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->''"Before you were formed I knew you. Before you were born I set you apart"''
* BreakTheCutie
* TheCassandra
* ChosenOne
* HeroicBSOD: Seems to be in this state every day of his life.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Advised submission to the Babylonians. For this, he was considered TheQuisling.
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->''"Before you were formed I knew you. Before you were born I set you apart"''
* BreakTheCutie
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* ChosenOne
* HeroicBSOD: Seems to be in this state every day of his life.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Advised submission to the Babylonians. For this, he was considered TheQuisling.
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* ExtremeOmnivore: Ate a scroll containing God's word. According to him, it tasted like honey.
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* RefusalOfTheCall: More like he Jonah didn't want God to forgive Nineveh and so ran to keep the good news from them. Even after he did preach in it, he still held on to the Assyrian capital which hope that God would have got him killed.destroy the city after all.
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*BrokenAce: Was the wisest, richest and most famous man of his time. Was credited as a scholar, author and songwriter. Yet, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!"
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*NiceJobBreakingItHero: Among those he killed was his master's cousin, the king of Judah. This triggered Athaliah's purge.
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* ArrangedMarriage: Was a Phoenician princess given to Ahab as a means to seal a political alliance between their two nations.
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*NobleFugitive: Fled to Egypt after antagonizing Solomon and came back only when he died.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Appointed by God to eradicate pagan worship in Israel but his penchant for mass murder went far beyond what was expected of him.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Nice job showing those Babylonian envoys all Judah's treasures, putting your nation on Babylon's hit list.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Nice job TragicMistake: showing those Babylonian envoys all Judah's treasures, putting your treasures put his nation on Babylon's hit list.
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[[WMG: Jeroboam]]
*ArchEnemy - to Solomon.
*BigBad - started as TheChosenOne. Before Ahab, bad Israelite kings were described as "walking in the ways of Jeroboam, who led Israel to sin."
*ArchEnemy - to Solomon.
*BigBad - started as TheChosenOne. Before Ahab, bad Israelite kings were described as "walking in the ways of Jeroboam, who led Israel to sin."
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* BaldOfAwesome: Never, under any circumstances, insult him for it. Ever. Forty-two youths learned this the hard way.
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* BaldOfAwesome: Never, under any circumstances, insult him for it. Ever. Forty-two youths learned this the hard way. way.
* BearsAreBadNews
* BearsAreBadNews
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* EverythingsWorseWithBears
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* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Debate rages to this day as to whether or not she was ever intimately involved with Solomon during her visit
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* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Debate rages to this day as to whether or not she was ever intimately involved with Solomon during her visit
visit. (The Ethiopian monarchy claimed to have secret books that not only say they did, but that the resulting child founded their dynasty.)
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* {{Casanova}}: He had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines, which is more than anyone else in the Bible. Also if you read the Song of Songs of Solomon, you can see that he sure knows how to sweet talk women
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*TookALevelInBadass - Jewish and Islamic legends say he fought demons.
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* FallenHeroFallenHero - The man who built Judaism's greatest monument fell to pagan worship.
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* {{Casanova}}: He had [[BeyondTheImpossible seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines]], concubines, which is more than anyone else in the Bible. Also if you read the Song of Songs of Solomon, you can see that he sure knows how to sweet talk women
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[[WMG: Isaiah]]
->''"Though your sins are as scarlet, you shall be as white as snow"''.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: He saw 2 centuries into Israel's future. Some scholars believe these were written by other prophets and attributed them to Isaiah to increase it's authority.
[[WMG: Micah]]
->''"Nations will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks and they will war no more"''. [[hottip:*): This was such a good verse that Isaiah quoted it]]
* IncrediblyLamePun: Micah 1:10
->''"Though your sins are as scarlet, you shall be as white as snow"''.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: He saw 2 centuries into Israel's future. Some scholars believe these were written by other prophets and attributed them to Isaiah to increase it's authority.
[[WMG: Micah]]
->''"Nations will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks and they will war no more"''. [[hottip:*): This was such a good verse that Isaiah quoted it]]
* IncrediblyLamePun: Micah 1:10
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* AuthorFilibuster: Ecclesisates. Ecclesiastes. The topic, "Life Sucks".Sucks Without God".
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[[WMG: Solomon]]
->''"Consider the lilies of the field. Not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed as well as these".''
* AuthorFilibuster: Ecclesisates. The topic, "Life Sucks".
* {{Casanova}}: He had [[BeyondTheImpossible seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines]], which is more than anyone else in the Bible. Also if you read the Song of Songs of Solomon, you can see that he sure knows how to sweet talk women
* ElementalPowers / SpeaksFluentAnimal: According to Islamic tradition.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Wrote the Song of Songs (aka Song of Solomon), a steamy love poem(!) that got canonized as holy scripture(!!) The Radar has responded by saying it's a metaphor of ''self-sacrificing'' love between God and his people. Suuuuuuuure.
* FallenHero
* ILied: Nobody seriously believes he was going to cut a baby in half...
* InfantImmortality: See the Third Option below.
* JudgmentOfSolomon: TropeNamer.
* LonelyAtTheTop: According to Ecclesiastes, not even the wisdom he asked from God had made him happy.
* {{Polyamory}}: Again, he had a ''thousand'' women. [[LoveRuinsTheRealm Who led him to worship pagan gods, leading to the kingdom of Israel fracturing.]]
* ThePurge: Appointed as the next king and secured it by killing all his rivals including his brother and David's general Joab.
* TheSmartGuy: There was a reason why he was consulted for miles around for answers to problems.
* TakeAThirdOption: Two woman came up to him with a baby, one of the woman had accidentally smothered her own child in her sleep, and swapped it with the other woman's baby. Now both claim to be the mother of the surviving child. How does Solomon decide which woman should get the baby? He orders it to be ''[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe split in half]], with each woman getting one half.'' One woman, bizarrely, [[CrazyEnoughToWork is perfectly okay with this]], the other begs him to give the baby to the other woman. He gives it to the woman who actually cared about the baby. [[SecretTestofCharacter It was his plan all along, he never intended to actually cut the baby in two.]]
* YoungestChildWins: Youngest of 7, but the first son of his father's favorite wife.
[[WMG: The Queen of Sheba]]
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Debate rages to this day as to whether or not she was ever intimately involved with Solomon during her visit
* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: Was pretty well-read and eloquent
* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where The Hell Is Sheba?]] Debates range to this day.
[[WMG: Zimri, king of Israel]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Set his palace on fire.
* KlingonPromotion: Became King by assassination. His "reign" lasted a week. Before Judas, Zimri was the byword for traitor. Jezebel called Jehu a "Zimri".
[[WMG: Ahab]]
->''"I will purge the house of Ahab like I had done to the houses of Jeroboam and Baasha. Anyone who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs and anyone who dies in the country will be eaten by birds!"''
* CornerOfWoe: After Naboth refused to sell his vineyard to Ahab, Ahab proceeded to curl up on his couch, refuse to eat, and go into a truly royal sulk.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* HeelRealization: After Elijah declared to him the fate of his family, Ahab tore his clothing and fasted, humbling himself before God.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His plan to get Jehosaphat killed in battle backfired and Ahab was killed instead.
* ManipulativeBastard: Was always scheming to displace the Davidic dynasty in Judah.
[[WMG: Jezebel]]
->''The very dogs will eat up Jezebel in the plot of land of Jezreel''
* ApocalypseMaiden
* BeautyIsBad
* {{Curse}}: Elijah fortold that Jezebel would be eaten by dogs when she died. He was right, and it gets described in gory detail.
* DisneyVillainDeath: At least the thrown out of the tower bit. What comes after, on the other hand....
* FaceDeathWithDignity: She ''knew'' that she wasn't going to survive her confrontation with Jehu, so she just put on her best clothes and got ready for whatever it'd come.
* {{Flanderization}}: Over the years her defining feature has become a [[SexIsEvil sexual, seductive nature]], when in reality she was an influential and powerful, if evil, Queen.
** NamesTheSame: she is confused with a pagan cult leader mentioned in Revelations.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
* KickTheDog: After her husband failed to buy Naboth's vineyard, she just coldly arranged his death. And embarrassed him in the process.
* LadyMacbeth: The OlderThanFeudalism example
* MoralMyopia
* PoisonousFriend: Lead her husband Ahab down the path of Baal worship and is usually considered to be a bit more evil than he.
* TheDreaded: Even Elijah, who could call down fire from heaven, was scared of her.
* ThePurge: Ordered the deaths of the Israeli prophets.
* TropeNamer: Her name is associated with the {{flanderization}}.
[[WMG: Elijah the Tishbite]]
->''He went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. [[FriendToAllLivingThings And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening]]; and he drank of the brook.''
* AngelUnaware: Jewish tradition has him taking up this role. Elijah was human back in Biblical days, but he never died and, according to legend, ascended to heaven while still alive. To this day, it is believed he turns up on Earth sometimes to deliver unexpected help.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: He went to heaven in a fiery whirlwind, rather than die. When he ascended, his robes/coat fell onto his apprentice/friend/padawan Elisha, thus inventing the phrase "Taking up The Mantle of The Prophet". Many still leave a seat open for him at feasts, because they believe that he will come back. In fact, the last verse of the Old Testament refers to Elijah coming back to announce the Day of the Lord.
* BadassLongcoat: The Coat, or Mantle of The Prophet. It was instrumental in Elijah and Elisha's first meeting, Elijah threw The Coat at Elisha, who instinctively caught it. Later, Elijah parted a river with with it, just before giving it to Elisha, who also used it perform miracles.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: When he was hungry ravens would bring food to him. Despite his [[{{Badass}} skill in killing people]] he was very good with animals and kids. It might have something to do with how he grew up in the wilderness.
* LastOfHisKind:
** He thought that he was the last surviving prophet and the last faithful person left for a while. God told him that [[YouAreNotAlone he was not alone]] and, even if he is the last prophet, he can always train some more prophets, like Elisha.
** He and Elisha were also the last major Old Testament characters to work miracles. (Though many characters in the New Testament worked miracles.)
* PlayingWithFire: His specialty.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Him and the widow, arguably.
* RavensAndCrows: God sent ravens to feed him.
* TheObiWan: To Elisha, his successor. Another interpretation is that Elijah was the Kamina to Elisha's Simon. Everyone remembers how awesome Elijah was, but Elisha was way more awesome.
* YouAreNotAlone: God showed up, not in a maelstrom of fire, not in a howling wind/hurrricane, but in a still, small voice to tell Elijah this.
[[WMG: Elisha]]
->''The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha.''
* ArcWords: His last words to Elijah, "My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.", were spoken to him also as he lay dying. No one knows what it means even now.
* BadassLongcoat: Given to him by Elijah, later used to part the sea, proving himself the true prophet, thus inventing the phrase "Taking up the mantle of the prophet".
* BaldOfAwesome: Never, under any circumstances, insult him for it. Ever. Forty-two youths learned this the hard way.
* BerserkButton: Never insult his mentor and NEVER mock his baldness in front of him.
** DisproportionateRetribution: 42 youths died for insulting his baldness. Not the best reaction...
* DubInducedPlothole: A nice prophet guy summoning bears to maul what King James and co. translate as "children" makes a ''lot'' more sense when you look at the actual Hebrew word and see what it means and how it was used. He was being mocked by a gang of 42 young men, which could have been a threat, especially if they were soldiers.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears
* GoodIsNotNice
* NiceGuy: Surprisingly so, especially when compared to his mentor, Elijah. While most of Elijah's miracles were powerful, violent, and fiery, Elisha's miracles were mostly to heal, save, or help people. Elijah showed thousands of people the power of God, while Elisha preached to individuals, and showed God's helpful, loving side. Just don't insult Elijah, or mock his BaldOfAwesome. However, Elisha was not good with kids, nor was he as good with animals as Elijah. Maybe it was because he was a city kid?
* ThinkNothingOfIt: he refused to take a material reward for curing Naaman of leprosy; however, his friend Gehazi, gladly took Naaman's stuff, and for that he got leprosy himself.
[[WMG: Jehu, king of Israel]]
* DrivesLikeCrazy: His master the king recognized him (2 Kings 9:20) because he drives his chariot "like a madman".
* ThePurge: Killed Jezebel and all Baal priests as well as Ahab's relatives.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Appointed by God to eradicate pagan worship in Israel but his penchant for mass murder went far beyond what was expected of him.
[[WMG: Joash, king of Judah]]
* AChildShallLeadThem: Sadly, he got worse as he got older.
* MosesIntheBullrushes: Saved from being killed during his grandmother's purge.
[[WMG: Athaliah, queen of Judah]]
* ApocalypseMaiden
* GenerationXerox
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Was one kid close from destroying David's royal line.
* OffingTheOffspring
* ThePurge: What her father Ahab couldn't do with intrigue and manipulation, she tried to do with force.
[[WMG: Hezekiah, king of Judah]]
* [[IllBoy Ill Guy]]: Once was this close to death...
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Nice job showing those Babylonian envoys all Judah's treasures, putting your nation on Babylon's hit list.
[[WMG: Josiah, king of Judah]]
* AChildShallLeadThem
* TheAce: The greatest king of Judah bar none.
* HeroicBSOD: He found a "Book of the Law" (possibly Deuteronomy) and ripped his clothes and mourned because he realized how far his nation had forgotten its roots.
* TragicMistake: Going to war with Egypt. He was killed in battle and Judah just couldn't recover.
[[WMG: Jeremiah]]
->''"Before you were formed I knew you. Before you were born I set you apart"''
* BreakTheCutie
* TheCassandra
* ChosenOne
* HeroicBSOD: Seems to be in this state every day of his life.
* MadOracle
* UnaccustomedAsIAmToPublicSpeaking: At first.
[[WMG: Hosea]]
->''"Go and get married; your wife will be unfaithful, and your children will be just like her. In the same way my people have left me and became unfaithful"''.
* ArrangedMarriage: God told him to marry an unfaithful harlot as an object lesson to Israel's idolatry.
* LoveMartyr
* MyGirlIsASlut
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to his Amos' red. He spoke out against Israel's internal spiritual problem.
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech
[[WMG: Jonah]]
->''The Lord spoke to Jonah and said "Go to Nineveh, that wicked city, and speak out against it". Jonah set out in the opposite direction.''
* BellyOfTheWhale
* RefusalOfTheCall: More like he didn't want to preach in the Assyrian capital which would have got him killed.
* CallingTheHeroOut: God did this after Jonah became upset after the people repented:
-->''But the LORD said, “You have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night. And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left—and much livestock?”''
[[WMG: Amos]]
->''"Let justice flow like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!"''
* EverythingIsWorseWithBears: 5:19
* JusticeWillPrevail
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Hosea's blue. He was a plain spoken Judean farmer who railed against Israel's corrupt affluence.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: See above
[[WMG: Isaiah]]
->''"Though your sins are as scarlet, you shall be as white as snow"''.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: He saw 2 centuries into Israel's future. Some scholars believe these were written by other prophets and attributed them to Isaiah to increase it's authority.
[[WMG: Micah]]
->''"Nations will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks and they will war no more"''. [[hottip:*): This was such a good verse that Isaiah quoted it]]
* IncrediblyLamePun: Micah 1:10
[[WMG: Ezekiel]]
->''They are a hard and obstinate people so I will make you as hard and obstinate as they"''.
* CelebrityIsOverrated: People finally listened to him when Jerusalem fell but it was clear to him that they have still not taken God's words to heart.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: At one point, he makes a model of Jerusalem and besieges it in the city square for about fourteen months. Another time, he shaves his head and beard with a sword, then runs about town with a portion of the hair hitting it with the sword.
* GoodShepherd: He cultivated the image of God as a shepherd better than anyone.
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->''"Consider the lilies of the field. Not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed as well as these".''
* AuthorFilibuster: Ecclesisates. The topic, "Life Sucks".
* {{Casanova}}: He had [[BeyondTheImpossible seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines]], which is more than anyone else in the Bible. Also if you read the Song of Songs of Solomon, you can see that he sure knows how to sweet talk women
* ElementalPowers / SpeaksFluentAnimal: According to Islamic tradition.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Wrote the Song of Songs (aka Song of Solomon), a steamy love poem(!) that got canonized as holy scripture(!!) The Radar has responded by saying it's a metaphor of ''self-sacrificing'' love between God and his people. Suuuuuuuure.
* FallenHero
* ILied: Nobody seriously believes he was going to cut a baby in half...
* InfantImmortality: See the Third Option below.
* JudgmentOfSolomon: TropeNamer.
* LonelyAtTheTop: According to Ecclesiastes, not even the wisdom he asked from God had made him happy.
* {{Polyamory}}: Again, he had a ''thousand'' women. [[LoveRuinsTheRealm Who led him to worship pagan gods, leading to the kingdom of Israel fracturing.]]
* ThePurge: Appointed as the next king and secured it by killing all his rivals including his brother and David's general Joab.
* TheSmartGuy: There was a reason why he was consulted for miles around for answers to problems.
* TakeAThirdOption: Two woman came up to him with a baby, one of the woman had accidentally smothered her own child in her sleep, and swapped it with the other woman's baby. Now both claim to be the mother of the surviving child. How does Solomon decide which woman should get the baby? He orders it to be ''[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe split in half]], with each woman getting one half.'' One woman, bizarrely, [[CrazyEnoughToWork is perfectly okay with this]], the other begs him to give the baby to the other woman. He gives it to the woman who actually cared about the baby. [[SecretTestofCharacter It was his plan all along, he never intended to actually cut the baby in two.]]
* YoungestChildWins: Youngest of 7, but the first son of his father's favorite wife.
[[WMG: The Queen of Sheba]]
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Debate rages to this day as to whether or not she was ever intimately involved with Solomon during her visit
* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: Was pretty well-read and eloquent
* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where The Hell Is Sheba?]] Debates range to this day.
[[WMG: Zimri, king of Israel]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Set his palace on fire.
* KlingonPromotion: Became King by assassination. His "reign" lasted a week. Before Judas, Zimri was the byword for traitor. Jezebel called Jehu a "Zimri".
[[WMG: Ahab]]
->''"I will purge the house of Ahab like I had done to the houses of Jeroboam and Baasha. Anyone who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs and anyone who dies in the country will be eaten by birds!"''
* CornerOfWoe: After Naboth refused to sell his vineyard to Ahab, Ahab proceeded to curl up on his couch, refuse to eat, and go into a truly royal sulk.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* HeelRealization: After Elijah declared to him the fate of his family, Ahab tore his clothing and fasted, humbling himself before God.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His plan to get Jehosaphat killed in battle backfired and Ahab was killed instead.
* ManipulativeBastard: Was always scheming to displace the Davidic dynasty in Judah.
[[WMG: Jezebel]]
->''The very dogs will eat up Jezebel in the plot of land of Jezreel''
* ApocalypseMaiden
* BeautyIsBad
* {{Curse}}: Elijah fortold that Jezebel would be eaten by dogs when she died. He was right, and it gets described in gory detail.
* DisneyVillainDeath: At least the thrown out of the tower bit. What comes after, on the other hand....
* FaceDeathWithDignity: She ''knew'' that she wasn't going to survive her confrontation with Jehu, so she just put on her best clothes and got ready for whatever it'd come.
* {{Flanderization}}: Over the years her defining feature has become a [[SexIsEvil sexual, seductive nature]], when in reality she was an influential and powerful, if evil, Queen.
** NamesTheSame: she is confused with a pagan cult leader mentioned in Revelations.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
* KickTheDog: After her husband failed to buy Naboth's vineyard, she just coldly arranged his death. And embarrassed him in the process.
* LadyMacbeth: The OlderThanFeudalism example
* MoralMyopia
* PoisonousFriend: Lead her husband Ahab down the path of Baal worship and is usually considered to be a bit more evil than he.
* TheDreaded: Even Elijah, who could call down fire from heaven, was scared of her.
* ThePurge: Ordered the deaths of the Israeli prophets.
* TropeNamer: Her name is associated with the {{flanderization}}.
[[WMG: Elijah the Tishbite]]
->''He went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. [[FriendToAllLivingThings And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening]]; and he drank of the brook.''
* AngelUnaware: Jewish tradition has him taking up this role. Elijah was human back in Biblical days, but he never died and, according to legend, ascended to heaven while still alive. To this day, it is believed he turns up on Earth sometimes to deliver unexpected help.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: He went to heaven in a fiery whirlwind, rather than die. When he ascended, his robes/coat fell onto his apprentice/friend/padawan Elisha, thus inventing the phrase "Taking up The Mantle of The Prophet". Many still leave a seat open for him at feasts, because they believe that he will come back. In fact, the last verse of the Old Testament refers to Elijah coming back to announce the Day of the Lord.
* BadassLongcoat: The Coat, or Mantle of The Prophet. It was instrumental in Elijah and Elisha's first meeting, Elijah threw The Coat at Elisha, who instinctively caught it. Later, Elijah parted a river with with it, just before giving it to Elisha, who also used it perform miracles.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: When he was hungry ravens would bring food to him. Despite his [[{{Badass}} skill in killing people]] he was very good with animals and kids. It might have something to do with how he grew up in the wilderness.
* LastOfHisKind:
** He thought that he was the last surviving prophet and the last faithful person left for a while. God told him that [[YouAreNotAlone he was not alone]] and, even if he is the last prophet, he can always train some more prophets, like Elisha.
** He and Elisha were also the last major Old Testament characters to work miracles. (Though many characters in the New Testament worked miracles.)
* PlayingWithFire: His specialty.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Him and the widow, arguably.
* RavensAndCrows: God sent ravens to feed him.
* TheObiWan: To Elisha, his successor. Another interpretation is that Elijah was the Kamina to Elisha's Simon. Everyone remembers how awesome Elijah was, but Elisha was way more awesome.
* YouAreNotAlone: God showed up, not in a maelstrom of fire, not in a howling wind/hurrricane, but in a still, small voice to tell Elijah this.
[[WMG: Elisha]]
->''The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha.''
* ArcWords: His last words to Elijah, "My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.", were spoken to him also as he lay dying. No one knows what it means even now.
* BadassLongcoat: Given to him by Elijah, later used to part the sea, proving himself the true prophet, thus inventing the phrase "Taking up the mantle of the prophet".
* BaldOfAwesome: Never, under any circumstances, insult him for it. Ever. Forty-two youths learned this the hard way.
* BerserkButton: Never insult his mentor and NEVER mock his baldness in front of him.
** DisproportionateRetribution: 42 youths died for insulting his baldness. Not the best reaction...
* DubInducedPlothole: A nice prophet guy summoning bears to maul what King James and co. translate as "children" makes a ''lot'' more sense when you look at the actual Hebrew word and see what it means and how it was used. He was being mocked by a gang of 42 young men, which could have been a threat, especially if they were soldiers.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears
* GoodIsNotNice
* NiceGuy: Surprisingly so, especially when compared to his mentor, Elijah. While most of Elijah's miracles were powerful, violent, and fiery, Elisha's miracles were mostly to heal, save, or help people. Elijah showed thousands of people the power of God, while Elisha preached to individuals, and showed God's helpful, loving side. Just don't insult Elijah, or mock his BaldOfAwesome. However, Elisha was not good with kids, nor was he as good with animals as Elijah. Maybe it was because he was a city kid?
* ThinkNothingOfIt: he refused to take a material reward for curing Naaman of leprosy; however, his friend Gehazi, gladly took Naaman's stuff, and for that he got leprosy himself.
[[WMG: Jehu, king of Israel]]
* DrivesLikeCrazy: His master the king recognized him (2 Kings 9:20) because he drives his chariot "like a madman".
* ThePurge: Killed Jezebel and all Baal priests as well as Ahab's relatives.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Appointed by God to eradicate pagan worship in Israel but his penchant for mass murder went far beyond what was expected of him.
[[WMG: Joash, king of Judah]]
* AChildShallLeadThem: Sadly, he got worse as he got older.
* MosesIntheBullrushes: Saved from being killed during his grandmother's purge.
[[WMG: Athaliah, queen of Judah]]
* ApocalypseMaiden
* GenerationXerox
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Was one kid close from destroying David's royal line.
* OffingTheOffspring
* ThePurge: What her father Ahab couldn't do with intrigue and manipulation, she tried to do with force.
[[WMG: Hezekiah, king of Judah]]
* [[IllBoy Ill Guy]]: Once was this close to death...
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Nice job showing those Babylonian envoys all Judah's treasures, putting your nation on Babylon's hit list.
[[WMG: Josiah, king of Judah]]
* AChildShallLeadThem
* TheAce: The greatest king of Judah bar none.
* HeroicBSOD: He found a "Book of the Law" (possibly Deuteronomy) and ripped his clothes and mourned because he realized how far his nation had forgotten its roots.
* TragicMistake: Going to war with Egypt. He was killed in battle and Judah just couldn't recover.
[[WMG: Jeremiah]]
->''"Before you were formed I knew you. Before you were born I set you apart"''
* BreakTheCutie
* TheCassandra
* ChosenOne
* HeroicBSOD: Seems to be in this state every day of his life.
* MadOracle
* UnaccustomedAsIAmToPublicSpeaking: At first.
[[WMG: Hosea]]
->''"Go and get married; your wife will be unfaithful, and your children will be just like her. In the same way my people have left me and became unfaithful"''.
* ArrangedMarriage: God told him to marry an unfaithful harlot as an object lesson to Israel's idolatry.
* LoveMartyr
* MyGirlIsASlut
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to his Amos' red. He spoke out against Israel's internal spiritual problem.
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech
[[WMG: Jonah]]
->''The Lord spoke to Jonah and said "Go to Nineveh, that wicked city, and speak out against it". Jonah set out in the opposite direction.''
* BellyOfTheWhale
* RefusalOfTheCall: More like he didn't want to preach in the Assyrian capital which would have got him killed.
* CallingTheHeroOut: God did this after Jonah became upset after the people repented:
-->''But the LORD said, “You have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night. And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left—and much livestock?”''
[[WMG: Amos]]
->''"Let justice flow like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!"''
* EverythingIsWorseWithBears: 5:19
* JusticeWillPrevail
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Hosea's blue. He was a plain spoken Judean farmer who railed against Israel's corrupt affluence.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: See above
[[WMG: Isaiah]]
->''"Though your sins are as scarlet, you shall be as white as snow"''.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: He saw 2 centuries into Israel's future. Some scholars believe these were written by other prophets and attributed them to Isaiah to increase it's authority.
[[WMG: Micah]]
->''"Nations will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks and they will war no more"''. [[hottip:*): This was such a good verse that Isaiah quoted it]]
* IncrediblyLamePun: Micah 1:10
[[WMG: Ezekiel]]
->''They are a hard and obstinate people so I will make you as hard and obstinate as they"''.
* CelebrityIsOverrated: People finally listened to him when Jerusalem fell but it was clear to him that they have still not taken God's words to heart.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: At one point, he makes a model of Jerusalem and besieges it in the city square for about fourteen months. Another time, he shaves his head and beard with a sword, then runs about town with a portion of the hair hitting it with the sword.
* GoodShepherd: He cultivated the image of God as a shepherd better than anyone.
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