Atlas Biblica

    person

    Abihu

    אֲבִיהוּא

    Abihu was a son of Aaron who served as a priest. (Exo.6.23)

    verses
    12
    first named
    Exodus 6:23
    last named
    1 Chronicles 24:2
    period
    Egypt and Wilderness
    tribe
    Levi

    Description

    Who was Abihu?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Abihu was the second son of Aaron and Elisheba, and the brother of Nadab, Eleazar, and Ithamar (Exo.6.23; Num.3.2). He was consecrated as a priest along with his brothers to serve at the tabernacle (Exo.28.1). Abihu went up Mount Sinai with Moses, Aaron, Nadab and seventy elders of Israel to worship the Lord before He gave the tablets of the Testimony to Moses (Exo.24.1,9).

    However, Abihu and his brother Nadab offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, and fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died (Lev.10.1-2; Num.3.4; 26.61). This occurred on the eighth day of the priests' consecration. Aaron and his surviving sons were not allowed to mourn their deaths (Lev.10.6).

    The sin of Abihu and Nadab was in offering "strange fire" which the Lord had not commanded (Lev.10.1). This may refer to offering incense that was not prepared according to God's instructions, or performing this in a wrong manner or at an inappropriate time. Their deaths served as a stern warning against improper worship. After this incident, God gave Aaron further regulations for priestly service and conduct (Lev.10.8-11). The genealogies record Aaron's descendants through his other sons Eleazar and Ithamar, since Nadab and Abihu had no children before their untimely deaths (Num.3.4; 1Ch.24.1-2).

    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.

    How the graph connects Abihu 10 of 12 entities the graph connects to Abihu, in 2 groups: kinship 4, events 6. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.AaronChild of · 6 events · 333 versesEleazarSibling of · 3 events · 61 versesIthamarSibling of · 3 events · 20 versesNadabSibling of · 12 events · 12 versesKinshipIsrael1 event · 2,578 versesMoses2 events · 786 versesFire1 event · 206 versesWorship1 event · 56 versesIncense1 event · 49 versesSinai Wilderness1 event · 13 versesEventsAbihu

    The 10 best-attested of 12 are drawn. All 12 are listed below.

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    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.

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    The pattern

    Where Abihu 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.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 12 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSEXODUS–NUMBERS9 VERSES1 CHRONICLES3 VERSES53 books and 822 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 12 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSEXODUS–NUMBERS9 VERSES1 CHRONICLES3 VERSES53 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Abihu is named in 12 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 62 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 12, across 4 books.

    1. Exodus4 verses

      6:2324:124:928:1

    2. Leviticus1 verse

      10:1

    3. Numbers4 verses

      3:23:426:6026:61

    4. 1 Chronicles3 verses

      6:324:124:2

    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.

    via IthamarAhimelechSon of Abiathar, a priest during David's reignvia ElishebaAmminadabFather-in-law of Aaron, ancestor of Davidvia ElishebaNahshonSon of Amminadab, leader of Judah, ancestor of David.via Eleazardaughter of PutielDaughter of Putiel - Wife of Eleazar the priestvia EleazarPhinehasAaron's grandson; zealous priest who opposed idolatryvia EleazarZadokHigh priest during the reigns of David and Solomonvia AaronAaron DescendantsAaron Descendants is a group attested across 5 verses, connecting 2 pageable entities.via AaronAmramFather of Moses, Aaron, and Miriamvia AaronElizabethThe wife of Zechariah and mother of John the Baptist.
    ElsewhereGenealogy of AbihuEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

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