One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Abigail. Every Abigail in the Bible
- verses
- 3
- first named
- 2 Samuel 17:25
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 2:17
- period
- United Monarchy
- tribe
- Judah
Description
Who was Abigail?
Abigail was the daughter of Jesse and the sister of King David, as mentioned in 1Ch.2.16-17. She married a man named Jether, who was an Ishmaelite (2Sa.17.25). Abigail and Jether had a son named Amasa, who played a significant role during the rebellion of David's son Absalom.
During Absalom's revolt against David, Absalom appointed Amasa as the commander of his army, replacing Joab, who had been David's military commander (2Sa.17.25). After Absalom's defeat and death, David offered Amasa the position of commander-in-chief to appease the supporters of Absalom.
However, when David sent Amasa to gather the men of Judah, he took longer than expected. This delay prompted David to send Abishai and Joab to pursue the rebel Sheba. Joab, seeing Amasa as a threat to his position, killed him (2Sa.20.4-13). The biblical text does not provide further information about Abigail's life or her reaction to her son's death.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 13 are drawn. All 13 are listed below.
Child of
- Jesseregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
- Nahashregistrywhich bearer is the source’s decision2 Samuel 17:25
Mother of
- Amasaregistry1 Chronicles 2:17
Partner of
Sibling of
- Abinadabregistrywhich bearer is the source’s decision1 Chronicles 2:16
- Davidregistrywhich bearer is the source’s decision1 Chronicles 2:16
- Eliabregistrywhich bearer is the source’s decision1 Chronicles 2:16
- Elihuregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
- Nethanelregistrywhich bearer is the source’s decision1 Chronicles 2:16
- Ozemregistrywhich bearer is the source’s decision1 Chronicles 2:16
- Raddairegistrywhich bearer is the source’s decision1 Chronicles 2:16
- Shimeahregistrywhich bearer is the source’s decision1 Chronicles 2:16
- Zeruiahregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
Not read yet
The pattern
Where Abigail is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
3 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Samuel (1) and 1 Chronicles (2).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 2 books.
2 Samuel1 verse
1 Chronicles2 verses
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources