Every name in Scripture sits inside a story God is telling. Start with a person; we will open you straight to their anchor passage in the original Hebrew or Greek.
This index is a navigator, not a retelling. Each figure links to a single anchor passage — the verse where Scripture most plainly introduces or defines them — which you can then read word-by-word, cross-referenced, in the Apologetics Bible. For the deeper journeys of these figures, the Sanctum walks their stories; here, the goal is simply to put you in front of the text.
Shepherd anointed king; a man after God's own heart.
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.— KJV, 1 Samuel 16:13