PERSON KNOWN AS TASK REFERENCE
Jacob | A liar | To "father" the Israelite nation | Genesis 27
Joseph | A slave | To save his family | Genesis 39
Moses | A shepherd in exile (and murderer) | To lead Israel out of bondage, to the Promised Land | Exodus 3
Gideon | A farmer | To deliver Israel from Midian | Judges 6
Jephthah | Son of a prostitute | To deliver Israel from the Ammonites | Judges 11
Hannah | A housewife | To be the mother of Samuel | 1 Samuel 1
David | A shepherd boy and last-born of the family | To be Israel's greatest king |
1 Samuel 16
Ezra | A scribe | To lead the return to Judah and to write some of the Bible | Ezra, Nehemiah
Esther | A slave girl | To save her people from massacre | Esther
Mary | A peasant girl | To be the mother of Christ | Luke 1:26-38
Matthew | A tax-collector | To be an apostle and Gospel writer | Matthew 9:9
Luke | A Greek physician | To be a companion of Paul and a Gospel writer | Colossians 4:14
Peter | A fisherman | To be an apostle, a leader of the early church, and a writer of two New Testament epistles | Matthew 4:18-20