u003e006 Enosh — Patriarch\u003cbr\u003e007 Kenan — Patriarch\u003cbr\u003e008 Mahalalel — Patriarch\u003cbr\u003e009 Jared — Patriarch\u003cbr\u003e010 Enoch — Patriarch, Walked with God\u003cbr\u003e011 Methuselah — Patriarch, Oldest Man\u003cbr\u003e012 Lamech — Patriarch, Father of Noah\u003cbr\u003e013 Noah — Patriarch, Ark Builder\u003cbr\u003e014 Shem — Son of Noah\u003cbr\u003e015 Ham — Son of Noah\u003cbr\u003e016 Japheth — Son of Noah\u003cbr\u003e017 Nimrod — Mighty Hunter, King\u003cbr\u003e018 Terah — Patriarch, Father of Abraham\u003cbr\u003e019 Abraham — Patriarch, Father of Nations\u003cbr\u003e020 Sarah — Matriarch, Wife of Abraham\u003cbr\u003e021 Lot — Patriarch, Nephew of Abraham\u003cbr\u003e022 Melchizedek — Priest, King of Salem\u003cbr\u003e023 Hagar — Mother of Ishmael\u003cbr\u003e024 Ishmael — Son of Abraham and Hagar\u003cbr\u003e025 Isaac — Patriarch, Son of Abraham\u003cbr\u003e026 Rebekah — Matriarch, Wife of Isaac\u003cbr\u003e027 Esau — Son of Isaac\u003cbr\u003e028 Jacob — Patriarch, Israel\u003cbr\u003e029 Rachel — Matriarch, Wife of Jacob\u003cbr\u003e030 Leah — Matriarch, Wife of Jacob\u003cbr\u003e031 Bilhah — Concubine of Jacob\u003cbr\u003e032 Zilpah — Concubine of Jacob\u003cbr\u003e033 Dinah — Daughter of Jacob\u003cbr\u003e034 Judah — Patriarch, Son of Jacob\u003cbr\u003e035 Tamar — Daughter-in-Law of Judah\u003cbr\u003e036 Joseph — Patriarch, Son of Jacob\u003cbr\u003e037 Benjamin — Son of Jacob\u003cbr\u003e038 Pharaoh — King of Egypt\u003cbr\u003e039 Potiphar — Egyptian Official\u003cbr\u003e040 Potiphar's Wife — Egyptian Official's Wife\u003cbr\u003e041 Moses — Prophet, Lawgiver\u003cbr\u003e042 Aaron — High Priest, Brother of Moses\u003cbr\u003e043 Miriam — Prophetess, Sister of Moses\u003cbr\u003e044 Jethro — Priest of Midian, Father-in-Law of Moses\u003cbr\u003e045 Eleazar — High Priest, Son of Aaron\u003cbr\u003e046 Phinehas — Priest, Son of Eleazar\u003cbr\u003e047 Bezalel — Craftsman, Builder of the Tabernacle\u003cbr\u003e048 Aholiab — Craftsman, Builder of the Tabernacle\u003cbr\u003e049 Joshua — Military Leader, Successor of Moses\u003cbr\u003e050 Balaam — Prophet, Seer\u003cbr\u003e051 Balak — King of Moab\u003cbr\u003e052 Rahab — Heroine of Jericho\u003cbr\u003e053 Deborah — Judge, Prophetess\u003cbr\u003e054 Barak — Military Commander\u003cbr\u003e055 Jael — Heroine\u003cbr\u003e056 Gideon — Judge, Military Leader\u003cbr\u003e057 Abimelech — King, Son of Gideon\u003cbr\u003e058 Jephthah — Judge\u003cbr\u003e059 Samson — Judge, Nazarite\u003cbr\u003e060 Delilah — Philistine Woman\u003cbr\u003e061 Samuel — Prophet, Judge, Priest\u003cbr\u003e062 Saul — First King of Israel\u003cbr\u003e063 David — King of Israel\u003cbr\u003e064 Solomon — King of Israel, Builder of the Temple\u003cbr\u003e065 Nathan — Prophet\u003cbr\u003e066 Gad — Prophet, Seer of David\u003cbr\u003e067 Bathsheba — Queen, Wife of David\u003cbr\u003e068 Joab — Commander of David's Army\u003cbr\u003e069 Absalom — Prince, Son of David\u003cbr\u003e070 Amnon — Prince, Son of David\u003cbr\u003e071 Tamar — Princess, Daughter of David\u003cbr\u003e072 Adonijah — Prince, Son of David\u003cbr\u003e073 Zadok — High Priest\u003cbr\u003e074 Abiathar — Priest\u003cbr\u003e075 Rehoboam — King of Judah\u003cbr\u003e076 Jeroboam — King of Israel\u003cbr\u003e077 Asa — King of Judah\u003cbr\u003e078 Jehoshaphat — King of Judah\u003cbr\u003e079 Ahab — King of Israel\u003cbr\u003e080 Jezebel — Queen of Israel\u003cbr\u003e081 Jehoram — King of Israel\u003cbr\u003e082 Jehu — King of Israel\u003cbr\u003e083 Hezekiah — King of Judah\u003cbr\u003e084 Manasseh — King of Judah\u003cbr\u003e085 Josiah — King of Judah\u003cbr\u003e086 Elijah — Prophet\u003cbr\u003e087 Elisha — Prophet\u003cbr\u003e088 Isaiah — Prophet\u003cbr\u003e089 Jeremiah — Prophet\u003cbr\u003e090 Ezekiel — Prophet\u003cbr\u003e091 Daniel — Prophet\u003cbr\u003e092 Gabriel — Archangel\u003cbr\u003e093 Hosea — Prophet\u003cbr\u003e094 Joel — Prophet\u003cbr\u003e095 Amos — Prophet\u003cbr\u003e096 Obadiah — Prophet\u003cbr\u003e097 Jonah — Prophet\u003cbr\u003e098 Micah — Prophet\u003cbr\u003e099 Nahum — Prophet\u003cbr\u003e100 Habakkuk — Prophet\u003cbr\u003e101 Zephaniah — Prophet\u003cbr\u003e102 Malachi — Prophet\u003cbr\u003e103 Haggai, Zechariah, Zerubbabel \u0026amp; Joshua Son of Jehozadak — Prophets and Leaders of Restoration\u003cbr\u003e104 Nebuchadnezzar — King of Babylon\u003cbr\u003e105 Belshazzar — King of Babylon\u003cbr\u003e106 Cyrus — King of Persia\u003cbr\u003e107 Shadrach, Meshach \u0026amp; Abednego — Exiles in Babylon\u003cbr\u003e108 Job — Patriarch, Man of Suffering\u003cbr\u003e109 Eliphaz, Bildad \u0026amp; Zophar — Friends of Job\u003cbr\u003e110 Elihu — Friend of Job\u003cbr\u003e111 Ezra — Scribe, Priest\u003cbr\u003e112 Nehemiah — Governor, Rebuilder of Jerusalem\u003cbr\u003e113 Sanballat, Tobiah \u0026amp; Geshem — Adversaries of Nehemiah\u003cbr\u003e114 Artaxerxes — King of Persia\u003cbr\u003e115 Hannah — Prophetess, Mother of Samuel\u003cbr\u003e116 Eli — High Priest\u003cbr\u003e117 Micaiah — Prophet\u003cbr\u003e118 Huldah — Prophetess\u003cbr\u003e119 Sennacherib — King of Assyria\u003cbr\u003e120 Esther — Queen of Persia\u003cbr\u003e121 Mordecai — Cousin of Esther\u003cbr\u003e122 Haman — Villain of Persia\u003cbr\u003e123 Ahasuerus — King of Persia\u003cbr\u003e124 Reuben — Tribe of Israel\u003cbr\u003e125 Simeon — Tribe of Israel\u003cbr\u003e126 Levi — Tribe of Israel, Priestly\u003cbr\u003e127 Issachar — Tribe of Israel\u003cbr\u003e128 Zebulun — Tribe of Israel\u003cbr\u003e129 Dan — Tribe of Israel\u003cbr\u003e130 Naphtali — Tribe of Israel\u003cbr\u003e131 Gad — Tribe of Israel\u003cbr\u003e132 Asher — Tribe of Israel\u003cbr\u003e133 Ephraim — Tribe of Israel\u003cbr\u003e134 Naomi — Widow, Mother-in-Law of Ruth\u003cbr\u003e135 Ruth — Moabite, Ancestor of David\u003cbr\u003e136 Boaz — Kinsman Redeemer\u003cbr\u003e137 Obed — Son of Ruth and Boaz\u003cbr\u003e138 Jesse — Father of David\u003cbr\u003e139 Ahaz — King of Judah\u003cbr\u003e140 Omri — King of Israel\u003cbr\u003e141 Jotham — King of Judah\u003cbr\u003e142 Amaziah — King of Judah\u003cbr\u003e143 Tiglath-Pileser — King of Assyria\u003cbr\u003e144 Nabopolassar — King of Babylon\u003cbr\u003e145 Darius the Great — King of Persia\u003cbr\u003e146 Darius the Mede — King of Media\u003cbr\u003e147 Queen Vashti — Queen of Persia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eVERY 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eWHAT IS THE OLD TESTAMENT?\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eAt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eThis bundle is licensed for individual personal use only. Purchase of this product constitutes agreement to the license terms. Institutional, educational, organizational, or commercial use requires a separate license. Contact us at info@veryillustratedpeople.com for institutional pricing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e© 2026 VERY ILLUSTRATED PEOPLE. 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