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    6 others in the registry answer to the name Abijah. Every Abijah in the Bible

    person

    Abijah

    אֲבִיָּה

    Abijah was one of Samuel's sons who served as a judge in Israel but did not follow his father's righteous ways.

    verses
    2
    first named
    1 Samuel 8:2
    last named
    1 Chronicles 6:28
    period
    United Monarchy
    tribe
    Levi

    Description

    Who was Abijah?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Abijah was one of the sons of Samuel, the last judge and a prominent prophet in Israel. Along with his brother Joel, Abijah was appointed by Samuel as a judge over Israel in his old age (1Sa.8.1-2). However, Abijah and his brother did not walk in the righteous ways of their father. They turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice (1Sa.8.3).

    The corrupt behavior of Abijah and Joel led the elders of Israel to demand a king to rule over them, rejecting the leadership of Samuel and his sons (1Sa.8.4-5). This event marked the transition from the period of the judges to the establishment of the monarchy in Israel. Abijah is also mentioned in the genealogy of the Levites in 1Ch.6.28, confirming his lineage as a descendant of Levi through Samuel.

    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 Abijah 5 of 5 entities the graph connects to Abijah, in 2 groups: kinship 2, events 3. 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.SamuelChild of · 1 event · 121 versesJoelSibling of · 1 event · 4 versesKinshipIsrael1 event · 2,578 versesBeersheba1 event · 33 versesJudge1 event · 24 versesEventsAbijah

    Child of

    Sibling of

    • Joelregistry, no verse

    Stands in the same events as

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Abijah happens The one place the claims about Abijah reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Beersheba. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Abijah there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Beersheba
    United MonarchyThe one place the claims about Abijah reach

    The pattern

    Where Abijah 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. 2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKS1 SAMUEL1 VERSE53 books and 822 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKS1 SAMUEL1 VERSE53 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Abijah is named in 2 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. 64 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 — 2, across 2 books.

    1. 1 Samuel1 verse

      8:2

    2. 1 Chronicles1 verse

      6:28

    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 JoelAzariahDescendant of Zadok, a priest before Solomon's reignvia JoelElkanahA Levite descendant of Kohath.via SamuelElkanahThe father of the prophet Samuel.via SamuelHannahThe mother of the prophet Samuel.via JoelHemanA Levite and chief musician in David's time.
    ElsewhereGenealogy of AbijahEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

    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

    What this rests on