# Israel — Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral character guide

> Israel in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Affrighted Israel

**First appearance:** 0014-goliath-of-gath

## Who they are

The nation of Israel, personified in biblical poems.

## In the story

### [Goliath of Gath](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/chapters/goliath-of-gath)

The nation of Israel, depicted as fearful of Goliath's challenge.

### [An Answer to the Rebus, by the Author of These Poems](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/chapters/an-answer-to-the-rebus-by-the-author-of-these-poems)

Israel's army was fed by the quail in the dreary waste.

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